Previous Offerings

Previous Presentations & Workshops

Adapt, Design & Radical Redesign

Adapt & Design Evening/Game Play Session:

Blom Meadworks, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2022
Driftless Folk School, Viroqua, WI, USA. 2022.
Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2023-2025.
Northey Street City Farm, Brisbane, QLD, AUS. 2023.
The Stables, Bellingen, NSW, AUS. 2023.

Adapt Game: Design Everything, Oakhill Farm, Preston, VIC, AUS. 2021.
Adapt Game: Early Presentations:

The Agrarian Adventure, MI, USA. 2016.
Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2016-2018.
Ann Arbor Learning Community, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2016.
Ann Arbor Permaculture Design Course, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2017.
International Permaculture Convergence, India. 2017.
New Rising Sun Farm & Mother’s Trust Ashram, MI, USA. 2016-2017.
North American Permaculture Convergence, Sebastopol, CA, USA. 2016.
Permaculture Teacher Training, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2015.
Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI, USA. 2018.
Robin Hills Farm, MI, USA. 2016-2017.
Rudolph Steiner High School, MI, USA. 2016.
Summer Camp Music Festival, IL, USA. 2016.
Sunward Co-housing, MI, USA. 2016-2018.
Symbiosis Music & Culture Festival, CA, USA. 2016.
Transition Towns US Gathering, MN, USA. 2017.
Traverse City Permaculture Design Course, MI, USA. 2016.

Design & Adapt: From Disaster to Dreams:

Australasian Permaculture Convergence, QLD, AUS. 2021.
Camp Kindilan, PGL Kindilan Adventure Camp, Redland Bay, QLD, AUS. 2021.

Design & Adapt for Uncertain Times, Bellingen Youth Hub, Bellingen, NSW, AUS. 2021.
Design for Life:

Sacred Heart Sanctuary, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2022.
Northey Street City Farm, Brisbane, QLD, AUS. 2023.
CERES, Melbourne, VIC, AUS. 2022.

Permaculture Adapt/Design Workshop, Sanctuary Sunday, Omni Temple, Willis, MI, USA. 2025.
Australian Landcare Movement: Let’s Celebrate Then Radically Redesign for the Next 25 Years, Landcare 25th Anniversary Conference, Melbourne, AUS. 2014.
Radical Redesign - Permaculture Futures Panel Discussion, International Permaculture Convergence, Tellengara, India. 2018.
Radical Redesign: Reflecting Place-Practice - Permaculture Futures Panel Discussion, Inaugural EcoArts Conference University of Wollongong, AUS. 2013.

Adapt Facilitators Course

Changemakers

Community

Conservation & Re-wilding

Ecopsychology & Sense of Place

Education & Engagement for Youths

Farms: Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture

Food Forests & Edible Landscapes

Food Preservation & Cooking

Foraging, Gardening & Plant Walks

Healing Self, Healing Land

Permaculture

In Defence of Permaculture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2017.
Intro to Permaculture, Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2023-2024.
Intro to Social Permaculture, Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2024.
- Intro to Social Permaculture is also taught at all of the GJC PDCs and Walkabout Permaculture Workshops.
Permaculture Design Certificate, Levenvale Farm, Hydes Creek, NSW, AUS. 2023.
Permaculture Design Certificate, Co-Facilitators:

Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2019.
Traverse City, MI, USA. 2015.

Permaculture Design Course Presentations, Elaine Ingham Soil Food Web School, Online/USA. 2024.
Permaculture Ethics Beyond Slogans, European Permaculture Convergence, Wicklow, Ireland. 2018.
Permaculture for Here & Now in 2025, Community Showcase, Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2025.
Permaculture for Mobility & Displacement, Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2023.
Permaculture Futures: A 3 Part Series (Intro to the Core, Taking it to the Edge, Our Next Best Steps), Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2018.
Permaculture Futures: A Designer’s Tool Box, Transition US Gathering, St. Paul, MN, USA. 2017.
Permaculture Futures: Design & Adapt, Northey Street City Farm, Brisbane, QLD, AUS. 2021.
Permaculture Futures: Design & Create:

CERES, Melbourne, VIC, AUS. 2021.
Living Heart Sanctuary, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2018.

