Creating Transformative Cultures focuses on the practice of connecting with others as the core of its learning journey. How we are able to connect lies at the centre of every human interaction, every collective project, and every culture — no matter where in the world. Building, maintaining, and nurturing healthy connections are key, no matter where your curiosity and passion may lead you.

Today, knowledge and techniques are easily accessible through courses, workshops, and online resources. But relational and emotional intelligence can only be cultivated through lived, embodied practice — in real contact with people who are also willing to embark on this journey. For us, this is the true gift of spending five weeks together: the opportunity to practice, again and again, a basic and yet essential art of being human.

We offer you a unique in-depth exploration and experience of community building in the current times as a key element of needed transformations!

The five-week learning journey starts with You!

By first deepening your connection with yourself, your nervous system and your emotions through various tools and methods, you start to enlarge your capacity to deal with others and the contexts that are in need of your attention. How do you face uncertainty and difficult emotions without letting them overwhelm you? Building this emotional capacity will be central throughout the course.

Guided by the framework of The Work That Reconnects by Buddhist scholar and activist Joanna Macy, which encourages reconnection with the earth and each other in the face of ecological and social crises, the first four weeks will be shaped by her approach: fostering gratitude, honouring difficult emotions, exploring new and ancient ways of seeing the world, and ultimately engaging proactively. Each week will have numerous thematic workshops and diverse sessions.

Through collaborative project work in a smaller group, you will research relevant topics for a regenerative future while learning what it takes to stay connected when difficulties arise. This is a common breaking point for many communities, projects and movements- we therefore work with various tools to master this challenge. These Collaboration Groups are being supported by us to develop and later facilitate a session within course, transmitting their findings in a creative and transformative way to everyone else.

The Learning Journey also provides sufficient space for the many processes that usually come up when a group of different people gets together. You will experience how to deal with Emergence and how important it is to listen to it for groups to stay connected.

The fifth week is a unique extension of the EDE Glarisegg. It opens the space for previous participants to return and join in a co-created week of skill-sharing, networking, and collective celebration. In this way, the course weaves together a living network of over 400 people, expanding the ripple of community and learning far beyond a single edition.

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