Earthaven Education Archives - Page 7 of 13

Black Lives Matter – Resources to Heal our Communities

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 10, 2020. Posted in Articles, Culture Restoration, Social Justice. No Comments on Black Lives Matter – Resources to Heal our Communities

Dear Earthaven Family, Awareness is at the core of community. Usually we write to you with inspiration to deepen connections to each other and the natural world. As a predominantly white community, we write to you today with a different awareness: Of our privilege, of the structures of institutionalized...

Converging Paths: the Carbon Harvest Program

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on February 4, 2020. Posted in Articles, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Converging Paths: the Carbon Harvest Program

Have you ever heard of carbon trading or carbon markets? In our Converging Paths segment, we’ll learn about a fresh new take on this idea that will empower individuals, organizations, and farmers in Western North Carolina to take a different kind of environmental action. Co-operate WNC—a regional...

Lessons from a Life in Community with Lee Warren

Written by Debbie on January 26, 2020. Posted in Culture Restoration, Earthaven Education, Podcast. No Comments on Lessons from a Life in Community with Lee Warren

Earthaven Ecovillage Podcast Lessons from a Life in Community with Lee Warren Broadcast December 26, 2020Featuring: Lee Warren, Sara Carter In this episode, Earthaven member and School of Integrated Living co-founder Lee Warren shares what she has learned living in community for 27 years. Lee ...

Celebrating the 2nd Annual Compassion Camp at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 20, 2019. Posted in Conscious Relating, Fun and Play, In-Person Events. No Comments on Celebrating the 2nd Annual Compassion Camp at Earthaven

Over 100 people passionate about living and promoting compassionate consciousness gathered in August to learn, play, and celebrate together. It was a wonderful weekend full of life… smiles, tears, dancing, deep connections, new friendships, and wonderment filled the village. If you weren’t...

Legal at Last

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 11, 2019. Posted in Articles, Governance and Legal, Membership, Neighborhoods. No Comments on Legal at Last

By Diana Leafe Christian If you see us smiling broadly these days, it’s because in January 2019 we finally finished our legal restructuring process, underway since we learned the severity of our financial/legal structure issues in 2010. Now every Earthaven member and our entire 329-acre mountain...

25 Ways To Build Community In Your Neighborhood

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 2, 2019. Posted in Articles, People Care, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on 25 Ways To Build Community In Your Neighborhood

Do you long for community? Do you want to live in a place where kids play together in front yards and adults hang out on front porches? Well, you can, starting with where you live right now. You don’t have to live in an intentional community to have community. Community isn’t the sort of...

Celebrating the Third Biennial Restorative Circles Conference

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 5, 2019. Posted in Conscious Relating, Earthaven Education, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Celebrating the Third Biennial Restorative Circles Conference

July’s Restorative Circles (RC) Conference hosted by Culture’s Edge at Earthaven brought together about 30 Restorative Justice and Nonviolent Communication practitioners from around the world to strengthen the network of resources for deep, global societal change, starting with right...

Steve Torma on the Value of Compassion

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 3, 2019. Posted in Conscious Relating, Earthaven Education, In-Person Events. No Comments on Steve Torma on the Value of Compassion

Steve Torma laughs when he remembers his first exposure to nonviolent communication (NVC), the system of compassionate human relations developed by psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. As a fresh-faced 25-year-old at the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, he attended exactly one afternoon...

Torrential Rains!

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 25, 2018. Posted in Articles, Nature, Village Life. No Comments on Torrential Rains!

The rains have been torrential this Summer and early Fall. Storms lasted days, even without coastal hurricanes carrying heavy winds this far inland. The ground was soggy and remained puddled for days. The creeks were often full and galloping. One day, state roads in two out of three directions from...