ACTIVATING US

ACTIVATING

We are sharing with you in premiere extended information about the events and some news while we are preparing the newsletter in 4 languages 😉

We know that many of you have not yet been able to participate in any of the ONLINE meetings that we have opened since Christmas and that you are trying to do it in one of the following dates that are left this month.

NEXT MEETINGS

Below, we remind you of the remaining dates in February and give you a preview of the new dates that we have opened in March.

We look forward to seeing you at the different dates depending on your language!

INTIMATE ECO-VILLAGE PRESENTIAL MEETINGS

 

FEBRUARY: 25th to 27th February

MARCH: Still to be scheduled

 NEXT ONLINE MEETINGS OPEN TO NON-MEMBERS

FEBRUARY

 

ENGLISH: 13th of February from 19 to 20:30h

FRENCH: 20th of February from 18 to 19:30h

SPANISH: 20th of February from 20 to 21:30h

MARZO

INGLES: 6th Marzo

ALEMÁN:13th Marzo 6 p.m.

FRANCÉS: 20th Marzo 6 p.m

ESPAÑOL: 27th Marzo 8 p.m.


ONLINE INTIMATE MEETING FOR MEMBERS

We have created these 2 formats (online and in person) in order to get to know each other and the possible synergies that may arise after these more intimate meetings with those of you who resonate with our project and our moment.

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that we have already scheduled February's monthly intimate online meeting for this Sunday 13rd from 8pm to 9pm to deepen our knowledge and collaborations with those of you who are already sympathetic members (you have taken step 2 of our process of getting to know each other).

In March it will be on 13ten.

In the intimate meetings you are the protagonists. We will be happy to dedicate space to listen to your feelings and concerns about the project and we will try to answer your questions as best we can.

 

If you are a member of our association, we invite you to send us your questions before the meeting so that we can prepare some additional material that may help you to understand some aspects.

INTIMATE FACE-TO-FACE ECOVILLAGE MEETINGS

Every month we open our space and hearts to those of you who are moving forward in your process of following the call to join an ecovillage project and resonate with our proposal, so that you can get to know a large part of the founding core group and the wonderful place of the Healing Biotope and its key projects.

FEBRUARY: from the 25th to the 27th of  February

MARCH:  to schedule

To participate in our intimate cohabitation meetings, it is indispensable to have taken step 2 of our Approaching process and to have read the extended information that we share with the members. Very limited vacancies!

SLOW-TOUR OF PERMACULTURE IN FEBRUARY (FORMATIVE WORKSHOP)

 

Due to the amount of requests we are receiving from people who want to do the approaching with us taking advantage of a training, we have decided to make a gap in our busy schedule (due to the process of growing to ecovillage 😉 we are not focused on trainings right now). It will be next Saturday 12th February.

At the same time that we can get to know each other better, in this Permaculture course you will have the opportunity to see and learn about the advantages of Permaculture and its tangible results in one of the farms that we have been coordinating for years in Macharaviaya (Málaga)

For more information about the course see the following link

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN FEBRUARY GAIA EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY

We return to give focus and structure to the extra-curricular activities 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) with enriching and very original learning proposals for our kids and their families. Always in the afternoons from 15h to 20h/20h30h.

MONDAY: EXTRACURRICULAR CLASSES OF MUSIC AND PERMACULTURE

 

We return to accompany the little ones in an environment of musical and sustainable learning.

On Mondays the music classes (piano, double bass...) and the school organic garden will be guided and accompanied by the great jazz double bass player and renowned Swiss permaculturist Daniel Stocker.

More information about our proposal  here

WEDNESDAY 9 FEBRUARY FROM 15:00 TO 17:00: FAMILY YOGA PROPOSAL

Led by Cristina Sosa, a yoga teacher trained in France and specialised in the transmission of Yoga adapted to the world of children.

We inaugurate yoga workshops in tribe once a month. Yoga in family, accompanies us to share in a positive, creative and loving form. Where play and compassionate attention are our guides. The sessions are made up of exercises of concentration, attention, balance, breathing through duo practices. At the end of the session, we return to calm, centre ourselves and share our feelings.

FRIDAYS: GAIA-SLOW TOURS

After a short break, we are excited to inform you that we have started  with this venture that promotes multicultural and intergenerational exchange, while we value our environment, culture and customs of the hand of Rakel Dominguez (anthropologist, permaculture, sustainability educator, manager of the Gaia Learning community and main promoter of the ecovillage IKI-GAIA).

Would you like to know more about the new educational project of IKI-GAIA from its promoter?

If so, great, because we have started the period this new year with the Friday afternoon excursions from 15h to 20h open to families who want to get to know us or complement the educational proposal of their children in the open air and learning about sustainability.

The next excursion of our educational project where you can join us and learn more about the IKI-GAIA educational cooperative project that is being developed will be next Friday afternoon, 11 February in Maro.

