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The International Permaculture Collaborative Laboratory is a network of individuals that aims to enhance the effectiveness of the global permaculture movement.
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What's going on!
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Weaving Wisdom Across Networks
A Gathering for Permaculture CoLab Members Engaged in Other Networks
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Are you an active member of the Permaculture CoLab and engaged in other networks, communities, or regenerative initiatives?
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This gathering is an open invitation to share the stage—to bring forward the wisdom, frameworks, and field learnings you’re carrying from your other spaces. Our intention is to cross-pollinate insights, ignite inspiration, and activate practical ways forward that nourish our collective roles.
This is not a panel. It’s a participatory circle.
We are co-creating a container where knowledge becomes nourishment, and lived experience becomes a resource for action.
What to Expect:
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- A space to share what’s alive in other networks and how it connects with your Colab presence
- A collective inquiry into practical, grounded ways of weaving wisdom into our roles
- Inspiration for fueling your engagement within and beyond the Colab
- Seeding a working group or future collaborations for those who wish to deepen
Date: October 15, 2025
Time: 16:00 to 17:30 CET
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We welcome your presence, your questions, and your gifts.
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CoLab Blog Post
Listening with Presence, the Art of Conversation (part 1)
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This article was written by CoLab Project Manager Aimee Fenech and was originally published on Medium. The article is based on Aimee's learnings from a course about the art of conversation. It looks at how to ask better questions in order to foster better debate. It also discusses how to stay in healthy relationship, even when we disagree.
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Permaculture Design Guild – For Diploma Students
In October we are starting a Permaculture Design Guild which is designed for Diploma students to help finish their designs
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We will be meeting Saturdays from 11:00 – 12:30 CEST for 8 weeks
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You will need to join the CoLab as a member to join this event. Membership is free!
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This is an opportunity to present your design or design idea to fellow students for feedback.
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The session is free of charge but you can make a conscious donation to the Funding Circle Community Fund which helps the funding circle team provide free grant matching and grant writing services to grassroot projects looking for funding.
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If you know of Diploma Students who would benefit from being in this guild please feel free to invite them to join the CoLab and join us here in the Guild.
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If you are a Diploma Tutor please do make your students aware of this guild perhaps they would benefit from joining us.
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Community Conversation – "How We Apply Permaculture in Community"
Join Dominik Jais on the 14th of October for an online presentation about Digital Permaculture, hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain as part of their Campfire events.
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The session will be interactive – participants are invited to engage, share, and explore together how permaculture design can be applied to our digital lives. The presentation is based on Dominik’s book Digital Permaculture - details about the book at https://www.beyondbuckthorns.com/digital-permaculture.
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Participation is free for members of the Permaculture Association Britain, and £6 for non-members.
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Permaculture is Political
A First Nations & Palestine fundraising web series hosted by PermaQueer
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The series will explore how practices like permaculture and regenerative agriculture can be powerful tools for justice—or, if not approached critically, can perpetuate colonial harm.
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We're interested in opening up space for honest conversations about who these movements serve, how they can be inaccessible or individualistic, and what it looks like to centre young people, First Nations, migrant, queer, and other diverse communities in truly regenerative ways. These communities are often the ones driving innovation and embodying the radical potential of this work—yet rarely get the platform to share their experiences, challenges, and visions. All profits from the series will go toward First Nations organisations and food relief for Palestine.
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Gathering over zoom on the 2nd, 4th and 5th of October, we’ll be hearing from a range of incredible initiatives and speakers from a variety of lived experiences on how we can raise the bar, claim accountability & design for empowered action.
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A Zoom link will be sent out to ticket purchasers one week prior to event and will entitle purchasers access to the recorded content. Hosted by
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Diversity and Decolonization
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The International Permaculture CoLab recognises that permaculture history, ethics, principles and practices have deep roots in many indigenous cultures.
This section of our newsletter is dedicated to addressing gaps in knowledge, highlighting resources and important work. We seek to promote, share and support diversity and decolonization projects, organisations and shared knowledge around the world that are aligned with our vision of a socially just world where we live in harmony with nature.
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Inclusive Writing in Permaculture – Now Available in English, French, and Spanish
At the heart of permaculture is a commitment to care for people, the earth, and ensure fair share. But how often do we reflect these values in the way we write and communicate?
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We’re excited to share a new resource that will help you do just that: Inclusive Writing in Permaculture – A Handbook to Simple and Respectful Communication, generously created by Mayi Lekuona, a permaculture designer, educator, and co-founder of Maïa Permaculture Cooperative.
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This beautifully crafted guide is now available for free download in English, French, and Spanish.
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Resource of the Month
International Permaculture Map
This is an updated map of the International Permaculture CoLab which shows a simplified view of the CoLab structure, its circles and some of the working groups. It also includes some of the CoLab’s more prominent allies. This map gives a useful overview of how the CoLab works and how the different parts interact with each other. It is shared here in jpg and pdf format.
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Engagement opportunities
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Recruiting: Financial Administrator for the Next Steps Project.
The Next Steps project within the International Permaculture CoLab is looking for a detail-oriented and collaborative Financial Administrator to join our remote team from August 2025 to January 2026.
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Applications are open for Diversity Stipends and Grants. Find out more by reading the policy carefully.
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Upcoming recruitment for positions within the International Permaculture CoLab and Aligned networks can be found also here.
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Did you know: Within the CoLab slack workspace we also curate a channel called; #nice-jobs where members share open positions worldwide that are aligned with our shared values.
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