Earth Talk: Pattern Mind with Joel Glanzberg

8pm
The Playroom, Schumacher College, Dartington
Tickets £5 /Concessions £4

Pattern Mind is an integration of the disciplines of tracking, living systems thinking, and permaculture design. Tracking provides embodied experience in pattern observation and understanding. Living systems thinking enables us to track the patterns of our thoughts and ensure that we are thinking and working wholly and at the right level. Permaculture or Regenerative Design is about working with living systems to provide for human needs in ways that increases their coherence and health. Without reading or understanding the world around us as living, shifting systems of exchange, we can only work from our ideas rather than reality. Without thinking wholly or at the right level we are likely to miss something important. The multiple perspectives of a Pattern Mind ensure holistic vision, thinking, and action.

Joel Glanzberg is a partner in Regenesis, a mentor with the Tracking Project, and founder of Pattern Mind, where he teaches classes that integrate the disciplines of Tracking, Living Systems Thinking, and Permaculture Design. As a faculty member of Regenesis Education, he delivers The Regenerative Practitioner series to development-industry practitioners worldwide. Joel has over 25 years’ experience as an applied naturalist working on land and community development projects throughout the United States. Through assessing, understanding, and communicating the inherent patterns present in natural systems, Joel helps clients identify principles and guidelines for appropriate and healthy development.

An active author and educator in permaculture and ecological design, Joel is skilled in cross-cultural communication and teaching. He has taught throughout the United States as well as in Africa and South America, and has worked with a variety of Native American tribes and communities. His research has focused on the application of traditional land-use practices to the design of modern infrastructure. Joel has worked for a diverse client base, including communities, colleges and universities, government agencies, and private developers. Recent projects include a new student campus for the Winston Preparatory School in Norwalk, Connecticut and a regional sustainability planning project in the Finger Lakes region of New York. His book, Pattern Mind (available from Shining Mountain Press in 2016) is about learning to develop the mind that sees and thinks like the living world

For more information visit https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/event/?id=169198