Looby Macnamara
Looby Macnamara is an inspirational author, designer, gardener, song leader, mother, and artist. Her pioneering methodology and teachings have spread globally and supported thousands of people. She runs Applewood Permaculture Centre, with her partner Chris Evans, where they run courses and demonstrate both land and people permaculture, both online and in person at their stunning 20 acre smallholding in Herefordshire, UK.
Looby is the author of five international best-selling books; People & Permaculture, Design Adventures, 7 Ways to Think Differently, Cultural Emergence, and Strands of Infinity. She has been teaching permaculture, Cultural Emergence and teacher trainings for over 20 years. Looby wrote the first book globally to translate permaculture to people. Looby created the Design Web - an organic dynamic design framework which has been used to create thousands of designs around the world on many scales.
Looby co-created the Cultural Emergence toolkit with Jon Young, which is growing into a global movement of people ready to make positive change in their own lives and communities. Cultural Emergence brings together innovative models for behavioral and cultural change, weaving together systems thinking, cultural awareness, design, and nature connection. Looby also created the beautiful CEED - Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She runs the online Cultural Emergence community bringing together a global network of change-makers and designers using these tools.
Looby is one of the partner’s of the Mother Nature project, and co-creator and author of the Mother Nature journey guidebook and deck and Mothers as Natural Leaders free book.
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