permaculture

[Graham Unangst-Rufenacht <graham.rufenacht@gmail.com>]

These conversations have been extremely engaging and proactive.  Thank you
all.  My thoughts are not determined on these topics, but I think one
missing element perhaps in permaculture as a design concept is community
self-defence and inter-dependent defences as an aspect of resiliency and
regenerative capacity.  Beginning to become aquainted with these dances and
realities may add some different shape to these discussions.

Lastly, I agree that some responses were violent and counterproductive.  It
is not a matter of being "sensitive" necessarily, at least not as that word
is often understood; rather it is a matter of being receptive and
responsive.  I have little interest in political correctness myself, but I
do have an interest in facilitating dialogue as opposed to using
scathing, cynical responses to shield real oneself from true sincere
engagement while exerting a power dynamic that posits one person as
reasonable and another as not.

~Graham

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <LBUZZELL@aol.com> wrote:

>
> I guess  you just can't hack criticism or a call for
> dialog. Your  loss.
> This is the kind of communication practice that seems so counterproductive
> to the building of healthy community on this critically-important
> international  forum.  Productive conversation has its own ecosystemic
> needs, and I'm
>  hoping that we can find a way to apply the principles, ethics and
> practices of  PmC to communication as well as land care.  Surely we can
> find more
> psychologically and socially sophisticated methods of communicating?   I
> hope
> there is someone on the list who can guide us forward on this.   Otherwise
> we devolve to the most childish and destructive ways of speaking with  each
> other that end up breaking down the cohesion of the PmC global  community.
>
> I'm open to learning: is there anyone on the list who can teach us the
> permaculture of healthy communication?
>
> Linda
>
>
> In a message dated 8/16/2010 12:37:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>  venaurafarm@bellsouth.net writes:
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