SHE-EDE Colombia
Overview
Type: Face to Face
Start Date: Feb 3rd 2025
End Date: March 5 2025
Website: dancing-goddess.org
Contact: she-ede@dancing-goddess.org
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SHE-EDE SPECIAL Join a 30 Days Edition in an Existing Modern Matriarchal Community in Colombia
After the first She-Ede held in Magliano Sabina in 2023 and a series of She-Ede of a week each held in Italy and Portugal in 2024 that are still happening and will run cyclicly, now, SHE-EDE goes to South America. SHE-EDE NASHIRA COLOMBIA- FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 5, 2025 SHE IS WE We teach the knowledge and skills that WE need as WOMEN to design truly regenerative Matriarchal Communities which thrive within planetary boundaries, empowering each other as a collective for the new story of the Great Turning to happen. Open to WOMEN OF ALL AGES, FROM 18 TO 99, this SHE-EDE- NASHIRA 2025 is 30 days in place program that follows Mother Earth seasonal rhythms of life, Matriarchal Wisdom, the Spiral Wheel of the Work that Reconnects, Maternal Gift Economy and the Wheel of Gaia Education, Ecovillage Design Education program. This last is an award-winning provider of holistic learning for Sustainable Development. Besides Gaia Education and the Work that Reconnects, the course is meant to empower women to see the interconnections of life by learning to design Matriarchal sustainable communities, restoring balance to our planet in the urgent transition to a more regenerative future, reversing the climate crisis. We teach the knowledge and skills needed to design truly regenerative communities, which thrive within planetary boundaries. Our objective when we started this journey was also to activate alternative matriarchal communities of life and we found a beautiful reality in Colombia called Nashira EcoAldea .
Nashira Ecoaldea, is an eco-village of 88 homes in Southern Colombia. It was built for and by women who suffered domestic violence or who have beendisplaced by the Colombian civil war. Inside Nashira there are 38 productive units from growing plantain, having hens and chicken to making ceramic pots and collecting solid waste in the neighbourhood, separating, reusing it and transforming them. It is a women led project (of about 400 people) where governance is managed horizontally through a council that works according to the sociocratic method. Nashira is very close to cultures with maternal values and represents a particularly interesting experience. Moreover Nashira has demonstrated that an eco-village can operate as a viable and self-sufficient concern and that eco–living is a life-style choice and an effective way of helping people out of poverty. The objective of the She-Ede Nashira 2025 course is to offer an experience and train women from all over the world in eco-village design education in a matriarchal village, valorizing and in collaboration with Nashira Ecoaldea’s women experiences, according the principles of the Modern Matriarchal Studies, the Maternal Gift Economy, the Work that Reconnects and Transition Town Movement.
With a a group of experienced Facilitatresses in Matriarchal, Feminist, Ecological, Social and Spiritual Studies the natural continuation of this program is to have Her next edition in a real existing Matriarchal ecovillage in which the teachings would be experienced in real and with and in an existing modern women’s community. We will live with this community, eat, cook and spend time with this community. We will learn about their governance and spiritual practices, their stories, their wisdom, their sorrows and joys. We will share our ecovillage design education best practices with them in a joint project. We will host women from all over the world that will be certified Gaia Education. We foresee that the participants will learn and bring forward this model in their communities around the world. We foresee to have long lasting friendships with these incredible, courageous women of Nashira and bring with us and around the world their Songs of Love. Bringing together experience in ecovillage design, matriarchal societies, feminine wisdom, activism, community building and healing circles, we created a new format of EDE – responding to the worldwide need of mutual maternal values support and empowerment. We Will be hosted in a family in Nashira, live in their home and participate to their family Life. You Will have breakfast in their home, lunch served by the cooking staff of the communal restaurant and dinner you Will be part of home groups that in rotation Will prepare supper for the entire SHE-EDE participants.
THE PROGRAM
The program is structured with the model head, heart and hands of the four dimensions of Gaia Education wheel: the ecological, the cultural, the social and the economic dimension. There will be also comparisons to the principles of matriarchal societies’ dimensions that are sisters to the ecological values and of which all the ecological movements take primary inspiration. These courses are meant to give also many other tools such as the one belonging to the Work That Reconnects (WTR) practices on weaving connections, uplifting creative ecological expressions and collaborating in service to the Great Turning or the Transition Town Movement tool kit and last but not least Matriarchal Societies knowledge.
How to run an EDE?
Several of our EDE graduates have carried on organising EDE programmes in their local areas, and you are warmly encouraged to do so after completing your course.
The recommended time frame of an EDE is four weeks, however this is not fixed and varies with each individual programme.
The material can be condensed into smaller workshops, spread out over a longer period, or distributed in blocks at different times and locations.