Don't miss the GAIA-SLOW promotional excursion next February 18th to a wonderful corner of the Axarquia. There are only a few places left!

An ideal opportunity to get to know each other in a relaxed atmosphere in nature and see what synergies are taking place!

To know more about our Gaia Slow tours please you  read  the following post 

We wish you a wonderful week in alignment with your individual, group and planetary ikigai.

Hugs and blessings for being part of the change

 

STEPPING FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE

LANDING IKI-GAIA ON THE GROUND

Closing contracts, last days to benefit from the 20% founder's discount bonus

IKI-GAIA SEED GROUP

It has been 15 months of great effort and full dedication since we made the call to find the guardians of the IKI-GAIA vision that has been 8 years in the making from our Association Semilla Monte Alegre.
To consolidate a group of pioneers with economic and emotional stability ready to take the step and continue with our monthly meetings and great common dream in the middel of this systemic crisis we are going through, has been an adventure full of learnings !

WE ALREADY WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE HEART, for having approached and resonated with our proposal, even if you only formed part of our process in a meeting or a call.

Like everything in these moments, it can be overwhelming, but we feel that we have enough RESOURCES, CONFIDENCE, and enough economy gathered NOW!!! and above all, with a wonderful and sincronized IKI-GAIA SEED GROUP!!! Strong and determined to bet on co-creating this Healing Biotope in Malaga. An opportunity for our chikis and all generations where care for GAIA, life and relationships are back at the center.

LET'S GO FOR IT! WITH CONFIDENCE!!!

We want to start 2022 creating the foundations that encourage the entry and participation of more beings that are approaching and all those who want to join us to create our parallel reality in the near future. An opportunity for our kids and all the generations where the care of GAIA, of life and relationships will again be at the center.

For this, we would like to hear from you, to know what your current moment is, how you imagine your approach with us, and above all, what you can collaborate with it now if NOW IS YOUR MOMENT.
…every little grain adds up to the great CAUSE

UPCOMING MEETINGS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IKI-GAIA

We would like to invite you to an intimate online meeting and introduce you to the new models of participation that we have been fine-tuning this last month, detailing all the variables and casuistry that may arise, as well as the timeline of IKI-GAIA so that you can assess your involvement and project yourself in this great communal dream WHICH ALREADY HAS SOLID FOUNDATIONS.

We have 6 different types of contracts to welcome all the profiles and to guarantee your rights and your reimbursement in case you want to leave.

If you would like to know more we invite you to fill in our questionnaire to start the process.

ONLINE MEETINGS

 

Send us an  email to semilla@semillamontealegre.org and fill this questionarie if you can participate in any of the meetings so that we can send you the invitation link to the meeting or tell you more details about the meeting face-to-face (very limited vacancies!!).

We would be grateful if you could share with us how is your present moment, as well as your doubts and concerns so that we can answer them privately or in the meetings.

We invite you to read all the information we have published in the ecovillage section of our website to come with as much information as possible to our meeting. If you haven't read anything yet, you can start with this post.

LAST DAYS TO BENEFIT FROM THE 20% DISCOUNT AS FOUNDER OF IKI-GAIA

Just one step away from closing the purchase agreement, we remind you that if you confirm your participation as a collaborator or AME (aspiring stable member) of the project, you will benefit from a 20% discount on the established fees and you will enjoy all the advantages that IKI-GAIA founders acquire. Ask us for more information to find out about them.

HAVE A LOOK AT THE OPTIONS YOU HAVE TO ADD YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO IKI-GAIA AND COLLABORATE WITH THE FIRST PROJECTS OF THE BIOTOPE

We would like to use this internal communication to let you know that we are working on the launch of the first open crowdfunding to cover the minimum investments that the project needs in this Phase I to take off with force, and that we have calculated in 300,000 €: reforms of some infrastructures of the farmhouse that allow us to have larger communal rooms for the educational project and the Music Academy, tanks to store the water of the fountain, implementation of the food forest, earthworks to prepare the space where we will install the first caravans, etc.

From the IKI-GAIA motor group we feel that we can reach at least 225.000€ of the 300.000€ we need with your help. On the one hand, we would like that this first economic impulse that we need arrives blessed from this closest circle, with money coming from your hands. And on the other hand, we are aware that launching crowdfunding campaigns of more than 75.000€ are very difficult and there is a risk of having to return everything if it is not reached.

!!For us it would be wonderful to undertake the first investments with the economy gathered by our motor group and your trust before launching the more open campaign that we are preparing!!

To support us and/or take steps towards IKI-GAIA, you have the option to donate, or to contribute as a collaborator or lender of IKI-GAIA.

