Help Build a Regenerative World from the Inside Out

This fundraiser ended when Hurricane Helene necessitated canceling the Remembering Retreat. By Sept 26, the rising creeks were swelling several inches over our first bridge, making it unsafe to drive in and out of Earthaven. Friends are now supporting our Hurricane Helene fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/f/earthaven-recovery

The impacts of the hurricane on Earthaven were severe: roads turned to raging rivers and several stretches of our stone and gravel roadbeds were washed out. Our hydroelectric system was damaged. Large trees fell across roadways, yards, and creeks, and one home was severely damaged. The roads between Earthaven and towns were temporarily impassable.

We will return to offering in person events when our infrastructure allows it. Any donations made here will be used for scholarships to future educational events offered by our School of Integrated Living.

If you feel inspired to support our recovery from Hurricane Helene, please donate and share here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/earthaven-recovery

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The world is in a crisis of lost connection -- to our inner worlds, one another, and the Earth. This loss is at the root of epidemic levels of loneliness, depression, division, and alienation from the foundations of life, from meaning, and from love. Help lay the groundwork to restore the sense of connection and belonging that underlies our personal wellness, our social cohesion, and ultimately, peace in the world. Please donate to our scholarship fund to bring more people to a transformative experience of the art of belonging, compassion, and sowing the seeds of peace.

Along the way toward freedom and individuality, and in the name of progress, humans have inadvertently had our inherent connection to all of life severed. This has resulted in a collective sense of not belonging – to oneself, to each other, to lineages, to place, to this life, and this Earth. The lostness and emptiness that we feel without these vital connections is devastating! It lies is at the root of epidemic levels of loneliness, depression, division, and alienation from the foundations of life, from meaning, from sanity, and from love.

When the disconnection is widespread, it comes with consequences to community well-being, political stability, ecological balance, and human survival on the planet. Feeling that we don’t belong ends up eroding empathy for others and leads to rising violence, insecurity, nihilism, and hopelessness. When we do feel our belonging, it assures our safety and our ability to extend out into the world with confidence.

Thankfully, there are places where the art of belonging is being remembered, cultivated, and practiced. Places where we can re-learn to coax, weave, and tend to the roots of our separation, and restore our membership in belonging. When we do – and we help others gain these competencies – we sow the seeds of peace and expand our capacity to respond to the world in soulful and heart-centered ways.

From September 26-29, 2024, Culture’s Edge and the School of Integrated Living in Black Mountain, North Carolina will host The Re-membering Retreat: Cultivating Home and Community From the Inside Out.

This transformative experiential retreat helps participants remember what it really is to be human and to belong to ourselves, one another, and the world. The learning integrates ancient and cutting-edge skills from traditions and innovations in personal and collective healing, relationship repair, emotion regulation, communion with the Living Land, and other important practices that tend our hearts, our relationships, and our ability to support positive change in the world.

Bringing this learning to more people is an important step to living in more compassionate, peaceful, and safe world.

Earthaven Ecovillage is a living laboratory for regenerative, compassionate living. It is located in the woodlands of the Appalachian Mountains, with abundant streams, vital forests, and naturally built spaces to serve as the classroom for this work.

The facilitators for the retreat, NikiAnne Feinberg, Chloe Lieberman, Mirna McWilliams, and Natalee Facey, collectively bring over four decades of experience and deep expertise in transformative learning journeys.

Learn More: https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/

The world needs these skills now more than ever. Won’t you help grow a scholarship fund to deliver this learning to passionate and talented leaders with potential to restore belonging in their communities? Consider donating all or part of the cost for one person to attend – or gifting a registration to someone you know whose attendance would benefit your community.

You can also choose to support the School of Integrated Living generally, and all of Culture's Edge and Earthaven's programs to build a regenerative future, by donating here or at our website: https://www.earthaven.org/donate/

Donate any amount, large or small, and if you’d like a guideline, here are some ways your donations help:

Donate one attendee’s tuition and meals: $575

Donate at the low-income rate: $250

Donate three nights of housing: $200

Donate a ride from the airport: $90

Donate a meal: $25

Donate a little (it adds up): $10

Your tax-deductible donation goes to Culture’s Edge, the nonprofit that delivers the educational programs of Earthaven Ecovillage. Culture’s Edge is dedicated to supporting, demonstrating, and catalyzing the development of healthy, sustainable, and regenerative culture.