MY DIPLOMA PATHWAY
Field Props: Starting with things lying around my tutor explained how the diploma worked with the various tutorials, guilds, design write ups and final accreditation. This using what you have to make a visual/ practical guides is marvellous and something I now use.
Another method. River Of Life: to help me on my pathway were to think of my life as a river and mark the flow of my life up to this point. That's the past. Then thinking forward to planning the future I made a timeframe for getting my diploma written up and rewards leading to an end goal. It didn't get followed but it made me feel good and set my intentions.
Writing up the diploma - My big block. Having seen my guild members accredit and having missed all my deadlines I decided I am not in a rush. My motivation is not another qualification but an understanding of me. I am really keen to know why I am doing the diploma, to make it part of my life and to write up the designs in an easily sharable way- online, but that explains to me too what it all means. I aim to find a purpose to my life, design my way towards it. Using the accreditation form (see page on design methods) with Hanna T's support as tutor has been invaluable.
What is a Permaculture Design? I think it is the consideration of permaculture ethics and principles when we design. I seem to have done life in a fairly creative and also reactive way. It seems to have been mostly permacultural up to now, perhaps lacking a clear design or a method. Can I learn for the future and do I put these learnings into practice, use 5 minutes methods to check my gut feelings and encourage solutions to problems....... I know the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design is helping already.
Another method. River Of Life: to help me on my pathway were to think of my life as a river and mark the flow of my life up to this point. That's the past. Then thinking forward to planning the future I made a timeframe for getting my diploma written up and rewards leading to an end goal. It didn't get followed but it made me feel good and set my intentions.
Writing up the diploma - My big block. Having seen my guild members accredit and having missed all my deadlines I decided I am not in a rush. My motivation is not another qualification but an understanding of me. I am really keen to know why I am doing the diploma, to make it part of my life and to write up the designs in an easily sharable way- online, but that explains to me too what it all means. I aim to find a purpose to my life, design my way towards it. Using the accreditation form (see page on design methods) with Hanna T's support as tutor has been invaluable.
What is a Permaculture Design? I think it is the consideration of permaculture ethics and principles when we design. I seem to have done life in a fairly creative and also reactive way. It seems to have been mostly permacultural up to now, perhaps lacking a clear design or a method. Can I learn for the future and do I put these learnings into practice, use 5 minutes methods to check my gut feelings and encourage solutions to problems....... I know the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design is helping already.
So to design the rest of my Diploma Pathway with everything I have learnt so far:
- I intend to Use this website to write up the designs. TICK feb 2016
- Re draw a timeline to Completion that I did on day one of my diploma. Halfway Pathway drawn Feb 2016. Involved rethinking the 10 designs and grouping some of the work/ projects I have done into a new format. See diagram below.
- Give rewards for completing each diploma.
- Vision what I will do post diploma.... Hopefully the diploma will give me the processes and experience to design as a professional with templates, education and workshops planing, implementation, write ups with ease, website to share open source all of my learnings and templates and have a herbal practice that inspires, informs and all together allows me to live well and share what I do co-operatively.
Heather Jo Flores – quote – via talking to Diploma Tutor Hannah
Why do I self sabotage and procrastinate on projects that I really want to do?
Why do I self sabotage and procrastinate on projects that I really want to do?
- By learning to value your own needs above all others & choosing only those projects which feed your spirit. Self-sabotage and procrastination are ways that we try to re-inforce the notion that we don’t deserve love. But if we ground down through the self-care, self-love and boundaries with the sureness that we do deserve all of that, then the success and completion of projects becomes less about pleasing (or disappointing!) others, and more about letting our light shine.
CELEBRATING
Finishing diploma in 8th year!
going on trip of a lifetime! Did that as I thought I'd finished but hadn't.
Booked on garden design course / technical drawing course! Love it!
Got a place to sow seeds (have a greenhouse frame on my allotment.
It hasn't quite worked out to plan but I am happy....
When I accredit I shall celebrate by adding business membership of herbaculture CIC to permaculture association Britain. Did that before actually.
Finally ....... get a dog!
I can borrow one, will that do?
going on trip of a lifetime! Did that as I thought I'd finished but hadn't.
