Holistic Land Planning
“HMI’s Getting Started Holistic Land Planning Course helped me turn my future goals for my property into a working plan. The course allowed me to prioritize projects based on return on investments and how they addressed my holistic goal. I like the ‘go slow to go fast’ ideology that was introduced to me in this course. I will definitely be using this advice as I start to implement changes on my land to suit its future purpose.” – Chantal Gagnon, Ontario, Canada
Scholarships Available
Certificate Program
In this course you will learn how to integrate key land planning principles and practices to improve land or infrastructure investment and implementation strategies. This land planning will help you explore key infrastructure/land improvement projects and know how to prioritize investments. You’ll address management considerations, develop land plan options and explore tool options and the return on investment. Learn how to integrate these land planning options with your financial or business planning to strategically expand your business.
Dates: January 16,23,30, February: 6,13,20, 2018
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am MST
Scholarship Deadline: January 15, 2017
Registration Deadline: January 15, 2017
Instructor: Holistic Management Certified Educator, Larry Dyer
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Ongoing Learning and Support
All course curriculum is downloadable so you can save it for future use. And when you take a Holistic Management course, your learning and support doesn’t end when the class is over. At the end of your training, you will be notified by email of an opportunity to continue to learn and get support and feedback on plans for two months after your training. In addition to all the resources available to you during the class, you will have access to:
- 2 additional months of support and learning
- Monthly live webinars to assist you and other trainees (recorded for you to watch if you can’t make the webinar)
- The opportunity to get additional feedback on your plans
- More opportunity to engage with and learn from the international network of Holistic Management practitioners.
Fee, Financial Assistance and Payment Plan
- $350 per person **Use coupon code JAN100 for additional $100 off!**
- Eligible for the HMI Terry Gompert Memorial Scholarship
Classes require a minimum of 10 and are restricted to a maximum of 35 participants.
Payment Plan
Can’t afford to pay in full? No problem! HMI offers convenient payment plans to help you get the training you want to create a more profitable and sustainable business.
The Payment Plan is optional. You can pay the total amount of $350 when registering or 2 installments totaling $375. The payment plan schedule is as follows:
- $200 due upon registration
- $175 due Feb 14, 2018
Money Back Guarantee
HMI stands behind our training programs. If you participate fully in this training program by attending all sessions and completing all assignments satisfactorily, and if you are not completely satisfied within 10 days of program completion, we will refund your registration fees.
Your information is secure and will never be sold or shared.
Logistics
This course is seven weeks long and you should plan on about 2 – 4 hours each week participating in the webinars and completing the assignments. While the webinars are scheduled at a particular time, you will be able to complete the assignments at any time during the week. Don’t worry if you miss a webinar, we’ll be recording them and you can view it before the next scheduled webinar. Assignments may include watching videos, reading and written exercises.
With real-time audio, video and whiteboard capabilities our learning environment allows you to stay connected for a more engaging learning experience. You are encouraged to contribute to class discussions (either on the webinar or online forum). You can build relationships with other students from across the country and maybe even the world.
You’ll also receive a FREE one-year introductory electronic subscription to IN PRACTICE and a certificate upon completion of the course.
Technology /Language Requirements
- Computer (PC or Mac are fine)
- Reliable high-speed internet access
- Internet browser (Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari)
- Microsoft Word and Excel
- Telephone (cell or land line) OR Microphone
- E-mail address
- All classes are taught in English
Another Participant Testimonial
“I work as a specialist in integrated international development and climate change adaptation in the rural highlands of Central America. My team works to bring innovative solutions to pressing problems of watershed degradation, food insecurity, poverty, and crop loss related to a combination of human and climate factors. Our integrated approach includes necessary elements of generating adequate income and viable agricultural production; improving management of environmental resources; respecting local culture and participatory voice; and ensuring human well-being indices.
We have determined that holistic practices have great potential application for five key problem areas related to water, soil, terrain, agriculture, and forest management in fragile, stressed environments. The course helped me learn vocabulary useful for talking to others about improving practices. The basics will be used to 1) generate a small demonstration plot showing the ability to optimize use of very small spaces; 2) design pilot projects in each of the five areas identified, among the first of their kind on all of Central America; 3) further my own studies into economic valuation of soils and biodiversity in community decision-making, and 4) we hope, start the process for bringing a research and practice hub formally to Guatemala to serve Central America.” – Racheal Shenyo, Guatemala
Wondering about the results our courses achieve and the impact they make on our students? Find out here.
Adelene is a resident of Arkansas and loves exploring the state’s natural trails. Her passion for education and technology led her to earn a master’s in learning systems technology from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. With her professional experience managing student/client databases and instructional design, Adelene will bring skill and understanding to her role as Office Manager & Instructional Designer at HMI. Her focus on making education more accessible to diverse communities is evident through her volunteer work as an board member for a scholarship program. Adelene is devoted to creating educational opportunities that align with HMI’s mission to promote healthy, resilient lands and thriving communities.
Seth Wilner has been a Holistic Management International Certified Educator since 2005. For 22 years he has worked as an agent educator with University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension where he specializes in farm business management with an emphasis on whole farm planning.
Dana was first introduced to Holistic Management in the 1990s while working in the Texas Hill Country. She strongly believes that Holistic Management can positively impact families that are on the land, the communities they are a part of, and larger landscape resource regeneration efforts.
Sarah Robertson grew up in Taos, New Mexico and has always been passionate about land stewardship, growing things, and nurturing others. After completing a BA in Communication from the University of New Mexico and working with local non-profits, she started her journey as a first-generation farmer. Since 2015, she has been learning and growing alongside her husband on various leased properties in Albuquerque, NM and running a small market farm with goats, chickens, and a CSA. In her role as Programs Assistant at HMI, Sarah brings her enthusiasm for regenerative agriculture, devotion to supporting others, and drive for lifelong learning and growing.
Jozua Lambrecht is from South Africa and divides his time between their home in Somerset West and their family farm in Sutherland, one of the coldest places in South Africa, where they farm with sheep. He is married to his wife Therese and they have two daughters.
Alejandro Carrillo is a fourth-generation rancher, and he is quite familiar with the challenges of running a profitable cattle ranch in the Chihuahuan desert. Because annual precipitation seldom exceeds nine inches, every drop counts when it comes to growing more grasses. Grazing year-round with only sea salt as an input, he is not willing to waste any water in such a brittle environment.
Jared L Talley was born and raised in Southwestern Idaho and now seeks to help rural communities adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Service at Boise State University, earning his PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State University and his MPA in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management from Boise State University. An environmental philosopher by training and an interdisciplinary scholar in practice, he seeks to better understand how communities relate to the land and how this relationship poses obstacles and opportunities for collaboration and governance. In doing so, he studies the role of science in collaborative policy, the role of place in environmental identity, and the role of the imagination in mediating both. Specifically, he studies grazing management and public land permitting, community-led conservation programs, rural education and entrepreneurship, place-based environmental governance, and the imaginative experience of our natural and built environments — all in the contexts of the intermountain American West.
