The Vision

To help manifest this vision we have conceived of a way for sympathetic kindred spirits to wilfully move their own lives into more spiritual and eco-friendly directions, while simultaneously becoming directly involved in the evolution of one of South Africa’s pioneering ecovillages.
By building a learning centre in the heart of our community we intend to expand upon our vision of sharing the essential experiences and joys of ecovillage living within the very environment they are practiced and celebrated. Accordingly, we call this endeavour and the centre itself: Home Of Providence & Ecoliving or HOPE.

All who come to HOPE will be fully immersed into a stimulating learning environment where everything from the accommodation to the food have grown from an unwavering commitment to natural and health-conscious living. Through balancing theory, practice and personal development we aim to create a uniquely integrated experience. For example, someone coming for a cob-building workshop will inevitably be exposed to a variety of daily community activities from yoga to gardening from appropriate technology to talking circles. Moreover, the exceptional benefit for all visitors and participants will be to taste the magic and diversity of a blossoming ecovillage- HOPE-fully inspiring many more to engage in the collective flow towards the emergence of an awakened, abundant society.

Here’s a short list of the types of workshops and retreats one can expect to attend:

• Spirit & Body (Meditation, Yoga, Healing retreats, Vision Quest, Massage, Nutrition, Natural medicine, Dance, Capoeira, Music, Theatre, Circus)

• Ecology & Living (Organic gardening, Seed saving, Ecovillage building, Natural building, Appropriate technology, Water & Waste management, Bee keeping, Surviving peak oil, Food preparation)

• Social & Communication (Natural childbirth, Child education, Co-Creating, Xhosa learning, Collective decision making, Inter-cultural Harmony, Conflict resolution, Group wisdom)

• For Children There will be 3 – 7 day camps with most of the above activities presented in an accessible and fun-filled way. The two age groups will be 7-11 and 12-16.

By providing an exceptional and congenial setting with all natural and eco-innovative facilities and delectable, wholesome food that is largely produced and prepared on-site, we hope to attract national and international facilitators who are pioneering their respective fields.

Furthermore, we have already begun to initiate outreach programs aimed at informing and empowering rural communities. All courses and conferences will accommodate for participants from these communities through scholarships. As HOPE grows, so will our supportive and humanitarian embrace of rural community.

“Enlightened collectives will fulfill an important function in the arising of the new consciousness… [they] can be a vortex for consciousness that will accelerate the planetary shift.” – Eckhart Tolle (from A New Earth)