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We enter into March with a sense of momentum, and you are invited to the launch party!
The online EDE begins this Saturday and many of our projects are taking off, bringing together inspiring minds from each region of the Global Ecovillage Network. Read on to discover more about Kincentric Leadership, find a podcast recommendation from the Ecovillage Resilience Project, explore the projects and events hosted by your region, join a GEN community of practice, and check out opportunities from our partners!
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Our Online EDE 2023 Begins This Saturday!
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You are warmly invited to attend our first EDE session to get a feeling of what the EDE learning journey is all about.
This first session will give an introduction to the concept, principles, and practices of ecovillages. We will talk about the history of the ecovillage movement and have an overview of the movement today.
You will also have the possibility to share with the other participants deeply about your own dreams or achievements in a lively atmosphere tinged with fun.
Register for the first session, for free!
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Youth in Action - Sprouts for the Future 🌱
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Transformative learning experiences for pupils, educators, and school communities in the field of ecological regeneration.
Building o the experience of the successful Twinning Regenerative Educators Project, we are excited to announce the launch of a new project that prioritizes ecologic solutions as a next step and implements suitable technologies based on the concrete needs of schools. Through a combination of a "learning-by-doing: approach and the support of dedicated experts, GEN will guide five schools from February 2023 to May 2024 in implementing ecological solutions on their school campuses, turning them into local demonstration sites, enabling transformative learning and opportunities for others to replicate similar projects.
Click here to read more about the full project journey and the schools involved. Stay tuned for more updates to be spotlighted in this newsletter as the project unfolds.
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Kincentric Leadership: Weaving humanity back into the web of life 🪶
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Our vision is a future in which everyone knows that we are part of an intelligent, living Erath.
The Kincentric Leadership Project aims to lay the foundations for a new paradigm of leadership grounded in kincentric ecology. The 18-month leadership programme, led by Anna Kovasna and Justine Huxley, draws on indigenous wisdom, science and nature connection.
Through public events, talks and workshops and in partnership with St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, we aim to ensure that leaders from all walks of life know in their bones that we are part of an intelligent, living Earth and have the ability to build kinship with all life into their responses to the polycrisis. We want to ensure those leading into the challenges ahead are ready to tackle root causes and to help to re-weave humanity back into the wider web of life.
Our vision is a future in which everyone knows that we are part of an intelligent, living Earth.
👀 Learn more about Kincentric Leadership and explore the project
⛰️ Join our next event: Rocky Mountain Retreat, 22 - 29th of May, 2023 at the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Centre in Colorado
📬 Join the mailing list for monthly updates related to Kincentic Leadership
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Ecovillage Resilience +2.5° Dives Deeper
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The Ecovillage Resilience +2.5° Project continues in its second year. In the coming months, all GEN Regions and 20 ecovillages from 19 countries are going deeper into exploring our communities as social-ecological systems, the local and global impacts of severe climate change, and the capacities we can nurture as individuals and communities to build inner and social resilience in the face of the polycrisis.
Come along on our journey...
We are currently listening to ‘A Web of Relationships’ with Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, and creating systems maps of our communities by hosting local workshops like this. Feel free to use it as a model for creating your own!
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Your contribution to the Global Ecovillage Network supports our mission to innovate, catalyze, educate and advocate in global partnership with ecovillages and all those dedicated to the shift to a regenerative world. Your donation is a vital contribution to our international community.
Thank you for your support!
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Join Casa Latina TOMORROW March 3rd 🌳
In this webinar, we will share what happened in El Llamado de la Selva and we will also delve into the Peace Sanctuaries Program and the Regenerative Natural Reserves Project, and the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth in Argentina.
