Social Peas

Social PEAS

Social Permaculture: Empowering an Active Society

About the Project

Target Groups

Adult educators/trainers/facilitators/social workers and Vulnerable Adults

Project Results

Training Course – Building a Foundations for Permaculture and Social-Ecology learning for Adult Educators. Best Practice Manual and step by step Programme Guide for the creation of permaculture with vulnerable adults. Social Peas E-Learning Platform Certification Protocol

Duration

From 01/01/2022

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Aim of the Project

The project aims to create permaculture training for people working with vulnerable adults, as well as for vulnerable adults to increase their knowledge and competencies to be able to use tools from social permaculture and nature therapy for the improvement of well-being and social resilience while taking care of the environment.

Moreover the project aims to:

Support adult educators to increase their knowledge and gain expertise in regenerative social permaculture, nature permaculture and how to use permaculture gardens to support marginalized adults’s wellbeing and to build resilient communities.
To provide adult educators with the necessary tools to create permaculture gardens and work programmes with vulnerable adults
To create opportunities for adult educators to continue with their professional development and gain certification for their learnings in nature and social permaculture.
To increase awareness amongst adult educators on the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues and how their work can be a vehicle of transformation in both respects.
To develop key competencies amongst vulnerable adults around self-care, self-reliance, active social participation, community work, social skills, co-design, food autonomy and green entrepreneurship to have the ability to participate in modern society.
To improve well-being and social inclusion for adults through contact with nature, using non-formal education for engagement, through pilot projects that will be spaces for vulnerable adults and other community members to work on together.
Fight stigma that marginalised adults currently experience.
To develop self-paced online tools as open educational resources where all the didactic materials will be available for free for a wide reach of adult educators.