Our Values

We value:

• • Love, compassion and being fully alive
    ~ Generating kindness, compassion, forgiveness, appreciation and gratitude.
    ~ Welcoming the full kaleidoscope of human emotions and states of being, including vulnerability, anger, fear, humour, playfulness and joy, as part of our humanness and essential to our capacity for love, compassion and being fully alive.
    ~ Recognising that collective trauma lives within all of our bodies, whether this is currently apparent or not, and that our individual and collective healing and transformation requires us all to turn towards and transform this in whatever ways are possible for us.
    ~ Cultivating self awareness, self-responsibility and a willingness to grow through the challenges of being in relationship and being human, including rupture and repair.
    ~ Encouraging and supporting each of our unique gifts to be cultivated and shared.
    ~ Engaging in embodied awareness practices and moving towards more embodied ways of being and relating.
    ~ Cultivating radical inclusivity so that we can love more of ourselves and others. * By ‘radical inclusivity’ we mean the transformatory process of learning to welcome, accept and love the parts of ourselves that we have been conditioned to repress, reject and make wrong. It is only when we learn to love these parts in ourselves that we can cultivate the love and compassion needed to welcome these parts in others and begin to live in truly inclusive ways in relation to others.
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  • Ecological homecoming
    ~ Living in respectful and close connection with the land and the rest of life
    ~ Supporting wildlife to thrive on the land, around our buildings and in the rest of the world.
    ~ Valuing deep nature connection practices like sit spots, bird language and sensory awareness to nourish ourselves, build connection to place and befriend the land. 
    ~ Growing and producing in regenerative ways that build soil and wildlife habitat, recycling our ‘wastes’ and maximising the potential abundance of our site.
    ~ Investing our precious resources in ways that support others who are growing and producing in regenerative ways, and especially those local to us.
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  • Mutually beneficial reciprocal relationship
    ~ Sharing resources, physical and beyond.
    ~ Meeting many of our physical and social needs on site.
    ~ Creating ceremony and honouring the sacred, including community ceremonies, honouring the seasons and the cycles of life.
    ~ Honouring of all life and creating spaces to grieve and honour death.
    ~ Respecting our private and shared spaces.
    ~ Connecting with the local environment and community.
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  • Shared power, governance and responsibility
    ~ Including the perspectives of all those impacted by our decision making ~ human and other-than-human and remembering ourselves as part of the vast web of life.
    ~ Using collective decision-making processes as appropriate.
    ~ Recognising and respecting that hierarchy does exist, for example, in terms of some people having more experience, skills, understanding and self-awareness – and that sharing our gifts requires us to be willing to use the power that this creates in ways that are in service to the whole.
    ~ Take on agreed roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and be willing to use our power to make clear decisions in service of the community and our vision.
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  • Decolonising at depth: awakening to and co-liberating from our cultural conditioning
    ~ Recognising that how we show up in the world and the beliefs that shape our behaviours and choices are largely a result of cultural conditioning and the consciousness this is grounded in – and that most of our behaviours, beliefs, prejudices and blindspots are unconsciously held and acted upon.
    ~ Finding ways to awaken to our cultural conditioning so we can make choices grounded in a consciousness that is heart-centred, relational and radically inclusive (see above for explanation of what we mean by this!)
    ~ Recognising that this process happens through a remembering of how to fully inhabit our bodies, minds and hearts and through our relationship with other humans, the land and other-than-humans.
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  • Working with emergence
    ~ Meeting life as it is; learning to be in the unknown; and letting go of trying to ‘predict and control’ how things should be.
    ~ Receiving and responding to the feedback life gives us in each moment, adapting our next steps accordingly – which arises in the form of thoughts, feelings, sensations, intuitions and imagination.
    ~ Keeping an eye on the long term vision whilst taking one step at a time.
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  • Living as our longings
    Singing, dancing, playing, laughing, cooking, growing, timelessness and being and co-creating together in ways that bring us more fully alive.