Social Permaculture

By Erin Young Social Permaculture is a nature-informed regenerative design framework for social systems; with particular focus on people care. Social Permaculture is regenerative social design. ​Here is a sample of the permaculture principles and how you might see them at play in social design: Design from patterns to details Circle structure used for meetings and classrooms. Circle rounds in …

In our February online Q&A session, we explored the question: How do we juggle many balls, projects, & aspects of groups and businesses? The first part of the question explored was: How many balls do you juggle, and how well do you juggle them? Depending on how active each project is, the amount of structure needed varies.  When there’s more …

There’s lots of excitement beginning to build in Canada as news is just being announced of Robin’s visit to Canada, to offer a six day ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ creative facilitators, teachers and group leaders course near Edmonton in late June. While she’s there Kym Chi from BC, who’s trained with and supported Robin before, will organise an evening presentation …

Documented by Robyn Francis for a conference presentation. She’s also here.

The wonderfully creative and clever Robina McCurdy from Aotearoa NZ will be visiting Australia in late May early June and we’re very fortunate that she’ll be up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland so she and Robin can collaborate on a day workshop called ‘Growing Community’. It will build on the material from Robin’s workshop at ‘The Planting’ and take …

Russ Grayson’s filmed this great interview with Robin on Social Permaculture at the APC 14 in Canberra in 2018. APC = Australasian PermacultureConvergence. Russ also took this great photo of Robin and Robina McCurdy at APC WA in 2016

This wonderful collection of ideas, tips and information is the result of all Delvin’s notes from the numerous courses and workshops he’s participated in and especially what he’s gleaned from Robin Clayfield and Rowe Morrow. There’s also info from Looby Mcanamara and Robyn Frances. Well worth a read and available as a download for free. Delvin is so incredible generous …

“I gained so much from the dynamic groups and facilitation workshop. Robins approach to teaching is both engaging and heartfelt, so that learning is embodied and is a true testament of walking her talk. She teachers leaders how to lead, by actually leading by example! The skills I have gained gave me confidence to provide Community Consultation services to work …