| | GENOA Newsletter: July & August 2025 Live and Learn Together 🙌 |
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| Dear Friend,
This edition of our newsletter is full of exciting stories and updates from across the GENOA network! We celebrate our presence at the European Ecovillage Gathering, highlight inspiring talks and workshops in our region, share reflections and resources to support our collective journeys, and invite you into the upcoming ecovillage talk as well as community call to keep learning and growing together.
Each piece is a reminder of the joy, resilience, and creativity that emerge when our communities connect across cultures and generations.
Enjoy it fully, share it widely and connect to tell us about your work!
In community, GENOA Operations Team 🦋 |
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| Join us for an inspiring conversation with Kavitha, a third-generation member of Auroville and co-founder of Alaya Ecolodge in Bali. Drawing on the values of one of the world’s largest intentional communities, Kavitha and her family have created a living example of how ecovillage wisdom can adapt and flourish in new soil. Discover how deep listening to local communities and Balinese traditions of harmony between people, nature, and the divine have shaped Alaya into a regenerative space that bridges global experience with local culture.
📅 Date & Time: 7PM UTC+7 Wednesday, October 8th 2025 (check local time)
🔗 Register here: Zoom Registration Link |
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| 🌱 Community Resilience - Join us in Thailand this November! 🌱
Living Regeneration – Half-day Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand
Join us for a workshop exploring how regenerative design principles can foster community and ecosystem resilience in city environments. Let’s reimagine urban spaces together—as lively, interconnected hubs where people and nature flourish.
📍 Tham Me Restaurant, Bangkok
🗓 Sunday, 23 Nov | 14:00–17:00
🔗 Read more & register here
Building Resilience in Challenging Times - 2.5 day training in Khao Yai, Thailand
Step into community-based resilience with this learning experience designed for practitioners, organizers, and changemakers. Together, let’s explore ways to stay grounded and connected amid overlapping crises and strengthen our collective capacity to thrive.
📍 All Green Learning Center, Pak Chong
🗓 Thursday–Sunday, 27–30 Nov
🔗 Read more & register here |
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| Miss our last ecovillage talk?
Discover how intergenerational ecovillage life unfolds
Explore the latest Ecovillage Talk featuring three generations from Australia’s Narara Ecovillage—co-founder Lyndall Parris, her daughter Marg, and grandson Zinn. This heartfelt conversation shares vivid, lived stories about governance, cohesion, and how children participate meaningfully in community life. 👉 Find out more |
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| | Host a Screening of Eternal Song
As part of Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025, we are opening a limited number of virtual community screenings of Eternal Song: A Climate Listening Space. This powerful documentary weaves Indigenous wisdom, ancestral remembrance, and the urgent call for a cultural shift in how we respond to the climate crisis. Apply to host a screening at the same time as the live event on Wed, October 1st, 3PM UTC+7 👉 Apply here to host a virtual screening |
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| | Community Call: Rights of Nature
Join us on November 25 for a special community call exploring the Rights of Nature, featuring voices from the global movement alongside local and Indigenous elders from the GENOA region. Together, we will listen, learn, and reflect on how recognizing the rights of rivers, forests, and ecosystems can transform our relationship with the living Earth. 📩 Details to follow — register your interest here to stay updated! |
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| In August 2025, GENOA’s spirit shone brightly at the European Ecovillage Gathering in Hungary, where over 700 people from around the world came together in celebration of community and regeneration. Representing Oceania and Asia with love and pride were Thalea (Aotearoa), Thao Kin (Vietnam), Natalie (Thailand), Amena, Brij and Namu (India), and Sunyoung with her family (South Korea). Together, they shared stories, songs, and cultures from our diverse region, weaving heartfelt connections with long-term members of the Global Ecovillage Network and planting seeds for inspiring collaborations to come. 🌍 Stay tuned for more reflections and stories from our GENOA representatives in the months ahead! Be part of GEN’s 30th Anniversary! |
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| | Stories & Resources from the Network |
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| | In this reflective piece, GENOA Network Coordinator Thao Kin shares her path into the ecovillage movement—from personal burnout and renewal at Gaia Ashram, to co-creating Restore & Re-story during the pandemic, and holding GENOA as a vibrant, connected network. Her story offers a glimpse into the spirit of emergence, resilience, and the transition journey of GEN Oceania & Asia. |
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| | GEN Japan recently hosted a webinar series on “Creating Sustainable Communities: Insights and Experiences”, featuring community leaders sharing perspectives on sustainability, parenting, and personal growth. The sessions emphasized reconnecting with nature, fostering relationships, and celebrating diversity in community life. Future events will continue to weave insights and experiences on community building. |
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| | The Kincentric Leadership Handbook invites us to reimagine leadership as an expression of kinship with all life. Blending principles, practices, and stories, it serves as a practical field guide for personal and collective transformation—shifting from human-centered approaches toward life-centered ways of leading. Available as an interactive online guide or downloadable PDF, with more resources on the website. |
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| INTRODUCING ECOVILLAGE
Pun Pun Center for Self Reliance
Pun Pun is a small organic farm and learning center in north of Thailand, where a vibrant community of both Thai locals and internationals are practicing and sharing sustainable living through seed saving, natural building and appropriate technology. Pun Pun offers diverse learning courses all year round. Read more here |
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| | | Events, Courses, Opportunities & other offerings from the network: Mindful Facilitation For Empowerment Training of Trainers (TOT) | 28 Sep - 12 Oct 2025 | Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand - Discount available for GENOA 🎉 Nonviolent Communication International Intensive Training | 24 Oct - 2 Nov 2025 | Vietnam Get Grounded | 10 - 14 Oct 2025 | Pun Pun, Thailand Training of Ecological Self (Deep Ecology Facilitator Training) | 10 - 16 Oct 2025 | Gaia Ashram, Thailand Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) | 3 - 28 Nov 2025 | Alaya Ecolodge, Bali, Indonesia - Discount available for GENOA 🎉 Ecoversities Alliance Global Gathering | 7– 12 Nov 2025 | Thailand Living Regeneration: Cultivating community in urban landscapes | 23 Nov 2025 | Bangkok, Thailand Building Resilience in Challenging Times | 27-30 Nov 2025 | Thailand - Scholarships available 🎉 Earth & Bamboo workshop | 25-28 Nov 2025 | Auroville, India Abundance Festival | 29 Nov 2025 | Pun Pun, Thailand Gaia Education Training of Trainers (TOT) | 1 - 6 Dec 2025 | Alaya Ecolodge, Bali, Indonesia - Discount available for GENOA 🎉 Dances of Universal Peace International Camp | 30 Nov - 6 Dec 2025 | Thailand Land Design | 2-6 Dec 2025 | Pun Pun, Thailand Natural Building Basics | 17-19 Dec 2025 | Auroville, Thailand Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) | 15 Jan - 15 Feb 2026 | Gaia Ashram, Thailand
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