General Information for our Courses
All levels of experience are welcome.
All ages are welcome. Youth 15 years old and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Children 5 and under are included in the price of a caregiver ticket. Please supervise younger children.
Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs and we will accommodate you.
Community Up-Skilling Events are a collaboration between Garden Juju Collective and Gateway Farm and take place at Gateway’s beautiful, abundant, permaculture-inspired, regenerative farm ‘hub’.
We warmly invite you to be part of these enriching events where together we can learn, grow and thrive.
All ages are welcome. Youth 15 years old and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Children 5 and under are included in the price of a caregiver ticket. Please supervise younger children.
Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs and we will accommodate you.
Community Up-Skilling Events are a collaboration between Garden Juju Collective and Gateway Farm and take place at Gateway’s beautiful, abundant, permaculture-inspired, regenerative farm ‘hub’.
We warmly invite you to be part of these enriching events where together we can learn, grow and thrive.
Adapt Facilitator CourseA growing number of people are now using the Adapt design tool in a wide range of social change applications both personal and professional.
We at Garden Juju Collective have been developing our Adapt & Design Facilitation Course based upon all the feedback and experiences Adapt users have given us over the last 8 years. Increasingly, Adapt is being used by designers, facilitators, teachers, educators, coaches, counselors and community change organizers. We will offer the course in 8 sessions over 8 weeks. These will be available for a small cohort of people who want to apply Adapt more deeply in their lives. Participants will progress through each course as a co-learning group and receive a Celebration of Completion Certificate upon completion. The expectation is of 3-4 hours of work per week. Resources provided include handouts, worksheets, templates, lesson plans, tips and tools. We have seen the Adapt game in action over and over again and it does support the kind of personal, community and planetary empowerment that we all really need right now. |
Permaculture Design CourseAre you ready for a life-altering experience, to shift your perspectives, to change the way you think about life and work? Then a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) is the next step on your journey.
A PDC is one of the best investments you can make for yourself for future planning, building resilience, sustainability, connection, regeneration, adaptation, creativity and homesteading. |
A PDC empowers you with critical knowledge and equips you to meet the challenges and opportunities that arise from our current time.
Led by Dr Charlie Brennan and Bridget O'Brien of Garden Juju Collective, this course offers practical hands-on activities with guest speakers in the sanctuary site of Gateway Farm, a working farm and demonstration site which weaves together regenerative agriculture, permaculture, certified organic market gardening, food forests, re-wilding and community engagement. Join us for 7 days of in-person learning and continue with self-paced online modules.
The revolution starts with you.
This workshop could be for you if:
ABOUT THE COURSE
Led by Dr Charlie Brennan and Bridget O'Brien of Garden Juju Collective, this course offers practical hands-on activities with guest speakers in the sanctuary site of Gateway Farm, a working farm and demonstration site which weaves together regenerative agriculture, permaculture, certified organic market gardening, food forests, re-wilding and community engagement. Join us for 7 days of in-person learning and continue with self-paced online modules.
The revolution starts with you.
This workshop could be for you if:
- You are tired of seeing the many broken systems all around us and want to be a part of the movement that is regenerating land and creating sustainable solutions.
- You feel a pull to work with nature rather than against it.
- You would like to start living by design rather than by default.
- You are curious about how to incorporate ecological design into your garden, farm, home, relationships, work and/or life.
- You are craving a holistic approach to sharing resources, minimizing waste and advocating for human needs, earth needs and the needs of future generations.
- You’ve heard about permaculture and want to learn more!
ABOUT THE COURSE
- In-Person Portion: 8/11/24-8/17/2024
- Online Self-Paced: Ends approx 10/24/24
- Live Zoom Sessions: Week of 10/14/24 (Final Presentations) and week of 10/21/24 (Graduation)
- Guest Presenters
- Field Trips
- Amenities: Gorgeous farm stay with onsite camping for a small fee (access to outdoor shower and porta potties) or recommendations for local places to stay, farmer food (3 meals/day), community activities, ending with a Market Day at Gateway Farm.
All About WaterJoin us for a day all about water. Water is essential, it’s life, it's magical. Water is as practical as it gets.
This workshop focuses us back on water, this most essential of elements taken for granted until it’s not available, or not clean, or there’s too much of it. We remember that we, and all life, are nearly all water. |
What are the unique qualities of water - the physics, chemistry and the biology? What are our experiences and feelings about being drawn to water places? Are there collective cultural memories of water? Can we experience, anew, this amazing substance?
Water features in just about every aspect of life - washing, drinking, swimming, cooking and cleaning, as well as watering gardens and plants. It's in our bodies, the air and atmosphere, living systems and the bodies of water on Earth. The regenerative life that many of us strive to live values water highly. Water is a resource to be appreciated, used wisely and not wasted. How do we collect water, store water, move water, keep water clean, and give access to water? In conservation we have catchments, rivers, streams, lakes, the restoration of riparian zones and the hydration of landscapes. How do we manage floods? Is there a difference between wild water and domestic water?