To make it easier for you to understand the options, we have created these simple cards that we invite you to take a look at here

 

 

CONTACTO

e-mail:
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

Teléfono:
+34 / 659 10 98 09 (Rakel)

 

DONATIONS

All of you who donate at least 50€ will be included in the list of supporters of the project so that you can be informed of important developments. In addition to all the advantages we offer to supporters. You can ask us also for more information about the characteristics of each model of participation.

We share with you the account of abundance enabled for the IKI-GAIA project in case you would like to contribute with a donation to contribute to this very first Phase

#bank account #sma

Beneficiary: Semilla Monte Alegre

ES56 3058 0769 4427 2002 7693

Concept: donation IKI-GAIA + mail (so we can include you in the internal list and keep you informed)

Blessings to all those of you who have the WILL
to contribute to the CHANGE

 

NEWS IKI-GAIA

We leave you the direct link to subscribe to our newsletter if you are interested in following the progress of our Permaculture projects, educational project, IKI-GAIA ecovillage, training programme and events.

https://semillamontealegre.es/es/start-3/

 

WHAT YOU ❤️ WERE LOOKING FOR!!!

If you feel that this is what your heart is looking for, it is your moment to take the step to create what you believe and live in a tribe in an ecovillage of children and beings committed to their role of being referents and willing to do individual and group work, or, you are preparing to take the step to join a project like this in the coming years, we invite you to become a member of our association by clicking here and ask us by mail for more confidential information about the project, so we can start the process of rapprochement on both sides 😉

Donaciones de todo tipo, con los mejores deseos de prosperidad y bendiciones son muy bienvenidas para seguir avanzando con la materialización de este modelo replicable que pronto podrá servir, como se contempla en la visión, a tod@ el que lo necesite en esta fase transitoria que vivimos donde hace falta surfear las olas mientras el colapso civilizatorio está tocando fondo, y una nueva humanidad y un nuevo paradigma emergen con fuerza y luz.

NEXT MEETING WITH SEMILLA MONTE ALEGRE IN FABA (November 20 & 21)

XVIII ANDALUSIAN FAIR FOR AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY

Semilla Monte Alegre participates with 2 stands at the fair where it will present the progress of the various projects it promotes, including the co-creation of a SanaAcción Biotope and a sustainable ecovillage in the Axarquia region of Malaga where they grow from a Gaia Learning Community to a school of life for all generations.

WHEN?

Semilla Monte Alegre will make 2 short presentations both days from 13:30 to 14:00 and from 17 to 17:30h on Saturday at the sales stand of the association. In addition you can learn about family massage with "Kansu Bowl".
We are waiting for you!

WHAT IS THE FABA?

The Andalusian Fair of Agricultural Biodiversity (FABA) is the annual meeting of people and groups committed to local, traditional varieties and seed exchange in Andalusia.

It is an event open to the general public, free of charge, and for those people or groups interested in cultivated biodiversity in particular.

OBJECTIVE

The FABA (ANDALUSIAN FAIR OF AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY) also aims to create a space where farmers can exchange seeds and share traditional knowledge associated with their management.
This annual event addresses the different aspects of the dynamic and community management of cultivated biodiversity.

FABA PROGRAM

It includes conferences, workshops, visits to the gardens in the Arboretum, exhibitions and exchange of seeds and products, round tables, tastings, book presentations, etc... To see the detailed program click on the following link.

Invitation to join and look at the proposal and implementation of IKI-GAIA

DESPEGANDO

Are you interested in seeing our progress? Do you feel called to get to know us, collaborate, join an ecovillage, support us financially or "invest" as a loan? Do you have hij@s and would you like to find an educational project consistent with your values where you can participate in an educational cooperative? Do you want to know our activities planned for next year and assess if it can be your life project where you can also become professional?

LEARNING COMMUNITY

Con la continuación del proyecto educativo Gaia iniciado hace 3 años en el nuevo espacio, nos aseguramos un mínimo de alumn@s y mapadres para crecer a cooperativa educativa en el nuevo espacio.

COURSE AND EVENTS

Calendario anual de cursos, seminarios y eventos que financien la puesta en marcha de las huertas de autosuficiencia, el bosque comenstible, la gestión del agua y las reformas que se irán acometiendo el primer año.

ECOSHOP & BAKERY

Con una buena cocina y un super horno de pan en el espacio ya hecho, cubriremos nuestras necesidades alimenticias y generaremos ecosinuestra desde el primer día creando marca..

MUSIC ACADEMY

A través de clases particulares de música (piano, guitarra, contrabajo, etc.), canto e improvisación, así como con talleres musicales para todas las edades iremos dando forma a la Academia de música y artes.

ACCOMODATION AND CATERING

Ofreciendo alojamiento a miembros que quieran probar o pasar temporadas y a través de cursos de mas de 1 día de duración conseguiremos tener las habitaciones al 80% de ocupación todo el año.

