On Sunday 18 January we are gathering at Magical Farm for a Cultural Emergence / Social Permaculture workshop – a spacious day where we slow down and tune into a learning process and cultivate creative projects, in our place, in our relationships, and in the everyday ways we grow food and culture.
We do this because these times are loud and fast, and it is easy to get pulled into reaction and opinion, and yet the deeper work, the healing and future work, often arrives quietly through the quality of our attention, the steadiness of our nervous systems and the warmth we are willing to practice in community. Cultural emergence is a practice where we sense patterns, name what matters, compost what is no longer serving life and make room for new forms of cooperation and care that are actually doable.
This day is also held in the spirit of Con Viv, my ongoing body of practice on convivial food systems, not as an abstract idea, but as a lived orientation to life, where food is relationship, culture, commons, livelihood, health, learning, land care and belonging. Con Viv asks, what can it look like if local food production connected us to each other, made us more capable and alive, and if the systems around food restored dignity and agency rather than extracting it…
This is why Con Viv aligns so naturally with social permaculture, because social permaculture is applied to human systems, families, teams, neighbourhoods, organisations, movements, asking the same questions we ask in the garden, what are the conditions for life to thrive, where is energy flowing, what needs shelter, what edges are alive, what feedback is telling the truth, what would happen if we designed for diversity, reciprocity and resilience rather than control. Social permaculture gives us a language and a toolkit for shaping human systems with care for earth, care for people and fair share, and Con Viv brings the food and culture dimension into that frame, so we are not only talking about growing gardens, but growing the culture that can hold gardens, markets, families, organisations and community life with warmth and intelligence.
Magical Farm is growing into a living learning place where herb farming, seasonal practice, community nourishment and policy imagination can sit in the same bowl, and this day is part of that becoming, for people who want grounded conversation, embodied clarity and a sense of community that is warm enough to carry the times we are in.
Details
Date: Sunday 18 January
Time: 10:00 to 16:00
Place: Magical Farm Tasmania, 1/21 Pregnells Road, Allens Rivulet.
Food: Please bring a plate of vegetarian or gluten free food to share for lunch
Contribution: A sliding scale donation is welcome if you can, to support the farm and the educators, and to cover their time, petrol and the effort that goes into making a day like this possible
RSVP: Emily. [email protected]
Thank you to Landcare Tasmania for collaborating with us, Vari from Cultural Emergence and Perrie from Regen Era Design Studio
With love and Con viv!
Dr Demeter / Emily
www.regeneradeaign.org – check out our campaign Grow Small, Feed All a 600 million dollar policy proposal for local food cultivation and community transformation : https://regeneradesign.org/