Booked on garden design course / technical drawing course! Love it!
Got a place to sow seeds (have a greenhouse frame on my allotment.
It hasn't quite worked out to plan but I am happy....
When I accredit I shall celebrate by adding business membership of herbaculture CIC to permaculture association Britain. Did that before actually.
Finally ....... get a dog!
I can borrow one, will that do?
March 8th 2020
I am presenting to the Diploma Gathering in London and it is now over 10 years since I signed up. It feels really exciting going back over my designs in part as a scrapbook of my life and I can chart my progress. The half way design above way important to get my arse in gear and the concept of rewards, whilst not always folllowed certainly puts energy into the the why write up a design, when you're happy that you are doing the design anyway.
After the first 5 designs I started permaculture designing everything and dreaming up ways to work out life decisions: implications of having a baby; where to live; need for full time job; what next?
The next 5 designs where influenced heavily by my nagging desires to create an ethic livlihood with herbaculture. It took up a lot of my time and I got support from School of Social Entrepreneurship and UnLtd. I also moved to an amazing intentional community called Old Hall which started in 1974 and I grew up in the village next to it. So I was very much in a beautiful communal environment and living permaculturally.
I realised that I was getting on with many social designs and a lot of the land designs were less than satisfactory (hence all lumped together in 4. Landholding). I love technical drawing and revisited Aranya's book but when I found a course on garden design At Writtle College I used my social enterprise funding to pay for that. It helped me to create my first proper base map, I had then more confidence to be a permaucultre designer and inspired that side of me which was lacking. See later on in design 12. Magic Garden.
Another area I identified that needed attention was my ZONE 000. Talking about emotions, dealing with relationships and addressing my inner life has been a challenge but having a supporting partner who is literate in such matters and going to a gay mens' therapy group fortnightly has led to much discovery.
I did get my 10 designs written up and with much prompting, went back to create more detailed reflections and evaluations. I still struggle with the process, slowing it down and using a method to evaluate the options. I say now that 5 minutes thinking and designing is all it takes to save a lot of annoyance. Perhaps the best example is setting up herbaculture CIC and not being 100% clear how it would develop in the future. It was really a vision without detail when it started. I now have the realisation that it works best when shared and not on my own so as my life if exploring education as a teacher (design 6), I am incorporating the other aspects of my permaculture life into a education herbaculture venture and I can manage it how it is just fine.
Come see the herb bus in the kids field at Latitude on on the website www.herbaculture.org
After the first 5 designs I started permaculture designing everything and dreaming up ways to work out life decisions: implications of having a baby; where to live; need for full time job; what next?
The next 5 designs where influenced heavily by my nagging desires to create an ethic livlihood with herbaculture. It took up a lot of my time and I got support from School of Social Entrepreneurship and UnLtd. I also moved to an amazing intentional community called Old Hall which started in 1974 and I grew up in the village next to it. So I was very much in a beautiful communal environment and living permaculturally.
I realised that I was getting on with many social designs and a lot of the land designs were less than satisfactory (hence all lumped together in 4. Landholding). I love technical drawing and revisited Aranya's book but when I found a course on garden design At Writtle College I used my social enterprise funding to pay for that. It helped me to create my first proper base map, I had then more confidence to be a permaucultre designer and inspired that side of me which was lacking. See later on in design 12. Magic Garden.
Another area I identified that needed attention was my ZONE 000. Talking about emotions, dealing with relationships and addressing my inner life has been a challenge but having a supporting partner who is literate in such matters and going to a gay mens' therapy group fortnightly has led to much discovery.
I did get my 10 designs written up and with much prompting, went back to create more detailed reflections and evaluations. I still struggle with the process, slowing it down and using a method to evaluate the options. I say now that 5 minutes thinking and designing is all it takes to save a lot of annoyance. Perhaps the best example is setting up herbaculture CIC and not being 100% clear how it would develop in the future. It was really a vision without detail when it started. I now have the realisation that it works best when shared and not on my own so as my life if exploring education as a teacher (design 6), I am incorporating the other aspects of my permaculture life into a education herbaculture venture and I can manage it how it is just fine.
Come see the herb bus in the kids field at Latitude on on the website www.herbaculture.org