Permaculture: Gardening the Future, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2019.
Permaculture for Mobility & Design, Driftless Folk School, Viroqua, WI, USA. 2022.
Taking Permaculture to the Edge, Bellingen High School Community Garden, Bellingen, AUS, 2016
Taking Permaculture to the Edge, Gateway Farm, Plymouth, MI, USA. 2025.
Walkabout Permaculture with Eunice Neves, Loriga, Portugal. 2019.
Walkabout Permaculture with Uncle Michael Jarrett & Ilka Schroeder, Bellingen Youth Hub, Bellingen, NSW, AUS. 2021.
Walkabout Permaculture with Henry Littlegeorge, Paula Westmoreland & Lindsay Rabhan. Thoreau College, Driftless Folk School, Viroqua, WI. USA. 2022.

Yoga Meet Permaculture:

Ann Arbor District Library with Tervor Eller & Miriam Dowd, Ann Arbor, MI. USA. 2017.
Harmony House, Ypsilanti, MI, USA. 2017.
Song of the morning Retreat Center, Gaylord, MI, USA. 2017.
European Permaculture Convergence, Wicklow, Ireland. 2018.
International Permaculture Convergence, Tellengara, India. 2018.

Soil

Water

Articles & Research

Brennan C. ‘Growing Therapy with Trees’ Landcare in Focus Magazine. 2014.

Brennan, C. ‘Gumbaynggirr Living Land, Language & Culture Project Report and Recommendations’. Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Centre for Ecological Learning, Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. Feb 2016.

Brennan C. ‘Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance Case Study’. Stewardship Network. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 2014.

Brennan, C. ‘Situating Place - Practice: Critical Reflections on Conservation, Sustainability, Education and Craft’. Thesis. Western Sydney University. 2011.

Brennan, C. ‘Therapeutic Horticulture Possibilities’. Report prepared for Forensic Hospital, Malabar, NSW. 2017.

Brennan, C. & Cairncross G, ‘Public Sector Innovation as Practice: Social Enterprise, Community Gardening and Sense of Place in the Context of Embedded Social Exclusion in Rural Australia’. 2014.

Brennan C., Lee Y L., Tucker J. & van der Zwan R. ‘An Evaluation of the Healthy Clarence Communities Project Regional Initiative for Social Innovation and Research (RISIR)’,  Southern Cross University. 2014.

Brennan, C. & O'Brien, B. ‘Adapt Design Game & Toolkit’, Self Published. 2020.

Brennan, C. & O’Brien, B. ‘From Golf Course to Thriving Farm’, Permaculture Magazine UK (PM127). 2026.

Brennan, C. & O'Brien, B. ‘Permaculture in our Daily Lives’, Ailuna Blog. 2022.

Brennan, C. & O'Brien, B. ‘Radical Redesign’, Permaculture Magazine UK. 2021.

Brennan, C. & O’Brien, B. ‘Radical Redesign’, Permaculture Design Magazine. 2017.

Brennan, C. & O’Brien, B. ‘Towards Ethics that Break Your Heart’, Permaculture Design Magazine. 2018.

Cairncross, G. & Brennan C. ‘Innovation in the Not-for-Profit Sector; An Evaluation of a Social Enterprise Garden in Regional Australia’, JESP Journal. 2013.

Hil, R. Holdsworth, L. & Brennan, C. 'Being Lonely: Making Sense of Australia's Epidemic of Social & Ecological Disconnection'. Resilient Byron/Ngara Institute. 2020.

O’Brien, B. ‘A Permaculture Perspective - The Production of Our Choices’, The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal. 2016.

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