A CEED of PEACE year long programme
Dates
In person courses and online events from June 2023 to June 2024
Facilitators:
Location:
Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK - About
Course Description
This programme contains all 3 of the modules of the Cultural Emergence learning pathways, and gives you the opportunity to learn and grow within a community.
This year long programme includes
- in person weekend ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence
- in person PEACE course week
- online CEED course
- year's membership to Living Cultural Emergence community
- peer groups
- regular connection calls
- private online community space specifically for this cohort.
- final in person celebration weekend
Dates
- ACE - 30th June 2nd July 2023
- PEACE course week 8-13th August 2023
- online CEED course Feb-March online 2024
- final in person celebration weekend (June 2024 exact dates tbc)
Benefits of joining this programme
This programme is a wonderful opportunity to deeply embody the Cultural Emergence toolkit. The support of the community will hold the container for truly integrated transformation and life long friendships. It will be a solid foundation for anyone who wishes to facilitate Cultural Emergence in the future.
During the year A CEED of PEACE programme we will learn
- to become aware of our own personal culture and it's influences
- how to use the Cultural Emergence toolkit in our own lives to shift personal patterns of thinking and behaving
- how to integrate the principles and practices of Cultural Emergence into our everyday lives
- deep nature connections practices to enhance our well-being
- personal leadership skills
- self empowerment
- to create fields of encouragement and cultures of collective wisdom thorugh experiencing it
- how to design all aspects of our lives using the Design Web - to manifest change
- how we can share the toolkit with others
The use of the toolkit will be embedded into the whole year programme to create a culture of connection, care and empowerment, that invites us all to shine our gifts and invites emergent wisdom to flow through the group.
- through interactive, lively and participatory processes you will become familiar with the practices of Cultural Emergence
- to grow deep connections and to weave a nourishing community
- connect with like minded people and create a collaborative learning community
- guided self-reflective activities will support bringing Cultural Emergence alive in our lives
- spending time outside, feeling the elements and getting in touch with the other-than-human world
- we will be connecting with the bigger vision for humanity and how we can play our part in bringing this vision into reality.
This programme offers you
- a community of support and friendship
- a safe container to grow, challenge yourself, let go of your limiting beliefs and stretch your edges.
- regular connection with Looby and Leona
- being part of the global Cultural Emergence community
- new perspectives and tools to bring greater balance and empowerment into your life
- deeper awareness of the many levels of cultures more clearly: personal, social and global
- chance to observe and interact with your own patterns of thinking, behaving and interacting
- new language for systems thinking to enable you to think in a more dynamic and interconnected way.
A CEED of PEACE programme is open to anyone. You do not need to already be familiar with Cultural Emergence to join.
It will be valuable for those who are just beginning their journey of self discovery and contribution to the world, as well as those who have been working towards emerging a new culture for a long time, though not necessarily calling it Cultural Emergence.
It is particularly useful for:
- those working towards a holistic sustainable vision for humanity
- people wanting a deeper grounding in skills and principles that support healthy relationships
- people involved in creating healthy communities through Transition initiatives and other community projects.
- activists that are looking for proactive, positive ways to build regenerative cultures
- 8 Shields practitioners, village builders and community facilitators
- permaculturists wanting to increase their knowledge or specialise in people permaculture (personal and social permaculture)
- people interested in supporting nature connection practices
Transformation enabled, thank you for creating spaces that allow us to show up for ourselves to be ourselves to feel and experience the possibility of a real healthy and caring culture a summer I will never forget joining for PEACE and ACE courses life changing! mind blowing!
Karim, Lebanon
What an amazing course with an amazing group of people. It's been heart opening, informative, inspirational and a real pleasure.
Thank you for a magical experience. I truly feel nourished and connected. Your work is important and needed in this world.
Kim, Netherlands
Facilitators & Venue
Looby Macnamara is co-developer of the Cultural Emergence toolkit with Jon Young. She is an experienced permaculture teacher, author and designer. Applewood is her home with her family, and she loves hosting people on courses here.
She is author of 4 books Cultural Emergence, People and Permaculture and 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity. People and Permaculture is the first book to directly translate the principles and design methods of permaculture from land to people. Looby enjoys using creative teaching methods to create a fun and collaborative learning environment.
Leona Johnson is a practicing Eco-therapist, host of Connection Matters Podcast and Director of Live Wild CIC a community based nature connection and village building organisation based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Connection Matters Podcast explores evolutionary lifestyles, mindset, culture, healing and spirituality as well as many other issues relating to personal growth, community and nature connection.Leona is trained in, Forest School Leadership, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Social Work, Ecopsychology, Life Initiation and Rites of Passage, Grief Tending and The Eight Shields model of nature connection- a holistic and earth connected way of living and working for the benefit of all beings.
Leona currently facilitates Singing in Nature Retreats and courses, Long Term Nature Connection Mentoring for Adults and Children, Grief Circles and Small Group and individual Eco-therapy.
Leona has experienced and witnessed the healing, enlivening and joyful benefits of intentionally building a relationship to nature and believes in the profound impact that this work can have on our communities as we move forwards into uncertain times.
The Venue
The land and all of the beings here provide an ideal environment for connecting deeply with the more than human world.
We will be blessed with spending summer days in the marquee in the orchard, and evenings around the campfire with stories, song and music accompanied by owl hoots. Nature is said to be the best teacher, and at Applewood we will be immersed in the more than human world, allowing for the learning to become a truly embodied experience.
Logistics
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