Events - Global Ecovillage Network

West Coast Communities Conference

Date: 14 – 16 September 2018
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Location: Near Seattle, WA, United States

This conference is an intentional experience of community. Whether you live in an intentional community, are interested in joining or starting one, are a networker or organizer, or are new to intentional communities, this conference will have something for you. Come learn about the intentional communities of the western US, gain skills and understanding for living in and developing intentional communities, and find mutual support and camaraderie with others involved with intentional community. … Read more

Twin Oaks Communities Conference

Date: 31 August – 3 September 2018
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Location: Twin Oaks Community, Louisa County, VA,, United States

If you live or want to live according to the values of cooperation, sustainability, and equality this conference is for you. You’ll get something out of this event whether you’re brand new to communities and cooperatives, or have been living and working in them for decades. The conference focuses on Intentional Communities, including models such as Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Housing Cooperatives, and the larger cooperative movement, including all kinds of cooperative and collective … Read more

EDE at Damanhur

Date: 4 August – 1 September 2018
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Location: Damanhur, Italy

The EDE is an exciting learning adventure of one month tapping into the four dimensions of sustainability. During the EDE a community is created, that allows to live many of the topics that are taught in real live. Damanhur supports through the experience of an almost 44 year old community, that has gone through many phases and transformational processes to become the thriving community it is today. … Read more

Día Internacional de la Permacultura

Date: 6 May 2018
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Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica

Un día en cual los proyectos como huertas, jardines, fincas, granjas entre otros abren sus puertas para ofrecer la oportunidad de experimentar la Permacultura y aprender, se organizan charlas, talleres educativos, películas, entre otros eventos. … Read more

Ecovillage Pathways a NextGENNA Event

Region: GENNA
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Leadership & Governance
  - Lifelong Education
  - Trust & Communication
- Culture
  - Art & Celebration
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
  - Nature Connection
  - Vision & Purpose
  - Wisdom & Innovation
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
Stage:
- Crossing the Threshold

Over the course of three-days our NextGEN Educators guide participants through various learning experiences related to the network of regenerative communities worldview, dimensions of sustainability, group processes, and personal development. The intention of this event is to support attendees in creating a life filled with purpose, connection, and healing for our planet. … Read more

The Laws of Manifestation How to attract the resources necessary to do what you need to do.

Areas of Regeneration:
- Culture
  - Wisdom & Innovation
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
Stage:
- Opening to the Unexpected

Working with spiritual principles can be very helpful here. David Spangler, one of the pioneers of the Findhorn Foundation community, set out some key principles in publications on “The Laws of Manifestation”. It is not simply a case of invoking and inviting money and resources to achieve whatever you want. It is more a case of ‘tuning in’ to what the universe, or Spirit, is asking for. If your project is really in the service of something greater, and if you are really fully aligned in … Read more

Empowered Fundraising Raising funds through building relationships

Areas of Regeneration:
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
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- Daring to Act

See the need to fundraise as an opportunity to build community. In asking someone for money, we are actually offering them the opportunity to engage with a meaningful project and with us personally. Who is really giving here? The aim is to build diverse networks of support and ongoing engagement. We also see that even when we receive a ‘no’ there is an opportunity to gain new information and to build our networks. References: ● Twist,Lynne The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our … Read more

Social/Solidarity Finance Beyond Banks...

Areas of Regeneration:
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
  - Planetary Boundaries
Stage:
- Crossing the Threshold

If traditional methods do not fit well with entrepreneurs who are in need of funding, what can we do? There are several ways to solve this need. We can use our network to request solidarity private loans at an interest rate of CPI or 0%. Or private loans at a market interest rate that is negotiated and which is sometimes organized as micro credits. Or we could become partners with a credit union that works with similar criteria to those of our organisation. This is a easier and faster … Read more

Zambia – Ecovillage Development Training

Date: 6 – 25 August 2017
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Location: Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, Lusaka, Zambia

This training is a great chance to explore the ecovillage concept; understand ecovillage development as a tool for climate change adaptation and reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals; becoming familiar with a framework for holistic sustainability grounded in decades of hands-on experience and design of resilient communities worldwide; practice participatory whole-systems design; explore assets, needs and potential next steps of a group, project or community in each dimension of … Read more

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