Lost Valley’s transformational 10-week Permaculture Design Course / Intentional Community Immersion offers students an opportunity to integrate with natural rhythms of the land and experience the beauty, complexities, and intimacy of communal life within our 33 year old Intentional Community in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.

The Holistic Sustainability Semester  (June 10- August 20) features internationally renowned teachers in five spheres of sustainability — Personal, Social, Ecological, Economic, and Worldview. We weave experiential learning, indigenous teachings, and deep nature immersion practices into the HSS. Immerse yourself in our Ecovillage and our 87-acre campus of oak savanna, camas meadow, permaculture gardens, woodland streams, and regenerating forest.

Over these 10 weeks, students will integrate into our community, Meadowsong Ecovillage, and develop an understanding of the systems of governance and decision making (sociocracy) that we use.  Students will learn communication skills in a safe and nurturing environment that allow for new growth, expression, and deeper relationships. 

Working with the land in our ongoing restoration projects, informed by indigenous practices and guidance, students will develop an understanding of how one can integrate into the ecosystem and the more-than-human world.  Permaculture-based food production, preservation, animal husbandry and integration provide a basis for students’ future work in the world as rewilders, community builders, farmers, and changemakers.

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