Economy

Daniel Bogner-Haslbeck

Workshop holder

Daniel is an energy efficiency coach and a public welfare consultant. He is deeply committed to ideas for helping to shape an intergenerational ecological and social economic system. Rethinking and feeling prosperity is one of his heartfelt concerns to make a good life a reality for all living beings.

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Economy for the Common Good (ECOnGOOD)

After providing an insight into the idea and content of the concept of the Economy for the Common Good, the course playfully encourages people to change their own everyday lives in a sustainable way, whether at work or at home. The Common Good Matrix and the educational materials developed on the basis of it serve as a toolbox for a value-based model of thought and life.

Grace Rachmany

Workshop holder

Grace Rachmany is the Systems Team Lead for the Design School for Regenerating the Earth, an organization at the forefront of the Bioregional Regeneration movement. She is the co-founder of Sideways.Earth working towards coherence among organizations addressing the metacrisis. Her work involves experimentation in infrastructure for human collaboration, governance, and non-monetary economic systems.

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Bioregionalism and Ecovillages:
Creating regional resilience

Bioregional organizing is gaining momentum. How can we work together with bioregional groups and other activists to create regional resilience. In this workshop, we present some models of how bioregions are forming, and how to collaborate such that entire regions can be regenerated. There will be time to give examples of your own bioregions and workshop how you can apply some of these models locally.

Jason Nardi

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As the general delegate of RIPESS Europe (Social solidarity economy network) and council member of the ECOLISE network, Jason has been advocating at the UN and EU and promoting convergences of social movements. Co-president of RIES (Italian Solidarity Economy Network), Jason focuses on tsolidarity economy circuits. In Florence, Italy, where he lives he supports CSA projects, mutualism initiatives, and community forums, all while enjoying playing clarinet in a street band and teaching acroyoga.

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Be the Change, Play the change: transform the economy in a game

Want to change the world and reclaim the true essence of “Economy” from the grip of neoliberal ideology? Through “The Change” game, players are introduced to real-world Transformative Economies initiatives. The result of a two year game-design project with many youth groups, with “The Change” participants collaborate to envision their ideal communities—neighborhoods thriving with cooperatives managing key aspects of life. Networks of mutual support and care emerge as the core themes, as well as solidarity economy principles and practices: https://ripess.eu/en/the-board-game-of-transformative-economies

Rita Kandikó

Workshop holder

Rita Kandikó is a youth worker at Fekete Sereg Youth Association in Nagyvázsony (Hungary). She is living and working in Nagyvázsony in a small village in Hungary rural area with 1800 inhabitants. She is also a human right and Euro-Mediterranean trainer at SALTO EuroMed Resources Center of Paris. She enjoys having herbal tea in her garden on the edge of the forest and listening the voice of the nature.

Peter Kämmerling

Workshop holder

Since more than ten years, Peter Kämmerling has been exchanging knowledge and experiences with established and emerging community led houses and their networks by the workgroup international of Mietshäuser Syndikat https://www.syndikat.org/en/ Together with 23 housing activists from 18 countries, Peter co-founded the European Network of Community led Houses: Commoning Spaces Network

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2-part Workshop: Community led Housing Model & Uniting our voices, models and NGOs in Europe

Why are housing costs rising so rapidly? How can we organize affordable, social, solidary-based, community-oriented, self-determined, inclusive and sustainable housing in the long term?
1983 activists from Mietshäuser Syndikat developed the community led house non-profit model to supplement the two traditional housing models home-ownership and renting, which are bound to the speculation- and profit-market.
We present the community led house model in detail, Mietshäuser Syndikat and Commoning Spaces Network for European wide collaboration.

Lisa Kampker

Workshop holder

Lisa is a cultural anthropologist, researching societal structures, group dynamics and resilient practices. She wants humans to prepare for a future coined by uncertainty, but also opportunity. Becoming a mother deepens her care about the conditions our children grow up in, be it environmental, social, educational. Currently, she immerses herself in holistic design and building supportive frameworks to help communities thrive. She is also co-hosting the audacious eco-project "Epopeia".

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A win-win role-based financing model for projects and communities

We will present and debate the concept of a legal structure for participating in post-capitalist projects, and network around it. This evolved concept is particularly suited to long-term living communities, but it can also be applied to other entrepreneurial contexts. It clarifies the various participation roles — such as promoter, steward or member — and provides a framework that enables everyone to fairly maximize their potential at any stage, whether financial, managerial, beneficial, labouring or maintenance. This model offers security and flexibility through appropriate contracts, as well as the distribution of property and responsibilities. Inspired by vermoegenspool.at/eng

Miguel San Miguel

Workshop holder

Miguel: Social entrepreneur & political activist, spiritual wanderer & explorative theorist, enthusiastic communard & patient observer. On a life mission to co-hold space for our next evolutionary step, planetary collective consciousness, to emerge and settle - by converging transformative practices and aware peoples in (an) ambitious holistic settlement(s): a connected, mindful, regenerative community of communities. Further comrades-siblings welcome!

Sandra Bedigis

Workshop holder

Birth doula, haptonomy practitioner, Nonviolent Global Liberation member, and President of Les Pas-Sages, Sandra supports building sustainable communities to promote more collective ways of living. Initiator of Portugal's first ecovillage using Les Pas-Sages mechanisms, she and her team now spread this model across Europe and beyond.

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Align the Dream with the Matter - Regenerative Legal & Financial Mechanisms for Sustainable Collective Living

Les Pas-Sages invites you on an experiential journey to explore:
– Disabling systemic roots of community conflicts.
– Attracting project abundance (people & money).
– Enabling long-term sustainability, creating a non speculative common.
Les-Pas-Sages, a non-profit, supports new and existing communities in implementing legal, financial, and governance mechanisms reflecting their core values. Key in establishing 50+ European ecovillages in 5 years, enabling intentional communities to attract resources for long-term thriving.

Zsofi Bodnar

Workshop holder

Zsofi is a facilitator, mentor, community creator, mother and lover who centers everything she does around the radical Love she trusts is at the core of it all. She creates spaces for coming alive and freeing up into more of ourselves through inviting both our vulnerability and the sacred, giving permission for human and divine. She believes in humanity and the transformation we are capable of as a collective and strives to make that a reality by living her true essence and encouraging others to do so. She has been living and co-creating in Löwenherz Community near Berlin, Germany.

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The GAP: Exploring the tension between the vision of a Global Community and the current limitations

We have a clear vision of a Global Community without borders and exclusion, yet in reality it can be difficult to include everyone into the communities we are currently building. Using the fishbowl method we want explore with you the tension between the ideal and the current state. We will be researching questions together such as: How to build an inclusive community that is resilient towards the current challenges of the World? Which is financially and energetically sustainable? How can people that need more than they can give be included? (children, elderly, single parents, physically or mentally unstable individuals) How to judge capacities and find the right boundaries?

Viktoria Köster

Workshop holder

Viki is a therapist and spaceholder from Berlin, who cofounded the Löwenherz Community represented here as well. She is passionate about personal as well as collective transformation, doing the daily subtle inner work that reconnects us back to each other. Everyday she is deepening the roots to this earth, to her local communities and to spirit. In her work she transmits a grounded spirituality, horizontal and vulnerable leadership and a deep invitation to recconect back to our bodies and nervous systems.

Alexander Busse

Workshop holder

Alex is a family and community animal from Berlin. He co-found Löwenherz community in 2020 in an forest area and co-leads since then. He is passionate for both efficient short-cuts and also for inclusive sociocratic decision-making, holistic education for the youth as well as implementing sustainable technology.