Activating Cultural Emergence (ACE) 2023
Dates:
8th-10th Sept 2023
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara
Location:
Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK
Course Description
The ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence course is a wonderful opportunity to explore your own personal culture while being immersed in a field of encouragement.
Read more about a previous course participant's story of how the course supported her.
Join Looby Macnamara, one of the co-founders and developers of the Cultural Emergence toolkit, for this pioneering experience to discover tools for positive cultural evolution. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the global activation and development of Cultural Emergence.
Looby invites you to join in following the natural rhythm of abundance and fertility, to focus on our gifts and contributions into the world. During this course people will come together to ask the following questions:
- How can we facilitate cultural change?
- What do we want the new culture and new story to look like?
- What part can we play in helping it to emerge?
We will look at the many levels of culture, right through from our own personal culture and patterns of being, to the global context. We will share tools, techniques, processes and ways of being, thinking and seeing differently. Each person is adding their own unique voice of insight and wisdom to create exciting, engaging and illuminating experiences. You will learn how to use the toolkit in your own lives to become more intentional in making your relationships kinder, more connected and truly regenerative.
During the Activating Cultural Emergence course we will learn
- to become aware of our own personal culture and its 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
The use of the toolkit will be embedded into the course itself 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.
The course is taught in the opensided marquee in the orchard at Applewood surrounded by ravens, buzzards and birdsong. With evenings around the fire listening to Owl conversations. Deep nature connection is a magical thread embedded into the whole course.
- 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 course is one of the modules of the Cultural Emergence toolkit. It is designed to activate and initiate your learning pathway, although the modules can be taken in any order.
This course offers you
- new perspectives and tools to bring greater balance between activation and regeneration 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.
The Activating Cultural Emergence course is open and relevant to anyone.
It will be valuable for those who are just beginning their journey of self discovery and contributing 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.
- those involved in Extinction Rebellion 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
What an amazing course with an amazing group of people. It's been heart opening, informative, inspirational and a real pleasure.
I learned things that I didn't know I needed to know beyond helpful for my own emergence and therefore being able to make a positive change my community thank you Looby for your patience grace and wisdom and inviting encouraging me Sally
Sally
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
Looby’s teaching was so good I came back from the PEACE course to ACE coming away nourished and enriched skilled and inspired to step more fully into being in and seeking out emergent opportunities
Julie
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Facilitators & Venue
Looby Macnamara is author of Cultural Emergence and co-developer of the Cultural Emergence toolkit with Jon Young. She is an experienced permaculture teacher, author and designer. She is author of 4 books People and Permaculture and 7 Ways to Think Differently. 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.
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.
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