NEW MEMBERS

Con la gradual entrada de nuevos miembros se podrá financiar la puesta en marcha del camping y lasreformas de las instalaciones existentes que posibilitarán ofrecer más alojamientos.

BACK TO THE FIELD

? *Do you dream of leaving the city and moving to the country?

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?¡Remember! In the ?????? ?? ?????? ?? ?????, from the hand of 29 experts, you can learn the key tools that will facilitate this path back to the field.

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VIRTUAL SUMMIT "BACK TO THE FIELD"

A great opportunity to believe in your momentum and generate synergies!

? *Do you dream of leaving the city and moving to the country?

From Semilla Monte Alegre, where we are also part of the change and participate in this beautiful initiative, we encourage you to join the network and take a look at the

? summit back to the field:
reconnecting with nature, returning to ourselves.?

✨Let yourself be inspired by this virtual event in which we participate *29 experts and Wizards of Change who have already walked this path* and we will share with you the best knowledge, tools and tips to follow your ? , overcome possible blocks, follow the signs, find the synergies and *discover the step by step* that will lead you to fulfill your dream.

? *December 2 to 8*.
?totally free of charge

Click on the following link to sign up for free and win this great gift!

Write us if you want to know more about us by email to:
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

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Alternativas educativas en zonas rurales

We look forward to seeing you at this special event where you can learn about inspiring initiatives from Spain and South America that will confirm that your dream is possible.

Our Gaia Learning Community has been selected to share its experience in this international summit.  The return to the countryside is a process that, as we see, after the Pandemic is happening more consciously among large sectors of the population that yearn for a lifestyle more in harmony with their values, reconnection with Nature, peace and tranquility, and that, when we have children, we have considered more than once.

Many of us feel, as a result of becoming parents, that we have no choice but to be consistent with the lifestyle and values we want to instill in them.

Our children and great teachers help us to reconnect with the source and move mountains if necessary, to take the step. The union in this sense with initiatives and human beings in the same search that want to co-responsible for the education of their children and are aware of the role of referents that we have while we accompany them in this stage, is a guarantee of success and co-creation of the collective experience that we want to live and offer them.

Come and see how other initiatives are being organized

Un regalo para toda la vida!!

In this brief presentation you can see some impressions of our 3 years of journey covering educational and social needs of our children in tribe and community Gaia.

We are currently shaping an educational cooperative of mapadres (mothers and fathers) more focused on what we want with the intention of creating a free educational project that covers the entire period of compulsory schooling. In the great process of joining many of us to a holistic life project with a free school + ecovillage where we can share life projects in a place of our own.

 

¿Te resuena? ¿te animas a conocernos?

And you? will you join or move close to where the new educational project that is being developed these months will be located to start in 2023 in a space without limits to development, creativity and individual and group growth in a tribe of mutual support.

Can you support us with a donation?

ES56 3058 0769 4427 2002 7693
Recipient: Semilla Monte Alegre Association
Concept: donation educational project

INSCRIPCIÓN

Click on the following link to sign up for free and get this great gift!!!

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Write us if you want to know more about us by email to:
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

 

 

Shaping the free school IKI-GAIA

JORNADA DE PUERTAS ABIERTAS

17 September from 17:30h with delicious vegan cakes and tribe dinner.
18:30h Circle about the Gaia Eco-Learning Community of Almayate and the transformation to a small school IKI-GAIA.
Rakel Domínguez, one of the co-founders of the project will make a brief presentation about the educational project that starts its 4th year and we will give way to a participative day to define our common dream, detect individual and collective needs, resources and potentialities that we bring together.
18:30h At the same time, the activities for children will begin: pizza workshop, games, vegetable garden, music...
20:00h Storytelling with live music (Pedro Paz)
and dinner with the GAIA tribe

Contribution per adult to the day 10€ (kids free)
Contribution for ecological and vegan dinner with the educational community

10 €/adults and 8 € for children

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

GAIA Learning Community

Educational community at the service of children

Letting what is new to emerge

After 3 school years of experience promoting our pilot educational project Gaia through our association Semilla Monte Alegre, we feel we are in a moment of change and transformation. We can say that we are in a beautiful process of decomposition and rebirth, making a similarity with the patterns we observe in nature.

Our educational community that emerged to connect the tribe and grow into an ecovillage needs to grow into something bigger. A new form adapted to the new needs of our continium cambium that involves more participation and commitment of all parties involved in the educational community we dream of.

This coming Friday afternoon, October 17th, we will open a new space to listen to all the parties that want to get involved in the construction of the new educational project that is emerging with IKI-GAIA and that dreams of growing from an association to an educational cooperative and then to a tribe.

Would you like to support a free school based on the principles of Permaculture whose vision is to contribute to the development of the gifts and talents of all the participating parties, and especially of our kids?

