This 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

To me the 5-week long EDE was like fertile soil, where my needs for living, eating, community, authentic contact, educational input, transformative experiences and room for slowness were met and I could thrive and prosper in a supportive and loving environment. I especially loved how the embodiment of experiences was so presently woven into the schedule through dance, voice and music, that I was constantly invited to integrate what I was learning on multiple levels.

Ellen, EDE 2025

My 5 weeks of learning about and living within a community setting at the EDE Glarisegg were some of the best weeks of my life. Not only did I meet life-long friends and community connections, the social tools I learnt, such as ‘Looping’, ‘My Story About You’ and Sociocracy 3.0, will prove invaluable for me to take forward in my next community living adventures. Thanks to everyone, especially the wonderful facilitators, for their wisdom and care.

Rach, EDE 2025

I love to compare my experience to a magnetic or electric field where I, as a human being, feel safe and seen and with all the tools and knowledge in hand enabled to just be there, in trust, upright, present, and able to increase my capacities in facing the struggles in life, on earth that I see for me. I came out of it with more courage, that’s what I mostly felt lacking of beforehand.

Gianluca, EDE 2024

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m still wondering if this experience was true.
Widely open minds and hearts full of love, I just simply couldn’t get enough.
The way I felt heard, the way I felt seen, those moments erased everything mean.
At times I did struggle, not gonna lie, and other times I felt like I was gonna fly.
Forever grateful I will be, the EDE family, I carry them with me.

Mag, EDE 2025

The EDE ‘24 at Glarisegg was a life changing experience. I traveled across the world from Australia with just enough information to trust that this course was right for me. What I didn’t expect was it would transform my understanding of myself, others and the world around me, in such a way that upon returning to Australia, I now carry myself in the world in a whole new way. The story of needing to heal the earth has been retold to me. Rather than problems at its heart, I now see a
world where healing oneself, and reconnecting to others will allow us all to reconnect to the earth;
creating systems that are life centric and driven by growth of living things, rather than inequitable economics.
I am profoundly grateful for all of the community of participants, assistance and trainers who guided me on my EDE journey. The EDE has changed me. Change which didn’t happen to me, but happened through me.
This is an experience that I will carry with me in every word, every relationship and every interaction.

Adrian, EDE 2024

I 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 2024

After 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