People Care in Permaculture
Looby Macnamara
Friday, 10 June 2005
Format: Introduction and small group discussion
Summary
People care is a limiting factor in many projects and in order to work more effectively we need to consider how we can do this better. In order to look at how we might improve peole care we broke into 3 small groups with a zone for each group – self, community and global aspects of people care.
Key Points
- In self there are lots of manuals and ideas to improve our self care. Important ideas included self responsibilty, Living your truth and consistent awareness.
- Permaculture offers designed solutions to the problems of good sef care.
- Permaculture for community people care is a useful too for consciously building relationships and support mechanisms.
- There are a lot of stratergies including spending time together, working, eating and playing; Observation of interactions.
- Global people care was relativley negative – there are so many problems that need to be faced clearly.
- Design needs to include support for those who are very active, stratergies for passing information and skills intergenerationally and coming back to have I done enough.
- We need stratergies to work well in unstable places where change is most necessary and possible.
[Scribe: Suzi High]