Supporting the community through management of the communication channel (slack or any other replacement).
Please note that from 2024 this project was merged with the Welcoming Gardening Project.
Nenad Maljković
CoLab maintenance, Next Steps project
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Maintenance of existing community database and making this accessible to the community.
Provide and enhance a database of members and their skills to enable better connection between members.
Please note that from 2024 this project was merged with the Welcoming Gardening Project.
Daniel Atwell, Pushpak Parmar
Reporting Officer: Pushpak Parmar
Diversity, participation and engagement, Next Steps project
1. Create/Update a Google form to gather user database focused on Skill & Language.
2. Keep an eye on activity in the form.
3. Follow-up with all members through email (Twice) as well as Slack messages (Once) per quarter.
4. Feed the data in skill-mapping visualization tool.
5. Make sure it is accessible to everyone.
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The diversity and decolonisation community pot supports diversity and decolonisation work within the CoLab using two methods of access: diversity stipends for participation of people from a diverse background to contribute to existing projects and diversity grants which cover training and aligned events.
Project Aims
For the diversity stipend: to provide funding assistance to individual CoLab members access to paid work within CoLab projects teams already in place.
For the diversity grant: to provide funding to groups working on training and education with the theme of diversity and decolonisation.
Aimee Fenech, Jyo Maan
Reporting Officer: Aimee Fenech
Diversity, participation and engagement, Network weaving, Next Steps project
Support diversity & decolonization activities, training & participation in the International Permaculture Colab.
Stipends provided in 2023:
2 Stipends to work in the Tepla Gora Eco-Market Team
1 Stipend to work on reviewing diversity course within the Learn Team
1 Stipend for individual to manage the Diversity Grant within the Next Steps Project Manager function
Grants provided in 2023:
3 person team to work on Stories to Decolonize Permaculture
2 person team to work on online training course material – Designing Work Spaces for All
2 person team to work on digitizing the In-person Workshop around Inclusion in Workplace to online workshop
Support diversity & decolonization activities, training & participation in the International Permaculture Colab.
The grant has not attracted many applications from eligible applicants and within the remit. We will seek to address this next year. The coordinator role will also be redesigned to make it a more attractive position.
Support diversity & decolonization activities, training & participation in the International Permaculture Colab.
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The Emergent Festival is an opportunity for active members of the International Permaculture CoLab to test out and bring to light micro projects, enhancements to existing activities, or explorations of new ideas over a short period of time – 6 months + supporting events.
It is also an opportunity to bring new people into the CoLab, as long as they are supported and held by current active members with the intention to remain active in this space.
Project Aims
To make visible what is emergent in the community within the agreed International Permaculture CoLab Vision Mission and Aims.
To allow active members of the International Permaculture CoLab to support emergent projects within and on the edge of the CoLab
Jyo Maan, Jorge Barbosa, Aimee Fenech
Diversity, participation and engagement, Emergent Festival, Next Steps project
CoLab members can pitch their ideas and will receive funding through a process of allocation of monies by the most active CoLab members.
Teams that went ahead and their received budgets
Communicating Permaculture in Spanish
Budget: 510.45 GBP
Stories to Decolonise Permaculture
Budget: 610 GBP
Domestic Waste Water Systems – Legislation?
Budget: 876.15 GBP
CoLab Podcast
Budget: 914.35 GBP
Designing Work Spaces For All
Budget: 682.15 GBP
Permaculture Places in the Metaverse
Budget: 612.30 GBP
Tepla Gora Eco Market
Budget: 294.30 GBP
CoLab members can pitch their ideas and will receive funding through a process of allocation of monies by the most active CoLab members.
Teams that have received a budget:
Permaculture in Africa: 750 GBP
CoLab Podcast: 933.77 GBP
Communicating Permaculture in Spanish: 816.23 GBP
African Landless Permaculturist Project: Ikhwelo Healers Collective: 1000 GBP
Permaculture Glossary: 1000 GBP
CoLab members can pitch their ideas and will receive funding through a process of allocation of monies by the most active CoLab members.
Teams that have received a budget:
Translation of Rosemary Morrow’s “Permaculture Teacher Training” into Spanish – 1000 GBP
Indigenous-Led Permaculture: Collaboration & Knowledge-Sharing – 1000 GBP
Enabling Permaculture in Africa: Resource Curating and Sharing – 1000 GBP
Mapping Permaculture Business Models – 1000 GBP
Future of the CoLab Events – 1000 GBP
Communicate Your Impact – 1000 GBP
See individual project pages.
