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Sacred Place Self Empowerment Course Retreat

  • Date: 7 – 16 November 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Earth Home, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Thailand

These Self Empowerment courses are a life changing opportunity to transform your life for the better by investing quality time and energy in yourself, to build your inner foundation, uncover your strengths/passions and discover your Life Purpose. To learn more and reserve your place visit www.sacred-place.com/courses * Early Booking Discount of 20% for bookings made one month before course starts. (accommodation & meals are included). … Read more

Sacred Place Self Empowerment Course Retreat

  • Date: 30 September – 9 October 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Pousada de Coloane, Macao

These Self Empowerment courses are a life changing opportunity to transform your life for the better by investing quality time and energy in yourself, to build your inner foundation, uncover your strengths/passions and discover your Life Purpose. To learn more and reserve your place visit www.sacred-place.com/courses * Early Booking Discount of 20% for bookings made one month before course starts. (Lunch is included). … Read more

Dragon Dreaming Project Design

  • Date: 22 – 28 August 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Milna, Island Brac, Croatia

Dragon Dreaming is a sustainable project design and management method derived from living systems. Just as any big dreams do, it has got the power to transform the way we cooperate and communicate in our projects towards more human, alive, mindful, playful and meaningful experience.  On the 5 -day Training you`ll get to know the method and practice it. And you will also learn how to tame the dragons all in the beautiful settings of the Adriatic seaside. … Read more

Zambia – Ecovillage Development Training

  • Date: 6 – 25 August 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • 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

Making a Sofa Stool from Used Plastic Bottles

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Personal
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Culture
      • Art & Celebration
    • Ecology
      • Water Cycles
    • Economy
      • Social Entrepreneurship

What you need: About 40 used bottles of same height and size (probably 1.5litres each). Sand can be added in a few bottles the give it some weight, duct tape, two circular plywood of desired circumference, enough sit foam to go around and on the bottles, and a material with any preferable design all depending on your preference. What to do: Join the bottles adjacently in your desired circular size and hold them together with the duct tape. Place the two circular boards on both ends of … Read more

ECCO 2017

  • Date: 6 – 11 October 2017
  • Language:
      Portuguese
  • Location: Alto Paraiso de Goias, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brazil

For the first time since the creation of GEN, Brazil will host a meeting to bring together the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America (CASA LATINA) and GEN. A Visions Council will be held with diverse activists, permacultores, educators, and indigenous leaders from across the planet to discuss and plan PRACTICAL ACTIONS for bioregional and planetary resilience. … Read more

musical mud stomp festive earthen masonry's barefoot mud stomping

  • Region: CASA
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
      • Health & Healing
      • Leadership & Governance
      • Lifelong Education
      • Trust & Communication
    • Culture
      • Art & Celebration
      • Nature Connection
      • Vision & Purpose
    • Integral Design
      • Contextualised Design
    • Ecology
      • Green Building
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
      • Water Cycles
    • Economy
      • Social Entrepreneurship

Dance and entertainment creates a building material. Live acoustic music fuels the barefoot mud stomping dance which creates a spectacle, connects people to earth and creates an unsurpassed building material. … Read more

Bedouin Crafts and Heritage Preserving tradition and generating income

  • Region: GEN Fertile Crescent
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship

Traditional crafts are a way to preserve ancient knowledge and to honour a culture and its people. The Bedouin women of the Negev are holding an ancient treasure and the can keep it by sharing it with tourists, generating an income for their families and for their struggling communities. In this example, women are weaving on a traditional floor loom, using camel, sheep and goat wool. The products are sold in their village, as some tours are coming there. … Read more

Eco-Tourism Eco-Tourism Examples

    • Areas of Regeneration:
      • Economy
        • Social Entrepreneurship

    This link shows you different examples of eco-tourism in lots of different countries. It is a good way to understand what eco-tourism really is and what it looks like in practice. You will find : - Costa Rica Ecotourism - Rain Forest, Wildlife, Volcanos - The Beauty of Sustainable Costa Rica | Sustainable Tourism - Costa Rica: Certified Sustainable Tourism at Selva Bananito - The Whole Picture - Sustainable Tourism in … Read more

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