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[Koreen Brennan <koreenbrennan@gmail.com>]

Dana Meadow's 12 leverage points to intervene in a system have always
resonated with me deeply. How do you change a culture? How to you create a
better version?

The #1 leverage point is the ability to change paradigms. When you can
change worldviews, you can change the world. The Permaculture Design
Course, when done well, can change paradigms. As such, it is a powerful
tool for bringing change to the culture.

By covering a broad range of subjects within the framework of whole systems
design, we are able to illustrate the power and depth of this form of
design from multiple angles. Of course, people aren't going to walk away
experts in any of it in a two week course. But they should have a very good
grasp of the basic elements of how to do a permaculture design as opposed
to some other form of design, and understand what makes permaculture design
unique.

Whether someone ever becomes a permaculture designer or educator or not,
they now have tools they can apply to continue to explore this change in
worldviews, as well as tools they can apply in whatever they're doing in
life, to make it more regenerative. That's pretty darn valuable!

Love reading this list and the thoughtful comments and valuable information
shared. Thank you Lawrence, for keeping it going!

Best, Koreen






On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Jason Gerhardt <jasongerhardt@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have to
> > tell the stories of climate function and hydrology and soil science and
> > social history to effectively narrate what it means to be alive on this
> > planet. The curriculum then builds into how to harness or deflect these
> > forces to create a civilization that is integrated rather than
> > disintegrating.
> >
>
> **************************
>
> > Where I think we are lacking is in guiding people in a way
> > that they can integrate THEMSELVES into that greater story.
> >
> **************************
>
> This is classic insight and wisdom and a brilliant observation.
> Very fine! This is one of the best things I have read in this list since it
> started.
> That should be at the top of the list of teaching objectives.
> You shouw them the world of permaculture - they become interested and want
> to know more - they then want to learn wat their role should be on a site
> with a permaculture design that they created and built, and will have to
> maintain and enrich.
>
>
> > Do we give them
> > a new story to live out (you be a farmer, you be a natural builder)?
> That's
> > not how I would approach designing for a client, so it's certainly not
> how
> > I'm gonna teach people to be pattern readers and how to design. Giving
> > people a new story to live is just the same old narrative that anybody
> has
> > ever been given (you be a banker, you be a drug dealer). Where the PDC
> can
> > shine more is in helping people discover their own story. I
> >
>
> That is a really fine essay, Jason. I would like to include some of the
> above quotes in the homepage for this list if that is OK with you, with
> full attribution.
>
> A thought:
> Permaculture encourages one to design and build a site where everyting is
> arranged (as Mollison says) "in the right place", orderly in a unique
> permaculture way, but in reality you are creating a living system on a site
> that is in maximum disorder, i.e. a maximum number of possibilities for
> creating and sustaining interactive, interdependent colonies of organisms,
> whether they be people or scarab beetles.
>
> LL
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Koreen Brennan
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