Foundations of Holistic Management;
The Top Certification Course for Whole Farm / Ranch Planning!
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Welcome to the Foundations of Holistic Management Whole Farm/Ranch Planning course!
In this course you will learn how to effectively manage your farm or ranch through the principles and practices of Holistic Management® —a nationally recognized whole farm/ranch planning process.
You will have the opportunity to learn not only how to manage your farm/ranch for the triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial sustainability) and more effectively manage resources, but also be able to ask questions of how to help others with that process.
Learn how to improve your ability to observe, understand, and make decisions, based on what you can control and ask the right questions to facilitate that process for others.
Through these new skills you can improve your ability to work with nature and to increase your productivity and share those ideas with others.
Key Outcomes You Will Learn:
• How Holistic Management* & Whole Farm /Ranch Planning can enhance your success
• How to meet your management challenges effectively
• How to address key environmental issues effectively
• What Holistic Management adds to your management toolbox
• What to do next
About the Course
We will be using Google Classroom as the learning platform for this course. The course is divided into into seven sessions including a mid-module review session. Each session includes:
a powerpoint presentation
manual readings
an exercise (or two)
Each session also includes a webinar which will be hosted live once a week for the seven-week duration of the course. We encourage you to participate in the live webinars whenever possible as they are highly interactive, however, they are recorded for later viewing at your leisure if you miss one. You can find the links to the webinar recordings under the "Orientation & Announcements" tab in Google Classroom.
This is a lot of information to grasp in just seven weeks so we will leave the Google Classroom Platform open for an extra month following the last webinar. We encourage you use this time to re-watch the webinars, dive deeper into the manual readings and turn in any outstanding exercises for feedback. Also, feel free to download all the materials and save them on your personal devices for future refreshers.
All exercises are due for feedback one month after the last webinar. (If you need extra time to complete your exercises please contact…)
TOPICS
Eight principles and practices for effective resource management
Developing a Management Inventory for better management of assets
Goal Setting for effective decision-making, planning, and management
Four ecosystem processes & how to work with them
Seven testing questions for prioritizing actions
Tool basics & their influence on ecosystem processes
OUTCOMES
You’ll develop a whole farm (holistic) goal which clearly articulates the vision for your farm/ranch, the organizational structure, and the resources available.
Incorporate a triple bottom line analysis filter to help you make decisions more effectively (particularly in a group setting or where there are conflicts around key issues).
Learn the principles of how Nature functions and understand how tools affect ecosystem health.
What got our attention, early on, is the holistic nature of this methodology:
If you don’t address your social and economic needs in the process, you will have
trouble sustaining any progress you’ve made on the land. That’s why Holistic
Management helps people look at the environmental, economic, and social short and
long-term consequences of their decisions and management.
You just use this simple management tool in conjunction with all the other tools you already have in your toolbox, maximizing your effectiveness as a resource manager.
Holistic Management, simply put, helps us make better, more informed decisions that balance social and environmental as well as financial considerations, while leading us in the direction we want our lives to take.
Which brings us full circle, back to these principles:
This is a certificate course that you’ll want to consider for advancing your inner potential!!!
Until Next Time…
I am…
Phil Wilson…
And Here’s to Building the Soil Beneath Our Feet!
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