Theme: The Call of the Jungle – Harvest Meeting Webinar
Day: Friday, March 3, 2023, at 07:00 p.m. ARG/CHI | 05:00 pm COL/ECU / PE | 04:00 pm MEX
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Online Screening and Live Q&A with GEN Ukraine
"The Green Road Project: a home away from home" takes us on a tour of Ukraine, where the president of GEN Ukraine Maksym Zalevskyi together with a team of volunteers visit eco-communities that host people who have had to leave their homes in the cities. Thanks to the "Green Road" project, more than 3,000 people have found a new home in Ukrainian eco-communities during the war. In the film, you can meet some of those who were forced to leave their homes and create a new life for themselves.
Join members of GEN Ukraine, who will tell their experience of the Green Road firsthand on March 9th, 19:00 CET.
Watch the trailer here and register to join the screening and meet GEN Ukraine here.
The event is free, but participants are warmly invited to make a donation to GEN Ukraine to support their vital work - find out how here.
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Last chance for Early Bird Tickets for the European Ecovillage Gathering
Reduced-price early bird tickets for the European Ecovillage Gathering are on sale until March 15th! The Gathering is an essential festival for anyone curious about ecovillages and community living.
This year's event will take place in the magical surroundings of Nature Community, Germany, from 12-17 July. Infused with Nature community’s values of love trust and cooperation, as well as space for more of us to celebrate together, this year’s gathering will be one not to miss!
🦋 Theme: TOGETHER IN A CHANGING WORLD
🦋Find out more and book by March 15th for the best price at the Gathering website.
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Financial Literacy for Communities | Exploring the needs and co-creating resources
Join GENOA Tuesday March 28th for a stimulating conversation around finance with the vision of creating financially intelligent ecovillages and regenerative communities. We want to hear from you, your needs, your strength, and your experience with finance to explore creating learning resources that could meet the needs of communities, helping them to become enterprising, prosperous, and abundant. Join us with an open mind and willingness to share.
The call will be a collaborative space supported by Anil Lamba, a renowned speaker, and trainer in finance management with the mission of bringing financial intelligence for free to at least 1 billion people.
Tuesday, March 28th 2023 at 9.30AM - 11.30AM IST (UTC+5.5) (check your local time)
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The Ecovillage Exchange project connected five young people from Senegal with five young people from Germany to share their knowledge about ecology and social justice, while diving into each other's cultures. This collaboration between GEN Africa and GEN Europe will continue through the creation of a website for the young people who participated to share their reflections about the experience.
Stay tuned for updates and the website launch which will be shared here and on social media.
👣 Follow GEN Africa, GEN Europe & GEN International
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GEN's Communities of Practice (CoP) Continues!
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The next GEN Communities of Practice gathering will take place on April 18th, 2023 at 1 PM UTC!
Register to join below and join in the conversations about sociocracy, ecosystem restoration, prosocial and conflict resolution, ecovillage education, economic resilience, and more!
You are invited to join the Forum for Communities of Practice at GEN by creating an account here: https://forum.gen-europe.org/c/communities-of-practice/25.
Introduce yourself and join a conversation that interests you or establish your own! We encourage you to use this platform to connect and engage with the work of the Global Ecovillage Network.
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The Ecosystem Restoration Design course is back, new and improved for 2023!
Gaia Education's Ecosystem Restoration Design Course (ERD) is a self-paced course, where you can choose which modules you want to take and when giving you the flexibility and the advantage of learning according to your availability. In this course, you will learn some key ecosystem restoration concepts and approaches and it will give you the encouragement and valuable knowledge that you need to develop your own restoration plans, helping you to become an ecosystem restoration practitioner.
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The IMPETUS EU project is launching its first Open Call, offering grants, prizes and a set of supporting tools to new and continuing citizen science projects. In this 1st Open Call, IMPETUS is looking for innovative and creative projects, focusing on the topics of a Healthy Planet and Cities for Life.
The open call closes at 12:00 noon CET on 13 March 2022.
Individuals, legal entities and consortia established in a country or territory eligible to receive Horizon Europe grants (see this list for details) can apply to this call.
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