
Wednesday 30 October, 21:00 Cyprus time
Meeting platform / Πλατφόρμα Συνάντησης: https://meet.jit.si/eimastecyedutechpolicy
Wednesday 30 October, 21:00 Cyprus time
Meeting platform / Πλατφόρμα Συνάντησης: https://meet.jit.si/eimastecyedutechpolicy
Update:
-With thanks to our new sponsor <3 we’re very very happy to lower participation costs (see below)
-We’re changing the Preparatory online meet-up into an Online Follow-up in November
– ***Registration deadline: October 19***
______________
We invite you to join a unique 3-day bootcamp focused on implementing permaculture design and biodynamic practices within the Cypriot urban environment. Whether you’re a beginner or have some experience, this event will offer tailored instruction, community building, and practical solutions for creating sustainable, regenerative ecosystems in urban spaces, taking into account the island’s specific conditions and challenges.
Registration form: https://framaforms.org/registration-form-urban-permaculture-design-bootcamp-with-elements-of-biodynamics-oct-26-28-2024
**Our Goals:
– Share practical and restorative design principles for urban settings, focusing on edible gardens and beyond.
– Foster a cooperative community centered around permaculture design and biodynamic practices, bridging the two.
– Offer an accessible introduction to core permaculture principles, adapted for those who cannot commit to a full Permaculture Design Course (PDC).
**Program Highlights:
– October 26 & 27: An adapted walk-through of the Permaculture Design Methodology, integrating biodynamic principles. Explore practical applications and dive into the core of permaculture ethics and practices.
– October 28: A hands-on Group Design session for a Cypriot urban property, incorporating local plant and animal knowledge with what we’ve learned during the bootcamp.
– Online follow-up (November date TBA)
**Maximum participants: 15
**Energy exchange
Our aim is to include everyone who’s interested irrespective of their ability to contribute financially. We suggest the following sliding scale and encourage you to contribute to the best of your ability.
– Feeling abundant: 145 euro
– Getting by: 100 euro
– In a tight spot: 65 euro
Please get in touch for work exchange for all or part of the cost.
Drinks, fruit, and two plant-based meals per day are included in the price.
To reserve your spot: 30 euro reservation fee.
**Contact information
+357 99586369 / c@neeii.info
**Our hosts/facilitators
Tony Grguric
Tony is a permaculture facilitator and practitioner with experience in permaculture design and professional natural building projects. He has a special interest in water conservation/restoration/retention, which he combines with his previous Earth Scientist background. His passion lies in empowering communities through education and practical applications of holistic practices.
Hülya Koçak Dede
Hülya is a Waldorf/Steiner educator and biodynamic practitioner, deeply interested in the ecological and spiritual principles that enhance soil and plant health.
Chrystalleni Loizidou
An academic researcher, curator, and educator, Chrystalleni is the coordinator of the Eimaste Cooperative and Cultural Centre, emphasizing pedagogy as radical accompanying. She advocates for community-integrated learning and care, nature-based art and educational practices, and freedom-respecting technologies.
**About the Eimaste Cooperative and Motherhouse
Eimaste is a community-driven initiative focused on creating holistic, inclusive spaces for learning, care, and ecological stewardship. Based in Aglantzia, Nicosia, it hosts gatherings that foster collaboration and community support inspired by critical pedagogy, Waldorf-Steiner education, forest school practices, and permaculture principles. Emphasizing community flow, multispecies care, and reconnection with nature’s rhythms, Eimaste investigates sustainable models for interconnected living that nurtures both children and adults through collective growth and care. http://www.eimaste.net
Ελληνικά πιο κάτω
Extended description
4-6/10/2024 @Louvaras, Miltos’ (Roses’) space
Friday Free entrance
18:00-18:30 arrival and wellcome
Introduction by Miltos and Sylvia and chatting circle οn:
-returning to innocence and truth, carrying the consciousness of age, -the vital importance of accepting, respecting, acknowledging the miracle and self-loving, as the bases of accepting and loving outside the self,
-accepting and understanding our naked body, it’s functions and secretions in correlation to the respective acceptance and understanding of the naked causes of our thoughts, emotions, actions by stripping away beliefs and programming.
