La'akea Events in April and May!
Creating Conscious Community- New Culture Hawaii Spring Camp
Come join us for 7 days of vibrant immersion
in our community lifestyle!
April 25-May 2nd, 2023 Big Island, Hawaii
Application open! No payment due now.
Come early for our Sacred Touch Retreat! April 21-23
Have you ever dreamed of
living in a land based community/ family/ tribe
where folks are living simply, co-owning land and sharing power,
and growing wonderful organic food?
The members of La'akea Community on the Big Island of Hawaii invite you to an intensive, skill building, really fun New Culture camp to help you learn the skills to create more land based, live-in communities in your area.
The members here wanted the same things! We found each other at Network for New Culture Summer camp, worked together to buy a 23 acre piece of land on the Big Island, and have co-created La'akea Permaculture Community (www.permaculture-hawaii.com) successfully since 2004.
Come join us for 7 days, six nights of profound, deeply safe and nurturing connection with each other. Give your heart, talent, knowledge and goodwill to the weaving of a beautiful tapestry of communal experience. With workshops around relationship, self-care, healthy sensuality, communication and healing modalities, the aim of our rich program is toward the health and self-actualization of the individual and the collective.
Our program complements knowledge-sharing with intuitive experiences like music jams, Tantra pujas, cuddle puddles, excursions off the land, and dance.
This program pivots around a daily community-wide practice of sharing and being seen called forum(out of ZEGG community in Germany). The practice of forum--in tandem with the diversity of individual experiences--carries the group into an energetic that is ever more interconnected and potent. In this energetic, we are increasingly able to be fed by the magic of each experience and by the moments and spaces between.
We welcome you to a life-changing experience and hope to see you here.
Community Tour
Where: La'akea Community
When: April 1st at 9:30am
Who: Aniko Willoughby; 808-214-4601
What: Tour La'akea Community
Cost: Donation, suggested $10-20 if you can. No one turned away.
Description: Come join us for a tour of our community! Allow Tracy, one of our members, to walk you around the land, including our organic gardens, alternative building methods, off grid solar system, animals and orchards.
More Info: Text Aniko for more info at 808-214-4601 PLEASE RSVP
Forum Facilitator Workshop
Where: La'akea Community
When: April 14th-15th, 10am - 5:30pm
Who: Tracy Matfin & Biko 808-443-4076
Cost: $100 (+$15/lunch or dinner)
Description:
Forum is a tool that supports going beyond politeness and surface expression to the pulsing aliveness within. Participants experience the freedom and permission to be who they are and allow others to witness them this way. The trust and openness shared on a forum journey bonds and heals on individual, community, and collective levels.
*HOW IT WORKS: The goal of Forum is to reveal what is alive but not known to all. The community sits in a circle, forming a stage for one person at a time to stand and show what is true for them. Facilitators may assist the person (or "presenter") to reveal themselves more deeply. Afterward, community members may offer reflections, or "mirrors" on what they saw. The ideal of Forum is to bring out the beauty of the person, revealing their highest potential.
*ROLE OF FACILITATOR: The facilitators play a major role in this process. They act as "midwives" to assist the authentic process which the presenter undergoes. They are given the trust of the group to guide the process according to their experience and intuition.
*WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR: Forum facilitator training is for those drawn to serve community as a facilitator, and/or for those who wish to dive deeper into the forum process.
* This will be an experiential training *
Practicing the role of facilitator in a learning container helps to:
Discover if it's a path that sings to you
Build the confidence and experience to serve a room
Gain exponential wisdom from others