Communications & IT Director, GEN
GEN Staff, GEN Ambassador
Gabriel Siqueira is the Communications & IT Director, and Brazil’s National Representative on CASA Latina. He works mostly with the social dimension of ecovillages to support their resilience.
Gabriel co-founded and resided, with his wife and two children, in Aldeia: Coletivo de Famílias, an intentional sustainable community in the rainforest of the south of Bahia, Brazil. His Masters thesis on Administration was a research on how Brazilian ecovillages manage conflicts. He teaches courses, facilitate groups and mediate conflicts in intentional and traditional communities, as well as NGOs and businesses.
Primary interests: Social (Diversity & Cohesion, Trust & Communication, Leadership & Governance, Lifelong Education); Culture (Vision & Purpose); Integral Design (Whole Systems Thinking, Leading from the Future); Economy (Planetary Boundaries, Social Entrepreneurship)
Events & Trainings held by Gabriel Siqueira
Family at home in Bahia Summit Hub
- Date: 9 – 15 April 2021
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Location: Uruçuca, Bahia, Brazil
We’re a family of 4 living in a small traditional village in the south of Bahia, Brazil. Pandemic is crazy, so we will just stay home and participate in the summit together with our kids. … Read more
Ecovillage Summit
- Date: 9 – 15 April 2021
- Language:
- English
- Location: Findhorn Foundation Community and Ecovillage, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, Moray IV36 3TZ, IV36 3TZ, United Kingdom
The GEN Ecovillage Summit – Living Solutions for a Regenerative World is an entirely free, online experiences hosted by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and can be access from anywhere. The Ecovillage Summit invites you into a larger movement that is living solutions for a regenerative world. Join us now! … Read more
Family Hub in the South of Bahia
- Date: 2 – 10 February 2020
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Location: Serra Grande, Sul da Bahia, Brazil, Brazil
This is Just a family of 4 watching the summit together at home in the South of Bahia, Brazil … Read more
Family Hub in Florianopolis, SC
- Date: 1 – 2 February 2020
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Location: Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, Brazil
This is Just 3 generations of a family of 6 watching the summit together at home, in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil … Read more
Site content by Gabriel Siqueira
Blog posts
Aldeafeliz Building the New Normal! BNN: Building the New Normal series - powered by Friends of GEN
Every day ecovillages and communities around the world are building a more authentic, connected and regenerating way of life. They want this to be their normal, and rather than wait for the world to catch up, ecovillagers go ahead and build it themselves. They know in their hearts that it is not only possible - it is also destined to be. With the story below, we are launching a campaign to celebrate the many people seeded around the planet who are building their own “new normal” through the … Read more
Hildur Jackson Award 2020 finalist: TI Ecovillage, India A unique enclave originally on the outskirts of Bangalore
The TI Ecovillage in India is the finalist of the 2020 Hildur Jackson Award for Extraordinary Project. The Hildur Jackson Award is a €3,000 annual prize that supports and honours projects around the world that demonstrate regenerative best-practices in all dimensions of sustainability. The prize is awarded to projects bringing the most impactful inspiration about ecovillages/ecovillage lifestyles to a broad audience. In the 2020 edition, we received a record number of 70 applications of … Read more
Launch of Communities for Future, Free Online Webinar Tuesday 22nd September, 14:00-16:00 CEST
With the goal to strengthen collaboration between community-led initiatives and local authorities for regional sustainability, GEN has been leading the Ecovillage Transition in Action project in collaboration with partner organizations. This project will showcase lessons learned to scale up many of the strategies developed by communities. In support of this, ECOLISE is launching the Communities for Future programme which values and puts communities and citizens at the centre of the … Read more
Our Annual Report 2019 is here! How the Global Ecovillage Network is catalysing communities for a regenerative world
What matters the most is that the lands are healthy, the water is pure, the wind is free from viruses, and the human beings are at peace with themselves. - Calixto Suarez, Chief Elders of Arhuaco People, Colombia It is with great satisfaction that we release the Global Ecovillage Network Annual Report 2019. Our staff, partners, and members are diverse, creative, and driven by passion and commitment. We strive to ensure our projects and programmes are engaging, impactful, and contextually … Read more
GEN at COP25: 8 African Countries to scale up Ecovillage Development Programmes The Global Ecovillage Network signed agreements with 8 African Countries to scale up ecovillage development programmes in response to the Climate Emergency
Spain, Madrid – At the High Level Summit COP25, official negotiations were sticky and focussed on issues of carbon trade rather than the radical transformation of human presence on this planet that is so desperately needed. Whilst, the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) signed or deepened agreements with 8 African Countries for the implementation of ecovillage development programmes. Ministers of Environment from The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria and Burkina Faso signed … Read more
Giving Tuesday 2019: donate to GEN now We invite you to join this global campaing of generosity
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is thrilled to announce that we’re one of the thousands of organisations taking part in this year’s #GivingTuesday campaign, to be held on the 3rd of December. And you can help GEN to catalyze the power of community for a regenerative world. GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and every day. Support the Global Ecovillage Network, … Read more
2019 Hildur Jackson Award winner: ReScope Programme, Africa African educational programme wins annual prize from the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Trust
The ReScope Programme in Africa is the winner of the 2019 Hildur Jackson Award for Extraordinary Project. The Hildur Jackson Award is a €3,000 annual prize that supports and honours projects around the world that demonstrate regenerative best-practices in all dimensions of sustainability. In the 2019 edition, 32 ecovillages and sustainable projects from all over the world applied to the Hildur Jackson Award. The prize is awarded to projects bringing the most impactful inspiration about … Read more
Democratic Republic of Congo delivers its annual Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course
The GEN Democratic Republic of Congo network (GEN DRC) just delivered its annual Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course in Mingadi, approximately 1 hour outside Kinshasa. With the support of Vodacom, this two-week course provided training for 44 participants from 4 villages and was one of the first steps towards developing an ecovillage demonstration centre for the DRC. This event was the culmination of a very busy six months for GEN DRC and their lead organisation, Luc Lutala and his … Read more
London Climate Action Week’s Emerging from Emergency Urgency as a catalyst for action and regeneration
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is one of the key solutions at the London Climate Action Week roundtable “Emerging from Emergency: Urgency as a catalyst for action & regeneration”. On Thursday 4th July from 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM (BST), the Club of Rome will host this high-level Roundtable at Chatham House, “Emerging from Emergency“, on harnessing the momentum generated by the growing climate emergency narrative, to shift from mere declarations to action. The meeting will convene the … Read more
Our Annual Report 2018 is here! How the Global Ecovillage Network is responding to the state of Climate Emergency
We are proud to release the Global Ecovillage Network Annual Report 2018. Our staff, partners, and members are diverse, creative, and driven by passion and commitment. We strive to ensure our projects and programmes are engaging, impactful, and contextually relevant. When we reflect back on our accomplishments of 2018, we hope to ignite these qualities in our readers as well. Our annual report provides metrics, as we measure and track our progress and set new targets for the coming year. It … Read more
