Elos

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Social
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2000

What we do

Is it possible to transform the world we live in into the world we dream of?
With this simple question in mind, we decided to take action and ended up learning along the way. Still being students, we took responsibility for our own learning. We went beyond the role of simple receivers of knowledge and discovered that transformation is learned by doing. We discovered that transformation begins in your own attitude, in the way you live your experience. One must dive into oneself with a look of abundance, to find within challenges the best opportunities to develop.
We believe that the most valuable transformation happens in interaction with people in real life. The relationship with the other makes us learn about ourselves. We cultivate caring and empathic relationships, at the distance of an embrace, from eye to eye. We know that transformation gains more power and meaning when it happens in community. We believe in partnership, cooperation and coexistence. We value shared knowledge, shared doing and shared enjoyment. We celebrate diversity and build unity and trust among different people, so that the collective evolves to become community. We reestablish our connection with nature to recognize that we are part of the community of life. In direct interaction with the forest, with the seas and with the rivers, we encounter our own inner nature. We seek, in indigenous ancestral wisdom, the enhancement of human qualities that develop outside the mental, but within the physical, the emotional and the spiritual. Thus, we understand that transformation must take place integrated with a greater purpose, such as the realization of a dream shared by many. Then everything we do and learn is at service of building a wonderful world for all people and for the whole community of life. This construction is the transformation we are learning to do, and are realizing now! Because we know that when we launch ourselves in search of an impossible dream, when we persist even in the face of the unknown, transformation happens and realizing the best world we can dream of becomes possible.
Our path has been created since the year 2000, through working with communities and young people in Brazil and internationally. In all stages of this journey, we have invited people to discover their power to manifest and the pleasure of participating together in the realization of collective dreams. The name Elos, meaning “links” in Portuguese, is the synthesis of our work: in our vision, communities and businesses, adults and children, governments and civil society live side by side, work, and offer the most spectacular version of themselves to realize the best world for everyone. To realize the world we all dream of, we believe the path is transformation in community. We are living the process of community development, as well as developing tools and methodologies that drive the projects of people and communities around the world.
Everything we do is based on the Elos Philosophy, which seeks to create a scenario of abundance and recognize the talents and resources available to transform collective dreams into reality.

  • The Gaze – WE learn to SEE ABUNDANCE where many see scarcity
  • Affection -WE FOSTER KINDNESS before fear and judgement
  • Dream – WE VALUE DREAMS as the best impulse to create change
  • Care – WE PLAN TOGETHER, taking care of ourselves, of each other and of a common dream simultaneously
  • Miracle – WE WORK HANDS-ON, cooperating to make what we dreamed together a reality
  • Celebration – WE RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE each individual contribution to the collective achievement
  • Re-Evolution – WE EVOLVE ON THIS JOURNEY, propelling the construction of new dreams!

ESPAÇO ELOS: after 18 years of experience working with leaders, young people and the development of communities in Brazil and other countries, we feel it is time to deepen this work. We recognize that the greatest opportunities for learning and transformation lie in relationships, in direct contact, in doing together and in shared experiences. This is where inspiration for ESPAÇO ELOS (Elos Space) comes from!
WHAT IS IT?

  • an area of 18,000 m² in the middle of nature, yet within the city of Santos, with an exemplary project of sustainable architecture, capable of hosting programs and courses realized by Elos or partners, for up to 100 people.
  • a learning and development center, for individual and collective transformation, based on the values of the Elos Philosophy and the diverse social technologies that support and enrich its practice.
  • an epicenter that will bring transformation to Santos and radiate from city to the world! With the Espaço Elos, we will intensify our relationship with the Santos Region, especially with surrounding neighborhoods and communities, contributing to the social, cultural and sustainable development of the territory.
  • a place to encounter and to find yourself, transform and transform yourself, dream and realize the world we all dream of!
  • Purpose
  • Social
  • Languages
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Intentional Neighborhoods

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2000
  • Started living together

