Creative Mapping
for your PDC
Empower your students to map and design a regenerative career
A permaculture course is a life changing experience,
and it can also feel like drinking from a firehose.
Creative Mapping for PDCs helps your students metabolize the information they’re receiving and focus on their unique role in the movement.
You taught them amazing regenerative land stewardship tools. Chris will train your students to use those same tools to design a regenerative life and focused career.
The Teacher
Hi, I’m Chris and I travel between ecovillages, homesteads, and other land-based communities helping land stewards design sustainable lives and careers.
This new PDC offering has grown out of my 12 years supporting creative individuals and organizations. Moving beyond social Permaculture, it’s my mission to help you and your community design regenerative systems to sustainably give your gift to the world.
The Curriculum
Invite Chris to teach at your in-person PDC.
These modular sessions are designed to fit seamlessly with your existing Permaculture Design curriculum, and can be integrated throughout the course, or added on in the final days to help integrate what your students have learned as they prepare to take what they’ve learned home.
1. The 8 Forms of Capital
Beyond financial wealth, inventory all the abundance you have access to, get clear on areas of need. Have the information you need to steward your personal capacity ecosystem and easily make impactful decisions.
2. SYMBIOSIS MAPPING
A simple, powerful tool you can use in your life design practice to check if a project or relationship is healthy and abundance-giving or unsustainably depleting. In business terms, they’d call this a holistic cost-value analysis.
3. ZONES OF ATTENTION MAP
Use zones and sectors to design your days, clarify how you spend your time, and get focus so that everything you say ‘yes’ to so is in alignment with a healthy whole.
4. DESIGN FROM PATTERNS
It’s tempting to start with specifics– that shiny career goal or project idea that you feel like you ‘should’ accomplish. When you map your personal core values constellations, they act as a pattern that can guide all life design decisions small and large, keeping you in integrity with who you truly are in the world.
5. CAREER ECOSYSTEM MAP
Permaculture starts with deep observation. If your life were a landscape, this is the flyover where we get an idea of what areas are healthy and abundant, and which ones need support and regenerative design.
further curriculum
While the above maps cover the core Creative Mapping for PDCs curriculum, I’ve spent over a decade developing life and career design tools inspired by permaculture.
If you have time and space to go deeper, we can do everything from Relational Landscape Mapping, which brings consciousness to your role in tending community, to my reworking of Yeoman’s Scale of Permanence to help us name what areas are within our control, and work smarter with what energy we have.
Let’s talk
I’d love to connect about which of these tools make the most sense to help your PDC students stack functions by using your amazing land stewardship training to design and steward a regenerative life and healthy career.
If you would like your PDC to be part of my pilot program this year, answer these questions and we can make a plan!
Frequently Asked Questions
+ How much of our PDC’s teaching time would be dedicated to these Creative Mapping sessions?
The full standard curriculum fits nicely into six 60-min sessions. These can be spread out over multiple days, or consolidated into a full-day intensive. That said, I can create a custom offering that fits into something as short as a single 90-minute session. And if you’d like to go deeper, I have curriculum that can fill an entire 24-hour course.
+ Our PDC doesn’t have space for all of these sessions. Is it possible to pick and choose from the above tools?
Yes. You can choose anything from a single session to a 6+ sessions. Please note that the five topics listed above build on each other and therefore must be completed in order. So, for example, if you’re only booking two teaching sessions, we’d start with The 8 Forms of Capital, and then session two would be Symbiosis Mapping.
+ How much does this cost?
I am currently offering these teaching sessions free of charge, asking only for my hosts to cover room and board, and a contribution towards my travel costs. I gratefully accept additional donations or trades where available, but am mainly looking to share this important information far and wide, and connect with collaborators and like-minded communities.
In my sessions I may mention that I offer paid one-on-one sessions and paid online courses for anyone who is interested in going deeper, but I’m allergic to high-pressure marketing and only mention my other offerings as an additional option in case it’s a good fit for anyone.
+ Who’s the teacher?
Hi, I’m Chris Faroe, a musician, educator, and creative career designer based in the Hudson (Muhikanituk) Valley of New York on Esopus land. When I’m not living in my semi-off-grid tiny house on a 5.5 acre homestead, I travel between various community land stewardship projects sharing Creative Mapping tools, music, and magical times. I first studied Permaculture with Starhawk and Charles Williams at O.U.R. Ecovillage in 2014, and have been retrofitting Permaculture maps ever since in service of art, play, and liberation.
+ Is this curriculum available online?
Currently I’m offering these teaching sessions as a live, in-person supplement to your existing PDC curriculum. I’m trying to visit as many PDCs as possible to share this work in collaboration with existing PDCs, build community, and connect with students. If your PDC is already taught entirely online, I’ll consider teaching remotely.