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Articles, essays and updates from Life Itself exploring the ideas, practices and communities creating a wiser, weller world.
Finding the Center in Field Building
What does the process of field building look like?
Tenzo Note 12: Fermenting Culture
A journey through Japan's food fermentation culture and the value these culinary techniques bring to our lives.
Another Chance to Join the Hub's Long-Term Residency
This fall we've been doing things a little bit different at our hub in Southwestern France. What is usually a space for shorter residencies around specific topics has opened its doors to explorers willing to join conscious community longer-term. In this blog we share exciting updates!
Announcing Life Itself 2024 Gathering
Annoucing the return of our original annual event: the Gathering! The theme for 2024 will be the Second Renaissance: journey to an awakening society. In this event we will explore art as gateway to political, social and spiritual transformation.
Community Call: How to Handle Anything in Life and Community
The underlying pattern of growing up and becoming wise typically remains unseen. In this call James takes us through his "how to grow" model distilled from developmental and relational practice work.
Tenzo Note 11: Samhain, the Autumnal Transition of Life
An autumnal reflection on how food is interconnected with the cycles of Death and Life
Guardian Note 1: Autumnal Reflections from the Bergerac Hub
Following her first month as Hub guardian, Alexia shares about the rhythm and atmosphere of the fall residency.
Mythology and the Art of Rituals
A part of the art of rituals is to make those myths we carry visible, because we can not transform something we are not aware of.
Community Call: Creating Communities for Creators with Victoria Dobbs
Artists, makers, performers, and other creatives have their own needs when it comes to shared spaces. We'll talk about challenges and solutions in designing spaces that can meet and adapt to those needs.
Documentaries about conscious coliving, intentional communities and ecovillages
We recently shared an article listing several documentaries about cults gone wrong to demonstrate some of the red flags to look for before joining a conscious community of any sort. In this article, we want to expand and cover multiple perspectives on the exploration of conscious coliving.
