Aderema by Oluokos - Smile With Nature

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2020

What we do

Aderema Hills – Standing Stones is a community-led tourism initiative that aims to foster an authentic human-nature connection and transformational slow holiday experience that mutually benefits the community, saves the environment, and enriches the guests’ experience.
Our program runs from one to three weeks where learning from the host community, sharing your knowledge with them and the cultural immersion offers guests a rare opportunity to indulge themselves in the rich culture and farming traditions by becoming a part of the Iteso community of Aderema in Western Kenya.
Aderema is so much more than your ordinary safari experience. We’re a responsible experiences designer, a passionate community changer, and above all nature conservationists. At Oluokos, we specialize in achieving your best holiday experiences by influencing our community positively.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Ecological Restoration
  • Experiences

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2020
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2022
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

We believe that the best, most effective, and immediate way to help both the conservation of wildlife and the interests of the communities who own the land where our activities take place is to visit us. Through the payment of daily conservation fees – money that we collect goes a long way towards financing nature conservation.
We honestly understand that the communities can only protect the wildlife, the flora and fauna only if they get immense and tangible benefits from sustainable tourism. At Aderema by Oluokos, making nature a profitable business is an important way to ensure a long-term win-win scenario for both nature and communities.
Your visitation and stay at Aderema creates direct and indirect job opportunities with more than 95% of our staff sourced from these communities and also contributing to the GDP of Kenya.
Here’s where you come in….
Through this appeal, contributors can ‘Acquire an Acre for Nature’ in Aderema through a donation that will fund the land purchase so that nature can continue flourishing. Contributors can be confident that all the money is going directly to safeguard the future of our ecosystem.

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Location

  • Kenya

Aderema by Oluokos - Smile With Nature

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10 years ago

Immersion of co-creation ...

We call for people to: – nourish our Ecovillage Laboratory project, – joining the rotating team, or even – co-creating a permanent community here. Especially we are looking for people who have experience living in an Ecovillage or Community and bring expertise in any of the following: Permaculture design, organic gardening, construction and maintenance of green buildings (cob, wood, tree houses, clay), green technology, administration of an NGO (in the Spanish reality), education related to Eco-village living and group process knowledge. In this one week of immersion we wish to get together with the existing team members (4 at present) and potential team members to co-create together in running the Eco-village laboratory. At present, some of our goals and objectives include (but are not limited to): running the Ecovillage Laboratory to provide maximum opportunities for experience of living in a temporary community and learning together; creating workshop facilities to provide a service of cutting edge workshops on different subjects of our focus (Sexuality in community, permaculture and natural building, arts and creativity in nature, spirituality and shamanism, feminine wisdom and balancing of masculine and feminine energies, community building tools); accomplishing building of a cultural centre; and establishing a permanent community on the adjacent land. Bringing your own projects and subjects are very welcome. In the project we developed: – the “Community Mandala” – a game approach for organising the day by day life of community, – the concept of “Ecovillage Laboratories” – providing the infrastructure for process work in the Ecovillage context – “Apparatus communitus creativus” – an interactive tool for flexible administration of community economy (is being developed at the moment) Sharing about what is important for us: – Balancing feminine and masculine aspects in each individual – Sensual contact with nature – Creativity – Spiritual
  • Events
7 years ago

ECOVILLAGE DESIGN COURSE (EVD)

Join our very first Ecovillage Design Course at Rancho Mastatal! Ecovillages are intentional settlements that include indigenous villages, urban neighborhoods and new intentional communities. They are living laboratories for the development of regenerative tools to address the challenges that we face in our time. In this course we will consider personal and systemic solutions in a creative, nourishing and sustainable way and that help us address the complex situations we are facing in our society . We will use a holistic approach and learn how to co-create a regenerative culture within a wide-range of topics: social and ecological regeneration, economy and energy systems, governance and decision-making, nature, our inner nature, and more. We will equip ourselves with the skills needed to create a diverse and regenerative culture that connects humans with nature, all life and ourselves. A culture in which we see each other as part of the bountiful and generous natural ecosystem that is the livelihood of every living being. A culture which gives us a greater feeling of belonging to the Earth and the Earth belonging to us. You will Learn: Social tools for personal and group transformation, empowerment and community building Urban and rural solutions for transitioning to a resilient society Local organic food production and right livelihood Permaculture design introduction Cooperative social economies and complementary currencies Holistic decision-making processes, including nature and deep ecology Communication skills and dealing with conflict Distilling inner and outer resources to support your personal or professional project Ecological building and community design Cultural and Spiritual diversity practices

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