Ecovillage Resources

"To Dare to Trust." 800+ attendees. Europe's largest annual convergence.

ZEGG's flagship annual public festival at one of Germany's established ecovillages.

Academic + practitioner convergence on intentional communities and kibbutzim.

7-day residential camp for Dragon Dreaming practitioners across Europe.

Week-long immersive tour of German ecovillages starting immediately after the EEG.

Max 38 participants. Self-organizing format. €80 including camping.

Academic + practitioner conference. "Hope in challenging times." Draws ecovillage researchers.

GEN Europe HQ. Structured multi-day visitor programs several times per year.

More commercial than movement-oriented, but tracks mainstream adoption of shared living.

Annual Danish permaculture gathering, ~200 participants. Dates TBC.

20th anniversary of Transition Towns. Nearest major Transition convergence after EEG.

North America's main intentional communities gathering.

Global decennial convergence. Theme: "Beyond Sustainability, Many Paths."

5-week flagship European EDE. All four dimensions of sustainable community design. Certified by Gaia Education and GEN.

Multi-month. The most rigorous sociocracy training available. Level 2 cohort confirmed.

Online version of the EDE. Accessible from anywhere; check site for current openings.

Permaculture Design Certificate embedded at one of Europe's most established ecovillages.

5-day residential immersion in community life at Findhorn.

40 years of income-sharing community experience distilled. The field's most experienced conflict facilitator.

Participatory project design methodology. Used at every GEN annual gathering.

PDC embedded at Findhorn. Hands-on ecological and social design.

Commons, conviviality, relational governance. Verify 2026 dates.

Adapted specifically for community contexts. In partnership with SoFA.

European provider aimed specifically at communities and NGOs.

Processwork-based facilitation training linking personal practice with community facilitation. ~30 participants. Verify enrollment.

9-day residential immersion in Nonviolent Communication for community application.

Participatory leadership training: World Café, Open Space, Pro Action Café, Circle Practice. Network of practitioners; 2–5 day gatherings hosted across Europe each year.

Joanna Macy's method for moving through ecological grief into grounded action. Network of European facilitators running workshops; active since the 1970s nuclear freeze movement.

Short residential courses and year-long MSc in ecological design thinking. Deep ecology, systems thinking, regenerative economics. Founded on E.F. Schumacher principles.

Arnold Mindell's method for deep democracy and conflict facilitation in groups. Widely used in co-housing and intentional community contexts.

Inside access to the GEN Europe network. Dougald Hine on community and modernity; A'ida Al-Shibli on justice and community.

Portraits of eco-lieux across France. The primary French-language podcast for this field.

From the Ecovillage Resilience +2.5 project. More globally oriented counterpart to the GEN Europe podcast.

Governance, circles, consent. Real community case studies. Rau is co-author of Many Voices One Song.

Conscious coliving and intentional communities, philosophical angle. Berlin/Paris-based.

~30 min interviews on governance, ecology, conflict, food. Practical content translates across continents.

The deep archive for any permaculture thread.

Practitioners actively forming a community. Practical and current.

Residents, architects, organizers, developers. Companion to the McCamant/Durrett lineage.

Governance, conflict, NVC. Features Laird Schaub, Miki Kashtan, Diana Leafe Christian. Verify if still active.

Narrative ecology podcast intersecting with community and transition themes.

10 communities: Sieben Linden, La Borie Noble, Schloss Glarisegg, Krishna Valley. Best single-film intro to European ecovillage diversity.

Filmed over 7 years through real highs and lows. Governance crises shown as clearly as harvest festivals. A critical-care model.

29 min. Two filmmakers in a campervan, 100+ European ecovillages. GEN Europe co-production.

14 pioneering communities across Scandinavia and northern Europe. Still used in community design education.

What 1970s New England communes became over 50 years.

Young mother visits communities in Australia, Spain, UK, Ireland. Good entry point for first-time visitors.

Feature-length. Communities drawing on Aboriginal wisdom about what makes community work. Strong on governance and community psychology.

US and Denmark cohousing: design rationale and lived experience.

Definitive theory of commoning-as-practice. Commons in India, Italy, platform cooperatives. Essential for explaining why your community works the way it does.

Clearest practical guide to sociocracy. Integrates NVC into decision-making. Widely used in European ecovillages. Free online.

The foundational how-to. Covers legal structures, land purchase, and why most forming communities fail. More useful than any celebratory guide.

Most current full-spectrum guide. 25 years at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Addresses race and equity as structural design questions.

GEN's own self-portrait: dozens of communities across 5 continents in their own words.

Makes the case for collective living through cohousing, co-ops, and multi-generational models. Good entry-level framing.

The foundational cohousing text. The architects who coined "cohousing" in English.

Pan-European compendium: 9 projects, 9 cities. Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen.

Transition Towns co-founder on imagination as political force. 180 pages, highly quotable.

Narrative history of six interwar intentional communities. Non-hagiographic: shows recurring patterns of failure and survival.

First book applying permaculture design to people and relationships, not just land. Endorsed by Joanna Macy.

Anthology: Laird Schaub, Tree Bressen, Miki Kashtan, Diana Leafe Christian on conflict, decisions, and power in cooperative culture.

NVC + systems thinking + collective transformation. Moves well beyond individual NVC into community and movement contexts. Rigorous.

Ageing-in-place as community design, based on the Danish elders' model widely adapted across Europe.

Zine-format, beautifully illustrated. Gift economy, commons, mutualism, from the Paris Commune to Rojava. Very recent.

The deep lineage of communal forms through the Paris Commune. Connects commoning to Marx, Kropotkin, and Morris.