6: Looby MacNamara - Quantum Sheep: working with the emergent

Author: Lucy Pearce
Published: Tue 30 Apr 2024
Episode Link: https://shows.acast.com/creative-magic/episodes/looby-macnamara-quantum-sheep-working-with-what-emerges

Looby is a permaculture teacher and author. She has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and specialising in the people care ethic of permaculture. She has written 4 books People and Permaculture, 7 ways to think differently, Strands of Infinity and Cultural Emergence. She is co-founder of the Cultural Emergence project - developing a toolkit for personal and collective transformation. Her latest creation is the CEED deck - the Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She lives on a 20 acre smallholding with her family, Applewood Permaculture Centre in Ludlow, UK, where they run courses She is mother to 2 daughters. And is one of the partners of the Mother Nature project, co-creating resources to empower mothers as natural leaders.

She enjoys gardening, being creative, sitting round fires singing and listening to owls.

Looby on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loobymacnamara/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/looby.macnamara

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Her website for courses www.applewoodcourses.com

We Discussed

Permaculture and creativity.

Cultural emergence and emergency.

The importance of pattern-seeing.

Expanding our view from breakdown to breakthrough.

Quantum sheep – the fabulous slip of the tongue and where it came from.

Move Your Tools – stop waiting for inspiration to strike.

The emergence of AI art and the increasing need for the human touch.

The power of agency and permission.

The cyclical nature of creativity.

Resources and People mentioned