Advanced Design course with Delvin Solkinson and Looby
Dates:
21st -23rd July 2023
Facilitators:
Location:
Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK
Course Description
Designing becomes more effective with practice. Deepen your applied understanding of design frameworks, tools and principles from Cultural Emergence & Permaculture. Build momentum and activate a design for something in your life that you are passionate about. Connect with and unleash your inner designer.
Already involved with Permaculture or Cultural Emergence and want to experience an Advanced Design Course? This transformative learning adventure is for you. Designed to boost anyone’s design practice, the course is also a golden key for anyone practicing post-PDC permaculture, doing a Diploma or teaching any subject.
This uniquely creative design weekend is the first ever UK teaching appearance of Visionary Permaculture facilitator Delvin Solkinson from Canada collaborating with Looby Macnamara.
Discover your inner designer and your unique strengths, preferences, skills and growing edges.
Build confidence in being a creative, intuitive, creative and pragmatic designer.
Learn about
- Design Frameworks
- Design Tools
- Principles
Share your designs
Get design practice
Ask your questions about designing
Explore best practices and top tips for designing and sharing designs.
Tour Applewood Permaculture Centre and hear about our designs in action
Share in a fun, exciting and personal experience with like minded people.
Adventuring between different nature classrooms at Applewood Permaculture Centre we will share in lively learning including interactive design activities. Hang out and fun with Delvin & Looby and the group at meal times and around the fire in the evenings.
A memorable time forging permaculture connections while camping, sharing group meals and evening fire circles.
We aim to
- Empower people to become more fluent in using the design toolkits from Cultural Emergence and Permaculture.
- Build confidence as designers
- Have a fun time discovering new and old friends
- Boost your resume or CV with an Advanced Design Course
It will be particularly useful and relevant to
anyone already involved with Permaculture or Cultural Emergence in any way.
People who have just done their PDC or any Cultural Emergence course and want to go deeper.
Readers of Looby’s books People & Permaculture, Cultural Emergence, The Mother Nature Book and Cards. Those who use Delvin’s Permaculture Design Deck, Game or Notes book.
Anyone who has taken a course at Applewood Permaculture Centre or with Looby.
People wanting to meet, learn with, and get to know Delvin Solkinson in his first and only UK teaching appearance in 2023.
Those practicing permaculture at their homes or in their communities. People teaching, facilitating or leading learning in any subject.
Those doing a Permaculture Diploma or practicing permaculture professionally.
Highly experienced and advanced practitioners
“I feel so blessed and strengthened to have furthered my journey in joy, play and collective intelligence with Looby and Delvin’s integral and ingenious co-facilitation. They truly created fertile grounds for a new emergence of life-affirming insights and sovereign-creative transformation as inner and eternal designers. Thank you for your clarity, support, and tender-hearted visionary eyes!”
Linden
“The tools learned for designing cultural emergence were really great. They can be applied in so many levels, from very personal to a community or global projects. The teachings were clear, organized, dynamic, abundant and fun!
Paula Madariaga Alucema
“An experience like nothing else I’d ever done before. The inspired wisdom of the facilitators and the activities with the other participants was challenging, activating, and integral. Thank you for an incredibly inspiring life experience!!”
Marie Poulin www.mariepoulin.com
"Thank you so much to Looby for your generosity and wisdom. The whole process has been transformative. The process has been one of creative rediscovery - and affirmation of the radical interconnectivity of all things. Thank you for your insight, your amazing vision, and your kindness along the way.
Kate Gathercole
Logistics
This is a chance to invest in your ongoing development and life path.
Costs include all tuition, camping and vegetarian breakfasts and dinners with vegan options. Lunches will be bring food to share or packed lunches.
This course is camping. We have extra tents and bedding available for people to borrow if needed.
Facilitators & Venue
Looby Macnamara is co-developer of the Cultural Emergence toolkit with Jon Young. She is an experienced permaculture teacher, author and designer. She is author of 3 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.
Delvin Solkinson is a community gardener, student and teacher from British Columbia, Canada. He has done a PDC, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison, a Doctorate with Larry Santoyo, 2 other Diplomas, 13 teacher trainings & 13 advanced courses. He is Diploma Program Co-ordinator at Permaculture Institute, Diploma Tutor with Permaculture Association and Diploma Instructor at Pacific Rim College. Currently pursuing a Post-Doc in Permaculture Education and part of the Art Ministry at CoSM, Chapel and Sacred Mirrors. Delvin collaborates with his wife Grace and many others to create free learning and teaching tools, write articles and make videos.
https://www.permaculturedesign.earth/designdeck and www.visionarypermaculture.com/
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