7 Ways to Think Differently: Embrace Potential, Respond to Life, Discover Abundance

Permaculture is more than a way of designing gardens, farms, enterprises, and even events, it is a creative framework for thinking differently. If you want to understand the deeper concepts behind permaculture, this is the book for you. The way we think has determined the current state of our planet. If we change our thinking, we can transform personal wellbeing, and also the future state of our world. Learn about: * Abundance thinking * Solutions thinking * Systems thinking * Thinking like nature * Cooperative thinking * Thinking for the future * From thought to action 7 Ways to Think Differently explores practical steps that allow us to reframe our daily lives, helping us to make incremental, achievable changes. As well as addressing our internal landscapes, Looby Macnamara, the originator of the Cultural Emergence concept, explains how individuals and groups can collaborate and achieve positive change. She also explores the current political and mainstream paradigms and where they are leading us. These ways to think differently are influential alternatives to the current mindset and can shift us to a better present, as well as setting us on a trajectory towards a better future. Looby offers a potent pathway for a world full of challenges for anyone who wants to make a difference in the world.

About the Author :
Looby Macnamara is author of People and Permaculture, the first book to explore the application of permaculture principles and design to all aspects of our lives. Looby has taught permaculture since 2002 and is a partner in a leading teaching and consultancy partnership, Designed Visions. She is renowned for her ability to enthuse people to engage with their natural environment and inspire them, individually and collectively, to bring about positive change, both for ourselves and for the Earth.

Review :
Throughout this very readable book Looby encourages us to think about thinking ... and in doing so she poses a number of fundamental questions including, for example: How do you see the world?, What might influence how you think about this?, What are your beliefs and assumptions?, What are the patterns of thinking that recreate feelings, behaviours and learning?, How can you go deeper and think more critically to challenge these? and How can you reinterpret these stories? The Introduction covers how she developed the basis for the book and briefly lists the seven different ways (and her choice of symbols to illustrate each one). She provides explanations of Permaculture and The Work That Reconnects, Thinking about Thinking, Shifting our Thinking and concludes with Landscape of Thought which pulls all seven ways together into a single graphic image. The bulk of the book has seven chapters, each covering one of the seven ways, which are: abundance thinking, solutions thinking, systems thinking, thinking like nature, co-operative thinking, thinking for the future and from thinking to doing. Each one adds structure and depth to the unfolding story. The final pages are packed with further resources, listing books, websites and films as well as 46 references used throughout the text. There is also a very useful double page Ways of Thinking Summary with multiple examples and the relevant permaculture principles applying to each one. In her closing words Looby asks us to accept that this [book] is an invitation to embark on a beautiful journey of embracing, responding and discovering. I do, I am now using the book and strongly recommend it to you as one very effective tool for being and doing in a very different way.; Alan Charlton, Permaculture magazine