Celebrating Community!

In these conscientious community collaboration sessions, participants will get to discover, dream, design and co-decide with the collective initiatives of the immediate community that are alive and growing in this beautiful countryside. There is a large host of pioneering initiatives living in this area, which are leading creative disciplines that support the growth of comprehensive sustainable development. One of our founding principles is that in order to promote a sustainable society, we first have to look at developing sustainable relationships in community and, building on this, our relationship with the environment will be naturally sustainable.

Think Globally, Act Locally

The idea is for participants to join hands with each other and the local community in a conscious practice of community development. The design of these sessions is well underway and we envision a healthy process to take place, one which allows you to realize your dreams for a sustainable and conscious society through grounded action.

Community Mapping

To this end, we are in the process of creating a map of living initiatives throughout the locality, profiling the extent of the local network, which will provide a base for us to engage the wider community. The participants of YIP will be carrying out this initiative during their Community Engagements program in May.

Update May 14th: (Jonas Darin)

In the schedule of Sense Festival, there is something called community collaboration. People from the local community and the international community are coming together in Järna to perform collaborative action in four days. The action aspires to create profound relationships with ourselves and nature.

Why do we need to collaborate?

We need unity and we need each other. Competition has destroyed enough on this planet. Business powers that are aspiring to economical growth separate humanity from nature. People can "collaboratively" be working with social ills as well, so we first need to explore and understand why we need "collaboration".

The best way to find this out is to simply ask people that are living in and caring about the community.

What are your dreams for this community?

What are we working for, where are we working, and how could that action look?
I see food and education as the basics in which we have the possibility to explore further to gain sustainable development. The food cycle starts when seeds are planted in the soil. We therefore need to investigate agriculture (farms and gardens) to see what the aspiration is. Education is the field and space for us to develop the best potential in human beings.

If we intend to perform action in Järna Community, we have to care about it. If we intend to ask the people in the community about their dreams we have to respect these dreams, fully embrace them and have the intention to fulfil them – through mind, heart or hand.

Järna Community:

LUNCH (1pm)

The meal of the day! No doubt with all that community action you'll be ready to enjoy a carefully prepared organic meal under the shade of our apple trees, and take some time to relax in conversation, sharing the insights of the morning.