The Four Essences of Living-Change
Our aim is to create a wide network of community leaders across the globe composed of those with the skills, understanding, and sensitivity to work from a village level for a global harmony. For this effort, Living-Change has developed a program focused on the building of interpersonal & organizations skills, as well as the confidence, in an individual to realize their ideas from conception through to execution.
Our work is based on the HHH (Head, Heart, Hands) model and emphasizes the three questions: What do I want to learn? Why am I passionate to do so? How can I make it happen?
LEADERSHIP
PERMACULTURE
The Living-Change program certifies its participants with the successful understanding of the standard Permaculture Design Certification points; such as principles in zoning, the importance of observation, recognizing & replicating patterns from nature, etc. This model provides the framework to collaborate in groups as well as the practical knowledge & inspiration of how to drive for a more sustainable world. Our work with the philosophies within Permaculture emphasize the patterns within society and social interaction, as well as work with the agricultural aspects normally associated with permaculture practice.
COMMUNITY
Humans are not solitary creatures, but ones of necessary social interaction of an often highly complex nature, which can manifest anywhere between incredibly dangerous to overwhelming full of Love. We believe an emphasis on living in community is essential to any attempt to facilitate change. Our program is a very immersive program, living off grid in a remote location in the Peruvian Andes together in cabins. To learn to live together despite our differences, and provide an example of this wherever we go, is to spread this positive impact around the world.
LOCAL CULTURE
Our indigenous Quechua neighbours are excellent examples of more community & familial oriented ways of living, as well as people from a wonderfully different culture from most of the participants in our course. This provides both an opportunity to observe first hand a culture that emphasizes community living as well as learn how to work alongside those from very separate cultures. We believe the observation of “local culture” to be a key component to any project one engages in. The definition of “local culture” being the culture local to where ones project focuses, be it a remote indigenous culture to a suburban cul-de-sac. Understanding of, and collaboration with, the history and traditions to where you are, we believe, bring greater growth for a more diverse & unified world community.