Early Bird Discount: First month free- $120 Discount- if you register by July 31st.
Regenerative Landscaper
September 2025 – June 2026
Professional Skills Development Program
The Regenerative Landscaper is a comprehensive skill set for assessing, conceptualizing, creating, and presenting Regenerative Design plans for clients, communities, and personal projects.
Develop your skills as a designer
Part One: Wisdom of the Earth
Part Two: Composing with the Land
Part Three: The Conceptual Design Process
What to Expect
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This 9-month program is divided into three, three-month blocks with one month off between blocks (11 months total). During each teaching block, classes will meet twice a month.
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Class sessions are 2 hours and will include a content-rich presentation followed by time for Q&A.
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Over the course, Erik will be joined by a range of amazing guest speakers.
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Students are encouraged to attend and participate in the live sessions.
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All sessions will be recorded and posted along with resources in a virtual classroom.
What will I learn?
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Understanding how nature works and how to be in a reciprocal cooperative relationship with the surrounding ecosystems.
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How to read and analyze landscape and community patterns, resources, and constraints in order to develop high-level design concepts.
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How to develop a set of values, visions, and goals for mental/emotional alignment, longevity of the project, care for project community (stakeholders), and for long-term planning and short-term execution of projects.
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How to create basic maps of existing features to overlay design concepts onto.
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How to generate creative and powerful ideas to solve design challenges, and develop projects full of innovation, ecological regeneration, and incredible beauty.
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How to fully plan the development of a project from design to completion through phased planning approaches and platforms.
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How to be nature working for its highest self. How to think like a watershed, and function like a forest in the design process.
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Simple techniques for drafting design plans, be it by hand, or aided by computer programming.
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Understanding of a full and complete design process, which includes multiple iterations, revisions, presentations, compromise, and inspiration.
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How to manage relationships between designers and other project stakeholders whether they be partners, family members, professional clients, school communities, city governments, intentional communities, and so on.
About Erik:
Erik Ohlsen (he/him) author of The Regenerative Landscaper, is a master of regenerative design, an internationally recognized Permaculture teacher, a landscape contractor, author, farmer, herbalist, storyteller, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions.
Since 1999, Erik has founded numerous organizations that regenerate ecosystems including his award-winning design and build firm Permaculture Artisans and The Permaculture Skills Center where thousands of students around the world learn ecological landscaping and regenerative agriculture.
Working as an internationally renowned regenerative designer, he has committed decades to repairing ecosystems and connecting people with the land throughout the globe. He has designed and implemented hundreds of regenerated landscapes ranging from small urban lots to large tracts of land.
His many years of experience observing and listening to landscape patterns while managing installation crews have led to an extensive knowledge of ecological land development and planning. He is a specialist in water harvesting systems, food forest design, community organizing, facilitation, vocational education and much more. In all of his work, there is a presence of social equity, climate justice, and ecosystem restoration and his stories and achievements continue to empower people worldwide.