Bring food to share, we provide kitchenware, stove, oil, spices etc.
People who will stay for the weekend, bring your camping gear.
Saturday
40€ Suggested donation
The sum, or part of it can be exchanged i.e: cooking
We are open to suggestions on what you can offer.
7:00-8:00 Movement (Yoga, Tai Chi, other), led by Miltos
8-9:30: Breakfast
10:00 Circle coordinated by Miltos and Sylvia
-We attend to our outer and inner body. One by one we remove a piece of clothing, being aware of how this connects with the removal of untrue beliefs.
-We express and explore in turn, what is happening when we remove the layers of physical and emotional “protective” restrictions.
-The process can be expressed, in silence, through words, movement, sound or whatever helps.
-When we’re ready we look at our bodies and correlate with century old olive trunks and the value of our aging appearance.
-Short meditation on being part of the miracle of creation, followed by relaxed chat
13:30-15:00 Lunch
17:00 Circle Led by Sylvia
Meditation on releasing fear. Followed by ecstatic dancing relaxing into dancing, music and dinner.
Sunday
7:00-8: Movement (Yoga, Tai Chi, other) led by Miltos
8-9:30: Breakfast
10:00 Circle
Exercise on communication, empathy and consent through looking and reaching out. We sit expressing in words what we need from others practically, emotionally, erotically.
13:30- 15:00 Lunch and group decision on what we want to work on the rest of the day.
Η Ευθύνη της Γυμνής μας Αλήθειας
Αναλυτικό πρόγραμμα
4-6/10/2024 Λουβαράς στον χώρο του Μίλτου (Roses’)
Παρασκευή
Ελεύθερη είσοδος
18:00-18:30 Προσέλευση & Καλωσόρισμα
Εισαγωγή από τον Μίλτο και την Σύλβια και κουβέντα για:
-την επιστροφή στην αθωότητα και την αλήθεια, διατηρώντας την συνειδητότητα της ηλικίας.
-την ζωτικής σημασίας αποδοχή, σεβασμό, αναγνώριση του θαύματος και αγάπης προς τον εαυτό ως βάση για την αποδοχή και αγάπη προς το περιβάλλον.
-την αποδοχή και κατανόηση του γυμνού μας σώματος, των λειτουργιών και εκκρίσεων του με την αντίστοιχη αποδοχή και κατανόηση των γυμνών αιτιών της σκέψης, συναισθήματος και πράξης μας, ξεγυμνώνοντας πεποιθήσεις και προγραμματισμούς.
Δείπνο και μουσική. Φέρτε φαγητό να μοιραστούμε, προσφέρουμε κουζίνα, κουζινικά, λάδι, καρυκεύματα κλπ.
Όσοι θα μείνουν για το Σαββατοκύριακο, φέρτε κατασκηνωτικά χρειαζόμενα.
Σάββατο
40€ εισήγηση εισφοράς – Το ποσό, ή μέρος αυτού μπορεί να ανταλλαχθεί π.χ. μαγείρεμα. Είμαστε ανοιχτοί στις εισηγήσεις σας για ανταλλαγή.
7:00-8:00 Κίνηση (Γιόγκα, Τάι Τσι, άλλο), καθοδήγηση Μίλτος
8:00-9:30 Πρόγευμα
10:00 Συντονισμός κύκλου από Μίλτο και Σύλβια:
-Στρέφουμε την προσοχή προς το εξωτερικό και εσωτερικό μας σώμα. Αφαιρούμε ένα ένα τα ρούχα μας μέσα από την συνείδηση της ταυτόχρονης αφαίρεσης αναληθών πεποιθήσεων.
-Εκφραζόμαστε με την σειρά και εξερευνούμε τι συμβαίνει αφαιρώντας το κάθε στρώμα φυσικών και συναισθηματικών “προστατευτικών” περιορισμών.
-Η διαδικασία μπορεί να συνοδεύεται με λόγο, σιωπή, κίνηση, ήχο ή ότι άλλο βοηθά τον κάθε ένα.