IKI-GAIA Free School

Desarrollando los dones y talentos

Growing into a school of life

Our children are growing and more and more families are interested in joining us, giving it a try and participating in a project/school of life where we nurture the interdisciplinary and multicultural exchange of all generations in an environment of nature and mutual support in a tribe. It is for this reason, and because we have more than 8 years of journey working with pleasure to materialize this moment, that our project needs a new space where we can grow and expand the educational offer up to 16 years in a place of explosive and limitless nature!!!

We are now In this exciting process of acquiring the ideal land to develop a Healing Biotope, with a minimum of infrastructures that allow us from the first day to start the best little school in the world for our children.
This school year 2021/22 is a course of transition to the NEW, full of surprises, illusion, meeting of souls, common dreams and a beautiful TRIBE, where every BEING is invited to BE and co-create an educational community that aspires to set the roots for an educational cooperative very soon!!!

To give space for the new to emerge, we must accompany with love and care the cycle that ends , so that from this good soil many sprouts will emerge. Would you like to meet us?

DONACIONES ESCUELITA LIBRE IKIGAIA

Thank you for making a financial contribution so that we can continue to grow, dream and materialise change!

IBAN: ES56 3058 0769 4427 2002 7693
Beneficiario: Semilla Monte Alegre
Concepto: Donación IKIGAIA

Eco-Learning Community Gaia from 11th September 2020 until June 2021

DETAILLED INFO ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY GAIA FROM 11th September 2020 - June 2021

KEY VALUES

Gaia School Introduction here;
More detailed information here)
The Gaia Education curriculum that we follow here in this Gaia School pilot project in Malaga is in line with the following key values:
  • honoring unity through diversity;
  • celebrating the diversity of cultures;
  • promoting social justice and environmental awareness;
  • empowering individuals and local actors;
  • increasing awareness and human potential;
  • respecting the living Earth as our planetary home.

 

 

 

 

PERMACULTURE GARDEN SPACE

Our educational project Gaia, as you will have heard us say more than once ;), puts a lot of emphasis on sustainability and food sovereignty; how we feed ourselves. That's why we have started a school garden in our Almayate space, so that ALL THE FAMILY can participate and learn how to regenerate the land, grow food and process it.
You are invited to participate with your children in the activities related to agro-ecology and sustainability that we have scheduled for Mondays
coordinated by the Swiss permacultor Daniel Stocker
(Spanish / English and German lessons).

THE FOOD IN GAIA PROJECT

As healthy, ecological and km 0 food is one of the pillars of the project, along with learning to share them, our educational proposal includes breakfast and lunch in the price.

Providing food from the project is designed, on the one hand, to cover the needs of children to eat from time to time and, secondly, the need to do so in a structured way from the project; avoiding waste, comparisons and cravings to see their friends eating different things.

The idea is that this daily habit forms part of a ritual-celebration of coming together, giving thanks for the food and sharing it with our friends.

The food will always be balanced, in terms of protein and carbohydrates, with an abundance of legumes, vegetables, sprouts, quinoa, millet and whole grains. In the preparation of the meals, no refined food will be used, -no refined flour or oil, no salt, etc.- nor will fried food be served or prepared with palm oil, sunflower oil, etc.

Menus for diabetics and gluten intolerance kids also possible.

PROPOSALS

PROPOSAL OF FOOD:
Possibility of including individual needs in the menu.
 
Vegan breakfast: oats or home-made sour dough bread made with rye flour and/or gluten-free bread + olive oil and/or avocado, tahini, etc. + a glass of home-made vegetable milk or sugar-free juice

Fruits are available all morning,
Vegan lunch (without wheat) around 13:00h rich in vegetable protein.

 

SCHEDULE OF THE GAIA ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY

  • Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 15:00h
  • Afternoons: music, languages and arts class on demand

 

WEEKLY PROPOSAL:

MONDAY: Piano and music lessons coordinated by Daniel Stocker + ago-ecology lessons (school garden) (Spanish, English and German lessons)


TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY:
various proposals according to weekly and monthly rhythms coordinated by Marta. (Spanish and English and lessons)


FRIDAY:
Excursions outside the space (in the Nature, museums, farms, etc.) to enrich the learning of the children in different contexts are coordinated by Rakel Domínguez . (Spanish, English, Italian and German lessons)

 

CONDITIONS AND PRICES


PRICES Promotion school year 2019/20 (with breakfast, fruit and lunch included):
 

Note: All parents have to become members of our association to participate in the project and be covered by the civil responsibility insurance that the association has for small and adults, excursions, etc.

Annual membership fee 50€ per year- Click here to see the  formulary and become a member!

MONTHLY FEE from 2 to 6 years old (with breakfast, fruit and lunch included. If a child cannot come to the educational eco learning community a few days a month, he or she will not be charged for the extra meal):

2 days a week:    150€ + 5€/day for Food = 190€

3 days a week:    200€ + 5€/day for Food = 260€

4/5 days a week: 250€ + 5€/day for Food = 350€

 
Friday excursions can be an extra cost. The prize depend on the distances,  number of kids, entrance,  etc. 
 

