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About the Communities

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Founding year

  • 2016

What we do

Our vision is to encourage young people to have a fun experience in community life, where they can slow down, hear the silence, grow awareness, be in balance and giving them a place where they can start to trust themselves.With this encouragement, young people can reconnect with nature, learn to accept others and learn about sustainable and low impact ways of living in ecovillages and rural settings. On this path of transformation, they can get all the support they need and in turn be able to support others and find ways to take care of the planet in their daily life.
We are an european group of people part of NextGEN Europe interested in sustainability willing to share ecovillage lifestyle and low impact ways of living. We are working by young people, with young people and for young people.
Projects 2018

  • Findhorn Community, Scotland: Embracing Diversity: Applied ecovillage living:March 2018. Sending organizations: GEN-NL, RIE, RIVE.
  • Valdepielagos Ecovillage, Spain: Theater as a Tool to Share Values: May 2018. Sending organizations: France (Regain, L´Arche Communities), GEN-NL, RIVE, Turkey (Anadolu University), Sol y Tierra Asociation.
  • Native Spirit, Austria: Youth, Nature and Empowerment June 2018. SKEY ( Finland Ecovillage Network), Ecobasa, RIE.
  • Zavode Veles, Slovenia, We are the Key. July- August 2018. Sending organizations: RIE ( Iberian Ecovillage Network), RIVE ( Italy), Amma( Serbia).
  • ZEGG Community, Germany. Youth on Earth- Yes we (c)are. Sending organization: Ecobasa, RIE, Colibris, Preplet.
  • Training for Youth Leaders in Facilitation Skills. Lakabe, October 2018.
  • Training for Creation of Projects– Sieben Linden, December 2018.

2017
– May in Hallingelille, Denmark ( Spain, Basque Country, Italy, Slovenia, Germany)
– Bergen, Netherlands ( Spain, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Finland)
– August in Zavod Veles, Slovenia ( The Netherlands, Spain, Basque Country, Italy
– October in Lakabe, Iberian Peninsula ( Germany, Spain, Basque Country, Italy, The Netherlands)

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  • English

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2016
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2016
  • Started living together

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  • Spain

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12 years ago

Gaia Ashram Internship

The Pioneers of Gaia Ashram , 5th of July– 2nd of August 2015 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the learning space. We design the daily & weekly structure of the internship and of our lives here based on these values and principles. Theoretical learning (Head) The theoretical sessions will be participatory and interactive. It will cover the 4 keys of Ecovillage Design Education (Social, Economical, Ecological and Worldview inspired by Gaia Education). Each week will cover one of the Ecovillage Design Keys and integrated into this we will be introduced to Permaculture Design & Deep Ecology in terms of philosophy, movement and personal experiences. Overall, We will have a maximum of 2-3 hours of theory per day on the session days, to also create lots of space for practical experiential learning. See more details of the key content below. Practical learning (Hands – on) For the hands – on practical learning we will be developing the Gaia Ashram’s farm and restoring nature on the Gaia Ashram land using permaculture strategies & techniques that are appropriate for the Rainy Season & the land and its local context. The hands-on work will focus on Gardening work i.e. developing the vegetable gardens, planting seeds & seedlings, transplanting, propagation of plants, making composts, growing and maintaining a Food Forest, planting green manures, planting lots of trees, planting seasonal crops. Apart from the Gardening we will also will be doing some natural building which mostly will focus on creating natural finishes usi

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