Permaculture comes to life when explored with others. The collective energy enables more to be achieved, elevates spirits and brings a stimulating variety of perspectives for discussions.
Working in community is also the most complex and demanding aspect that many permaculture practitioners face. In this course we explore some strategies to find others with a shared purpose to form a community, how to successfully build a community and create trade structures to share wealth and resources.
The following topics are explored in this masterclass:
Working in community is also the most complex and demanding aspect that many permaculture practitioners face. In this course we explore some strategies to find others with a shared purpose to form a community, how to successfully build a community and create trade structures to share wealth and resources.
The following topics are explored in this masterclass:
- Finding your Tribe: Describes the evolutionary disposition we have to form secure attachment with small group of trusted people from which we derive a sense of connection, fulfill our esteem needs
- Building Community: Explores some of the strategies around forming intentional communities around a shared purpose and navigate some of the challenges to doing this.
- Community Trade: Explores examples of local trade and finance as examples of sharing resources within a community.
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What is Social Permaculture
The heart of permaculture as originally laid out by the founders was Earth care, people care and fair share. Two of these concepts (people care and fair share) highlight the importance of social structures in the design and operation of sustainable landscapes.
The main ideas with development of a community is how to create mutually beneficial relationships between people and create an environment that fosters positive interaction and is also respectful of privacy.
The modern society can be thought of being built upon the premise of individuals requiring very little from each other, which results in less social interaction and therefore social structure within communities. Individuals work a job to get resources 'money' to buy things they need and this, in addition to long work hours, reduces the requirement and likelihood of social interactions.
Social permaculture turns this paradigm on its head and explores how we can deliberately enrich the community interactions within our lives. The benefit of this is verified in many studies showing the importance of healthy psychology with positive social interactions.
The main ideas with development of a community is how to create mutually beneficial relationships between people and create an environment that fosters positive interaction and is also respectful of privacy.
The modern society can be thought of being built upon the premise of individuals requiring very little from each other, which results in less social interaction and therefore social structure within communities. Individuals work a job to get resources 'money' to buy things they need and this, in addition to long work hours, reduces the requirement and likelihood of social interactions.
Social permaculture turns this paradigm on its head and explores how we can deliberately enrich the community interactions within our lives. The benefit of this is verified in many studies showing the importance of healthy psychology with positive social interactions.