Category: Permaculture Design
The 4 Freedoms: Principles For Regenerative Lifestyle Design
The 4 Freedoms – Principle For Regenerative Lifestyle Design – Freedom in Time, Health, Wealth And Spirit.
Principles Of Right Livelihood And Eco-System Design
What makes an Eco-System? You’re probably reading this because you’re interested in finding a way to support yourself and those under your care (or that might be in the future) in a way that actually makes the ecosystem in which we all live healthier and more abundant. And you don’t just want to scrape by…
The Chaordic Stepping Stones – Lifestyle Design Version
This post contains the Chaordic Stepping Stones design process rewritten for the purpose of lifestyle design and relationship nurturing. While the number of overall steps is the same and the questions are similar to the original Chaordic Stepping Stones, they have been reworded and rewritten where necessary to be pertinent to an individual, couple, or…
Cynefin: Making Sense Amidst Disorder
This post is an introduction to Cynefin Sense-Making Model. Cynefin: ‘habitat’ or ‘place’ – from Old Welsh, means a “place of multiple belongings; cultural, religious, geographic, tribal etc. We can only ever be partially aware of all these multiple belongings, but never all of them simultaneously. The Cynefin Model is useful in recognizing causal differences that…
Decision Making Process Flowchart
Contained in this post is the simple yet thorough decision making protocol put forth in Peter Drucker’s book “Decision Making For Effective Executives”. You can download and print my condensed version of
Type 1 Errors: A Running List We’ve Seen…
Type 1 Error: A error in design and/or implementation that costs you time, energy, money or emotional well-being as long as it remains present in the system. Committing a Type 1 Error (T1E) is like building a bucket to carry water with wood that has been eaten through by termites – it’s going to leak,…
GOBRADIME Design Framework
GOBRADIME is another excellent design framework well suited to permaculture design projects. Below I’ve fleshed out each step to provide a jumping off point for using it in the Team Pulse Design Process.
Choose A Framework For Your Design Process
If the Team Pulse Design Process is a skeleton, think of the various design frameworks within this post as the muscles and organs of a complete iteration of a design process. Time to “flesh out” your design process with a simple design framework. For this example we’ll use the SADIMET framework
The Chaordic Stepping Stones
The Chaordic Stepping Stones is a simple planning process that helps create the minimal structure needed to complete a given task – from planning a full-scale broad-acre permaculture project to long-term planning to smaller projects. Excess structure often retards innovation and contribution, overloads certain individuals/components, and stifles learning, while too little structure can lead to
7th Generation Principle – Designing Systems For Continuity Through Time
The 7th Generation Principle – A process driven approach to designing resilient, regenerative ecosystems that grow stronger through generational inheritance.
Team Pulse Design Process
The Team Pulse Design Process is well suited to small to medium sized groups. It’s structure allows people that share a common vision, but perhaps have vastly different strengths, weaknesses, skill sets and biases, to function as a cohesive unit in achieving the end goal of the design process. The Team Pulse Design Process emerged…
