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Gabriel Siqueira

GEN Staff

Communications Director

GEN Staff, GEN Ambassador

Gabriel Siqueira is the Communications Director of GEN International, and Brazil’s National Representative on CASA Latina. He teaches courses, facilitate groups and mediate conflicts in intentional and traditional communities, as well as NGOs and businesses. His Masters thesis on Administration was a research on how Brazilian ecovillages manage conflicts.

Gabriel Siqueira is the Communications Director of GEN International, 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

GEN Elders & NextGEN Firechats

Blog
February 10, 2022

The spirit of our ecovillage network  comes alive through collective learning and community building. In 2021, the members of NextGEN, the youth branch of the ecovillage network, set out to host virtual fireside chats together with the GEN Elders to celebrate this spirit. These calls were  a space to nurture and expand our intergenerational connections at the heart of GEN (Global Ecovillage Network), and to bridge the past, present and future of the ecovillage network. The youth … Read more

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Elders, NextGEN

Hildur Jackson Award 2021 winner: Global Permayouth Project

Blog
October 7, 2021

The Global Permayouth Project is the winner of the 2021 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 2021 edition we have received outstanding 25 applications from 18 … Read more

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africa, Europe, Hildur Jackson Award, Latin America, Oceania & Asia, Video

Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) is a success! Celebrating with you the first EDE live Online Programme!

Blog
August 27, 2021

Celebrating with you the first Ecovillage Design Education LIVE Online Programme - according to the Gaia Education curriculum - which turned out to be a great success. The next offering will start on 12 March 2022, running on Saturdays for 4.5 months. Coordinated and facilitated by two experienced EDE trainers: Taisa Mattos and Macaco Tamerice, with well-known guest trainers from the Ecovillage Movement, from 14 different countries, including some of the GEESE, such as: Kosha Joubert, May … Read more

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Dimensions of Sustainability, education, intentional communities, sustainability

Eco-community in Vietnam Building the New Normal!

Blog
August 11, 2021

Today we unite for a celebration of generosity, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform the world. Xóm Bắc Cầu, Vietnam This is the story of Émilie, who, together with architect Franscesco and teacher Hieu and many other volunteers, has given life to Xóm Bắc Cầu to spread sustainable community living in Vietnam. It is a powerful story, especially when realizing that Émilie at the same time is confronting a genetic disease that weakens her veins. Before going back to … Read more

Filed Under: General

Aldeafeliz Building the New Normal! BNN: Building the New Normal series - powered by Friends of GEN

Blog
October 15, 2020

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 very … Read more

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Latin America, Personal stories

Hildur Jackson Award 2020 finalist: TI Ecovillage, India A unique enclave originally on the outskirts of Bangalore

Blog
October 15, 2020

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Hildur Jackson Award, Oceania & Asia, Permaculture, Personal stories, sustainability, urban ecovillages, Video

Launch of Communities for Future, Free Online Webinar Tuesday 22nd September, 14:00-16:00 CEST

Blog
September 17, 2020

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: education, Europe, Webinar

Our Annual Report 2019 is here! How the Global Ecovillage Network is catalysing communities for a regenerative world

Blog
June 8, 2020

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Advocacy, Africa, Annual Report, Board, Consultancy, Dimensions of Sustainability, education, Europe, Latin America, NextGEN, North America, Oceania & Asia, Report, sustainability, traditional communities, urban ecovillages

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

Blog
December 20, 2019

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Advocacy, Africa, Conference, Gambia, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Giving Tuesday 2019: donate to GEN now We invite you to join this global campaing of generosity

Blog
December 3, 2019

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: economy, gift economy, sustainability

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  • Country

    : Brazil
  • GEN Region

    :
    • CASA
  • Languages spoken

    :
    • English
    • German
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
  • Websites

    :
    • Shine a Light Consultancies
    • Irradiando Luz
  • Associated project

    :
    • Comunidade Aldeia – Terra Preta
  • Projects visited

    :
    • Fundação Terra Mirim
    • INKIRI COMMUNITY – PIRACANGA ECOVILLAGE, BAHIA – BRAZIL.
    • Instituto Biorregional do Cerrado –
    • Instituto ÇaraKura
    • Parque Visao Futuro
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