Learn with a focus on Culture and Community
Our Culture and Community Programs
Art As Activism (Online & On Demand)
Anytime | From $95 | 8-10 hrs
Beginning Permaculture (Online & On Demand)
Anytime | $95* | 5-7 hrs
Environmental Education – Inspire Change
Designed for teachers, and others interested in creating change for sustainability through education and communication using hope, not fear. | Jul | $840* | 8 weeks | *ACFE subsidised places available.
Green Gap Year
Green Gap Year is a seven-month program designed to connect you to a green career | Starts Feb | $200 | 7 months
Heart Connections and Traditional Wisdom
Learn how CERES approaches learning through HEAD, HEART and HANDS, and how traditional wisdom and nature connection can engage | Jul | $150* | 6 hrs
Intro to Social Enterprise – Working for a Purpose
Understand business models and skills that aim to tackle social problems, improve communities, benefit the environment and provide people with access to employment and training. | Mar | $895* | 8 weeks | *ACFE subsidised places available.
Introduction to Therapeutic Horticulture
Learn to design garden-based activities that support the physical, mental and social health of individuals. | Mar, May, Jul, Oct | $675* | 8 weeks | *ACFE subsidised places available.
Landscape Restoration and Indigenous Ecology
Develop an understanding of ecology and conservation in urban environments and benefit from a real connection to place | Mar, Apr, Oct | $725* | 8 weeks | *ACFE subsidised places available.
Mapuru Weaving and Living on Country
Visit the remote community of Mäpuru in East Arnhem Land to learn about Yolngu culture from Indigenous leaders passing on traditional skills and knowledge in basket weaving and bush survival. | $2610 or $3090 | 10 or 12 days
Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
The CERES Permaculture Design Course will equip you to design regenerative and productive landscapes, communities and households | 5 Aug 2023 | $2200* | 100 hours
Sensory Gardens and Sensory Trails (Online & On Demand)
Anytime | From $60 | 4-5 hrs
Sufism and Spiritual Ecology
A weekend seminar with Naqshbandi Sufi teacher and filmmaker Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee | Oct. |. $50* | 2 days
System Change, Behaviour Change and Community Engagement
Explore changing behaviours and systems and develop a community change idea or project | Aug | $150* | 6 hrs