-Όταν είμαστε έτοιμοι κοιτάμε το σώμα μας και κάνουμε την σύνδεση με τον αιωνόβιο κορμό της ελιάς και την αξία στην εμφάνισης της ηλικίας.
-Σύντομος διαλογισμός μέθεξης στο θαύμα της δημιουργίας και ακολούθως χαλαρή κουβέντα.
13:30-15:30 Γεύμα
17:00 Κύκλος καθοδήγηση Σύλβια: Διαλογισμός για την εγκατάλειψη του φόβου. Ακολουθείται από εκστατικό χορό που χαλαρώνει σε χορό, μουσική, δείπνο.
Κυριακή
7:00-8:00 Κίνηση (Γιόγκα, Τάι Τσι, άλλο), καθοδήγηση Μίλτος
8:00-9:30 Πρόγευμα
10:00 Συντονισμός κύκλου από Μίλτο και Σύλβια: Άσκηση επικοινωνίας και συγκατάθεσης, ενσυναίσθησης και εμπιστοσύνης μέσα από την θέαση και το άγγιγμα. Αφού καθήσουμε, εκφραζόμαστε με λόγο για το τι χρειαζόμαστε από τους άλλους, πρακτικά, συναισθηματικά, ερωτικά.
13:30-15:30 Γεύμα και απόφαση μέσω πλειοψηφίας για τι άλλο χρειάζεται η ομάδα να εμπειρηθεί στο υπόλοιπο της μέρας.
Wednesdays/Τετάρτες @Eimaste
10:00 – Ιερός Χορός / Sacred Belly Dance with Sylvia Serena ή Reiki με την Κωνσταντίνα
11:00 – Κύκλος / Support circle
12:00 – Συλλογική κουζίνα / Collective cooking
13:30 – Μεσημεριανό / Lunch
15:00 – Παιχνίδι και δραστηριότητες με παιδιά / Free play and activities with children
17:00 – Συλλογικό συγύρισμα και αποχαιρετισμός / Clean-up and farewell
Also see Yoga with Elena Buscarini
About Sylvia Serena
Sylvia Serena is a dancer and teacher in the way of the goddess, who has been cultivating her healing touch, her ability to offer relief and her “good hand” (καλό χέρι) for as long as she can remember. She has studied Shiatsu and general massage with Neophytos Ginis in Athens, reflexology with Kitty Simita, and additionally in reflexology as well as Ayurvedic, Chinese and Alchemical medical and philosophical systems with Petros Evdokas in Cyprus. She feels a calling to share and deepen her training and findings around the healing power of touch.
Saturday-Sunday 10-11 February 2024 @Eimaste Mother House, Karava 11, Platy, Nicosia
“There can’t be peace on Earth as long as there’s war in love. Humanity has wrongly organized love, locked it into narrow cages of possession and fear, which is why it so often turns into anger and hatred. The global epidemics of violence ravaging this planet result from a culture that has inhibited love. The healing of love isn’t a private, but a political issue of the highest priority. We must find a new concept for love if we want decent survival on Earth.”
Sabine Lichtenfels, co-founder of Tamera
Programme
Saturday, 10 February
How to achieve Peace through Freeing Love and Sexuality from Fear
16:00 Doors open
16:30 Gaianna: A paradigm of love, relationships and sexuality, free from fear
17:00 Screening followed by Discussion: The Village of Lovers, Tamera 2023
Film information: https://thevillageoflovers.com/#trailer
Sunday, 11 February
Community Building + A Cry From the Future, Global Online Summit
9:00 Breakfast
11:00 Gaianna: Community-building Tools (CLIPS, Community building by Scott Peck, Heart Circle, Forum, Sociocracy)
The rest of the programme will be co-created on the spot.
Throughout the weekend we will be connecting with the Online Global Summit: A Cry From the Future, inspired by The Village of Lovers.
This is a free event, donations are highly appreciated.
Please bring food & drink to share.