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10 years ago

Yo Mujer, Yo Ecologico, Yo Gaia

Taller Vivencial de Ecologia Profunda para Mujeres Un fin de semana para Reconectarnos con nuestro Poder, la Naturaleza y la Red de la Vida Vivimos en tiempos desafiantes, con crisis en nuestros ecosistemas, economias y sociedades que están afectando a toda la vida del planeta. Para muchas personas esto puede ser angustioso y abrumador; tal vez no sepan como reaccionar. En este taller vamos a explorar como son nuestras respuestas al estado actual en que se encuentra el mundo; de un modo que nos ayude a despertar y acceder a la motivación, creatividad, fuerza y solidaridad necesarias para la transición a una cultura humana sostenible. Juntas haremos un recorrido que nos llevará a espacios en los que podamos reconocer en que maneras, nosotras como mujeres, sentimos los peligros que hay en estas crisis, experimientando sus efectos y visualizando y co-creando nuestro futuro. El sonido nos acompañara en este viaje y jugaremos con nuestras voces y tambores, para expresar nuestros sentires, nuestros deseos y nuestras esperanzas. Estas prácticas pueden reconectarnos con nuestro poder, el poder CON la Tierra, en lugar de Sobre la Tierra, lo cual es algo que las mujeres desde la antigüedad han sabido y entendido. Vivir en plenitud es conectar con nosotras mismas como partes activas de la Red de la Vida. Las mujeres siempre han sido activas en los movimientos sociales y medioambientales: en la Guerra Civil española, las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo en Argentina, en el Reino Unido ha existido un campamento antinuclear con unicamente mujeres por 20 años. Y más recientemente oimos las voces emergentes del Sur como Vandana Shiva y Wangari Maathai en campañas por la soberania alimentaria y los derechos de acceso a los recursos locales para la población local. Estas prácticas que realizaremos, han sido desarrolladas y utilizadas desde hace más de 40 años y están basadas en el trabajo de Joanna Macy, ecofilósofa, activista, estudiosa y profesora de la teoria de sistem
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5 years ago

EDE France 2021 | Écovillage Sainte Camelle

We had to wait 2021, against all odds, to see the very first French EDE. How come it was only the 1st? Why never before? Well, we know why. FHF. This is why making an EDE in France was a tough challenge to take on. And yes, we did it! The group of participants we had for this EDE was so diverse that no clan emerged. It is quite usual that people gather by affinity in small groups but here, the entire group stuck together no matter what. The glue was really strong. Some personalities were more extraverted of course, but with a real care for other’s presence and voice. To the extent to become a real counter-power: if we made any facilitation mistake, if we failed to propose in the most careful way and if it felt like we were imposing anything, we would be immediately in trouble. We knew it came from a childhood school trauma for these people, who were very open about it. It was an amazing journey to navigate the facilitation process with such awareness. This context led to something incredible during week two: a very quiet voice, Pauline, protested against the fact that they had agreed to community agreements on the first day but now, she said, they had to review them by themselves and check if it reflects who they really are. We, as EDE crew members, opened a space in the program for them to take the time to do it. They used Sociometry, a tool taught to them before, to assess the agreements. They counted in percentage who agreed or not for each topic. They even discussed about the structure of the program and finally approved it. It was a very beautiful real-life example of self-empowerment. One of the most iconic moment of this EDE was the Derdian roleplay in which they completely immersed themselves for three hours. The participants playing the indigenous Derdians went in the forest and created another set of social rules to add to the existing 10 social rules, making it even harder for the engineers to understand them. Howeve
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11 years ago

Liderar la TransiciĂłn

Lo femenino del mundo, de las personas. De Mujeres y Hombres. La TransiciĂłn que nuestro mundo sueña, necesita de una reformulaciĂłn clara de los liderazgos. Reinventarse el liderazgo devolviĂ©ndolo a su lugar: ser una funciĂłn de la eficiencia de los procesos colectivos; y dejando de lado los liderazgos basados en la acumulaciĂłn de privilegios, en la desigualdad y en la dominaciĂłn. Cuando lo Femenino ocupa el espacio de lo publico, trae consigo la realidad no visible; coloca en lo social los interrogantes necesarios para que lo social deje de estar fraccionado entre Publico/Privado, y pueda ser acogido como el Todo que es. Lo femenino en su esencia, despojado de los condicionamientos impuestos, libre de ser y expresar su potencial en un mundo que busca caminos hacia la inclusiĂłn, la escucha, la equivalencia, el empoderamiento de los seres y colectividades que cuidan de la Vida. Traer al espacio de lo Publico , lo invisibilizado: las mujeres, los pueblos olvidados, la propia Tierra, la parte oprimida de la humanidad; es una forma de integrar las necesidades de las personas , del planeta, de la humanidad como identidad . Esta propuesta quiere ser un espacio para abrir las puertas e indagar juntas sobre el papel de estos liderazgos en los procesos de cambio. Como son esos nuevos liderazgos? Como es encarnar estas posiciones en colectividades y organizaciones? Como viven el proceso las mujeres que están desarrollando estos nuevos liderazgos? Y las que no. Como se sienten los hombres ante los liderazgos de las mujeres? Y los que encarnan estos nuevos modelos de liderazgo. Buscar respuestas….temporales tal vez. Ofrecernos espacios para el debate, la indagaciĂłn, profundizar, explorar. El Programa: (Provisional, sujeto a cambios) Viernes 9 por la tarde: Llegadas, instalarnos, visitar Arterra. 20.00: Cena y Presentaciones. 21.30: Cine y Debate. Sábado 10 : 9.00: Desayuno 10.00- 13.30 Taller: Liderazgo y Poder. 13.45:

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