Post by Naomi on Sept 14, 2015 11:12:57 GMT
Social permaculture Next Big Step sat pm
Definitions of SPc -
SPc is everything...
Maximising beneficial relationships between people
Helping connect more together to use principles to do social design for ourselves, our families and especially our groups
Interactions between people, huge area
Using PC ethics and principles to design relationships and interactions with each other and non humans
Designing to meet our needs in the social arenas
Using models to describe and design peoples behaviour
Share more, be less individualistic, see our needs and others needs, and find ways to meet them all
Key words from these definitions -
Design
Needs
Connections
Communities
Relationships
Interactions
Otto Scharmer (MIT) -
"We need a Transition from ego thinking to Eco thinking"
What is the path to go from ego to eco?
Good group tools that help us to work well in groups
Sociocracy, NVC, consensus, viable systems model, transition towns, Eco villages, 6 thinking hats,
Good individual tools to help us heal/develop ourselves
re-evaluation counselling, trauma therapy
Networks to learn from and connect with -
Occupy, ECOLISE, transition towns, Eco villages
How to not create more work and meetings for ourselves by making new networks and meetings...
Adding more social and personal PC tools into the PDC
PDCs have been mostly land based, with some invisible structures, and this is changing.
How to bring more in?
Sign up list of teachers and courses who cover/use more social PC
Promotion of those courses somewhere with lists of process and content and facilitation styles
Share materials and session plans to help teachers cover and use these tools more on their courses
How to make PC events more affordable to more people?
And transition events...
How can we make PC more accessible to people?
Creating spaces for reflection, self development and learning in local communities rather than/as well as courses or events that cost money
What skillsets and resources do we need to develop to make SPc happen more?
What recipes do we need to make good community?
Personal
Tools to transform fear through deep connection and love for ourselves, each other and the world
Abundance thinking
Social
Tools and techniques that support good social ecosystems
Presentation -
Vision : to move from ego system to social ecosystems
Bake a cake of creating a healthy social Eco system
Two layers cake -
Layer of personal transformation
Tools to transform fear through deep connection and love for ourselves, each other and the world
Layer of healthy social ecosystems
Icing - attractive to newcomers, juicy experience for participants
Ingredients for these layers are an ongoing brainstorm...
How to make this cake recipe accessible for everyone?
A concrete idea -
Course listings for PDC courses that specifically cover SPc
Support for teachers to cover more social PC tools in their courses
Feedback from discussions with individuals and other groups -
Education want us to please create a 5 day SPc course curriculum/format
Power and privilege group want to work with us
How to bring SPc into the process of the PDC as well as the content of it
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What do you think? Share your ideas and suggestions in reply.