Los Portales community has experienced for more than 30 years that sharing our dreams in a group creates a strong and deep feeling of connectedness whilst also helping us understand and live our singularity. Dream work allows people to find their unique and particular place in a group, to experience a strong sense of meaning in their life and to discover their personal task (personal myth). Dreams don’t only tell us that the power is within us, they also make us feel this, and they always … Read more
Self-built “Piggott” Wind Turbine
The Piggott Small Wind Turbine (SWT) is an open-source technology developed by Hugh Piggott, international expert in small wind energy with worldwide experience in building wind turbines and sharing his skills for 20 years. It is a solid, simple and efficient technology that has the advantage of being self-built, self-installed and self-maintained. It is therefore a reliable off-grid solution for electrification of rural areas that has been successfully used and replicated around the world. It … Read more
Achieving the Paris Agreement
- Date: 11 November 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Conference Room at the Haus der evangelischen Kirche (House of the Evangelical Church) Adenauerallee 37, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Germany
This symposium on regenerative practices is being organized by a partnership of organizations including the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Open Team, the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO), the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy and Zero Carbon Britain. This event will feature keynote presentations by Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for The Nature Conservancy and Joachim Schemel, Deputy Head of Division, Climate and Environmental Policy Sustainable … Read more
Ecosystem Restoration Communities A People Powered Movement to Restore the Earth
Ecosystem Restoration Communities offers a profound solution to land degradation, ecosystem destruction and the disconnect between humankind and nature. We do this by building naturally constructed communities on land that is highly degraded, and welcoming people to stay at the camp and learn how to restore land back to fertility. The communities also focus on teaching people skills in how to be radically sustainable, such as how to grow their own food, how to live zero waste, and how to … Read more
Experience week in Los Portales, Spain
- Date: 2 – 9 February 2020
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Los Portales, Castilblanco de los Arroyos, 41230, Spain, Spain
A guided immersion in the life of the community Los Portales, founded in 1984 During this week, you will become part of a dynamic, diverse, multi-generational and multicultural group. You will get to know the essential values of the community, participate in our daily activities, experience a feeling of connectedness with each other, with nature and with life itself, and explore being at the service of the changes that the planet needs. Located in the heart of nature, LOS PORTALES … Read more
Vision Quest Rites of passage for personal transition
Vision quest is a rites of passage usually undertooken by native americans and brought into a modern context. It is a very powerfull time for people to prepare for transistion (or confirmation), go out into solitude & wilderness and then come back into a community to share their gifts. Usually it is hosted by experienced guides or elders and in its full length it consists of 4 days preperation, 4 days/nights of solotime in nature and 4 days of integration. But the basic flow and the … Read more
Presencing The movement of letting go, listening into the silence and letting come
Presencing, described as a stage within the Theory U Process as well as other contemplative methods, is the capacity to connect to the deepest source of self, which allows the future to emerge from the whole rather than from a smaller part or a special interest group. Danish sculptor and management consultant Erik Lemcke describes his experience of this process as follows: “After having worked with a particular sculpture for some time, there comes a certain moment when things are changing. … Read more
Reconnecting to Society Reconnecting ones Ideas with the “reality” of the society around us.
Creating situations where people can reconnect their ideas with the existing reality still in a “safe surrounding” is an important feedback loop and supports them and helps to clarify their ideas. To really start up a project and create something in our world it always needs both parts. Our ideas and idealism need to be connected with the frames and possibilities of our world. This feedback loop can be a “controlled failure” where we see what resonates and what not. References: no … Read more
Forgiveness practices Different approaches for respectful letting go, reconciliation and integration
The ability to achieve forgiveness and let go of past hurts is one of the most critical challenges many of us face on the road to attaining personal peace and inner balance. Forgiveness can be defined as the decision to let go of resentment, anger, and thoughts of revenge as a result of a real, or perceived offense, hurt, or wrongdoing against you. Forgiving someone does not mean denying a person's responsibility for hurting you, nor does it mean minimizing, or justifying the act. It does … Read more
Presenting your Project show your gifts and learn
Presenting your project is a great tool for many things: ● It helps you become more clear within yourself because you have to think about what you want to tell ● You can get great feedback from others and learn ● It is an important part in giving birth to your project: by talking the world starts to see it. So do it. This can be done in many ways (and is a fine art) here are some: ● create a poster (with premaid topics) and speak about that in front of one person, a group or an … Read more