As Ivan Illich says, we’ve flattened water, made it blank, homogeneous, characterless. It’s captured, commodified, rationed and sold back to us. Water has always been much more than this. Water is a store and medium of energy typified by the transformative works of Shauberger (Biodynamics), and energy, Mansubo. Water has always been ecopsycologically symbolic/storied/mythopoetic. Water as the carrier of an oral story, as the feminine, the underworld. Schama says water symbols and stories are just there to be rediscovered again.
This workshop is for you, if:
In this speculative and ambitious workshop, we strive to bring water back alive again.
Our futures depend upon water and our relations with water. So do all beings. Please join us for this informative, transformative, stimulating and confronting exploration into all aspects of water.
Water features in just about every aspect of life - washing, drinking, swimming, cooking and cleaning, as well as watering gardens and plants. It's in our bodies, the air and atmosphere, living systems and the bodies of water on Earth. The regenerative life that many of us strive to live values water highly. Water is a resource to be appreciated, used wisely and not wasted. How do we collect water, store water, move water, keep water clean, and give access to water? In conservation we have catchments, rivers, streams, lakes, the restoration of riparian zones and the hydration of landscapes. How do we manage floods? Is there a difference between wild water and domestic water?
As Ivan Illich says, we’ve flattened water, made it blank, homogeneous, characterless. It’s captured, commodified, rationed and sold back to us. Water has always been much more than this. Water is a store and medium of energy typified by the transformative works of Shauberger (Biodynamics), and energy, Mansubo. Water has always been ecopsycologically symbolic/storied/mythopoetic. Water as the carrier of an oral story, as the feminine, the underworld. Schama says water symbols and stories are just there to be rediscovered again.
This workshop is for you, if:
- Water has ever captivated or mystified you.
- You crave a deeper, more sacred, connection with the numerous life giving properties of water.
- You want to be a caretaker of water.
- You want to expand your knowledge and skill in water capture, conservation and cleaning.
In this speculative and ambitious workshop, we strive to bring water back alive again.
Our futures depend upon water and our relations with water. So do all beings. Please join us for this informative, transformative, stimulating and confronting exploration into all aspects of water.
Ecopsychology, Place & SelfThis powerful workshop helps us re-enchant our relationships with our felt living world. Our sense of place in this world, and our eco-psychological relationships with everything - forests, rivers, gardens, towns, more-than-human beings, even highways – are fundamental needs. These deepest relationships are bound with healthy identity, belonging and having purpose in the world.
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Many people in the world feel displaced or have had their relationship to the places they grew up in, or to nature in general, disrupted. We have so many relationships with the world around us. What are they? What do our childhood experiences have to do with these? What of literal and metaphorical relationships? How can we make our world come truly alive again in our minds and hearts?
Supporting, challenging and empowering you, this workshop provides tools and skills (including place making exercises), ideas and language and step-by-step plans for change. All of this is located within a body of literature and supported by an essential design tool. Participants will emerge from this workshop with an understanding of ecopsychology and their vital sense of place in this changing world.
Supporting, challenging and empowering you, this workshop provides tools and skills (including place making exercises), ideas and language and step-by-step plans for change. All of this is located within a body of literature and supported by an essential design tool. Participants will emerge from this workshop with an understanding of ecopsychology and their vital sense of place in this changing world.
Ecopsychology ConvergenceJoin Dr Charlie Brennan, Bridget O'Brien, Garden Juju Collective, Gateway Farm & guest speakers for our inaugural Ecopsychology Convergence! We are often asked, "Is there actually such a thing as 'Ecopsychology'?'' And the only possible answer is, "How could there not be!" Our ecopsychological feelings, identities, relationships with forests, rivers, seas, gardens, farms, towns, all beings and even highways – everything – are fundamental. And yet, in this human-centered world this is often overlooked or denied.
We will be hearing from speakers & panelists, participating in workshops, world cafe style conversations & emergent discussions. Ecopsychology is bound with sense of place, place literature, ecology, Indigenous & Cultural studies, from literature & beautiful ideas to how we practically live our everyday lives. Please join us for this most fundamental and exciting event. Expect be challenged, reassured, stimulated, re-enchanted and more. |
Food Forests: Design for SuccessFood forests, forest gardens and perennial food systems in general are an abundant, diverse, resilient, healthy and exciting way to grow food. They are an essential part of any sustainable and regenerating human future. Annual-based food systems can be highly productive but they are also inclined to be resource hungry, wasteful and polluting. Ultimately they are unstable systems – ecologically, agriculturally, socially and financially.
The need and demand for perennial food systems and food forests is undeniable and growing rapidly. Food forests are a vital investment into our futures, whilst showing respect for our food heritage. |
In this workshop we learn design, implementation and maintenance of food forests and perennial food systems to help them thrive. This includes ground preparation, layout and design, systems thinking, plant selection, under-pinning values and the skills required to create and maintain these life-saving systems. The workshop culminates around a series of ‘Tricks & Tips for Successful Food Forests.'
Workshop participants will learn skills, foundational information and values, draft a design and understand their next steps in establishing perennial food systems.
Workshop participants will learn skills, foundational information and values, draft a design and understand their next steps in establishing perennial food systems.