Permaculture Immersion Week 2026

Step into a transformative week of learning, connection, and inspiration at Coed Hills. This immersive experience distills the first 60% of a full Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) into a rich, hands-on journey focused on one powerful question:

How do you want to design your life and the world around you?

Whether you’re dreaming of a land-based project, a more sustainable lifestyle, or simply a healthier, more resilient way of living, this course gives you the tools, confidence, and community to begin.

What You’ll Experience:

Over seven nourishing days, you’ll explore the foundations of permaculture through a dynamic blend of:

• Practical, hands-on learning in gardens, woodland and land-based systems
• Interactive design sessions focused on your own life or project
• Wellbeing and somatic practices to support personal resilience
• Group co-coaching and reflection to deepen learning and integration
• Connection with nature as a guide for regenerative design

What You’ll Learn:

Sustainable Living & Ecological Design:

• Permaculture ethics and design frameworks
• Patterns in nature and how to apply them
• Energy-efficient planning
• Personal resilience and sustainable lifestyle choices

Food Growing & Ediculture:

• Organic horticulture and soil health
• Forest gardening and polycultures
• Seasonal awareness, foraging, and food systems
• Whole health, nutrition and wellbeing

Practical Skills & Tools:

• Site observation and land-based design
• Mapping, surveying, and design techniques
• Working with real projects in collaborative design exercises
• Clarifying your values, your vision and your practical next steps

Community & Resilience:

• Communication and co-operation skills
• Local resilience and community systems
• Pathways to regenerative livelihoods and projects

What You’ll Leave With

By the end of the week, you will have:

• A clearer vision for your life or project
• Practical tools to begin designing and implementing it
• Increased confidence in growing food and living sustainably
• A deeper sense of connection to yourself, to others and to nature
• Inspiration and momentum to continue your journey

Who Is This For?

This immersion is perfect if you:

• Want a powerful introduction to permaculture
• Are considering a full PDC and want to get started
• Have a project, idea, or lifestyle shift you want to explore
• Care about health, wellbeing, sustainability, and resilience
• Learn best through hands-on, experiential environments

Taking Your Learning Further

If you want to take your learning further after this course, to go deeper into your permaculture learning, and to take your main design project further with support, then you will have the choice to complete a further 5 day course with the Coed Hills-A Wild Life team later in 2026 or in 2027 to gain your Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC), certified by the Permaculture Association (Britain). You will also have the option to complete modules with other teachers to complete your PDC, as part of the new modular PDC system overseen by the Permaculture Association (Britain).

Why this course is unique

While many Permaculture Design courses focus on design and social permaculture, this course brings together design thinking, community learning, in-depth food growing skills and embodied practice: it’s balance between design and practice is unique. It weaves land, food systems and social ecology with the lived experience of the body, recognizing that sustainable design is not only something we plan and analyze, but something we feel, practice and live.

If you’d like to explore the thinking behind our approach to learning, community and care, you might enjoy our reflection Why a Wild Life?

The Cost

We offer three tiers of pricing, based on an honesty policy. This approach helps make the course accessible to people in different financial situations, while also ensuring we can cover costs and run the course again in future.

To find out more details about what’s on offer in the course, please follow this link to the A Wild Life Website