Matriculation (semestral fee): 100€ (for materials)

MONTHLY FEE from 6 to 12 years old (with breakfast, fruit and lunch included. If a child cannot come to the educational eco learning community a few days a month, he or she will not be charged for the extra meal)

2 days a week:    150€ + 6€/day for Food  = 200€

3 days a week:    200€ + 6€/day for Food = 275€

4/5 days a week: 250€ + 6 €/day for Food = 370€

 
Friday excursions can be an extra cost. The prize depend on the distances,  number of kids, entrance,  etc. 
 
Matriculation (semestra fee): 250 Euros (100 € for the purchase of materials + 150 € for participation in the Gaia homeschooling program approved in Estonia + certificate accrediting Gaia School Estonia at the end of the course +  a descriptive report of observations and evolution made by the coordinator in Malaga).

PARTICIPATION IN THE PROJECT

Minimum participation/registration of children: 2 days a week.
Desired participation of parents (community work for the school: proposals for activities/classes/workshops, support for excursions, etc., various work in the garden, publicity for events, etc.: 2 hours a week or 8 hours a month (flexibility)

If the children come 3, 4 or 5 times a week 3, 4, or 5h/week
(so many hours per week like days)
IMPORTANT info for kids more than 6 years old:
Commitment of the families to do one skype before June 2020 with the director of Gaia School in Estonia and sign the attached contracts. (CONTRACT)
 
We remain at your disposal for any questions or doubts
by email: semilla@semillamontealegre.org
or telephone: +34 659 10 98 09

 

 

25.01.2020 Open door day of Eco-Learnning Community Gaia

25.01.2020 OPEN DAY AND NON-VIOLENT CC WORKSHOP IN THE GAIA ECOCOMMUNITY OF LEARNING (ALMAYATE)

en la EcoComunidad de Aprendizaje GAIA

Defies the rain of the last Saturday, we spent a lovely day with the families around the fireplace in the little wooden houses of the school.

That’s why…we repeat this weekend, even if it rains 😉

It is a pleasure to invite you again to our Open Day this Saturday 25th JANUARY after the Practical Workshop on Nonviolent Communication that Delphine will give in our space in Almayate.

PROGRAM OF THE DAY:

11:30h Nonviolent Communication Workshop

14:00h Organic vegan meal with menus at 6, 8 and 10 euros to support Gaia educational project.

16:00h Informative talk about the educational project Gaia and the ecovillage project associated with it

 

 

 

ECO Educational Space GAIA ( ALMAYATE )

We open our GAIA space in Almayate on the weekends to workshops, activities and talks about healthy living, respectful breeding and communication, art and music, etc. and everything else that comes up…
WELCOME PROPOSALS!

The Talk – practical workshop on Nonviolent Communication will be facilitated by Delphine from 11:30h to 14:00h

FOOD AND INFORMATIVE TALK ABOUT EDUCATIONAL PROJECT: From the Gaia space we will offer organic vegan menu for 6, 8 and 10 euros from 14:00h and a small informative talk at 16:00h.

WELCOME FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN to the whole day

Free workshop / by conscious contribution to cover expenses.

Confirm attendance at 659 10 98 09

 

Last briefing before the start!

ANNUAL TRAINNING IN NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION COSTA TROPICAL

The Annual Training -certified by the Center for NonViolent Communication-? and planned for 1 Saturday a month starting in February-, in which we will train more deeply in this tool so that the Gaia project can grow with it, is about to close registration. More info: here

DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST IN YOU AND YOUR RELATIONSHIPS!
LAST PLACES!

…we could share a trip once a month if you join the cours ;)!

✨✨… unique transformative opportunity in southern Spain to develop your emotional intelligence, acquire powerful tools to connect with yourself and others, integrate keys to conflict resolution, and create a world where the needs of all count. ??????

 

EL RENACER DE LA MADRE GAIA

 

Our Gaia educational project began to take shape more than a year and a half ago when we started with the family meetings.

It has been a very very long pregnancy, with several attempts to give birth that didn’t finish blooming; apparently GAIA was premature, that’s why the space we wanted to buy, Nidolea, didn’t come out.
…Now, after several months of hard work and adaptations to the unforeseen events that occurred in August with the other space 1 month before we moved in, our baby GAIA is now mature and has decided to be born in our home in Almayate. Luckily, the mango farm where we live has more than 2 hectares , already had several small wooden houses, etc.. ideal for a small educational project ;

Thanks to the families that continue to believe in GAIA and make the effort to also start contributing economically so that the project takes shape and try to be sustainable economically also!

