Events - Global Ecovillage Network

One World Bearing Witness

Date: 2 – 3 December 2017
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Location: India

You are invited – and you are needed – to participate in One World Bearing Witness, a free 24-hour global ritual designed to take a step toward healing our divided humanity and the destruction of our Earth. For 24-hours, from December 2nd to 3rd, using the latest videoconferencing technology, you can participate in a live, virtual ritual space that will enable you and thousands of like-minded people around the globe to bear witness to Unity and wholeness in the face of the historical wrongs that … Read more

Reveal Your Inner Sun! Self Care & Wellbeing tools: Learning how to honor our bodies, minds and spirits in the midst of a challenging life

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Health & Healing
- Culture
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
  - Wisdom & Innovation

Connecting to our own beings, seeing our inner light, keeping the hope for a better future, realizing and seeing every day as a new beginning and a new hope is the aspiration. Creating a healthy, safe and hopeful community that believes in peace, justice and equality is how we envision the solution to this challenge through taking people in a journey of self discovery to see their new way of being in creating a new future, based on values of inner freedom, love, and bliss, because that’s who … 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

DREAMWORK An effective social technology to build community, practice deep democracy and empower individuals and groups

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Health & Healing
  - Leadership & Governance
  - Trust & Communication
- Culture
  - Art & Celebration
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
  - Nature Connection
  - Vision & Purpose
  - Wisdom & Innovation
- Integral Design
  - Leading from the Future

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

Achieving the Paris Agreement

Date: 11 November 2017
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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

Experience week in Los Portales, Spain

Date: 2 – 9 February 2020
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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

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

Collective Wisdom How the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
- Culture
  - Wisdom & Innovation
Stage:
- Opening to the Unexpected

We need to reinstate meaningful conversations at every level of society. We need to learn how to creatively express our individual diversity and potential, without attachment to being right, contributing our piece to the jigsaw puzzle of life. We start listening for new connections and winwinwin outcomes instead of holding onto knowledge we already have. References: ● Briskin, Alan, Sheryl Erickson, John Ott, and Tom Callanan. The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective … Read more

Attunement Bringing a group together consciously at the beginning and end of meetings, aligned to the highest purpose.

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
- Culture
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
  - Wisdom & Innovation
Stage:
- Facing the Dark Night

Taking a minute or two at the beginning of the meeting, either in silence with a few words of guidance offered by the facilitator, to pause and notice that we are in a new space; to consciously connect with the others with whom we are meeting; and to clearly connect with the overarching purpose of the meeting, can radically transform the experience of the meeting. A similar process can be undertaken at the end of the meeting, to bring it to conscious … Read more

Political Influencing Engaging in political reality so that what we think is right and needs to be done actually happens.

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Leadership & Governance
- Culture
  - Wisdom & Innovation
Stage:
- Daring to Act

To become effective we need to understand how power operates, e.g. how decisions are actually made, how to build alliances and coalitions and how to sense the right moment to act. We need to give up the wish to be popular and understood by everyone. We need to surrender our naivety and be willing to take difficult decisions. In essence, to act ‘politically’. References: ● Exercise: Political Influencing (to be linked) ● … Read more

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