Envisioning an alternative future scenario requires a clear understanding of the past and present from both a data-driven perspective as well as within our social and emotional capacities. When developing strategic pathways forward, the Resilience Community of Practice used the Three Horizon's Approach to write the story of our positive future, exploring the pathways needed to get there. (If you missed our July update you can learn more about the process here!) Storyboards helped to … Read more
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Deepen Your Kincentric Practice
Join us for an online or in-person event to learn with leading practitioners, facilitators, thinkers, and peers in Kincentric leadership and deepen your kincentric practice. While our weeklong retreats in 2023 require an application and are part of our pilot Kincentric leadership programme, we also regularly host open events online. You can find our upcoming retreats and workshops here: https://www.kincentricleadership.org/events. Immersive retreats The 4 retreats are entry … Read more
Ecovillage Cards for Kids NOW AVAILABLE! We’ve added a new tool to our sustainability education collection, specifically developed for educators and youth!
We bring you an exciting update from our 2022 Twinning Regenerative Educators Project promoting sustainability education. To complement our versatile and well-utilised ecovillage design cards, we’ve added a new addition to our sustainability education collection, specifically developed for educators and youth. To celebrate launching this new resource, we are delighted to offer 50% off for the next week (until 18 August). ⚡ Check them out in our online store … Read more
Kincentric Leadership August Updates Celebrating the Devon Retreat; Sound, Silence and deep listening with the more than human world
We are celebrating the completion of our second Kincentric leadership retreat! We welcome you to join us in sending the Kincentric Leadership team celebratory love showers after the completion of the second Kincentric Leadership retreat, in Devon, UK. A powerful group of changemakers committed to leading from a deep sense of kinship with all life gathered from July 14th to July 20th at Sharpham House to explore sound, silence, and deep listening with the more-than-human world. The … Read more
Our experience in the EDE 2023 Reflections from the support team, Jule, Mari, & Rubén
In the current context of ecological emergency and huge social inequalities, it is more important than ever to support education for the design and promotion of sustainable communities that generate solutions integrating the 4 dimensions of regeneration. This year’s EDE offered exactly such an educational journey and was characterised by a diverse range of guest speakers with an abundance of knowledge and experience to share. The journey was a deep dive into the ecovillage approach, including … Read more
GEN International Celebrates Global Connection
Our team GEN International is feeling ABUNDANT after a week of in-person meetings at the European Ecovillage Gathering! After many years of online cross-continental relationship building, we can not begin to describe the delight of meeting each other in person. The GEN International team was able to undergo transformative shadow and healing work, synchronize global strategy efforts, and most importantly hug each other! Here are a few statistics to showcase the international representation … Read more
July Updates from REGEN4ALL
The ReGEN4All project works to make the knowledge gained within and through ecovillages more accessible both for research and policy decisions on sustainable lifestyles and living environments. The project partners are GEN Europe (represented by GEN Research), ISCTE-IUL (Center for International Studies / University Institute of Lisbon), ECOLISE and LOES, the Danish Ecovillage Network. The past three years of the COVID-19 crisis and its resulting societal disruption have underscored the … Read more
July Updates from Youth In Action – Sprouts for the Future
Before hands get in the soil and feet in the clay, as part of the Youth in Action local projects, the Community of Practice zoomed out to understand the impacts they want the project to make both individually and collectively. This means that before doing any local implementation, they want to first understand their evaluation metrics and then baseline measurements. They paused to reflect on what the desired ecological, community, and educational results would be - and how these can be … Read more
July Updates from Ecovillage Resilience +2.5°
In June, the 20-ecovillage-strong Ecovillage Resilience Community of Practice turned a new leaf in the project, as they entered the phase which will focus on visions and pathways for the future. They will explore how to navigate toward the desired reality, despite the challenges we face. After several months of collectively diving deep into the thresholds of potential concern, taking the time to understand the impacts of climate change and polycrisis, the Ecovillage Resilience project … Read more
July Updates from the Kincentric Leadership Project
We've been blown away by the enthusiasm for the Kincentric Leadership Programme. The programme got off to a great start in the Rocky Mountains recently, and our second retreat is coming up soon in Devon, UK. Applications are still open for the retreats in Findhorn and in India - learn more here. As we won't be able to take everyone, and it doesn't feel good turning amazing people away, we'll also be hosting an online version of the Kincentric Leadership programme next year, which will be … Read more