There are possibilities for staying the night. Let us know if you’re interested in a spot. Children are welcome.
permalink: https://parentscollective.eimaste.net/2024/01/25/love-building-weekend/
fb: https://fb.me/e/1T5qJrXQJ
Contact: +35799586369
About Gaianna
I have found myself in a lot of different roles in my life. Today I identify more with being a community builder, traveller, facilitator, artist, and a researcher of the human experience. I’m passionate about deep ecology, self-development, spirituality, shamanism, tantra, relationships, somatic healing modalities, dance, music, handicraft and art, among other things. I cocreate projects in different organisations that promote sustainability, holistic lifestyle and community-based paradigms.
I’ve visited a number of ecocommunities around Europe since 2019 and have lived long term in two. Through these experiences I have become a firm believer that this is a lifestyle best suited for me. For this I have been collecting community-building tools and self-development modalities, which make coming back to a communal and holistic lifestyle possible. I am passionate about sharing these practises through events, courses and workshops, such as EDE (Ecovillage Design Education) in Gaia Academy and other educational and research projects in many community focused organisations.
In the autumn of 2023 my path led me to live, work, and train in the Tamera Healing Biotope ecocommunity in Portugal, an international training and experimental site for development of peace research villages. A big focus in this community is on freeing eros from fear. They believe that there will be no peace as long there is war in love, thus they are tackling the sources of war within the way that we love. I will share openly and honestly my experience with living in that community and the practise of love and sexuality free from fear- how it looks like practically, how it impacts the emotional life, how it challenges prevalent narratives around relationships, love and sexuality, why this is such an important topic for this community, and more.
Ελληνικά πιο κάτω
workshop with Chrystalleni Loizidou & Hülya Dede
at Phytorio, Visual Artists Association
4 November, 18 November, 2 December | 10:30am- 12:30pm
In the beginning there is flow. There is being in the rhythms of nature, a sense of belonging, with uninterrupted and unobserved experimentation and creativity. There is the feeling of the elements and the seasons, the observing and the doing. There is running and climbing and picking fruit and making shelter. And getting dirt between your toes. There is the joy of life and gratitude for the gifts of nature. Until the care-work that allows being in the rhythms of nature becomes imprisoned by practices of imposed education and productivity that disconnect us from flow and from our natural rhythms. Being, feeling and doing are turned into work and people into things. Thus the world is crazy and revolts are practices of rediscovering connection and rhythm. For this, we wish to share, remember, and develop with you customs of mindful presence and connection and belonging, by bringing together elements from Waldorf Steiner education which focuses on artistic rituals of skill development and transmission, from the Forest School movement and its emphasis on free learning in the forest, along with rescued traditions of premodern Cypriot upbringing.
This series of workshops is a collaboration between Είμαστε and Eğitim Sanatı Derneği / Association for the Art of Education, and have been previously hosted by the Connective Artistic Practices Symposium 2022 (Fontys University, Tilburg Netherlands) and the Deep Commons Conference (Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland in association with Le Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, Mississippi, USA. The latest piece authored by the group is entitled “Connective practices towards a radical politics of community-integrated learning and care across the divisions of Cyprus: Some learning points around making kin, cooperative pedagogy, and freedom-respecting technologies” part of the forthcoming SUNI Press publication “Deep Commons: Cultivating ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the state”.
Participation: 60€ (20€ x 3)
This workshop is addressed to parents and children, educators and individuals who share an interest in education as the cultivation of ways of being and working in harmonious co-presence with children and other adults in a spirit of play and creativity. It includes elements of speculative experimentation, handicraft, play through movement, song, and the co-creation of environments for free-play. Facilitation languages: Greek, Turkish, English.
For more information: 99586369
εργαστήρι με Χρυσταλλένη Λοϊζίδου & Hülya Dede
Oίκημα Φυτωρίου Εικαστικής Δημιουργείας
4 Νοεμβρίου, 18 Νοεμβρίου, 2 Δεκεμβρίου | 10:30 π.μ. – 12:30 μ.μ.
