Meditation & Practice
Practical insights from 20 re:build sessions on implementing meditation & practice in regenerative villages.
Definition
Meditation and practice involve regular contemplative activities that support personal and collective transformation. Practices can include daily affirmations, visualization of life energy flowing from your body, and sending positive intentions into the world to support collective spiritual strength.
Methods and Approaches
And I suppose through a process of inward discovery and meditation and yoga and breathing and all these practices that many of us explore and adopt in our daily lives
And the method that makes sense to me is to start at a reasonable extent, and to practice with reasonably low stakes, where the cost of failure is not too high
I think that's what we practice for exploring that actually how to listen to learn and learn a very good people into that process
And I think that's a great way to see this practice
Aside from doing like an immersive training of, you know, maybe along weekend, which, you know, before day training, but also then to be able to have practice groups, where you can use as a facilitator you can bring the examples from your world and work with other facilitators, and other people who are passionate about this kind of a sort of process, so that you can get some practice at it
Benefits
I'm The spiritual dimension for regeneration, helping us go create a culture of healing consciousness happens when we act with the knowing that all places in action are interconnected, being very conscious of the positive impact in the now
Key Insights
Visualization meditation: Visualization meditation helps connect to your highest vision for your project, creating clarity and alignment.
Learning from sacred sites: Exploring the world's most sacred sites reveals what makes them powerful. Some temples (like those in northern Italy) began as meditation chambers and expanded into remarkable spaces, demonstrating how practice spaces can evolve.
Spiritual council: Some communities include spiritual councils that look at things from spiritual perspectives, though implementing this can be challenging.
Regular practice: Regular practice (perhaps once every year or two for major events) helps maintain connection and clarity.
Global practice emergence: After practicing for about 15 years, some practitioners notice that practices are now emerging everywhere simultaneously across all continents—in ideas, food systems, and many other domains.
Legacy of practice: Some people's life legacy becomes creating spaces to practice love—making practice central to their contribution.
Theory and practice balance: There's a need to balance theory with actual practice—theory alone isn't enough.
Spiritual dimension gap: After working with regeneration for over a decade, many practitioners notice a gap where people aren't actively speaking about the spiritual dimension, even though they're all doing it in practice.
Examples and Case Studies
So the way that you actually do this is, you know, visualization meditation to connect to your highest vision for your project
And then when we have the whole infrastructure to hold it, we are focused on making the immersive transformation experiences to focus about the reconnections of humans with themselves with community and nature, but not only in the theory, but putting into practice, putting into projects in their own lives or collaborative ones
Best Practices
- We're all dealing with all the have practices, but I think I've noticed as a community, it doesn't get much of our attention
- And that people empower to share our spirituality or and, and our spirituality, or healing, openly and courageously
- So with that, I would just begin by giving you a taste of the healing consciousness through a very short sweet meditation
- And we need to collectively remember in practice that we are spiritual beings having a physical presence
Implementation Guide
To implement meditation & practice in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:
Implementation details to be added.
Real-World Examples
These partners are actively implementing meditation & practice in their projects:
Exosphere
Exosphere operates as a co-creative platform and global community for purpose-driven individuals sharing resources to help regenerative projects succeed.
Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge BFI is committed to continued research into the practice and fundamental principles of comprehensive anticipatory design science and its relevan...
Terran Collective
A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future.
Medicine Festival
Medicine is a gathering to inspire authentic connection and regeneration for people and planet.
Ecological Academy
The Ecology Academy is Sarah Wu's International School of Herbalism, Permaculture & Mycology, offering integrated education merging herbalism, permaculture design, and mycology ...