Elos

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Social
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2000

What we do

Is it possible to transform the world we live in into the world we dream of?
With this simple question in mind, we decided to take action and ended up learning along the way. Still being students, we took responsibility for our own learning. We went beyond the role of simple receivers of knowledge and discovered that transformation is learned by doing. We discovered that transformation begins in your own attitude, in the way you live your experience. One must dive into oneself with a look of abundance, to find within challenges the best opportunities to develop.
We believe that the most valuable transformation happens in interaction with people in real life. The relationship with the other makes us learn about ourselves. We cultivate caring and empathic relationships, at the distance of an embrace, from eye to eye. We know that transformation gains more power and meaning when it happens in community. We believe in partnership, cooperation and coexistence. We value shared knowledge, shared doing and shared enjoyment. We celebrate diversity and build unity and trust among different people, so that the collective evolves to become community. We reestablish our connection with nature to recognize that we are part of the community of life. In direct interaction with the forest, with the seas and with the rivers, we encounter our own inner nature. We seek, in indigenous ancestral wisdom, the enhancement of human qualities that develop outside the mental, but within the physical, the emotional and the spiritual. Thus, we understand that transformation must take place integrated with a greater purpose, such as the realization of a dream shared by many. Then everything we do and learn is at service of building a wonderful world for all people and for the whole community of life. This construction is the transformation we are learning to do, and are realizing now! Because we know that when we launch ourselves in search of an impossible dream, when we persist even in the face of the unknown, transformation happens and realizing the best world we can dream of becomes possible.
Our path has been created since the year 2000, through working with communities and young people in Brazil and internationally. In all stages of this journey, we have invited people to discover their power to manifest and the pleasure of participating together in the realization of collective dreams. The name Elos, meaning “links” in Portuguese, is the synthesis of our work: in our vision, communities and businesses, adults and children, governments and civil society live side by side, work, and offer the most spectacular version of themselves to realize the best world for everyone. To realize the world we all dream of, we believe the path is transformation in community. We are living the process of community development, as well as developing tools and methodologies that drive the projects of people and communities around the world.
Everything we do is based on the Elos Philosophy, which seeks to create a scenario of abundance and recognize the talents and resources available to transform collective dreams into reality.

  • The Gaze – WE learn to SEE ABUNDANCE where many see scarcity
  • Affection -WE FOSTER KINDNESS before fear and judgement
  • Dream – WE VALUE DREAMS as the best impulse to create change
  • Care – WE PLAN TOGETHER, taking care of ourselves, of each other and of a common dream simultaneously
  • Miracle – WE WORK HANDS-ON, cooperating to make what we dreamed together a reality
  • Celebration – WE RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE each individual contribution to the collective achievement
  • Re-Evolution – WE EVOLVE ON THIS JOURNEY, propelling the construction of new dreams!

ESPAÇO ELOS: after 18 years of experience working with leaders, young people and the development of communities in Brazil and other countries, we feel it is time to deepen this work. We recognize that the greatest opportunities for learning and transformation lie in relationships, in direct contact, in doing together and in shared experiences. This is where inspiration for ESPAÇO ELOS (Elos Space) comes from!
WHAT IS IT?

  • an area of 18,000 m² in the middle of nature, yet within the city of Santos, with an exemplary project of sustainable architecture, capable of hosting programs and courses realized by Elos or partners, for up to 100 people.
  • a learning and development center, for individual and collective transformation, based on the values of the Elos Philosophy and the diverse social technologies that support and enrich its practice.
  • an epicenter that will bring transformation to Santos and radiate from city to the world! With the Espaço Elos, we will intensify our relationship with the Santos Region, especially with surrounding neighborhoods and communities, contributing to the social, cultural and sustainable development of the territory.
  • a place to encounter and to find yourself, transform and transform yourself, dream and realize the world we all dream of!
  • Purpose
  • Social
  • Languages
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Intentional Neighborhoods

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2000
  • Started living together

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  • Brazil

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3 weeks ago

Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
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4 weeks ago

Heart-centered, nature-loving unschooling family seeking a community to land with for winter 2027

We’re a German-American family who left conventional life about four years ago to live in line with our values: freedom, connection, nature, and spirituality. We started out as worldschoolers, moving every month or two. That taught us a lot, including that too much movement leaves a family rootless. Since then we’ve been looking for the balance between adventure and belonging. We found a taste of it on a multigenerational farm community in Austria, and we’re now living alongside a small community in Norway. For January to March 2027, we’d love to spend a season inside a community that feels like home. What we’re hoping for A community with teenagers and a culture that welcomes self-directed learning, where unschooling is understood and not just tolerated Nature at your doorstep (forest, land, animals, or garden) Some shared meals, perhaps shared rhythms, and real relationships, not just a place to park A spiritual or reflective thread, whatever form it takes for you An opportunity to get to know your community by giving back (although we can’t do a ‘full’ volunteering program as we have the past three years – ie: Workaway- because we have meetings online that take up too much of our time to volunteer full time)  What we bring Resilience and emotional wellbeing. I’m an online resilience coach with a BA in Developmental Psychology, certified in HeartMath®, and an experienced yoga and meditation teacher. I can offer community sessions in nervous system regulation, stress resilience, and meditation, and support for parents and teens. Experience raising three children in a nomadic, family-centered lifestyle, including years of travel across Europe. Open, adaptable, and grounded. We’ve lived in many settings and adapt quickly. We show up as contributors, not consumers. Unschooling and homeschooling know-how. We’re glad to share what we’ve learned, especially for families navigating legal and practical questions in Europe. Many other shareable skills: carpentry, sourdough bread baking, food fermenting, music making, dad-joke-telling, drone pilots, cookie bakers, food preservation and much much more.   We’re looking for a mutual fit, not just a bed for the winter. If our story resonates and you have space or know someone who does, we’d love to hear from you. Tell us about your community: your values, your daily rhythm, and what you’re hoping for from the people who join you.
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