humaNature community

We hold a vision for a living-learning community that can help plant the seeds for a sustainable human society. We would like to gather a group of teachers, healers, artists, activists, & communitarians to develop this alternative society. We envision a “school of the human” where people can come to learn all the things they need to be truly human, and which they wouldn’t learn in school.
We see an intact village, where the teachers live together with their families and other loved ones, and where the public is invited in for instruction across a broad range. This learning would range from an afternoon class or weekend retreat, to multi-year immersion while living in the village itself. The curriculum could start simply, but would eventually cover all fundamental aspects of human life, which we’ve divided into six realms: sacred arts, social ecology arts, land ecology arts, nature connection arts, healing arts, and creative arts.
This school would not just be a place to learn information, but a chrysalis that allows people to fundamentally transform within it. As a school, it must be a blueprint for a new model of human learning; one that allows for learning at the mental level, as well as the emotional, physical, spiritual, and social levels. It will be a model for a new kind of village, in which both the needs of the group and the needs of the individual are held in equal regard.
We see the community itself as a living laboratory. Here we can experiment with new models of relating and governing. These include application of developed structures such as dynamic governance, restorative justice, and polyamory, as well as experimentation to hone those structures or find new expressions. This experimentation also extends to legal & financial arrangements around property & income sharing, as well as to green technology, permaculture, and homesteading techniques to live in harmony with the natural world.