Here is an idea for what the purpose of our home can be. When I did my internship I lived at Axladitsa for 6 weeks experiencing a learning center like this. It was also a home, a farm and place to gather, for people who had something om their heart – people who cared.

So here a little bit about Learning centers and  a link to Axaladitsa and to Kufunda – a amazing learning village and strong community in Zimbawe, where they are really pioneering how to organize a community in a lifeaffirming way, using many ancient social technologies in a conscious way.

Berkana Exchange: Learning Centers.

The Berkana Exchange is an ecosystem of learning centers, grassroots-based initiatives, individuals, regional learning communities and movements all working to create healthy and resilient communities. Participants are developing the capacity to solve their most pressing problems—such as community health, ecological sustainability and economic self-reliance—by acting locally, connecting regionally and learning trans-locally.

Why “trans-local”? We believe that large-scale systems change emerges when local actions get connected globally—while preserving their deeply local culture, flavor and form. There is no universal solution for the challenges of poverty, hunger or environmental destruction. But there is the possibility of widespread impact when people working at the local level are able to learn from one another, practice together and share their learning with communities everywhere. We do this by gathering face-to-face, engaging in communities of practice, learning exchanges and regional collaborations. We share stories, create new experiments and build relationships that help us better serve our communities at home.

Kufunda:

We are a learning village whose purpose is to inspire the co-creation of strong life affirming communities in Zimbabwe and beyond by living and sharing the wisdom, practices and social systems that are required for such communities.

Axladitsa:

Axladitsa-Avatakia is a home place, an olive farm and a place of collective inquiry , learning and retreat – a place for Living Wholeness.

Axladitsa-Avatakia is a practice and catalyst for exploring the relationship between the power of place and work/mastery through real-time collective inquire, research and practice - as contribution to the next level of our human evolution.

It is also a place that really touched me deeply and one of those places in the world where I really feel at home. I think that has to do with the setting of the place close to unspoiled nature, to the way it is hosted by its two stewards, and to the intention that runs through all tasks and all work here… a level of high consciousness in all that you do. It is truly of place of power.