We offer short-term immersions, 5–20 days into villages and natural ecosystems.
Designed for those seeking meaningful connection to the Earth and grounded ways of living amid global uncertainty.
“I am because we are.”
Indigenous Worldviews
How can indigenous worldviews and cosmologies, encountered through oral histories and folk traditions, inspire us to breathe life into new, locally specific, and culturally rooted models within our own disciplines?
Ecological Symbiosis
How can we create an ecological symbiosis by living and learning from nature? What can we absorb from the living root structures, the ancient agroforestry, the foraging paths, and the survival rhythms of the teachers who walk beside us?
Regenerative Cultures
By immersing ourselves in the village life of communities that have stood steady for centuries and feeling the pulse of their living systems, how can we draw closer to the heart of deep ecology, regenerative cultures and circular design?
Reciprocity
How can a true loop of reciprocity be forged while learning traditional arts, craft, and building — holding space in a way that empowers local communities and protects beautiful, endangered crafts such as bamboo weaving, broom making, etc.?
Deep Listening
How can the practice of deep listening and quiet self-reflection awaken a sense of aliveness, helping us communicate with and design for the more-than-human world?
Holistic Way of Living
How do we translate a holistic way of living into life-enhancing, permaculture principles that shape our daily actions?
Some of the questions the program asks
- How can indigenous worldviews and cosmologies, encountered through oral histories and folk traditions, inspire us to breathe life into new, locally specific, and culturally rooted models within our own disciplines?
- How can we create an ecological symbiosis by living and learning from nature? What can we absorb from the living root structures, the ancient agroforestry, the foraging paths, and the survival rhythms of the teachers who walk beside us?
- By immersing ourselves in the village life of communities that have stood steady for centuries and feeling the pulse of their living systems, how can we draw closer to the heart of deep ecology, (Naess, Capra), regenerative cultures and circular design (Webster, Ellen MacArthur Foundation)?
- How can a true loop of reciprocity be forged while learning traditional arts, craft, and building—holding space in a way that empowers local communities and protects beautiful, endangered crafts? (bamboo weaving, broom making, fireside music sessions, and sustainable building techniques)
- How can the practice of deep listening and quiet self-reflection awaken a sense of aliveness (Weber), helping us communicate with and design for the more-than-human world?
- How do we translate a holistic way of living into life-enhancing, permaculture principles that shape our daily actions?