Session Proposals
Here you can explore all permaculture session proposals submitted so far.
You can vote for the sessions you would most like to see in the programme, either directly in the list or from the individual session page.
In addition to the community-selected sessions, there will be a supporting programme with elements such as keynote speakers, networking sessions, and opening and closing sessions. These parts of the programme are organised separately and are not part of the voting process.
There are 20 one-hour session slots available across the four days of the Convergence — five sessions per day.
Help shape the programme:
What if you applied permaculture principles to designing your own life? Explore how to create a more fulfilling, balanced and regenerative way of living through an interactive introduction to Holistic Life Design. Your life can be your first design project.
In my 30-minute session, I will take attendees on a journey through the last five years of my project, Green North Ltd. From its conception in 2021 as a back garden to a permaculture-designed, award-winning suburban homestead. Complete with rescue chickens and a newly installed tearoom to welcome guests on open days.
Permaculture has been around for 50 years. It offers inspiring ethics, principles and approaches for creating a better world. Yet its impact seems limited compared to its potential, and there are plenty of things within the movement itself that deserve a closer look.
So let's talk about it!
In this presentation, I will look at each principle in the context of three different market gardens in Finland and the UK.
This session aims to create a space for exchanging ideas, doubts, challenges, and potential solutions for people living in urban environments - individuals and/or groups who lack direct access to land for purchase, yet wish to live according to permaculture principles and use permaculture design to develop their own livelihoods.
We are often asked about creating and running a green business and coordinating it with personal green ethics - to create consistency, live responsibly and also use our efforts to promote permaculture and regenerative living practices.
presenting 10 charakteristics of living systems, how we use them in germany, with examples for deeper understandig an adapation to different contexts
Q and A
Building a bridge out of capitalism and laying the foundation for a future society in harmony with nature is a huge project that needs a lot of helping hands. And since this foundation is made of gardens, permaculture designers are its essential architects. The session will explain the project and present an invitation to join it.
Global Conversations, Local Action
Through The Permaculture Vine Podcast, I've had conversations with permaculture practitioners from around the world, hearing their stories, experiences, successes and failures.
Earthed Up! is a small agroecological plant nursery in Belper, Derbyshire, England. We operate as a workers co-operative. Founded in 2021 with the mission: "Broaden the horizons of people, by sharing the benefits and possibilities of edible and useful plants. Develop a flourishing agroecological plant nursery.
In 2026 The Power of Permaculture Principles was published by Permanent Publications.
Romania holds a unique ecological and cultural position in Europe, combining rich biodiversity, living smallholder traditions, and a growing movement of people returning to the land. However, despite this potential, practitioners, projects, and associations often work in isolation, limited by geographic distance and relational fragmentation.
Permaculture—once a niche movement rooted in the ecological observations of the 1970s—has long been associated with back-to-the-land idealism, labour-intensive practices, and a rejection of industrial agriculture.
Permaculture Grows in Greece!
A presentation of the story of permaculture in Greece the last 8 years through the eyes of leading practitioners.
A lot of alternative projects, including the permaculture ones, fail due to internal, social factors, manifesting itself through stron internal conflicts and/or loss of motivation of the members.
In my new book Permaculture Design - Frameworks, Concepts, Tools and Examples I go deep on the permaculture design landscape. In this presentation I'll present the book and show some of the frameworks, concepts, tools and examples.
Chris has designed an apple coppice system primarily for firewood production, planted in 2018 in Herefordsghire, UK. This talk gives a description of the system and some results now coppicing has started in 2025.
This a session about my experience with school garden development, converting part of the PDC curriculum into something that may have sense in urban permaculture applied to school gardens.
A session discussing plants that heal in the forest garden context, from productive plants to remarkable remedies and staying safe. Anne Stobart is an experienced herbalist and will explain how use of natural principles in permaculture design makes abundant healing produce possible.
What if you would design (aspects of) your life the way you would design a garden?
What is growing well or even thriving? What has become overgrown? Where is energy being wasted?
Digital Permaculture is the edge between the digital realm and permaculture. It is about the systems that we use every day but yet undesigned. In this session I show how to use permaculture design to design for personal digital sustainability.