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Living Change Program

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Location: Peru

Living Change: Crafting Leaders for the Emerging Future. Be part of our summer program this August 2015! We are a leadership program aiming to inspire & empower the next generation of leaders looking to create positive change. Learn to take leadership of our lives, in our communities, and how to bring that practical knowledge home with hands on understanding of local and global sustainability. We aim to send out more empowered, conscious, young leaders into the world for co-creating … Read more

Prácticas de Comunicación Profunda

Date: 11 April 2015
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Location: EcoAldea de Valdepiélagos, Comunidad de Madrid, España, Spain

Por Mar y Víctor Fecha. Domingo 12 de abril de 2015 Horario: 11 a 14 y de 16 a 19 horas. Aportación: 20 euros o Moras (moneda social), para el taller, sala y sostenibilidad Opción de comida vegana: 10 euros o Moras (moneda social). Puedes traer tu comida. Lugar: Rincón de los Sueños. Calle Ecoaldea, 1. Valdepiélagos Contacta con nosotr@s: [email protected] +34 918 416 045 Sobre el taller: Reflexionaremos sobre campos grupales, roles y rangos, y herramientas prácticas … Read more

Big Changes in Communities magazine! Now All-Color + 100% Recycled Paper! - Plus Spring Issue "Community for Baby Boomers"

December 30, 2014

Big Changes in Communities! We’re excited to announce two major changes in Communities magazine, starting with our Spring 2015 issue. Fulfilling a long-held dream of better aligning our production process with our ecological values, Communities is now printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Not a single tree fell to produce our new issue of Communities. We are thrilled to be using this beautiful matte-finish recycled paper from our new printer, Ovid Bell Press, and to be … Read more

Japan’s AS-ONE Community: The Story of a 14-Year Community Creation Process

December 29, 2014

In 2001, some volunteers gathered in Suzuka, Japan, aiming to realize a happy society free from fighting and opposition, in harmony with nature. A borderless community named “AS-ONE COMMUNITY” has been created in an ordinary neighborhood of Suzuka, a typical middle-size city and also well known as a city of the Honda company. Hiroko Katayama, GEN ambassador reports. The name ‘AS-ONE’ was taken from a line of John Lennon’s masterpiece Imagine, ‘and the world will be as one'. Nowadays, 38 core … Read more

100 Million Nanonations the emerging cultural evolution

November 20, 2014

A superstition is an easy-to-understand concept that has no basis in reality. Believing a superstition blocks the perception of more useful possibilities. But superstitions are not called superstitions until they are recognized as superstitions. Before then they are regarded as the truth. A superstition that participants in modern culture have not yet identified as a superstition is “the nation-state.” This superstition became popular in the 1800s as a win-lose game (“If you get the resources … Read more

National Cohousing Conference 2015

Date: 28 – 30 May 2015
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Location: Durham Convention Center - Durham, NC, United States

This Year's Conference promises an amazing lineup of offerings, from innovative approaches to developing new and affordable communities, to potent ways to enhance our vibrant communities. We will cover cohousing basics as well as hot topics in sustainability, community building, and the evolving definition of cohousing. Our “next generation theme” will explore the new wave of urban, senior and agricultural communities, check-in with our now-adult children of cohousing, and celebrate … Read more

Communities Conference in VA

Date: 3 – 6 September 2015
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Location: Twin Oaks Community - Louisa, 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

Taller de Comunicación Noviolenta

Date: 10 October 2014
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Location: Spain

Comunicación profunda y noviolenta y Preparación de comida vegana Por Mar de la Rosa Fecha: Sábado 11 de octubre, de 11 a 14 horas y de 16 a 19 horas Coste: 10 E Comida vegana: 8 E. Se puede asistir antes del taller a la preparación de la comida. Puedes traerte tu comida Ayudaremos a compartir coche entre los participantes. Si quieres meditar o hacer yoga con nosotros , comenzaremos a las 8:30, no hay que pagar por esta actividad. Hay con nosotros varias voluntarias extranjeras … Read more

Dragon Dreaming & Permaculture

Date: 14 – 23 August 2014
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Location: Slovenia

First weekend intorducton to Dragon Dreaming, douring the week permaculture camp for families, weekend that folow going deep in Dragon Dreaming what complet basic education of Dragon Dreaming. We will build comunity for 5 days using Dragon Ddreaming tools on permaculture camp on larger permaculture farm. [email protected] … Read more

Next Culture Initiatory Processes What is your next adulthood initiation?

July 14, 2014

Watch this silent video (7:08). Read every word. See how many of the initiations you have heard of before. How many have you never heard of before? Just because you do not know a thing does not mean that thing is not seriously undermining your life. What is your next initiation? How can you get it for yourself? Think of how many people in positions of power (government, special forces, secret agencies, advertising and news media, church, military, corporations, medicine, university) are … Read more

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