Current Courses 2025
Online Courses in 2025 -
FREE Cultural Emergence Taster Course: with Looby (enrol any time) - click here
Design Adventure - Refresh Your Home: with Looby (enrolments closing soon) - click here
Design Adventure - Design Your Year Ahead: with Looby (enrol any time) - click here
Design Adventure - Design Your Week Ahead: with Looby (enrol any time) - clickhere
ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course: with Looby (enrol any time) - click here
In Person Courses in 2025 at Applewood
Mothers As Natural Leaders: with Looby & Emma 5-6 April 2025 - click here
ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course: with Looby 9th - 11th May 2025 - click here
PEACE Deep Dive - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence: with Looby 24 - 29 June 2025 - click here
Cultural Emergence Gathering: with Looby 25 - 27 July 2025 - click here
Advanced Design Adventure: with Looby & Delvin 18-21 September 2025 - click here
If you would like to sign up to a course please email culturalemergence@yahoo.com
Further details below and to find out more about all the courses Looby offers click here.
Free Online Workshops

Free PEACE - Peace, Empowerment And Cultural Emergence Workshop
6th May 6:30-8pm BST
Join Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson for an embodied, connective experience into PEACE. Join us around the virtual fireside to connect and nourish and empower ourselves. We will be using elements of the Cultural Emergence toolkit to explore what PEACE means to us, and how to create a personal culture of peace that ripples out into the world.

Watch the Recordings of our 6 FREE Workshops
We had a brilliant time during our programme of 6 Free workshops and they were all recorded.
Click below on the title to watch them and experience Permaculture, Cultural Emergence & Mother Nature in Action. They will be available till the end of March.
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

Enrol:
Enrolments Open
Cost:
This offering is FREE
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara
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.

Dates:
Enrolments Open
There will be ongoing live calls, and we suggest you come to at least 3
May weds 14th 6.30-8pm UK time BST
July Weds 2nd 6.30-8pm UK time BST
more dates to come
Cost:
£125 full price
20% off £100 low waged
half price £62.50 concession
Facilitator:
Looby Macnamara
Bookings
click here to sign up
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

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)
Dates:
5-6 April 2025 Camping available.
only 2 places left!
Cost:
Concession £165
Low waged £195
Waged £225
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara & Emma Gorbutt
Bookings
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

Dates:
9 - 11 may 2025
Saturday and Sunday - optional camping on Friday and Saturday
Cost:
Concession £135
Low waged £165
Waged £195
Facilitator:
Looby Macnamara
Bookings
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
Dates:
24th - 29th June 2025
Cost
Concessions £650
Low waged £750
Waged £850
Discount Offers
* Early bird discount * before end of March 2025 £50 off
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara
Bookings
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
Dates:
25-27 July Camping available.
Cost:
Concession £145
Low waged £195
Waged £225
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara
Bookings
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
Dates:
18-21 September 2025
Cost:
Early bird rates before 30th April 2025
Concession £320
Low waged £375
Waged £425
Standard price starting 1st May 2025
Concession £370
Low Waged £425
Waged £475
Facilitators:
Looby Macnamara & Delvin Solkinson
Bookings
Email Delvin at delvin@permaculture.org