We’re delighted to announce our second keynote speaker: Donnie Maclurcan, Findhorn Fellow and Co-founder and Director of Strategy at the Post Growth Institute.
Donnie established the Post Growth Institute in 2010, and now his professional focus is on designing frameworks, methodologies and experiences for creative collaboration and collective liberation.
In his keynote, Donnie will share his thoughts on Connecting the Local to the Global: the power of what you already know and are doing.
WORKSHOP Embodied Post-Growth
While in Findhorn, Donnie will present a two-day workshop on Embodied, Post-growth Economics, on Monday 8 September to Tuesday 9 September, at Cullerne House. The workshop will cover the Offers and Needs Market; Money, debt, capitalism, and the limits to growth; Postcapitalist, post-growth alternatives; Personal leverage points; and more.
About Donnie
Born on Cammeraygal land, Australia, of French/Celtic descent, Donnie presently lives on Mapuche lands in Patagonia, with his Argentinian wife and their three cats. He loves writing birthday songs for friends, exploring the deep psyche, and performing improvisational theatre.
Beginning as a professional singer at age nine, Donnie’s unusual career has included working as a freelance journalist, documentary film producer, mathematics teacher, refugee activist, Indigenous reconciliation advocate, telephone counsellor, homelessness support worker, property manager, exercise physiologist, national team coach, and consultant for 500+ social enterprise projects, across 37 countries.
Along the way he completed a PhD assessing nanotechnology’s global implications, coached the Fijian sailing team, held the Guinness World Record for the fastest run across Australia, and became an affiliate professor of economics at Southern Oregon University and adjunct professor with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Establishing the Post Growth Institute in 2010, Donnie’s professional focus is designing frameworks, methodologies and experiences for creative collaboration and collective liberation, including the Offers and Needs Market, the Post Growth Fellowship, the Post Growth Alliance, and Free Money Day, along with an intuitive model for a post-capitalist market economy that builds on what’s already working.