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Gabriel Siqueira

GEN Staff

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. 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 & 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 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

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 … 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

2019 Hildur Jackson Award winner: ReScope Programme, Africa African educational programme wins annual prize from the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Trust

Blog
October 7, 2019

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africa, Dimensions of Sustainability, economy, education, Hildur Jackson Award, rural development, sustainability, traditional communities, Video

Democratic Republic of Congo delivers its annual Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course

Blog
July 22, 2019

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africa, Consultancy, Democratic Republic of Congo, education, Permaculture, sustainability

London Climate Action Week’s Emerging from Emergency Urgency as a catalyst for action and regeneration

Blog
July 4, 2019

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

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Advocacy, Europe, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Our Annual Report 2018 is here! How the Global Ecovillage Network is responding to the state of Climate Emergency

Blog
July 1, 2019

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

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

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More about Gabriel

  • 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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