The Ripple Project is about meeting, sharing, and learning with others who are interested in creating sustainable community. During the summer you will:
-Share stories, ideas, food, work, skills, play, and creation.
-Learn and practice non-violent communication, consensus decision making and conflict resolution.
-Connect with other communities.
-Offer service nearby to those in need.
-Take part in the continual creation of a vibrant community.
Voluntary simplicity:
You may naturally pick up a variety of simpler living skills during the project because you will be practicing simpler living all summer.
-Live rurally, outdoors.
-Build skills by practicing outdoor living, organic gardening, fire making, foraging, shelter building, outdoor cooking...
-Visit other eco-villages and help with projects such as the construction of solar showers and a straw bale house.
Spirituality:
-As a community, develop a way of sharing your diverse spiritual paths.
-Share ritual, music, prayer...
-Visit spiritually-based communities.
Here is what a regular, stay-at-home day may look like:
Morning -morning ritual (yoga, meditation, song�)
-breakfast (which was prepared over fire by a fellow participant)
-work projects: working in the herb and vegetable garden, working on a
small business plan, preparing a presentation you�ll give to the group on permaculture
design, working on food preparation and storage issues �
Mid-day -relaxed lunch of garden greens and bread
-siesta
-work projects
-discussion circle (weekly topics may include: bringing vision to reality; creating a new economy, deep ecology, the artistry of anarchy, right livelihood...)
Evening -supper
-weekly meeting
-free time to play music, go swimming, read, write, etc.
