Day 1: July 14, 2026
Dare to Trust One Another
Session Description:
Why does trusting others require daring? How do we turn around polarization, othering, and pervasive separation? Beyond political and state processes, what may be needed is attending to the deep roots of loss of trust in life, each other, and ourselves which led to the rise of patriarchal states 5000 years ago. Communities are uniquely positioned to become islands of high trust and model to others what it takes to restore our capacities through strengthening our atrophied collaboration muscles; bringing tenderness and honesty to questions of power and privilege through a commitment to liberation for all, no exceptions; and realigning with life’s principles of interdependence and mutual aid.
Miki Kashtan
Keynote Speaker
Miki Kashtan gave birth to the Nonviolent Global Liberation community in 2017, where she and others experiment with, model, and share principles, practices, tools, and systems to support collaboration, distributed leadership, liberation for all, and realigning with life’s principles. Miki has taught and consulted with individuals, communities, and organizations on five continents. She is the author of The Highest Common Denominator and Reweaving Our Human Fabric and blogs at The Fearless Heart.
Session Description:
Across Europe, the rise of far-right and authoritarian forces is not happening in a vacuum. It is rooted in deeper political and economic shifts: the weakening of the old world order, growing inequality, and a crisis of democratic institutions. Far-right actors channel fear and loss of control to build power and normalize exclusionary narratives. Drawing on examples from across Europe, this contribution explores how organising can rebuild trust, develop leadership, and create collective pathways for action. It invites ecovillages and communities to see themselves as part of this response—strengthening solidarity and shaping what comes next.
Céline Lebrun Shaath
Keynote Speaker
Céline is Organizing Coordinator at ECON (European Community Organising Network). A Paris-born activist, she has spent over 15 years building social movements across Europe and the Middle East. She trains and coaches leaders in community organising and public narrative, and has taught at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work focuses on building collective power and democratic resilience. She is also the mother of a 2-year-old, grounding her commitment to the future we are shaping.
Day 2: July 15, 2026
Dare to Trust New Economies
Session Description:
The session will explore core values of a post-capitalist economy and how to embody them. We will shed light at what an economy rooted in care, solidarity, and wellbeing could look like in practice, through living examples in Europe. At the same time, we will invite participants to examine how capitalist, patriarchal, and white supremacist conditioning still shapes many of the alternatives we co-create, including our own behaviors, relationships, and decision-making. However uncomfortable, we will show how this often avoided work of facing contradictions is indispensable only for moving beyond capitalism but for building trust, which requires breaking down hierarchical orientations.
Martin Winiecki
Keynote Speaker
Martin Winiecki is a post-capitalist visionary, educator, writer and activist focusing on international solidarity, intersectional systems change and ecology. For 19 years, he was part of the Tamera community in Portugal where he led international relations and served as next-generation leader. In 2017, inspired by Standing Rock, he co-founded the Defend the Sacred Alliance. He continues to co-create water alliances and storytelling projects, including the documentary Water is Love.
Session Description:
How do we dare to grow a post-capitalist economy of care? And how can ecovillages be one of the many epicenters of a joyful earthquake that unsettles the fossil energy dominated system, creating cracks and gaps that give space to a different, desirable future?
By doing it: collective and cooperative, community-led economic alternatives can exist almost everywhere. They are mostly underground or in the shade, but sprout in the cracks and create ripples that spread inspiring each other and supporting the creation of new ones, connecting as mushroom webs. The grounds of solidarity economies are in all sectors, from food systems to energy collectives, from cooperative housing to shared mobility, from knowledge commons to social care and mutual support. And community finance and money that work and give credit for all.
Jason Nardi
Keynote Speaker
Jason is a passionate social and environmental justice activist with a longstanding commitment that began in childhood with animal rights advocacy. A Florentine with a dual citizenship (Italy and USA) – and a parent of two wonderful teenagers – he is currently engaged promoting solidarity economy and community finance locally and internationally. As the general delegate of RIPESS Europe solidarity economy network and a member of the ECOLISE council, he’s been working both on advocacy at the UN and EU and on convergences of social movements (organising the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies). He is active in CSA and agroecology projects, mutualism initiatives, and community forums, all while enjoying playing the clarinet in a street band and teaching acroyoga.
Day 3: July 16, 2026
Dare to Trust the Earth
Session Description:
How can we restore the water cycle and regenerate abundance in our landscapes? Silvano shares practical principles for creating water retention landscapes that help close the local water cycle. Based on hands-on experience at Tamera and within a watershed restoration community, participants will explore how simple, nature-based interventions can restore water balance. As landscapes recover their capacity to hold water, a tangible sense of trust emerges — in the Earth’s regenerative power and in our collective ability to co-create abundance.
Silvano Rizzi
Keynote Speaker
Silvano is a practitioner and educator in community-led ecosystem restoration, based at Tamera ecovillage in Portugal. He is part of the ecological team and co-responsible for the water retention landscape, and helped initiate a watershed restoration community in the region. His work focuses on restoring natural water cycles and empowering people to regenerate ecosystems through collective action.
To be Announced
Keynote Speaker
Day 4: July 17, 2026
Dare to Trust the Future
Session Description:
In an age of climate collapse, endless war, and political despair, how do we resist the seduction of cynicism, reclaim the radical act of imagination, and dare to believe that the future is still ours to shape?
Join us as we celebrate the sparks of possibility — the ecovillages, the dreamers, the weavers of new worlds — and kindle together the fire of a liveable, thriving future during Day 4 of the Gathering: Dare To Trust the Future
To be Announced
Keynote Speaker