Creating Transformative Cultures is a five weeks experiential laboratory, where you are encouraged to pose the questions most relevant to our times. You explore what it means to be alive on this beautiful but wounded planet. How to hold the complexity of a world in crisis? Within yourself and others?
The course intends to empower and accompany you on your path. It is an invitation to ask yourself: How do I truly want to show up for myself and others in this precious moment of life? What motivates me to take action and what is holding me back from trying?
You will be surrounded by people from all walks of life, ages, genders and backgrounds, open to imagine a regenerative way of being and acting with creativity and playfulness.
Together you embark on a lively journey of collaboration. You experience the power of authenticity, of community and the art of connection – which are needed antidotes to polarisation, discrimination and separation. You will research and learn what it takes to be fully present, to co-create communities and projects, maintain them in a healthy way and overcome challenges together.
Rach, EDE 2025This EDE has been a huge experiential learning for me. The course gave me the opportunity to grow in to the different parts of my individuality, to more fully serve the community and the project I was helping bring alive. I learnt tools that allowed me to work with conflict in a constructive way, something I had previously shied away from. We also worked on recognising the importance of every individual opinion (including my own) in tools like sociocracy. This showed me how the diversity of opinion and experience in the collective helps create meaningful decisions and actions. We explored the different ways ‘power with’ not ‘power over’ organising can be done – I was very inspired by the permaculture principles in this social context. In the future I’ll use these tools in the community and workplace organising I do with the hope to create long lasting, meaningful change that the community is committed to and passionate about.
Jess, EDE 2025
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Adrian, EDE 2024I thoroughly enjoyed exploring all the content shared during the EDE course, however diving deep into the social aspects was profoundly interesting for me. The best part of the experience was being able to practically use the skills we learnt in our project groups and with the wider community.
Cassandra, EDE 2024After leaving the EDE, I felt so many positive changes in myself. I was better able to listen, really listen, to people. Listening in this way helped me stay regulated during difficult conversations – when things got heated, I knew I could simply step back and just listen. I also noticed I had less shame. I still heard the old stories in my head, stories like ‘nobody likes me’ and ‘I am not talented enough ‘, but instead of withdrawing, I could see they were just stories and was able to stay present. During the EDE, I felt deeply interconnected to the group around me and safe enough to take ‘relational risks that reaped relational rewards’. This meant I made a lot of new friends! My EDE time was full of magic and one of the best five weeks of my life.
Rachel, EDE 2025