A two-day course with Looby Macnamara, permaculture educator, author of "Cultural Emergence" and "People & Permaculture".
Learn about social permaculture and put that learning directly to practice by making a design for the unique circumstances in your life. Find new ways to bring sustainability, empowerment and nourishment into your life.
The payment of this course is gift economy, see below for more details.
Learn how to use the Design Web to create designs for all aspects of your life. The Design Web is a holistic, organic and dynamic design framework. It is part of the Cultural Emergence toolkit. It is rooted in permaculture design, empowerment and nature connection. Looby created the Design Web in 2012 when writing People & Permaculture, and it has been used by thousands of people around the world. This is a unique opportunity to learn directly from Looby in Iceland. Each person will be working directly on a design for themselves in an embodied, experiential and creative way over the weekend.
Permaculture is not only about growing food, but also about how we as people interact with ourselves, each other and the social world! This weekend course touches exactly that: social permaculture. It is for anyone who wants to rise to the challenge of collectively reweaving our cultures to be life-affirming and regenerative.
The teacher - Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is the co-founder of the global Cultural Emergence movement. She is an author, designer, gardener, song leader, mother, and artist. She is the author of four influential books: People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently, Cultural Emergence, and Strands of Infinity, and creator of the CEED -Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design card deck. And her fifth book Design Adventures is due for global release on Sept 1st.
Looby is a visionary thought leader who inspires thousands with her creative approaches to regenerative change. People & Permaculture is the first book globally to translate permaculture to people based systems. Her latest toolkit Cultural Emergence brings together innovative models for behavioural and cultural change, weaving together systems thinking, cultural awareness, design, and nature connection.
Looby runs Applewood Permaculture Centre in Herefordshire, UK, with her partner Chris Evans, where they facilitate courses and demonstrate both land and people permaculture.
Looby is an active member of the Permaculture Association Britain, and has been chair person and trustee. She is currently a senior tutor. Looby is on the expert panel for the design council. She is one of the founding partners of the international Mother Nature project.
For all of Looby’s books, including pre-ordering signed copies of Design Adventures, resources, online and in-person courses see www.cultural-emrgence.com
Time and Place
We start in the GeoDome at Seljalandsvegur 100 in Ísafjörður.
The sessions will start at 9:30 AM on Saturday 16th August, and will end at 15:00 PM on the following day 17th August.
We recommend participants to come earlier in the morning, spend a few minutes in the garden, have a warm drink and chat with the other participants before we start the sessions
Food
Food is not included in the course. Please bring your own food to enjoy during the lunch break.
In the GeoDome you have the possibility to prepare your lunch. A stove and oven is available but no microwave. Tea & coffee will be served during the breaks.
There are two grocery stores, Netto and Bónus, in Ísafjörður.
Travel
Ísafjörður can be reached by road or flight. Public transport to Ísafjörður is in low availability. To help with accessibility and minimizing ecological impact we offer participants access to a ridesharing document where they can self-arrange ride sharing.
The course is set up in a way where it is possible to travel to Ísafjörður after work on friday and to travel back home after the course finishes at 15:00 on Sunday.
Please get in touch if you need help finding overnight accommodation.
Payment: Gift Econonmy
We want the course to be accessible to all, no matter their financial situation. We don't want your finances being an obstacle to learning. That's why we'll take a leap of faith and hold this course in gift economy, where the participants decide for themselves how much they contribute financially.
We ask individuals who can afford to pay fully for the course to do so, or even pay more and "pay it forward" to increase the possibility of covering all the costs.
If a company pays the course fees, the minimum course fee is ISK 50.000,-