ReGEN4ALL Colloquium 6: Ecovillage Impact Dec 14th at 11am UTC / 12pm CETRegistrations: https://tinyurl.com/3a4dse45Explore Ecovillage Impact with the ReGEN4All project team! The sixth and final colloquium will bring light to the impact of Ecovillages in different fields and scales. Steffen Emrich (gASTWERKe, GEN Europe); Rebeca Roysen (EVIST project - University of Basel) and Margarita Hamatsu (Adventures for Students) will share their experiences and explore questions such as:🔎 What … Read more
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Regenerative Educators Cross Pollinate Updates from the Community of Practice
This month’s Sprouts project opened the space to the wider Community of Practice and held a Regenerative Educators Cross Pollination session, a kind of reunion with our previous collaborators, with a vision to create more future collaborations.The updates from across the globe were incredibly inspiring. We learned from our partners that:In Colombia, the Minga work for food sovereignty continues. (A Minga is system of reciprocity where people come together to work towards a beneficial goal.) The … Read more
Resilience Tracker Tool Release! The Resilience Attribute Tracker is getting it’s final polish and will be released into 20 ecovillages!
The Resilience Attribute Tracker is getting it’s final polish and will be released into 20 ecovillages this week! This survey tool for assessing social-ecological resilience and monitoring change over time was co-developed by all participants of this project from each of the five regions.Resilience attributes refer to the features of a system that contribute to its general resilience and capacity to respond to a range of possible disturbances, stresses and shocks. We explored six key resilience … Read more
ReGEN4ALL Upcoming Community Events! ReGEN4ALL Events
November is generating lots of exciting community events and tools for the network! You can join the ReGEN4All team as they embark on their 5th Colloquium: Ecovillage Education & Research on November 15th at 19h UTC or tune in to learn more about the launching of the ReGEN4ALL E-Community Platform a space to promote your community events, share research findings, and more. The fifth colloquium will reflect on Ecovillage education and how academic research can both inform educational … Read more
GEN at COP28
The Global Ecovillage Network is excited to host four events at this year's COP28. Bookmark this page and come back when we get closer to the date to register and get the weblinks for each event.For the first year, UNESCO & the UN are launching a Greening Education Hub. We are delighted to join with two events exploring the ecovillage approach to regenerative education and climate action. Greening Education Pavilion | UNESCO's Greening Education PartnershipCreating Community Resiliency to … Read more
Youth in Action: Navigating Challenges
With last month’s launch of the local projects, this month the Community of Practice held space for navigating any challenges that arose. It was important for the education practitioners to first celebrate the momentum generated from all the planning and weaving in of the school communities. And then, we took a step back to face head on anything that was or could be blocking the biggest impact we dreamed of. This is where the beauty of Community of Practice is revealed: no matter what one of the … Read more
ReGEN4All: Ecovillages and the Commons
Join GEN for the fourth Colloquium of the ReGEN4ALL project on October 26th at 19 CEST as we address the topic Ecovillages and the Commons.In recent years, people have been working around the world to develop sustainable and equitable ways of managing resources outside of the established paradigms of Market and State. This vibrant movement has been called "The Revival of the Commons", and ecovillages are among the social and ecological innovations to take part in this conversation. In this … Read more
Community Resilience Tools What can ecovillages nurture today to be more resilient tomorrow?
This month the Ecovillage Resilience community of practice is starting to develop a new tool for all kinds of local communities to understand, track, and nurture their resilience. The tool will be a mix of what we're learning about resilience from our network and the latest research into attributes of resilience in all kinds of systems. To take a look at some of the background research, explore the resources below. The tool will be ready and available for everyone to use at the start of 2024.📃 … Read more
Youth in Action: Local Projects have Launched After months of framing, planning, and engaging their local communities, the physical results of the hands-on ecological projects are now shaping up!
Read on to learn how each Local Project is developing, and how you can get involved with GEN's work with regenerative educators. 🍕 At the Self-Directed Learning Center at Kuthumba Ecovillage, South Africa, a ceremony was held to open the site for the new community space which received a lot of excitement and created momentum. The main foundation for the open-air structure with a roof, natural walls, and pizza oven has begun.🐉 At the School Garden in Mongenegro, the initial design ideas for … Read more
Kincentric Leadership October Updates Celebrating the Findhorn Ecovillage Retreat; More than Human Community
We are celebrating the completion of our third Kincentric Leadership retreat! We welcome you to join us in celebrating the Kincentric Leadership project as 20 new people enter the programme through the third Kincentric Leadership retreat, in Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland.A powerful group of changemakers committed to leading from a deep sense of kinship with all life gathered from September 9th to 16th at Findhorn Ecovillage to explore themes and topics related to re-establishing and living in … Read more
