Current Courses 2025

On-Line Cultural Emergence Taster Course

Enrolments Open - FREE

A great place to start your journey is with the Cultural Emergence Taster Course. Participants learn from the on-line video tutorials and materials created by Looby. This course gives an overview of regenerative cultures and has some practical activities to get you started on your Cultural Emergence Learning  Journey. 

You will need to sign up for FREE to the Cultural Emergence Community on Circle Space to access the the course

Online - Activating Cultural Emergence (ACE) Course 

Enrolments Open

Looby would love to welcome those new to and already experienced in Cultural Emergence to join this nurturing learning opportunity. After a 2 year break the Online ACE course returns

The ACE course centers on the challenge & awaken phase of the toolkit. During the ACE course we look at the many levels of culture, right through from our own personal culture and patterns of being, to the global context.

Online

3 Design Adventure Courses

• Design Your Week Ahead
• Design Your Year Ahead
• Refresh Your Home

Enrolments Open

Looby will guide you through the Design Web, in these Design Adventures courses. There are 2 self paced ones - Design your week Ahead and Design Your Year Ahead and the 3rd Refresh your Home runs from March to May 2025 accompanied by live calls.

In the 3 course you will come away with a design, have explored how to design for that topic and will be able to do more designs for yourself with the Design Web. 

Design Adventure - Refresh Your Home: with Looby & Helen (Enrollments closing soon) with 3 live calls -  sign up here 

Design Adventure - Design Your Year Ahead:  with Looby (enrol any time) -  sign up here

Design Adventure - Design Your Week Ahead: with Looby (enrol any time) -  sign up here

If you are from the global majority world and need a bursary please email culturalemergence@yahoo.com

Enrollments Open

MOTHERS AS NATURAL LEADERS COURSE

In-Person 5-6 April 2025

only 2 places left!

In Person with Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt co authors of Mothers As Natural Leaders Book

This  course guides women through a nourishing reflective process exploring what leadership means to us as mothers; leadership of ourselves, our families, in our community and in the wider world, using the cultural Emergence Tool Kit, nature connection practices and Mother Nature Card Decks.

* Special offer * 10% Discount if bring a friend (find out more here)

In Person - Activating Cultural Emergence (ACE) Course 

9 - 11 May 2025 

Looby would love to welcome those new to and already experienced in Cultural Emergence to join this nurturing learning opportunity. The course will take place in person at Applewood Permaculture Centre in Herefordshire, UK 

The ACE course centers on the challenge & awaken phase of the toolkit. During the ACE course we look at the many levels of culture, right through from our own personal culture and patterns of being, to the global context.

* Special offer * 10% Discount if bring a friend (find out more here)

If you are interested please email culturalemergence@yahoo.com

PEACE Deep Dive (In Person)

PEACE Empowerment And Cultural Emergence

24th - 29th June 2025

This module of the Cultural Emergence toolkit embodies the nourish and empower phase. It gives us the opportunity to deeply connect with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. It is an experiential journey to finding peace and empowerment within ourselves. We can carry these tools forward to emerge a peaceful culture in our own lives.

Next in-person PEACE Course - 24 - 29 June 2025 Herefordshire, UK With Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson

* Special offer * 10% Discount if bring a friend (find out more here)

If you are interested email culturalemergence@yahoo.com

Cultural Emergence Gathering

25 - 27 July 2025

Join us for tour annual Cultural Emergence Gathering and connect with others on their journey. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity to connect with Looby Macnamara author of Cultural Emergence and others on their Cultural Emergence pathways.

This is a wonderful chance to gather in community before the end of the summer and celebrate our learning harvests of the year. We will have a chance to reflect on our individual journeys with Cultural Emergence as well as the collective movement that is growing. From this we will do some visioning and designing for our individual and collective next steps.

This gathering is open to anyone who has attended any of the Cultural Emergence course modules, ACE, CEED or PEACE, online or in person. This gathering is also to connect people who have been reading and learning Cultural Emergence. If you would like to learn more before you come, you can join the ACE course online here or a Design Adventure Course here

25th - 27th July 2025

If you are interested email culturalemergence@yahoo.com

Advanced Design Adventure

18 -21 September 2025

Deepen your applied understanding of design frameworks, tools and principles from Cultural Emergence & Permaculture. Build momentum and activate a design for something in your life that you are passionate about. Designed to boost anyone’s design practice, the course is also a golden key for anyone practicing post-PDC permaculture, doing a Diploma or teaching any subject. 

This uniquely creative design weekend is the first ever UK teaching appearance of Visionary Permaculture facilitator Delvin Solkinson from Canada collaborating with Looby Macnamara.

For enquiries, to express your interest and apply please contact:

Email Delvin at delvin@permaculture.org