User:DaveM

I live in Washington state and consider myself a social permaculturist (exploring “invisible structures”), and am involved with the Transition Initiative movement as a co-initiator of Transition Whatcom. Transition Training in 2008 from the original UK Trainers Sophy Banks and Naresh Giangrande, and Permaculture Design Certificate earned at Inspiration Farm (where I lived for about a year and a half), 2009. Introduction to Integral and Integral Sustainability from Alan Seid, of Cascadia Workshops. My interest in all things "integral" includes the work of Ken Wilber, but is now mostly oriented around the work of Jean Gebser, as presented in his magnum opus, The Ever-Present Origin. I have presented at the 2015 Integral Theory Conference, with my paper subsequently published by Integral Leadership Review ("Patterns for Navigating the Transition to a World in Energy Descent").

I have a particular interest in what I call Integral Permaculture, as well as PatternDynamics (TM) (informed by both Integral theory and Permaculture). In January of 2014 I became the first person in the PatternDynamics Community of Practice to receive Level II (b) Accreditation, certifying me as a facilitator of the PatternDynamics workshop.

My interest in P2P lies largely in my alignment with the concept of cosmo-localism and holding the thermodynamic lens on theories of economics. I am a strong proponent of the work of Peter Pogany, and I align with the view expressed by Michel Bauwens that "1) society moves from relative stable stages, through chaotic transitions, which are real mutations both in human consciousness and in socio-economic structures, and 2) this change is non-linear and moves through internal or external shocks."