This Diploma program in Action for Resilience provides peer and professional support, and qualification credits to people engaging in constructive action towards the goals of personal, community, and global resilience.

It commences with our comprehensive program of two Certificates after which you move into a design process in which you thoroughly survey your intended community of action to establish who else is engaged in action for resilience.

These people will likely include local permaculture designers, Transition Town activists, Food Sovereignty advocates, and more. While you may be able to augment the efforts of these people, you may also need to start your own, fresh projects. If you are already engaged in a project, taking a Diploma program will significantly raise its strategic value and give you access to mentors who will support you to strengthen your project and time management skills, entrepreneurial acumen, organizational design, and more.

The learning design follows the generic pattern of all Diploma and Degree pathways at Gaia University, using a Transformative Action Learning methodology.

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Pathway Structure

In your first Action Learning Cycle (ALC1) you will be engaged in two Advanced Certificate programs online with a cohort of approximately 25 other actionists from around the world.  Following these two Certificate programs you will be designing the projects with which you will engage during the remainder of the Action Learning Cycle 1 and the Action Learning Cycle 2 phase of your program in which you will receive professional mentoring and advising as well as peer support.  See below for further details.

Certificate in Ecosocial Design:

The Action for Resilience program begins with a series of 8 online courses consisting of readings, activities and live interactive webinars. Upon completing these courses you will be awarded our Certificate in Ecosocial Design. The total time is approximately 6 months.

The courses are:

  1. Creating Regenerative Livelihoods I (2 weeks)
  2. Creating Regenerative Livelihoods II (2 weeks)
  3. Managing Time, Managing Promises (2 weeks)
  4. Learning & Unlearning (2 weeks)
  5. Thinking About Worldviews (2 weeks)
  6. Growing Resilient Communities (2 weeks)
  7. Project & Design Thinking (2 weeks)
  8. Tracking Your Learning Journey (2 weeks)

 

Certificate in Auto-Ethnography and Learning Design:

The Certificate in Ecosocial Design is followed by 2 intensive learning experiences centered around work which is documented in an e-portfolio and supported by readings, activities, live interactive webinars, one-on-one mentoring and advising. Upon completion of this program you will be awarded a Certificate in Auto-Ethnography and Learning Design.

The two parts to this Certificate are:

  1. Life & Career Review (4 weeks) in which you reflect on and document what you have learned and unlearned in the past and how you did that.
  2. Learning Intentions & Pathway Design (4 weeks):  in which you reflect on and document what you intend to learn and unlearn (over the next 6-12 months) and how you might do that.

These two certificate programs comprise the beginning of all of our Diploma and Degree programs. They can also be taken individually or together without enrolling in a full program. For more information click here.

Project/Documentation/Mentoring Phase: 

Following the  content-rich 6-8 month Certificate programs,you will start focusing on your self-chosen project work, making a series of structured project reports (Output Packets) that you will publish in your e-portfolio. Each report is reviewed by yourself, a peer, your Main Advisor, and your Permaculture Mentor. This results in comprehensive feedback on your work as you progress along your pathway.

What you decide to focus on for your projects is entirely up to you. Student associates have designed projects on research topics, businesses, volunteer/professional work, land-based designs, social and/or cultural designs, personal development, and more. To see some examples of Outputs Packets click here (will open in a new window).

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Project/Documentation/Mentoring Phase: 

Following the  content-rich 6-8 month Certificate programs,you will start focusing on your self-chosen project work, making a series of structured project reports (Output Packets) that you will publish in your e-portfolio. Each report is reviewed by yourself, a peer, your Main Advisor, and your Permaculture Mentor. This results in comprehensive feedback on your work as you progress along your pathway.

What you decide to focus on for your projects is entirely up to you. Student associates have designed projects on research topics, businesses, volunteer/professional work, land-based designs, social and/or cultural designs, personal development, and more. To see some examples of Outputs Packets click here (will open in a new window).

Please click here for an overview of tuition fees for the Diploma program.

  • A $540 non-refundable deposit is included in your first payment
  • Different payment options are available to you
    • Standard payment plan: pay bi-annually
    • You receive a discount for paying annually
    • You can also choose an easy quarterly payment plan (includes an administrative fee)
    • Payments are made taking into account a 12-month calendar year
  • For further tuition payment policies, click here
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