xxx Private Pages xxx

This section of your online design portfolio is visible only to you and your tutors

(check who can see this by clicking on blue 'share' button top right of screen)

and you can choose any levels of privacy that you find useful, for any pages here.

Welcome Letter

From Stefania, 26Jan17

Welcome to your design portfolio!

Online portfolios are very multifunctional, brilliantly useful tools to guide, communicate,

enhance and share

your action-learning progress in permaculture.

An online design portfolio can serve as a 'living CV' well into the future,

if you organize it in such a way as to showcase your life

& projects in a much more detailed & engaging way than a traditional CV ever could.

For example, you could start by adding your curriculum to the Welcome page

then (over time) link significant parts of it to sub-pages where you go into more detail

about those areas of your progress through life.

And also make a short summary video to introduce your portfolio,

&/or embed a slide show like this one that summarizes your path to date

(with links to pages in this portfolio where you go into more details).

Slides are good because they are easily converted into videos.

And the more multi-media it is (with photos, videos and diagrams, etc.) the better!

remember your portfolio can also be presented AS one of your permaculture designs:

it will serve as a vehicle for presenting your PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) designs (at least 2)

and (if you choose to continue) up to your Diploma designs (at least 10 or equivalent),

& beyond ... so design it keeping in mind who the 'clients' are, what criteria need to be met, etc.

as you would with any of your other permaculture designs.

Here we've compiled the links >>>

to everything you might need during your action-learning journey with us,

and below some further instructions on how to use this kind of wiki & more ...

so you can use this page as your main 'jumping off' point to the juicy network of possibilities

that is the action-learning adventure in the wonder-filled systemic science of Integral PermaCulture.

We're all delighted to have you on board!

You can consider this as your cabin on the big beautiful Butterfly Ship ...

Designing Your Portfolio

We have proposed you a simple template for a good portfolio,

but please note that

a) you are free to change and adapt your portfolio as you wish,

and that

b) this can, in fact, be counted as one of your designs (if you wish),

since it is a very important communications design, for yourself in how you present your work to the world

(most designers nowadays do have a personal 'curriculum' kind of page to showcase their work)

but also in terms of what you can teach (with your praxis) of permaculture to others.

Please do use the Design Projects forum to communicate

1) how you are progressing with your designs,

2) if you would like any help with any aspect of your designs or portfolio building,

3) or simply want to share / ask for tips for organizing your portfolio,

and please remember to always include the link to your portfolio (this web) so we can go see!

We have included a Portfolio Design page (sub-page to this one) for you to focus on this design with,

although it is also fine if you stick with this simple design we have given you - it's up to you!

Editing GoogleSites

To learn to edit these wikis (googlesites) please explore this page in our online manual.

You will notice there are lots of things you can do with them, they're very flexible & this template is just one

of many possible looks & forms: explore other's portfolios for ideas & be creative!

Levels of Privacy

You are the owner of this wiki, and one of the great things about these

is that you can choose any level of privacy for any of its pages.

We created this wiki to be this site is visible only by people with the link

(not 'public' which would mean people can search for it), which is what we reccommend,

until you are ready to show it as a fully public portfolio, for example when you do

your Certificate or Diploma designs presentation.

THIS is a private page that you can use for any 'behind the scenes' work,

eg. where only you and us tutors can discuss the portfolio design,

or you can put any of your designs UNTIL you are ready to show them.

You can check privacy settings of any page by clicking the blue 'share' button top right of screen,

and also change settings as you wish, adding or removing anyone you wish to see or not see

any part of your portfolio.

Any sub-pages you create or move* to HERE will have the same privacy settings as this one,

and it is very easy to move pages around, so you can simply shift "Design2"

(or indeed all of your designs) to be a sub-page of this one

if you want to work on it more privately.

* to move pages, click on "Sitemap" in menu above,

select "Manage Pages" then simply drag & drop.

Certification & Diploma

First Step

To get the PermaCulture Certificte 'officially' -

requires:

1. to do all of the classes of option B, as a minimum (we want to see EVIDENCE of understanding, eg. mind maps & relevant dialogues about the contents please)
2. present (in public) TWO designs in which we can SEE that you have understood, at a basic level, how to apply the classes
3. organize a celebration event for certification in which 2-5 people present their designs to their colleagues + receive their certificate (this is traditionally an event designed by the same students so it is another design in which you can demonstrate your creativity, imagination & ability to work in a group.

Second Step

Once you have demonstrated that you are able to do very basic designs ... for the Diploma you need to show that you can really apply and use the tools in an original, flexible way, at a higher level. Basically you need to -

A) document more designs (the general guide is 10 designs and 2 years minimum of work)

B) especially PRO-ACTIVELY challenge yourself by taking LEADERSHIP & real responsibility for much 'bigger' and more integral designs, and of a sufficient variety (in all quadrants).

Ideally include examples of your FACILITATION.

C) & to contribute something concrete and useful for the whole permaculture community (that isn't just show your designs) ... which was never created in order to satisfy a wish for more certificates, but in order to create more fertile connexions in our network, & unite the permaculture community.

Example of variety of designs:

1. To have a GOOD "life design" that demonstrantes the global context for your other designs, and shows that you are designing in all quadrants
2. Obvioustly some (or the majority of) LOCAL designs in your home, project, your family, neighbourhood, etc.
3. Great if you take a role in supporting or improving a transition initiative, some activist group in your bioregion, etc.
4. Something that demonstrates your LEADERSHIP, that you have thought in an original way & / or has facilitated / helped to facilitate. Eg. to appoint yourself as a support person for a community leader is one of the most useful services you can offer, & can show more leadership than taking a visible leadership position.
5. Some group designs, that show your ability to design in a team (to design with your children or partner is an example, but also with other permaculture colleagues or any social group).
6. & some designs which are directly meant to
7. Y algunos diseños que son directamente para move & improve some part of the global Permaculture Network ... ej. DOCUMENTING the work of pioneers (who never have time to do this) & we have many more designs in which you can participate since the Academy has done all sorts of things :) ... with the added advantage that we give you Permis for these.

Criteria for the Diploma & the Integral Diploma

This is a mega-summary of the old 'Diploma Manual' that we stopped using because it is too long & confuses more than helps the people getting ready for the diploma (various european academies use it) but THE CRITERIA that are used to see if someone is 'at diploma level' in PC are the same.

For the Integral PC Diploma (a higher, degree level), as well as looking for a higher level of the previous criteria, we add two more:

3) Demonstrate to be a good designer of complex systems and a capacity for systemic thinking.

4) Demonstrate a deep understanding in the practical application of the integral model.