Guest Post — Co-hosting a National Conference on Healthy Community

Guest post by Annabel Membrillo Jimenez, Global Steward Vibrancy Ins

A group of colleagues and I recently co-hosted a national gathering of Anthroposophical initiatives in Mexico, working directly with the choosing of human agreements, for the individual and the community, deeply informed from the ecosynomic view of social three-folding. This is part of a larger Global Initiative supported by the Institute for Strategic Clarity and its co-investors in universities, communities, and organizations in 12 countries. The gathering was a continuum of the 2016 gathering exploring social three-folding. In the attached 7-page briefing of the gathering (click here), I explore:

• the story behind the manifestation
• the inspiration for the design
• why it was ecosynomics
• how it was anthroposophical
• the flow of the experience
• the organizing team nurturing the experience

 

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Guest post — The Experience of Ecosynomics in Our Farm-Community in Großhöchberg

Guest post – Johannes Enssle, farmer at Großhöchberg CSA

Together with Eyal Drimmer and Christoph Hinske, we just started to work with the ecosynomics framework in our farm-community in Großhöchberg, a little village in the south of Germany.

We grow biodynamic demeter vegetables and started this year with building up a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm cooperative. We are two core farmer families joined with other families and individuals who support us.

I find it striking how well the ecosynomics approach helps us in understanding our situation as farmers and as a community better, and how it helps us in overcoming obstacles in our way. In fact, for me, ecosynomics is not only a science or a method, it is somehow a path that guides us.

We started, together with Eyal Drimmer, to make the first steps in our own Harmonic Vibrancy Move.  Working with Eyal Drimmer, the plan is now to expand the process, by applying for funds for a larger, 2-3 year project. The project would take a closer ecosynomic look at the performance of other CSA-farms in Germany and identify the agreements and mechanisms for CSA-farm success. We want to implement and validate this knowledge then in our own farm-community and share it within the German CSA-network, so that this knowledge can be multiplied.

At this stage, we are still looking for funding and are quite optimistic that we can find a foundation or donor for this soon. If you have an idea where we could or should apply, we are thankful for suggestions.  Please send them to us at gaertnerei[at]grosshoechberg[dot]de.

If you want to see more about our farm and community, visit www.grosshoechberg.de.