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Welcoming and induction in the CoLab community using different modes of engagement (eg one to one, on-boarding, events etc). Monthly onboarding calls, ad-hoc one to one calls, mid-yearly events to promote and highlight projects and initiatives in the colab and the wider network.
An invitation to come to the table, weaving projects and connections for resilience, collaboration, and scaffolding.
Please note that from 2024 the Welcome Gardening Project also encompasses the Skill Mapping and Community Platform Facilitation projects.
Jyo Maan, Aimee Fenech, Nenad Maljkovic
Reporting Officer: Aimee Fenech
Circle incubation and nourishment, Diversity, participation and engagement, Network weaving, Next Steps project
1. Co-design facilitated calls in line with the frequency outlined in the higher objectives:
– Monthly onboarding.
– Mid-yearly community weaving.
2. Offer adhoc one-to-one calls to members of the CoLab when needed e.g. if they express a wish to become active quickly in one or more circles or working groups.
3. Raw meeting recordings, chat history & any notes accessible through a shared drive for half yearly community contributors gatherings.
4. Digestible artifacts, eg. Pre-call welcoming email with the Communications Coordinator: who we are, what we are doing, what you can expect and what we expect of you and after an onboarding call: what now, who to talk to, where to go, skills mapping update request.
5. Closing triangles – matching people coming in with spaces and people in the ecosystem to help them orient themselves e.g. project / person looking for funding refer to Tanya in the funding circle, add person to the channel and show them how to find the funding opportunities database.
6. Brief follow up some months in, how are people doing, are they active, if no, why not, what additional support could be available?
7. Retrospective of on-boarding and engagement process to turn learnings into process improvements ongoing and annual.
1. Co-design facilitated calls in line with the frequency outlined in the higher objectives:
– Monthly onboarding.
– Mid-yearly community weaving.
2. Offer adhoc one-to-one calls to members of the CoLab when needed e.g. if they express a wish to become active quickly in one or more circles or working groups.
3. Raw meeting recordings, chat history & any notes accessible through a shared drive for half yearly community contributors gatherings.
4. Digestible artifacts, eg. Pre-call welcoming email with the Communications Coordinator: who we are, what we are doing, what you can expect and what we expect of you and after an onboarding call: what now, who to talk to, where to go, skills mapping update request.
5. Closing triangles – matching people coming in with spaces and people in the ecosystem to help them orient themselves e.g. project / person looking for funding refer to Tanya in the funding circle, add person to the channel and show them how to find the funding opportunities database.
6. PARTIALLY MET: Brief follow up some months in, how are people doing, are they active, if no, why not, what additional support could be available? – additional support aspects have not had the time to follow.
7. Retrospective of on-boarding and engagement process to turn learnings into process improvements ongoing and annual.
2. Welcoming and induction in the community using different modes of engagements.
3. Maintenance of existing community database and making this accessible to the community.
4. Community platform facilitation.
The welcome gardening team holds monthly onboarding calls for new colab members and existing members who have been inactive for a while. We offer one-to-one calls for members who wish to discuss their engagement within the CoLab in more detail.
During this year we have been testing different engagement patterns to bridge the gap between entering a new space and becoming active and engaged in the CoLab activities. In the beginning of the year, we organized campfire meetings and we moved into other types of activities which included producing two videos to highlight how the membership benefits and illustrate how the CoLab works. By undertaking such activities we are now engaging the most active members, creating spaces for their voices and experiences to be heard. In addition, it is also a fertile ground for anyone coming into the Colab, to learn of its inner workings and be drawn to the ones that are the torch bearers of International Permaculture CoLab community.
Our work also includes taking care of the CoLab slack workspace and making the community skills database a useful and used resource in the CoLab ecosystem.
2. Welcoming and induction in the community using different modes of engagements.
3. Maintenance of existing community database and making this accessible to the community.
4. Community platform facilitation.
September Updates
The monthly and adhoc onboarding calls for new CoLab members and existing CoLab members who would like to refresh their overview of the CoLab continue on an ongoing basis currently hosted by Aimee but soon to be hosted by Jyo and Abhisek as they complete their onboarding traning. Another training round will be open soon, this is your opportunity to join the team of onboarders to welcome and inform new members as they come into the space.
We are working on a guidelines document for community platform admins that is platform agnostic since the CoLab will be moving to a new open source platform in the coming months.
One of our platform admins Nenad will be leaving the team and he will be handing over to other members of the team. If this is of interest to you please contact the Welcome Circle.
We have been conducting a review of our services through surveying the members and results from this will be published soon.
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