Social Permaculture Online - 2026 Intensive

Social Permaculture Online - 2026 Intensive Alfred Decker Wed, 25/02/2026 - 12:53 https://app.tickettailor.com/events/12principlesdesign/2084515 Course website 12P Permaculture Design Dates and times Tue, 19 May - Sat, 13 Jun 2026, All day More info Live Session times The live sessions on Tuesdays take place at: 16:30–19:30 UK Time (GMT) / 17:30–20:30 Central European Time (CET) / 18:30–21:30 Palestine Time The live sessions on Saturdays take place at: 9:30–12:30 UK Time (GMT) / 10:30–13:30 Central European Time (CET) / 11:30–14:30 Palestine Time Live Session dates Tuesday, May 19, Saturday, May 23 , Tuesday, May 26 , Saturday, May 30, Tuesday, June 2, Saturday, June 6, Tuesday, June 9, and Saturday, June 13. Cost Join Anytime We offer a sliding scale for this course, and ask participants to offer what they can pay for this engaging, professional, and certified training. Those who can afford to pay more on the higher end of the scale will help those who can only pay less. The sliding scale recognises the differences in economic reality depending on what country a participant comes from, as well as their individual circumstances, so this is a practical way that people with more resources can act in solidarity. This course includes a discounted one year membership in the Permaculture Association Britain (PAB). If you are already a PAB member, you will be discounted the membership fee of £27. Unsure if you are a member? Please try to log in HERE to check. Choose the option that best fits your circumstances: • ⁠£232 Standard Price (£205 PAB members) This price reflects the real cost of running the course. Choose this price if you cannot pay the Abundance price. • £262 Abundance Price (£235 for PAB members) Please choose this price if you are able to afford it. By doing so you are supporting opportunities for low income students and refugees to participate in the course. Thank you! • £199 Resilient Price (£172 for PAB members) You are welcome to choose this price if you have a low income or are unemployed, receive public assistance, do not have access to funds, etc. If you are able to offer more for this quality program, please go back and choose one of the other prices. Payment plan (£80 deposit now and the rest before course start) You can choose to pay in two installments by paying £80 now. You will receive an email with the payment link for the rest – payable before the course starts. PAB members who want the payment plan do not need to use the discount code as the membership will be discounted from your second payment. Scholarships We also have some pay-what-you-can scholarships for members of marginalised communities and people of color working in environmental and social justice movements. That is part of our way of supporting reparations and of bringing in more diversity to our permaculture movement. **PAB Membership is included for the fees for this course!** Course summary

A certified training organised by Alfred Decker, hosted by the Permaculture Association of Britain, and facilitated by 12 inspiring people, the Social Permaculture Online (SPO) training explores permaculture as a tool for designing communities, organisations, and your own life. It will help you to understand things in terms of connection – between people, economies, and governing structures – and how to create the conditions for humans to flourish.

While Permaculture originated as an ecological method for designing sustainable full-featured human settlements, more recently the design principles have been applied in urban, social and group contexts to organise, communicate and cooperate more effectively, rethinking existing social and economic structures – we call this Social Permaculture.

Learning will take place through a varied blend of live sessions, group work & interaction, presentations and self-study. You'll end the training with ecologically-informed skills on how to:

✨  Facilitate meetings and processes✨  Work effectively in groups✨  Design organisational structures that work and last✨  Make decisions efficiently✨  Communicate in ways that build confidence✨  Apply Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects & Active Hope to your life and your work✨  Transform conflict✨  Plan change-making campaigns✨  Design regenerative economic models✨  And much more

Course participants will consider how each individual functions in society; what are our social and ecological impacts; and how everyone can find their own role in responding to the "polycrisis" we are living.

What makes this course unique?

No other social permaculture training combines training and sharing from some of the permaculture’s most inspirational change-makers from across the globe; connections and community-building among participants; and cutting-edge, non-formal online educational based on best practices. 

The training organiser and host, Alfred Decker, has designed the SPO using his experience as a leading voice in Social Permaculture and one of Europe’s innovative permaculture educators, having facilitated dozens of courses including over 20 permaculture teacher trainings.

In addition, Alfred has designed the SPO in communication with the PAB for it to be a certified module that can form a part of a modular Permaculture Design Course offered by the PAB in the future. The modular PDC is a work in progress and the SPO cannot yet be certified as one of its modules in the current form. However, Alfred is a certified PAB educator, the training will be certified for now through him and his organisation 12P Permaculture Design, and he is committed to doing any adjustments necessary so that the participants taking the training now will be able to use it as a PDC module in the future.

 Certification

Training host Alfred Decker is a certified PAB educator, and the training will be certified for now through him and his organisation 12P Permaculture Design. The intention is to certify it in the future through the PAB.

What "tech" is needed to participate

This training is online and you will need stable internet and a computer, tablet, or mobile phone with a functioning microphone and camera to be able to participate. The classes will be held on Zoom so you will need to make sure this is working for you before we start. We keep the tech as simple and inclusive as possible!

You're part of something bigger

By joining the SPO, you will also become a member of the PAB’s Permaculture Community Hub, our overarching community. You’ll be able to keep up with the SPO activities as well as with what’s happening in permaculture education in the main Permaculture Community Hub Activity Feed (think of it as our own permaculture social media newsfeed with PTTO and other activities all in one place). If you are not already a member of the PAB, your course fee will include a discounted 1 year membership.  The Permaculture Association of Britain is working to radically and positively change the way we live in the UK and actively supports a worldwide movement. Our aim is to help educate, network, support and redesign all aspects of our daily lives to transform ourselves, our communities and our landscapes according to the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share.

 

Certified teachers Alfred Decker Rosemary Morrow, Starhawk, Adam Brock, Sarah Queblatin, Sontina Mbah, Habiba Youssef, Yau Fan, Patty Love, Paulinho Muzaliwa, Andreas Jonsson, Jas Tribe Apprentice teachers No apprentice teacher places available on this course Course type People / Social Permaculture Engagement style Online Course contact email info@12pdesign.net Contact name Alfred Decker Share this course Copied to clipboard