All our courses at Applewood Permaculture Centre
Welcome to the full list of our in person and online courses, for the 2025/26 course years.
If you are interested in joining a course complete our Expression of Interest Form here or send an email to applewoodcourses@yahoo.com. Click below to see each category or scroll down to see them in date order.
Free PEACE - Peace, Empowerment And Cultural Emergence Workshop
6th May 6:30-8pm BST
Join Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson for an embodied, connective experience into PEACE. Join us around the virtual fireside to connect and nourish and empower ourselves. We will be using elements of the Cultural Emergence toolkit to explore what PEACE means to us, and how to create a personal culture of peace that ripples out into the world.
Watch the Recordings of our 6 FREE Workshops
We had a brilliant time during our programme of 6 Free workshops and they were all recorded.
Click on the title to watch each one and experience Permaculture, Cultural Emergence & Mother Nature in Action. They will be available till the end of March.
In Person Courses 2025
Practical Permaculture Volunteer Week 2025
1 – 4 May 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.
ACE Course - Activating Cultural Emergence 2025
9 – 11 May 2025
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara & Kate Gathercole
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This course is a wonderful opportunity to explore your own personal culture while being immersed in a field of encouragement, with Looby one of the co-founders and developers of the Cultural Emergence toolkit, in person at Applewood
Forest Gardening Course - May 2025
17 -18 May 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.
Teacher Training Course 2025
4 – 13 June 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK
This course will give you a grounding in how to teach and share permaculture in a variety of ways, from giving talks to running full permaculture design courses. It is also relevant if you wish to bring more permaculture and creative teaching techniques into your existing work.
PEACE Deep Dive - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence 2025
24 – 29 June 2025
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Leona Johnson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This module of the Cultural Emergence toolkit gives us the opportunity to deeply connect with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. It is an experiential journey to finding peace and empowerment within ourselves
Budding and Summer Pruning Workshop 2025
5th July 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Interested to learn about fruit tree budding? Didn’t know you could prune in the Summer? Come to a Budding & Summer Pruning Workshop with Chris Evans. You will learn about budding and Summer pruning, and take home a tree you’ve budded yourself.
Summer Volunteer Long Weekend 2025
17-20 July 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for our annual volunteer week, getting jobs done, creating community and then gathering round the fire in the evening.
Cultural Emergence Gathering 2025
25-27 July 2025
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for the first ever Cultural Emergence Gathering and connect with others on their journey. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity to connect with Looby Macnamara author of Cultural Emergence and others on their Cultural Emergence pathways.
Forest Gardening Course - September 2025
6th – 7th September 2025
Facilitator: Chris Evans
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
This 2-day introduction to the concept and techniques of forest gardening involves theory and practice from visioning to harvesting.
Advanced Design Adventure 2025
18 – 21 September 2025
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Delvin Solkinson
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Deepen your applied understanding of design frameworks, tools and principles from Cultural Emergence & Permaculture with a focus on the Design Web. Discover your inner designer.
Apple Harvest & Juicing 2025
9th – 13th October 2025 tbc
Facilitator: Chris Evans & Looby Macnamara
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
Join us for our annual apple harvest and juicing volunteer week. Its great fun getting the fruit in the day and then gathering round the fire in the evening.
Mothers As Natural Leaders Course 2026
2026 Dates TBC
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt
Location: Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire UK
The course guides women through a nourishing reflective process. We explore what leadership means to us as mothers; leadership of ourselves, our families, in our community and in the wider world.
Online Courses 2025
Design Adventure (Online) 2025
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Facilitators: Looby Macnamara
Location: Online
Current Adventure: DESIGN YOUR YEAR AHEAD
The Design Adventure courses will give you the confidence and skills to design any aspect of your life, using the Design Web supported by Cultural Emergence principles and practices. Our next one is creating a design for the coming year.
ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course (Online)
On Going Enrolments
Facilitator: Looby Macnamara
Location: Online with monthly Live Calls
In this course we look at the many levels of culture; from our own personal culture and patterns of being, to the global context.
We will practice to sense systems and connection to ourselves, to others and to the more than human world. This course is about bringing the Cultural Emergence toolkit alive in our lives, during this online course.
Group Diploma Adventure (online) 2025
Next Intake Sping 2025
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Delvin Solkinson
Location: Online
An adventure in learning and designing. Join like minded people to build momentum, activate creativity, get support and have fun completing Diploma designs. This group diploma adventure will support you to complete a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design with the Permaculture Association or The Peoples Diploma with the Permaculture Institute.
Cultural Emergence Leadership Training 2025-26
March 2025 to June 2026
Facilitators: Looby Macnamara & Guests
Location: Online
This course is about discovering yourself as a leader. This training will give you the confidence and skills to offer Cultural Emergence consultancy and courses. Using the Cultural Emergence Toolkit you will learn facilitation, design, coaching and mentoring skills.
Permaculture Design Course (Online PDC) 2026
Feb – July 2026
Lead Facilitator Chris Evans plus Tomas Remiarz & guests
Location: Online
This fully accredited online PDC will provide:
* 38.5 hours online contact over 11 x 3.5 -hour zoom sessions
* 40+ hours self-directed learning with observation and design activities, group tutorials and peer group exercises
* A chance to apply permaculture design principles and process on a real home design of your choosing
Cultural Emergence Taster Course
Dates:
Enroll online for FREE
Facilitator:
Information & Booking:
https://cultural-emergence.circle.so/c/cultural-emergence-taster-course/
Online Live Leading Mother Nature Circles Course
Dates:
Enrolments Close 25th April 2025
Enrolments Open
Facilitator:
Emma Gorbutt
Information & Booking:
www.cultural-emergence.circle.so/c/live-mother-nature-circles-course/