23. September - 29. October 2025
Ready to Inspire Others with Permaculture?
Are you ready to share your passion for permaculture but feel unsure how to teach it effectively?
The Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) is here to help you confidently step into the role of a skilled, impactful teacher—online or in person.
If you hold a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and are passionate about sharing permaculture knowledge, this course is your gateway to becoming a confident, skilled, and inspiring teacher.
This international online training, delivered in English, was designed by internationally renowned permaculture teacher Rosemary Morrow and is facilitated by Alfred Decker and a fantastic teaching team. It’s brought to you in collaboration with the Permaculture Association of Britain.
Whether you’re already teaching or dreaming of becoming a teacher, the Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) equips you with the skills, confidence, and tools to inspire others with permaculture—both online and in person.
Why this training?
The PTT is an international training program in English, designed by permaculture educator pioneer Rosemary Morrow, which empowers you to:
- Build teaching confidence and overcome fears of public speaking or facilitation
- Transform classrooms into dynamic, participatory learning spaces
- Gain hands-on experience for teaching online and in person
- Design and deliver impactful courses that create real change in your students’ lives
- Join a global community of supportive, like-minded teachers
Whether you want to run full PDCs or smaller courses and workshops, this training will help you connect with your audience and teach with confidence and passion.
What You’ll Learn
This intensive training will:
- Help you master participatory teaching methods for both virtual and in-person environments.
- Provide tools for engaging facilitation, presentation design, and student connection.
- Teach you how to manage the business side of teaching: budgeting, marketing, and course organization.
- Help you develop a resilient teaching mindset to inspire confidence in yourself and your students.
- Give you experience in collaborative teaching and group facilitation.
Who is this course for?
This is for you who:
- Has completed a Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
- Wants more confidence teaching permaculture online and in person
- Wants to expand your toolkit for participatory facilitation and online teaching
- Believes in education as a tool for empowering individuals and communities
What Makes This Training Unique?
Global: Learn alongside participants from around the world, building international connections. Our previous students have found future teaching collaborators on this training.
Practical and Hands-On: Get real teaching practice in a supportive environment.
Hybrid Skills: Master teaching in both virtual and in-person settings.
Supportive Community: Join a network of experienced trainers and fellow learners to exchange ideas and support.
With Rosemary Morrow’s four decades of teaching expertise, this course offers timeless wisdom and practical tools for teaching in today’s world.
What is included in the course?
- 12 x live 3 hour interactive online classes (2 per week)
- Course platform for self study including live class recordings, videos, text, and images
- Course community forum
- Membership in the Permaculture Association ofBritain
- Those who complete receive certification through the Permaculture Association of Britain
- A live call with Rosemary Morrow
- Weekly facilitation practice in class time
- Online copy of the Permaculture teacher training manual
- Contact with the facilitators and course colleagues
- Access to the course materials after the end of the training
We recommend setting aside 10 hours per week to complete this training.
Community
You will be part of an international community during this training. Previous participants testify to the value of learning and practicing in a supportive group; making global connections and even finding future teaching collaborators! Our community forum is located inside the course platform to make it easy to connect with your colleagues.
By joining the PTT, you will also become a member of the Permaculture Association of Britain and gain access to their permaculture Community Hub, which actively supports a worldwide movement.
About the course facilitators & guests
Alfred Decker
(lead facilitator)
Alfred Decker is an award-winning permaculture designer, certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain, and one of Europe’s leading permaculture educators. Since his first PDC in 1998 in California, he has been involved with social movements and projects throughout Europe and the Americas. He is the founder of the 12 Principles Permaculture Design and holds a post graduate diploma in sustainable architecture and renewable energy.
After taking this same teacher training course with Rosemary Morrow in 2011, he undertook a two year mentorship, facilitating as her assistant and earning a Diploma in Permaculture Education & Community Development through the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute.
Alfred has facilitated over 20 teacher trainings as lead facilitator.Rosemary has asked him to organise these trainings in Europe.
