If you have interest in co-stewarding Village Land or developing strategies for fashioning a future on terms that include Balance, Peace and Freedom underpinned by LOVE, come to the next village.
Villages usually start on a Friday afternoon and finish on Tuesdays
Brief Overview
Village Gatherings have been happening since 2015 with groups of people coming together who are all interested in community and who work with one another to make their time together the best it can be?
Village gatherings are like a joyful, interactive and creative personal growth workshop. Each person becomes their best self with the help of others who are there to support them.
The gatherings are essentially based on the concept of contribution, inviting everyone who attends to bring their own unique contribution to the group. It’s not an “event” but rather a gathering of people who offer their unique gifts into the space.
That can bring some things up in this world where we can easily harbour expectations that everything be done for us.
How do we deal with the square peg in the round hole? What if that square peg turns out to be you? How can we organise ourselves to create a society of inclusion, adventure AND safety?
Workshops, kitchen prep, games for kids, massage, ceremony, music and a plethora of other offerings (or the lack of them – like when no-one wants to cook dinner for the whole gathering) mean it’s never possible to predict exactly what your experience will be at The Village.
The Village in Australia has been hosted for the past seven years at private land and campgrounds in south east Queensland and northern NSW.
The Village has also happened near Melbourne, in New Zealand, near Montreal in Canada and in the village of Llangollen in Central North Wales, UK.
Amongst a range of enquiries, there have also been people making approaches to conduct The Village in Perth, Adelaide, North Queensland, the USA, Cyprus and Estonia. The village has also commenced in Sydney, NSW.
The Village can happen anywhere. Just ask.
The Village – it’s a movement.
For more information, to become a member or to attend a gathering, please contact us
When?
A Link is provided in the member’s area. A gathering for members only.
We gather again in times and situations where these gatherings have new meaning and relevance.
Locations near both sides of the border are currently used to provide the best assurance that we will gather together at easily accessible places.
At most Villages
unique and beautiful offerings have included:
- Massage and bodywork
- Ceremonies and dancing
- Coffee and chai spaces
- Sound baths
- Crystal bowls and gongs
- Mantra chanting and kirtan
- Land regeneration and tree planting
- Didge healings
- Workshops
- Childcare
- Community kitchen and cooking
- Campfire discussions and sharing
- Sweat lodge
- Dance party
- Acoustic music
- Talent show
- Cuddle puddles, hug patrols
- Pancake, pizza and sourdough making workshops
- Henna design, paint and colour
- Bushwalking and farm tours, Guided Meditations
- World’s biggest tree swing
- Existential wisdom
Bring your own special offering!
Bring yourself, your family and friends.
All are welcome.
For so many Villagers there have been enduring friendships and connections made providing a matrix of people that form a family that isn’t “blood” family; a tribe that isn’t bound by dogma; a group of people motivated by the potential of a new design for living based on gifting, sharing and contributing, exercising “Ubuntu” (I am because we are), solidly held by the three pillars of Balance, Peace and Freedom sustained on a foundation of Love.
At most villages there are flush toilets, hot showers, campfires, delicious rock pools and even a hot tub by the creek.
There are fabulous swimming holes, shady spots, delightful people, roads suitable for two or four wheel drive and the rest is up to you.
Based on Ubuntu principles (I am because we are) and contribution, the Village is an ongoing social experience that has taken on a vitalised relevance as we face significant and confronting change in our society.
You are openly invited and encouraged to bring your unique gifts and offerings, laughter, sadness, anxiety, peacefulness, anger, frustration, fear, love, centred calmness, opinion and everything else that can exist under our self imposed boundary of remaining in Balance, Peace and Freedom underpinned by L❤️VE
