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Over the last decade I\u2019ve begun to see a subcategory of permaculture learning start to gain attention. As more and more people encounter the principles of this ecological design framework and experiment with different ways of applying it in their lives there\u2019s been an emergence of social permaculture to integrate the patterns of nature to tackle inner challenges.\xa0\n\n\n\nThe wonderful book Human Permaculture: Life Design for Resilient Living by Bernard Alonso and C\xe9cile Guiochon was my first introduction into this realm and since then I\u2019ve wanted to bring an insight into some of the ways that the concepts of Permaculture, which were so influential in my learning almost a decade ago, could be used outside the garden.\n\n\n\nSo on a kind recommendation from David Holmgren, I reached out to Looby Macnamara, a pioneer of personal and social permaculture in the UK.\n\n\n\nLooby is an author, facilitator, designer, gardener, and mother who has written 4 books; Cultural Emergence, People & Permaculture, 7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity.\n\n\n\nShe first came across permaculture in 1999, and was deeply inspired by the collaborative learning environment and the focus on emerging solutions through collective wisdom.\n\n\n\nSince then she\u2019s been deeply immersed in the permaculture movement, and has been a trustee and chair of the Permaculture Association and senior diploma tutor. Looby has been teaching since 2002 and has run many courses including a dozen teacher trainings.\n\n\n\nIn 2016 she set up the Applewood Permaculture Centre with her family, where they run courses and grow food.In this interview, Looby walks me through her journey of learning and development of permaculture principles in the social space and how it can be applied to community dynamics and the concept of cultural emergence. We also explore how we learn from the patterns of the natural world to inform healthy personal development and much more.\n\n\n\nJoin the discord discussion channel to answer the weekly questions and learn new skills with the whole community\n\n\n\nLinks:\n\n\n\nhttps://cultural-emergence.com/\n\n\n\nhttps://applewoodcourses.com/\n\n\n\n\nhttps://newsociety.com/books/h/human-permaculture\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/culturalemergence/\n\n\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/loobymacnamara/\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLh8dxAZdMoxZhHCKNFkHQ/videos\n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/449388955801111/\xa0https://twitter.com/permaculturemag?lang=en