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Being part of the five person facilitation team for the Social Permaculture course in the UK was a major highlight of Robin’s whole year. Months of planning and Skype meetings across five countries saw the group find their flow and direction together and create the bones of the program. The Sustainability Centre in Hampshire was the perfect Permaculture venue and many people camped and enjoyed the surrounding woods. Here’s a few definitions of Social Permaculture by some of the facilitators.
Starhawk
- “Preparing people to step into positions of power and leadership
- “Social Permaculture is creating new sets of principles and guidelines for groups”
- The art of social permaculture and facilitating groups is to be aware on as many levels as possible of what is happening under the surface
- The goal of social permaculture is to bring tools and skills to communities impacted by the most destruction or do not have access”
Robin Clayfield
- “Social Permaculture supports people care and healthy group culture and uses our Permaculture principles and applies them to social design and social situations”
Looby Macnamara
- “Social permaculture is about design, principles and ethics
- Relating things specifically to this
- How we can use a design framework that is specifically catered to people based designs”
Robina McCurdy
- “Social Permaculture is the application of Permaculture Principles to the design of
sustainable social systems, for the creation a healthy, well-functioning society where all can thrive”
Click here to see the booklet produced from course materials and photos. Acknowledgements follow.
It’s Title is – Exploring Social Permaculture
Delvin’s Words – “Social Permaculture is a new wave of activism and inspiration pouring forth from permeable edges of the Permaculture Movement. Those surfing the wave of this evolution can cast an eye towards a hopeful future where all beings and things are cared for. It’s up to each of us to make a personal commitment and dedication to play our own part in co-creating the harmonic and healthy future, helping take Social Permaculture beyond the edge and into ‘the everything’.”
Collaborative Design – Dana S Wilson, Delvin Solkinson, Kym Chi, Annaliese Hordern
http://www.gaiacraft.com
Source Code –
Looby Macnamara http://loobymacnamara.com
Robin Clayfield https://snow-albatross-888556.hostingersite.com
Starhawk http://www.starhawk.org
Robina McCurdy http://www.earthcare-education.org
Peter Cow http://www.livingincircles.com
Photos – Dana Wilson http://www.gaiacraft.com
Text – Delvin Solkinson http://www.gaiacraft.com
Thanks to All Course Participants
Created on Location – The Sustainability Centre http://www.Sustainability-Centre.org
Since returning to Australia Robin facilitated a one day workshop on Social Permaculture in Melbourne and will offer a weekend Social Permaculture workshop with Robina McCurdy on 10th and 11th September when she’s over from NZ. Stay tuned to Robin’s website and FaceBook wall for details or express interest by emailing Robin. Click here.