Dearest Global Community,
As we enter into a new cycle, as marked by the Gregorian calendar, the cracks continue to deepen. Through them, the light of human compassion shines out. In the early days of 2024, those of us who subject ourselves to the woes of the world are heaped with heaviness, with moments of triumph, and with moments of joy. As wisdom keeper, Joanna Macy says, "The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world."
While the Global Ecovillage Network leans into solutions, the individuals and communities that create this network are comprised of activists and peace workers. Thank you for the collective work to right to wrongs of our colonial and capitalistic-driven "leaders".
As we embark on another year of catalyzing community and sharing the work of the movement, we continue to offer updates and tools from our projects, regions, and partners. We welcome you to help weave the story of the network by letting us know what you would like to see more of in 2024.
"This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don't be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings." - Joanna Macy, Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World.
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Ecovillage Resilience +2.5 is in its final phase and we look forward to sharing the data and case studies collected over the past 2 years! While we prepare the final deliverables, explore what will serve your community and learn more about one of our partners.
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We are proud to announce that we have received funding for a new project, Keystone Communities- Sustaining Life through polycrisis, a continuation, widening, and deepening of our Ecovillage Resilience Project.
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The Kincentric Leadership project ended 2023 with an in-person retreat at Auroville in India. The journey of inquiry welcomed multiple intelligences from our world both within and without, exploring what it means to step into Kincentric leadership. Read on to meet our guest speakers and explore the wisdom they carry.
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“You can not solve a problem with the same mind that created it”
-Albert Einstein
Register for the Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course now and join us in April for this 4 month, transformational course, taught and facilitated by some of the world's greatest changemakers.
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We’re delighted to take our Regenerative Educators work to the next level by offering an online Practitioners Training, starting on March 6th 2024.
This training is for those who wish to develop and enhance their skills in midwifing a new paradigm of education. Offered live online, the 12-session, weekly journey navigates the path of how to support young people, inside and out of the classroom, to step into their roles of reshaping a regenerative future.
Find out more and add your expression of interest to our pre-registration form here.
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You are invited to reconnect with GENOA this Thursday, January 11th for the first community call of 2024. The call will welcome the EVIST (Ecovillages as Incubators for Sustainability Transitions) team at the University of Basel to share firsthand survey findings on the diffusion of sustainable practices from ecovillages to their locality and how such diffusion varies between ecovillages in the Global North and Global South.
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It's here! CASA Colombia will soon be gathering for the 17th Kunagua Mountain Call 2024 from January 11 to 14 in Silvania, Cundinamarca, Colombia to celebrating Sumapaz and the ecovillages and sustainable settlements in Colombia.
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In collaboration with Llamado de la Montaña, CASA will be showing the documentary Alter Nativas on Friday the 12th of January at 18h Columbian Time.
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GEN Europe is seeking a part-time communications manager to join their small and friendly team!
🔎 For full details on the role and application process, visit this page. The deadline for applications is January 14th.
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Join us as we launch and bless, “From Ubuntu to Kapwa" project, a conscious food systems incubator grantee from the Conscious Food Systems Alliance convened by the UNDP. Our goal is to develop a “deep design” from the edges, as a south to south exchange across 3 countries that share narratives in climate and conflict vulnerability - Cameroon, Philippines, and Colombia.
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Learn more about From Ubuntu to Kapwa project, an initiative from Better World Cameroon in Cameroon, Living Story Landscapes in the Philippines, and Alianzas para la Abundancia in Colombia and read the full story here.
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In Collaboration with Gaia Education, GENNA will be co-sponsoring a mini-EDE & Training of Trainers (TOT) in Tulum, Mexico in March. Stay tuned, we will be releasing more information on social and in the February newsletter.
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Join our friends at FIC and sociology researcher Lasse Kos to explore the impact of ecovillages worldwide, via a presentation on the results of the largest global survey on ecovillages on Thursday, January 25, 2024.
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Join our friends at Gaia Education for a live webinar session with Ross Jackson, founding member of Gaia Education and the Global Ecovillage Network, to talk about his new book - THE BAD NEWS & THE GOOD NEWS: The Economics of Collapse and The Birth of a Regenerative Society.
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The Sociocracy For All Academy 6-month program starts in February 2024! Are you ready to dive deep into sociocracy? Do you want to be certified as a sociocracy facilitator and spend more time with others who are also sociocracy learners and enthusiasts? Learn more & Register
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