ONLINE: Regenerative Development and Design

Regenerative Development and Design: Design as an invitation to consciously evolve self, community, land, and place for massive transformation

We already have the living system understanding we need to heal the earth – right now. Poly-canopy farming, holistic management, and permaculture techniques can begin to bring back a healthy trajectory and harmony between humans and ‘nature’ in 18 months. The same principles can apply to human development and social systems change, as well. Living systems thinking applies to all of life. Perhaps it’s time to give it a try.

Gregory Bateson said, “The major problems of the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.” Western culture is trying to solve gigantic and existential issues with the same technically oriented mind that created them: working on fragmented problems, in silos of activities, addressing them in a generic way, and at an impossible-to-manage planetary scale.

Nature doesn’t work this way. ‘It’ works as a self-organizing, whole, dynamic system and in unique ecological niches that respond to the geology, climate, habitat, and, yes, even social systems who are capable of honoring these inter-relationships.

Bill Reed will take us through some context-setting perspectives and exercises illustrating some of the principles that serve as the foundation for Regenerative Development and Design. These have been proven to invite significant transformation in communities and Places by aligning and ‘wholing’ human-to-human and human-to-nature relationships.

COST: sliding scale of $10-25 each. A $5 nonrefundable deposit is required to rsvp via paypal here or checks to: Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825. At the event we will ask you to contribute more, paypal or check. If the payment is a barrier we have a scholarship fund - just inquire with Amy.

Bill Reed is an internationally recognized planning consultant, design process facilitator, lecturer, teacher, and author in sustainability and regeneration. He is a principal of Regenesis, Inc. – a regenerative design, living systems integrator, and education organization. His work centers on creating the framework for and managing an integrative, whole and living system design process. Bill has also consulted on over two hundred green design commissions, is an author of many technical articles and contributor to multiple books and is also a keynote speaker at major building and design events as well as a guest lecturer to universities throughout Europe, North America, and Oceania including Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and UPenn.