Jen McConachie
Jen is a permaculture facilitator and life coach based in Norway. She is a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain and holds Permaculture Teacher Training, Work That Reconnects facilitator certificates and Permaculture Diploma. Her background was in music, until she discovered permaculture. She runs Earth Mentor Me for online and in person programs including Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC), forest garden design, Work That Reconnects and life coaching.
Sonita Mbah
Sonita is a passionate food grower, facilitator and permaculture designer – certified by German Permakultur Akademie. She has led permaculture courses in Cameroon, Germany and Kenya. For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology and the One World Award for her work with the Global Ecovillage Network.
Habiba Youssef Abdel Aal
Habiba holds a degree in Economics and Sustainable Development, and has worked in international development focusing on the regenerative and sustainable use of natural resources for income generating activities aimed for the reduction of poverty in rural areas. She is the co-founder of La Bolina, an Andalusia-based association working on land regeneration, capacity and awareness building and socio-economical integration of migrants and refugees. Habiba is an expert in agroecology market gardens.
Yao Fan
Yau is a permaculture designer and facilitator. He did his first PDC in 2017 and afterwards took courses with Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Helder Valente, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gerard Ducerf, and Elaine Ingham. Since taking a teacher training with Alfred Decker, he has taught 2 PDC and other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels. Yau is in the process of designing a PDC for refugees together with Alfred Decker, Rosemary Marrow and the Permaculture for Refugees working group
Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary is loved worldwide as a teacher, practitioner, author and activist. She has travelled for decades, often in countries shattered by war and disasters, sharing her passion for permaculture & social justice. She believes that access to useful knowledge is a basic human right.
Rosemary created teacher trainings to give people the skills and confidence to take the step from being a practitioner to a teacher, and thereby help permaculture spread more rapidly.
The knowledge and experience she brings to creating abundance, food security and successful sustainable farming models is unparalleled in permaculture education today.
Certification requirements
This teacher training is certified through the Permaculture Association of Britain.To receive certification, students are required to:
- Participate live in 75% of the live classes (9 of 12)
- Complete all the course materials and assignments
What do others say about the course?
Montoeli Moletsane - Lesotho
“Before the training I was really lost about teaching, but with new skills and teaching practice, I now feel confident to teach any audience! I had no permaculture network or opportunities in my country, however through this course I made amazing friends and connections for life! Thanks to this new international network, I feel hopeful to gain funding for my permaculture projects. Thankyou for this wonderful program.”
Meg Watson - UK
"I have wondered whether I will be able to make permaculture a viable career path.
This course has given me the confidence that I am on the right track & that spreading the permaculture message is the most important life path for me.
Thank you so much for this wonderful and enriching experience!"
Lori Heath - Canada
“Before the teacher training, being a permaculture teacher or taking part in a teacher training was a distant goal.
It feels like a huge accomplishment! I have much more confidence now & feel I could co-teach a PDC.
I have amazing new connections to share ideas and maybe even teaching experiences with!”
Jo Holleran - France
“Before the teacher training, I hoped to “permaculturise” my teaching skills & conquer my fears about online teaching & technology.
It has been so much more than that!
It has been fantastic to be part of a community. I now feel ready to hold in person workshops locally & begin to look for online students.”
Ryan Sandford Blackburn - UK
“The course is very well designed, adapted for the modern digital world, from a tried and tested format.
Being online means I am able to dive deep into permaculture teaching, at a time when studying a presential course is not possible.
The course has great energy & the people-care ethic is lived, Once you are on this leg of your permaculture learning journey, you will pick up pace. This course moved me through uncertainty to being inspired, informed & connected.”
Registration
Please fill in the form underneath to register.
If you wish to apply for a scholarship, please see the details underneath.
Questions? Contact: [email protected]
Bursary/ Scholarship places
We want our courses to be as inclusive as possible and it may be possible to offer a reduction in the course fee or a scholarship place.
Please investigate all other sources of funding for your course participation before applying, as the funding is very limited.
To apply please fill out the application form by clicking here.