Training Course: "Sustainable Communities for You(th)" in Poland

Training Course: "Sustainable Communities for You(th)"
15-26 October 2022 | Żywa Ziemia (close to Gdańsk), Poland

The main objective of “Sustainable Communities for You(th)” is to have a closer look at, discuss, analyse and practise sustainable communities.

Climate change and other environmental crises made it clear by now that there is no other way than sustainability, that we have to radically change our habits in order to be able to survive on a finite planet. Yet, we usually approach sustainability from a very narrow perspective, expecting scientists to come out with phantasmagoric technologies or implementing sporadic actions or regulations which focus on very specific targets, like reducing the carbon footprint. All so very important, but still not enough. We cannot make it as long as we are stuck in an old paradigm, attached to concepts like individualism, consumption, etc. We need a holistic approach, which will involve everyone in achieving the big goal in front of us. We need to include all people in the process of change, creating communities which are sustainable all round. Communities with a green approach toward their environment and food production; communities with a stable and responsible financial model; communities which are able to communicate and interrelate, making effective decisions which include voices of all minorities, by practicing methods like sociocracy or consensus; communities which value each individual, recognise their strengths and needs and incorporate them all, perceiving diversity as a main asset, rather than a reason for exclusion...