We are happy to start small and very very grateful for all the contributions and learning we have experienced so far in this TRIP?

 

 

RESERVAS

por correo electrónico:
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

por móvil:
+34 / 659 10 98 09

SCHOOL YEAR 2019/20

SCHOOL YEAR 2019/20

Dear families

We hope you are having a good autumn and life continues to bring you surprises.

We finally feel like communicating what's happening to us. After a couple of months of heavy "digestions" due to the news that we share below and search for creative solutions, we share with joy our Autumn program.

 

 

 

IN ALL ACTIVITIES ARE KIDS VERY WELLCOME

 

 

DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE GAIA ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY OF LA AXARQUÍA.

Pilot project of the School for the sustainable development of the planet around an eco-village in south Spain.

First of all, we are sorry to inform you that the start of this 2nd course of the GAIA Eco-Learning Community will be delayed until November 4th due to unforeseen events and problems arising from real estate speculation on the Costa del Sol.

The space where we were going to move in mid-September 10 families and 2 companions to grow up in ecovillage, was sold a little more than 1 month ago behind our backs without respecting the rental agreement with option to buy 4 years agreed with the owner.

Imagine what moment we are in: total restructuring, lawyers, search for an optimal place to live several families around the school, and so on.

The good news is, that the GAIA school in Estonia has offered us to start with the GAIA homeschooling program approved in their country NOW -for children between the ages of 6 and 16- while we formalize the creation of a GAIA approved center in Spain, so this month we are with the enrollment understanding which are the needs of families to finalize the educational proposal. We appreciate that those interested contact us as soon as possible to plan together the proposal for mornings, extracurricular activities and family excursions.

 

GAIA ECO-SPACES

GAIA ECO-SPACES
While clarifying the ideal space to create a GAIA approved school/centre in Malaga and the eco-village around it, we have decided to make use of different ECO-SPACES where we collaborate as an association. An "Eco-space" is a space, it could be a centre, a farm or a project, where we find examples of Permaculture (ecological orchards, food forests, water retention, etc) and/or good practices related to social, economic-energy or environmental sustainability.

For the age group of 2 to 6 years we have the space of our child companion Tania, LA MANADA, in the Montes de Màlaga, and our farm in Almayate Alto. In addition we have the Vilago Hopi with 4 domes, theater and orchard near Velez-Malaga. You can see it in the photos. Other private properties are offered for activities.

For the group from 6 to 16 years old, besides Vilago Hopi of Velez and our space in Almayate, we have many proposals of spaces and private properties that open the doors to us to celebrate school days from Coin to Almuñecar. So, the idea is to start this 2nd year as "itinerant school" and continue with the methodological educational proposal GAIA- forest-school; counting on our 9-seater van and other vehicles of collaborators for the displacements.

We believe that in this way, our children will receive a very enriching education immersing themselves in different contexts of Permaculture, agroecology and healthy life.

If you are interested in knowing - or enriching with your skills - the educational proposal for this academic year 2019/20, form part of the tribal education group, offer your space for encounters or give us your time/support, or have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by mail at rakel.ds@gmail.com or by telephone at 659 10 98 09.

Thank you for sharing with the tribe

In the next few weeks we will be selecting the primary companions and volunteers. Welcome also people interested in learning about the new GAIA methodology.

...we continue walking and looking for the best place to grow and develop. Because, GAIA, our PACHA MAMA deserves it and needs us now more than ever.

MEMBERSHIP DUES / SYMPATHIZERS

To see the statutes click here...

The annual fee is 50 euros. As a sympathetic member you have the right to participate in the extracurricular activities, excursions and weekend activities that we organize and the whole family will be covered by civil liability insurance.

In addition, you can offer/participate in workshops we organize and receive membership discount; you can make inquiries and receive legal advice and support through the free education association ALE https://www.educacionlibre.org of which we are members; and a lot more advantages...

MONTHLY FEE GAIA ECO-EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS

If you are interested in actively participating in the eco-learning community, please fill in this form: HERE

The monthly fee for families interested in participating in the proposed activities for mornings, afternoons and weekends in our eco-educational spaces and being an active part of the Gaia Learning Eco-community will depend on the number of days you are interested in participating.

ATTENTION: Those who decide for this option will not have to pay the annual sympathetic membership fee of 50 euros, it is already included!

250 € (4 or 5 days/week)
200 € ( 3 days/week )
150 € (2 days/week, minimum participation for children under 6 years! and 1 or 2 days a week for children between 6 and 16 years!)

It is also possible to enroll in the Homeschooling program and come only few days during the school year. If you are interested in participating in the activities less than 4 times a month, please call 659 10 98 09 for prices for individual days.

 

 

 

CROWDFUNDING FOR GAIA

CROWDFUNDING FOR GAIA

Hello Tribe

I hope your lives are full of happiness and your most profound dreams are coming true. Ours are at the point of coming true - “to start living in a Tribe- from the September!! There are still some apartments available so hurry up!

