Learning Journeys

Open Heart is a community building program that offers a profound experience on individual and collective level. In a serious and joyful environment, old mental patterns are deconstructed through exercises, group dynamics and games. Old patterns are identified, exposed and brought to the surface to dissipate and make space for the creation of new wiser ones.

Tools such as Forum, Fishbowl, Open Space, World Cafe and Sociocracy 3.0 are used and practiced, creating and encouraging a space of trust and mutual support encouraging the groups to discover the best practices for conflict resolution, organization and decision making. Strong lasting bonds are created, sustained by healthy creative and transparent relationships in the spirit of sharing and cooperation.

Originally from India, the practice of Yoga is a lifestyle that combines health, ethics and spirituality. With a sincere and dedicated practice, it naturally creates the healthy patterns necessary for a happier life. Through a regular and disciplined practice of Asanas, mindful eating, proper breathing, deep relaxation and meditation, Yoga brings more awareness to the body and mind with benefits that are durable and visible throughout life.

Hatha Yoga is a well established practice all over the world, from the Ashrams of the East to the best health clubs of the West. As a regular practice, Yoga keeps the body healthy, a more focused mind and consequently a more realized soul. Yoga is a lifestyle that promotes happiness, inner peace and harmony within ourselves and with others around us.

With Dragon Dreaming we are able not only to develop new skills. We also may discover new sides to ourselves and deepen our relationship with life.  At the same time Dragon Dreaming strengthens community, helping us to build and sustain teams based on trust and cooperation, in which communication and appreciation are especially valued.

Dragon Dreaming also fosters diversity, creativity and vitality, not only for ourselves and the team but rather for the whole world. Dragon Dreaming creates sustainability.

Drawing from deep ecology, systems theory and spiritual traditions, the Work That Reconnects (WTR) builds motivation, creativity, courage and solidarity for the transition to a sustainable human culture. First emerging in 1978, this pioneering, open-source body of work has its roots in the teachings and experiential methods of Joanna Macy.

The Work That Reconnects has inspired thousands of people to take heart and work together for the sake of life on Earth, despite rapidly worsening social and ecological conditions.

Raising funds can be fun and empowering for everyone who is involved in a project. Dragon Dreaming ‘Empowered Fundraising’ approach challenges groups to take their projects seriously and invite others to contribute funds, as a way to further their own social change values and make a difference in the world.

Fundraising is highly important in the modern world in which we live, and in which money is the measure of all value, many projects fail to achieve their potential due to lack of funds. With the proper fundraising approach, there is no need for any project not to happen because of lack of money.

Ecovillage Design Education programs, often referred to as ‘EDEs’, provide students of all ages with the knowledge and practical skills on how to design a society which uses energy and materials with greater efficiency, distributes wealth fairly and strives to eliminate the concept of waste.

Students become change agents and sustainability designers, taking active roles in transitioning their existing communities, institutions and neighborhoods, to more sustainable patterns of production and consumption, as well as leading more joyful, meaningful and healthier lives.