Resilience Lab – 72h Permaculture Design Course in Slovenia

For people who feel the cracks – in the soil, in the news, in themselves.

The Resilience Lab is a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course near Vransko, Slovenia. Most permaculture courses teach how to design land. This one also teaches how to design what holds a group together when things get hard.

We work with three kinds of resilience:

Practical – read the land, build soil, catch water, design systems that feed you.

Social – make decisions together, work through conflict instead of around it.

Emotional – stay steady when the future is unclear, make room for grief.

In small groups you work on a real design project. Parts of the curriculum are shaped together with the group, and we stay in touch beyond March.

DATES

Module 1 (on site): 20–24 January 2027

Online bridge: February 2027

Module 2 (on site): 10–14 March 2027

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Teaching, simple accommodation, online bridge sessions, project work and certificate. Food via a shared kitchen with a group budget.

PRICE

Early bird €900 until 30 October 2026, then €1,200.

GROUP

In English, max. 20 participants.

TEACHERS

Tomislav Gjerkes – lead teacher, practising and teaching permaculture since 2010

Ulrike Reimann – co-facilitator; 20 years of work with groups in project development, community building, conflict work and grief processes

Guest teachers: Ira Zorko, Aljaž Plankl, Janez Božič

HOW TO APPLY

Applications close 30 November 2026. Send a few lines to ulrike.reimann@emotionskultur.com:

– Who are you?

– What draws you to the Resilience Lab?

– What do you bring – a skill, a project, a piece of land, a question?

More information: https://emotionskultur.com/resiliencelab