1. Implementation
   1. Pre-Course
      1. Distribution of information (arrival information, rules and regs, transportation, accommodation....)
      2. Track student information: contacts, dietary info, accommodation needs, transportation requirements...
      3. Distribution of Course Schedule
      4. Welcoming notes, resources, readings...
      5. Site set up
      6. Coordinator, Instructor, Staff meetings and bonding
      7. Student enrollment (applications, interviews, questionnaires, etc.)
   2. The first day(s)...
      1. Welcoming ceremony, gifts, and tools.
      2. Accommodation set up
      3. Group forming exercises--names, games, group dynamics activities, ice breakers
      4. Logistical meeting: rules, regulations, goals, intentions, schedule, house-keeping...
      5. Task allocation/description of processes
2. Pre PDC
   1. Observation
      1. What are the needs of the world? Of the community?
      2. What are your intentions?
      3. Where are you in the world? What is the site for the PDC? Who owns the site?
      4. Interview owner of site: What are the needs/wants? What are the "house rules"?
      5. What kind of PDC are you hosting? (vegan, social, financial, urban, high alpine, zone 00...)
   2. Boundaries
      1. Define the site. Who are the neighbors?
      2. Find local regulations for hosting a course, for implementing projects (ie greywater restrictions), and for getting paid.
      3. Define the limitations (and weaknesses). ie: Are there necessary skills not possessed by instructors? How many students can be hosted? When can the course be hosted? When can't it?
   3. Resources
      1. Who are the potential instructors?
      2. Who are the potential students?
      3. What are the on-site resources (materials, animals, infrastructure, food)? What else do you need?
      4. How much money do you have? How much money do you (or the instructors) need?
      5. What tools do you have? (books, trace paper, pens, whiteboard...)
   4. Evaluation
      1. Think and Listens with support network
      2. SMART Goals
      3. Initial Stakeholders/Coordinators Meetings
      4. SWOT/SWOC Analysis
         1. Strengths: leverage points
         2. Weaknesses: potential for creative solutions
         3. Opportunities: resources
         4. Constraints/Threats: goal shapers
      5. Design
         1. Financial structure
            1. Free
            2. Paid
            3. Intern/Volunteer
            4. Gift Economy
            5. Sliding Scale
            6. Deposit, refundable non refundable....)
            7. Other
         2. Marketing
            1. Flyers
            2. Website
            3. Facebook
            4. Distribution
            5. Promos
         3. Input-Output Analysis
            1. Food
            2. Waste (garbage, excrement...)
            3. Energy
            4. Materials
            5. Other
         4. Logistics
            1. Dates
            2. Instructor(s)
            3. #of students
            4. Class times and lengths
            5. Daily schedules
            6. Transportation to/from site
            7. Staff (cooks, cleaners, maintenance, guards..)
            8. Rules and Regulations
            9. Food, material, tools, etc. acquisition
            10. Accommodation (tent areas, dormitories, homestays, hotels...)
3. During
   1. Maintenance
      1. Create Mentor groups (for long term courses)
      2. Host Sharing Circles
      3. Regular debrief group meetings (short daily, longer weekly, longer monthly...)
      4. Consistent Coordinator meetings that are time-restricted, topic determinate, and productive (end with a next step).
      5. Review Permaculture Principles for Living and Learning Scenarios
   2. Evaluation
      1. Follow the 4 Questions: What's going well? Been challenging? Biggest goals and dreams? Next steps?
      2. Review Tuckman's Model: Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing, Transforming?
      3. Review original intentions and goals
      4. Create feedback opportunities for everyone (instructors, coordinators, staff, students...)
      5. Review The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) and examine the roles of everyone
   3. Tweaking
      1. Apply Donnella Meadows Intervention Points where tensions arise
      2. Look for leaks in the system--where is energy not being appropriately applied? Where are the wastes?
4. Post PDC
   1. Evaluation
      1. How did the system perform?
      2. 4 Qs:
         1. What went well?
         2. What was challenging?
         3. What are your visions for the future?
         4. What are the next steps to achieving that dream?
      3. Coordinator, Instructor, Staff debrief
      4. Collect Feedback from participants, analyze
      5. 6 Thinking Hats
         1. White
            1. I know the PDC was
            2. I need to find out
            3. I will get information by
         2. Yellow
            1. It was worth doing because:
            2. The positives were:
         3. Black
            1. The problems were:
            2. The weaknesses were:
         4. Red
            1. I feel:
            2. now
            3. before
            4. how I want to feel later
            5. The best parts were:
            6. I didn’t like/dislike:
            7. My gut feelings were:
         5. Green
            1. I can show the problems/solutions to this PDC another way by:
            2. Some other possibilities for the OP format are:
         6. Blue
            1. The problems were solved by:
            2. I un/learned:
            3. The ways I should try to think about it are:
   2. Tweaking and Celebration
      1. What would you do differently next time?
      2. Publish results on website, Facebook, ....
      3. Celebrate! Take Pause