Στην αρχή υπάρχει ροή. Η ύπαρξη στους ρυθμούς της φύσης, η αίσθηση του ανήκειν, με αδιάκοπο απαρατήρητο πειραματισμό και δημιουργικότητα, η εμπειρία των στοιχείων και των εποχών, η παρατήρηση και η πράξη. Το τρέξιμο, το σκαρφάλωμα, το μάζεμα φρούτων, η κατασκευή καταφυγίων και η άμμος ανάμεσα στα δάχτυλα των ποδιών μας. Η συνύπαρξη μέσα στη χαρά ζωής και την ευγνωμοσύνη για τα δώρα της φύσης.
Μέχρι που η φροντίδα-εργασία που επιτρέπει την ύπαρξη σε φυσικούς ρυθμούς φυλακίζεται από πρακτικες επιβεβλημενης εκπαίδευσης και παραγωγικότητας που μας αποσπούν από τη ροή και από τους φυσικούς μας ρυθμούς. Η ύπαρξη, η αίσθηση και η πράξη μετατρέπονται σε δουλειά και οι άνθρωποι σε πράγματα. Για αυτό, η επανάσταση ενάντια στην αποξένωση είναι η φροντίδα και η μετάδοση πρακτικών ανάκτησης σύνδεσης και ρυθμού. Επιθυμούμε να μοιραστούμε έθιμα συνειδητής παρουσίας, σύνδεσης και ενίσχυσης της αίσθησης του ανήκειν, ανακαλώντας μια διευρυμένη έννοια της ευγνωμοσύνης-συγκομιδής και των τραγουδιών, χορών, παραμυθιών, και τελετουργιών της.
Προηγούμενες μορφές αυτής της εργασίας-φροντίδας υποστηρίχθηκαν από το Συμπόσιο Artistic Connective Practices (Fontys University, Tilburg Netherlands 2022) και το Deep Commons Conference (Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork, Ireland σε συνεργασία με το Le Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, Mississippi, USA). Η ομάδα (www.eimaste.net) συμμετέχει με το κεφάλαιο “Connective practices towards a radical politics of community-integrated learning and care across the divisions of Cyprus: Some learning points around making kin, cooperative pedagogy, and freedom-respecting technologies” στο επερχόμενο βιβλίο του SUNI Press “Deep Commons: Cultivating ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the state”.
Συμμετοχή: 60€ (20€ x 3εργαστήρια)
Το εργαστήρι, δομημένο σε τρεις δύωρες συναντήσεις, απευθύνεται σε γονείς, εκπαιδευτικούς ή άτομα που ενδιαφέρονται για την εκπαίδευση ως καλλιέργεια συντροφικότητας στην μαθησιακή πορεία των άλλων, αρμονικής συνύπαρξης και συνεργασίας με παιδιά και άλλους ενήλικες, μέσω παιχνιδιού και δημιουργικότητας προς μια ανθρώπινη μελλοντική κοινωνία. Συμπεριλαμβάνει εργασία με πηλό, τραγούδι, ελεύθερο παιχνίδι, προετοιμασία απλού γευματος, συνειδητή συνδημιουργία περιβάλλοντος για ελεύθερο παιχνίδι, ζωγραφική και χειροτεχνία. Γλώσσες εμψύχωσης: Ελληνικά, Τούρκικα, Αγγλικά
Πληροφορίες: 99586369
With great joy we invite families to join the new cycle of the “Eimaste” Parents Cooperative, for 2023. Our plan is to offer tailored childcare and learning resources responding to shared needs, building on the experience we’ve gathered since 2019. Our goal is to create a childcare environment and rhythm based on beautiful community and a sense of emotional security and belonging, where our children are safely able to learn and explore, embedded in a broader, reliable support-system of like-minded families. “Eimaste” serves as the foundation and primary infrastructure made up by pedagogues, spaces, materials, accummulated knowledge and best practices with elements from the Waldorf-Steiner, Forest School, “parenting by connection” and worldschooling movements.
We are able to support two mixed age cooperative pods one for the morning and one for the afternoon, made up of 4-8 families each. Contact Chrystalleni, our coordinator, at 99586369 to learn more and sign up for our Open Day on January 21st.
part of “Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus” developed for the Artistic Connective Practices Symposium, Fontys University Tilburg,
facilitated by Chrystalleni Loizidou and Hülya Dede