Empowerment
With our empowerment projects, we aim to offer the skills, tools and mentoring for young adults to grow into compassionate, competent eco-citizens, build team capacity, develop inner resilience and open heartedness facing crisis and empower them to be leaders of change.
Current projects
Yes to Sustainability
Yes to Sustainability is an international project that aims to bring together young people from different regions of Europe by organizing Youth Exchanges and Mobility for Youth workers (training courses, seminars, etc.) in various Ecovillages and ecofarms, funded by Erasmus+. Check it out by clicking on the links below!
Pathway to possibilities
The Youth Global Ecovillage Network offered a scholarship to visit one eco-community in summer 2021!
The founder of The Lonerd, Nico, received the opportunity on behalf of Next GENNA to spend 3 weeks at The Oracle Institute / Valley of Light! If you ever wanted to explore an intentional lifestyle with a stronger connection to the people around you and the environment, this video is just for you.
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Jóvenes en Territorio
- (eng) “Youth in territory, guardians of permaculture practices” is an educational process that proposes a creative methodology of community strengthening in municipalities, in order to empower youth through the use of artistic, ecological and social tools and technologies. By consolidating alliances with municipalities, we convoke young people who are interested in permaculture as a tool towards social innovation and provide knowledge and opportunities through education.
- (esp) “Jóvenes en territorio, guardianes de prácticas permaculturales” es un proceso educativo que propone una metodología creativa de fortalecimiento comunitario en municipalidades, con el fin de robustecer la población joven mediante el uso de herramientas y tecnologías artísticas, ecológicas y sociales. Queremos consolidar alianzas con las alcaldías, y en equipo realizar una convocatoria para rastrear jóvenes semilla de municipios, que estén interesados en la permacultura como herramienta hacia la innovación social, por medio de un proceso educativo proporcionado por CASA Jóvenes.
Avatar Training
- (eng) The Avatar is a 7-day immersion that happens both online and in-person. It delves into each of the chakras and elements of nature, using methodologies of Participatory Leadership and Integral Social Permaculture, for the empowerment of beings who seek, with a young spirit, to find their full potential.
- (esp) El Campamento Avatar es una inmersión tanto online cuanto presencial de 7 días, profundizando en cada uno de los chakras y elementos de la naturaleza, bajo metodologías de Liderazgo Participativo y Permacultura Social integral, para el empoderamiento de seres que buscan, con espíritu joven, encontrar su máximo potencial. Check it out by clicking on the links below!