We live at a moment of evolutionary transition, when it depends on all of us what the next cycle will be like. The ecological, social, and political crises converging around us are not separate problems waiting for separate solutions — they are symptoms of transformation on all layers of our life. Different actors lead to contradicting futures and the healthy flow of energy and meaning from ancestors through us to descendants is severed by centuries of systemic violence, intergenerational trauma and the exceptionally rapid and destructive pace of global change.

Those of us working on systemic change recognise parts of this fractures intimately. We can describe the elements of the crisis with precision. We can model scenarios, map stakeholders, design interventions. And yet something essential keeps slipping through. The living thread connecting us to what came before and what might yet come — the thread that gives change-work its meaning and its energy — cannot be caught by analysis alone. Nor can a myriad of transitional, regenerative practices be modelled and strategized from afar, without an effort to actually live and practice them.

We are gathering a small group of people who work at the edge of this — NGO leaders, peacebuilders, ecologists, journalists, community weavers, social entrepreneurs — not to produce another strategy, but to do something different: to find together the deeper current that our separate efforts are already serving. What the indigenous traditions would call the song of life. What system thinkers would call the emergent field. What you may simply feel as the calling that drew you into this work before you had words for it.

We invite you to a future living lab - a space of collective awareness and feeling to find visions, meanings, grounded practices, connections and common actions towards futures that serve life – the wellbeing of both human and more-than-human actors.

A new cooperation models are needed: of planetary peacemakers who operate in both spatial and temporal dimensions. People who carry out their work against oppressive structures, towards systemic change and mutual solidarity – be it through small local projects, spiritual practices, community organising or else. How can this work be weaved from a state of profound peacemaking and co-existence, of ecological and social reconciliations, despite of the contradictions, specific positionalities and capacities each of these efforst carry? How to connect the dots we all carry and find an emerging Common Song?

It is not a retreat or a conference but living lab. This means that we will practice our ideas, intentions and prayers through in real living experience: collective cooking, shared care of the space, grounding in place before human-to-human process.

To ensure a coherent group experience, participation is by application. To participate, please fill out the form and we will contact you.

We ask all participants to arrive by 17h when the program will start on July 31st (the arrivals are possible from 15h onwards). We will start program at the evening and the first meal will be dinner. Departure is by 15:00 of August 3rd.

Cost of participation is 100 euro.

Accommodation in shared double or triple rooms is included. We ask that you bring your own sleeping bags or bed sheets and towels to save electricity and water for washing. The plant-based, local and low waste food is also included and will be prepared collectively by participants and organisers. 

If you feel that it is important for you to participate but you can't afford the full fee, please let us know. If you can afford to pay for someone else's participation in addition to yours, please let us know as well.

If you would like to ask any questions, please write to Peter Levich (email, telegram).

After the event the report will be prepared. If you are unable to attend but would like to receive it and such information, please leave your email here.