When I applied to Bill Mollison to become a certified Permaculture instructor many years ago I ended up with an eighty page outline after eight revisions. My initial goal was to represent the entire history of human beings as we have wended our way from hunter-gatherers to pastoralists, into settlement and agriculture and appropriate technology. Embedded in this outline would be the entire Permaculture Certificate Course. When I sent all of this to Mr Mollison he sent it back and told me to stick to PC. After all the revisions I came up with an initial focused eighty pages and was certified. Since then, after teaching and consulting for many years I have recently completed an outline for teaching Permaculture which I have called The Three Epochs of Humanity, which covers all the eras of human history that I mentioned earlier.
These skills all help us to see the possibilities in our immediate environment to reconstruct healthy local ecosystems and personal systems into balance and harmony. Many of the ideas and methodologies in this outline have been gathered from the top instructors in the world along with my initial outline. Over the next few months I will be sending out this entire outline in small chunks to the reader. It is my hope that this outline will inform and inspire. Although the real key to the practice of Permaculture is about relationship, whether it be between the elements in the landscape or between human beings, these skills are useful to help us observe and put into practice the underlying essence of the system. Please feel free to comment and add important information. I look forward to sharing this work of a lifetime with you and I hope and pray that, in this time of energy descent, that we may reinvigorate our creative potential to rethink and manifest something special on this earth for ourselves, but more especially, for our children and grandchildren and beyond. I will begin posting from Introduction to the final resource pages very soon. See you then. Yours, Wayne