This summer we are preparing a crowdfunding campaign. We are editing a video that we are going to share next month in order  to advertise the project and to get contributions from people, associations and companies, related to our values ,​​that would like to contribute to this great common dream.

AIMS:

  1. get grants / sponsorships and offer at least 10 scholarships for this first year; since the La Caixa grant of 20,000 euros has been denied. We already have 1 scholarship. A friend    has offered us to sponsor a child for 10 months, so the fee for child with food included will go for 200 euros instead of 350 euros / month.
  2. Get PATRONS and donations through the “GOTEO” platform, Triodos, etc. for:
    1. lower the monthly fees and/or subsidize ecological canteen
    2. construction of the clasroom dome
  3. construction of a greenhouse for school
    1. And, most of all - to find Investors interested in     the project so that we would be able to buy the farm and develop the project in our own place

 

THE PROJECT NEEDS YOU

 

We need to establish this wonderful and so needed educational project in our OWN SPACE that  would allow us to grow and develop in order to develop and inspire our environment.

We want to promote the RURAL REPOPULATION and the replication of the model of coexistence project in the environment of  an educational space co-created by several families across the country. In the short-medium term, the vision is to obtain homologation also in Spain, and to help to replicate this model, to avoid the massive rural depopulation caused, among other factors, by the centralization of education and the absence of educational services in rural zones.

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We want to help many other alternative educational projects that end up dying in the first 2 or 3 years of existence because of the lack of human and economic resources, and, above all, because of the legal situation of the alternative education in Spain.

Because of this reason, many parents of the children who turn 6, abandon projects like this, as they are afraid to continue with project without homologation.

We are urgently looking for investors who identify with  the project, and who want to support this model of sustainable holistic education and contribute to a real change in the current education system.

 

For more information, business plan, call us on 659109809

 

More information about educational project...

If you can make a contribution NOW !, before the official crowdfunding campaigns  of GOTEO start helping, we would really appreciate it.

 

With your help we could start paying the materials for the school, contracts,  lawyers and cover the other costs that are necessary to start a project in the new place.

 

Beneficient: Asociación Semilla Monte Alegre

IBAN: ES56 3058 0769 4427 2002 7693

Concept: donation Gaia

Or click on donate below to use your credit card!

If you are interested to be an investor of the eco educational project, please feel welcome- we really need you, and do not hesitate- tell us of how much you could help us and on what terms.

All help counts at this moment.

We also need a lot of hands and hearts for a project like this. We are open to receive volunteers for long and short term. For more information about the volunteer program please call us on 0034659109809

We are also looking for campers for the volunteers’ accommodation,  materials, yurts, non-permanent structures to create classroom dome and workshops for the school.

All the little pieces that would sum up for the project….

 

GUARANTEE of the refund of the investors. 

Given that the space has 10 apartments that are rented to families interested in actively participating in the Eco-learning community, the payment of monthly fees would be guaranteed, without this impeding the need to generate savings for the project itself through events, courses and festivals that we have planned for the next course.

 

TRIBU HEART

Let me share this text about TRIBE by Laura Posada -with some touches of mine- that reflect the heart of this project and inspired me to write this post and ask for your help.

"When we stopped being tribes, the unity split.

We believed that the couple, or the family nucleus, would be enough, while friendships and circles of belonging gave us the crumbs of ephemeral coexistence.

The tribe is much more than friends and blood brothers. The tribe is the spiritual belonging to a brotherhood that sustains and invites us to sustain.

The tribe is where natural roles are shared, exchanged and interacted. Mothers today mother alone without the containment and support group. The children have siblings who are always the same, the blood brothers. What about the spiritual brothers with whom they should be playing together, co-creating?

We separate into small private properties, running from one side to the other in search of sustenance for the family nucleus.

The natural thing is to group ourselves and, while some sow, others educate, others build, some cook, and at the right moment we gather to eat, to celebrate, to continue the tribe.

The love that we seek so much, besides the love for oneself that is cultivated, is not that of couple, children, family... Rather, having no tribe to practice love in infinite facets, we overload the idea that the couple, the children, and the family, will give us the ground to channel love.

Without tribe we are like a dismembered human body trying to function, each member separately.

We have to go back to the tribes where grandparents are dignified and you are all.

Trade, private property, and individualism ripped us off as branches of the trunk that unites us.

In the tribe all gifts are welcome, and roles, being rotational, do not create boredom or saturation. In the tribes there are so many brothers and sisters that sharing is very rich and models alternate.

Now we begin to use the term grow old among friends, and that is to appreciate the tribe.

We can start earlier, from YA and give our children a healthy environment where sharing is natural and where there are many references from whom to learn.

The tribe: It is to create love.

SaLUZ