Harvesting Global Wisdom for GEN Africa
Day One: July 14 2026 – 14:30 to 16:30
Given the current revitalization of GEN Africa, this workshop is more than a presentation; it is a strategic bridge-building session designed in three parts:
- Part 1: Living Seeds (The “What”): Presenting specific case studies of African ecovillage resilience and social technology.
- Part 2: Wisdom Harvest (The “How”): Harvesting European (or global) expertise that can inspire and support the current transition of GEN Africa.
- Part 3: The Exchange Map (The “Action”): Mapping out concrete volunteer paths and ways for the European network to stay involved.
This session is a rare opportunity to move to active partnership between our regions
An Experiential Journey into Community Trust
Day One: July 14 2026 – 11:30 to 13:00
In this experiential workshop, we explore how to build a culture of trust as the foundation for resilient, thriving communities. Through constellation work, embodied practices, and inquiry, we bring principles like transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability into lived experience. We’ll engage with both visible and invisible dynamics—drawing on the wisdom of land, ancestors, and group field—to support decision-making and deeper connection. Together, we explore how to balance individual needs with collective purpose, creating a space where trust, belonging, and shared direction can be felt and embodied.
Power, rank and privilege
Day Two: July 15 2026 – 11:30 to 13:00
Power issues are often a source of tension in non-hierarchical communities. Although we all aim to cooperate as equals, unconscious power dynamics exist. Gender, money, capacites, influence, self-worth, skills – we are not all the same. How can we consciously deal with these differences in a way that empowers everyone and allows each person’s valuable contribution to be recognized?
Process Work, developed by Arnold Mindell, offers valuable insights – and we will also work with concrete examples from community life.
From anti-oppression to Liberation for All
Day Two: July 15 2026 – 14:30 to 16:30
Our premise is that we can engage with power differences without reproducing the deep patterns of separation from which social divisions arise. We intend to both offer a framework and engage with practical questions such as:
- How can we maintain care, humility, and vulnerability regardless of where we are on the power map of the world
- How do we transform denial, guilt, shame, defensiveness, and entitlement in relation to privilege?
- How do we empower ourselves to speak up with care for everyone’s dignity when we experience impacts?
Beyond relying on the sum of our individual capacities, what might be collective approaches to tend to the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be?
MIKI KASHTAN &
SANDRA BEDIGIS
Nonviolent Global
Liberation Community
Workshop Holder Bio
Dare to Trust the Community School as a Living Lab
Day Three: July 16 2026 – 11:30 to 13:00
This mini‑training explores how Processwork (Deep Democracy) helps navigate shared leadership, identity shifts, rank dynamics, and critical moments such as pandemic responses and economic challenges in the Damanhur Community School.
This workshop blends stories from six years of guiding the school through crisis with experiential practice, so participants can apply these systemic lenses to their own schools, ecovillages, or community projects.
Regenerative education & parenting in community
Day Three: July 16 2026 – 14:30 to 16:30
This workshop highlights the diversity of practices and approaches in regenerative education. It offers a space to explore the interconnectedness and the relation between education, conscious parenting, and community life. As a newly formed GEN Europe working group, we invite participants to reflect on how we—as individuals, communities, and as a society—can co-create structures that support regenerative ways of raising future generations. Practitioners and representatives of various projects will share inspirations and key learnings from the field. We will also provide interactive reflection and sharing sessions among all participants, making the workshop as engaging as possible.
REGENERATIVE EDUCATION & PARENTING IN COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP
Workshop Holder Bio
Ecovillages – From Pioneers to Mass Movement
Day Four: July 16 2026 – 11:00 to 13:30
This space will be a guided discussion on the development of strategies to transform the Ecovillage movement from pioneers of change to a mass movement. The discussion will be impulsed by some ideas and practices developed by other allied movements, mainly the Zapatistas and MST, but the aim of the workshop is not an in depth exploration of these other movements, it is to reflect on the ecovillage movement and develop strategies for it’s blossoming. This will be a participatory discussion intended to tap into the collective intelligence of the ecovillage world, rather than a panel of experts.
"This gathering was transformative. I feel more inspired than ever to bring back these ideas and practices to my own community.”
Delegate & workshop holder