Cultural Emergence Effective Design Course (CEED) 2021
Dates:
New dates for 2022 tbc
Facilitators:
Location:
Applewood Permaculture Centre
Dates:
New dates for 2022 tbc
Facilitators:
Location:
Applewood Permaculture Centre
Course Description
The CEED course is one of the modules of the Cultural Emergence learning pathway. We focus on how we can manifest our goals and visions effectively. Make a design for yourself or your organisation to create a culture of effectiveness.
This training will give you the confidence and skills to design any aspect of your life. We will be using the Design Web to create a design for ourselves as well as exploring how it can best be used in different scenarios. You will gain design skills and tools ready to take forward and do more designs.
Looby will be joined by Andy Goldring (CEO of the Permaculture Association). Andy will be bringing his extensive experience of designing effective collaborations. He will be sharing his pioneering approach to creating EDGE's - Emergent Dynamic Governance Ecosystems. There is also the opportunity on this course for organisations to bring a small group of people to work together in design groups.
During our time together we will focus on how we can dedicate our energy to finding effective solutions for ourselves and the world. This will be a richly nourishing, empowering and truly life transforming course.
The foundation for this course is the creation of our own designs. This enables us to integrate the learning into our entire being as well as having a tangible outcome. We will work on designs individually as well as in class time, and This will be a richly textured course with creative teaching methods used throughout, such as group work, discussions, observation, visualisations. These are supportive of different learning styles & for people with learning difficulties. There will also be plenty of fun and games, socialising, singing and music.
Come prepared to stretch yourself, learn with your whole being and create a new direction in your life.
Empowerment is the essence of the course. We will be using practical and theoretical teaching methods to create a fun, lively & inclusive course. As a group we will benefit from collaborative learning & from having fun together. We recognise that everyone has their own unique skills, knowledge & areas of interest to bring to the course.
- A powerful design for manifesting your own goals and visions
- Insights into the challenges and opportunities of collaborative and organisational design
- Time for self-reflection, self-awareness and growth.
- A space to nourish you and your own unique gifts and grow your confidence.
- The chance to consider and clarify your contribution to the world.
- Deep connections and the creation of community with like minded people.
- Nourishing food, fun, music and creative ideas.
- Time to nurture your growth and the visions you hold, empowering you to keep to your true path in life.
This course can be particularly useful for anyone who
- Is at a turning point in their lives
- Working with other people in a project or organisation
- Wishing to bring more effectiveness into their lives
- Is already on their Cultural Emergence learning pathway
- Permaculture designers who wish to extend their experience into people based designs
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! Thank you so much!
Paula Madariaga Alucema
The night I got home from our time with Looby I used the design web for a meeting in which I had suddenly become the chair.
It was so helpful to have the Design Web framework to guide our discussion. Looby's work, like permaculture principles gives us a meta-tool in which to place other tools and techniques in order to bring them into a whole functioning system.
Rob C-H
The CEED retreat was 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. We were given a framework for design that we could apply to any parts of our lives, and I was immediately finding creative ways to apply this new approach in my life after the event. This experience expanded my personal vision and capacity, and pushed me outside of my comfort zone in the best possible way.
I am so grateful that I signed up for this program, and would highly recommend the opportunity to spend time with these incredible mentors. Thank you for an incredibly inspiring life experience!!
Marie Pouli
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In 2018, Andy submitted an entry to the Global Challenges Foundation's $5M 'New Shape' prize, to develop his thinking about strategy for the global permaculture network. 2702 people entered and 14 made it to the final, including Andy. He will be bringing his ideas about EDGE's - Emergent, Dynamic Governance Ecosystems into this course.
Andy lives in Yorkshire and is an active teacher and designer and contributor to local initiatives including Leeds Love it Share It CIC, Feed Leeds and the Leeds Permaculture Network. He cycles to work, tends a small garden and lives with his family in a retrofitted Victorian terraced house.
Looby and Andy have been collaborators in various projects over the last 15 years, in particular when Looby was chair of the Permaculture Association.
Applewood Permaculture Centre
Applewood is home to Looby and family. We have a stunning 20 acre smallholding. We are in our early days of setting up permaculture gardens and demonstrations. We have a variety of indoor spaces as well as a marquee in the orchard as an outdoor classroom in good weather.
There are many beautiful, diverse habitats here, with much mystery and magic and opportunities for deep nature connection.