Dear 

The depth of autumn has now truly arrived, the leaves are falling, the temperatures are dropping and we are beginning to prepare for the coming winter.

In the meanwhile we in GEN Europe were also touched by the current war in Palestine/Israel and send our healing prayers to everyone whose life was affected, and in particular also to those within our network. We stay present for any upcoming solidarity and support and hold the vision of peace.

In parallel to what is happening in the world, the GEN Europe Council and Staff team will be meeting for 4 days in Schloss Tempelhof next week and we look forward to sharing the news and results with you in our next Moon Cycle!

Access our latest online event recordings! Did you miss our Ecovillage Essentials webinar series? We're offering you, our members, free access to all the recordings.
You can find them here:

Shared ownership with maximum personal freedom – the Mietshäuser Syndikat model

Ecovillage Essentials: Cooperative Oasis

Sociocracy in Community

The Pas-Sages Model

If you have expertise you'd like to share in future webinar series, please get in touch with Fran on fran@gen-europe.org.

The second week of October, 2 staff and council members of GEN Europe joined this year's Green Phoenix in Damanhur, Italy. Click on the button below to read more about it and this year's theme of "Healing".

As a follow-up when Iryna Kazakova from GEN-Ukraine decided to leave the room during the last GA in Nature Community, the Council decided to hold a safe space online for Iryna and GEN Ukraine to share more deeply and be witnessed. Click on the button below to read more about the Deep Listening Call.

Behind the scenes the GEN Europe team is eagerly working on the new website for GEN Europe that we will launch next year. With that I (Carolin) am also redesigning the membership webpage and I am excited to share that we created already a wonderful video for it thanks to the great great support of our wonderful ESC Giuseppe!

Now I am also looking for some written testimonials to be displayed on the page about membership.

Any written testimonials would be very much appreciated and please send them to me at membership@gen-europe.org 

As part of the Launch & Thrive project, GEN Europe is currently updating its Map of Ecovillages and we will be excited to launch it at the beginning of next year!

In order to gather more info about our members and so to better portray them in a more visual and comprehensive way, I (Carolin) am reviving the online interviews with our members.

I would be delighted to get to know you better and meet you online for an interview, please do get in touch at membership@gen-europe.org with your best availability and we can set something up :)

The project team of Launch & Thrive is now working on the final completion of the manual, web platform and online learning package to later support those looking to dive deeper into how to launch a national network, and how to make it thrive.

The first Trainers of Trainers to bring the project outputs to life will take place in January in Arterra, Spain and before that Multiplier Events are taking place in Sweden & Italy, see below:

The ReGEN4All project launched the community library with an amazing amount of published articles, books from academia, ecovillages and much more. You can find the library here.

Regenerative Communities for All (REGEN4ALL) is an Erasmus+ KA2 born at the European Ecovillage Gathering in 2022 and stems from the years of ecovillage research, networking and advocacy conducted and catalysed by the GEN research team and partners. The purpose of the ReGEN4All project is to serve researchers, practitioners, and adult educators from ecovillages and academia as well as policymakers on all levels. ReGEN4All aims to make the knowledge gained within and through ecovillages more accessible both for academic research and to help inform policy decisions on sustainable lifestyle and regenerative practices. ReGEN4All is a year-long project that includes six online research colloquiums, the establishment and research of Communities of Practice (CoPs), the creation of a database of ‘state of the art’ ecovillage research, and an online platform weaving it all together. The platform will include a pilot matching system to connect ‘ecovillagers’ and researchers, a protocol on how to approach ecovillages, and more! The project partners are GEN Europe (represented by GEN Research), ISCTE-IUL (Center for International Studies / University Institute of Lisbon), ECOLISE and LOES, the Danish Ecovillage Network.

The event is ECOLISEs main policy event, co-organised by ICLEILocal Governments for Sustainability and the European Economic  Social Committee (EESC) and is a follow-up to the Beyond Growth Conference (European Parliament, Brussels, May 2023) from a grassroots and local government perspective.

Join them on the 7th of November online between 14:30 - 18:00 CET

The Elders and NextGEN online meeting will be happening on the 30th of October from 14:00 to 16:10 CET.

The main house the community has rented so far in Drocala, with its common spaces and its land where they grow their food and fibres, is now for sale!

In order to be able to continue using it and survive, they need to buy it now!
Would you like to know more and how best support ?

Jan 4 – March 27, 2024
Sep 5 – Nov 27, 2024

Enthusiastic newcomers and experienced ecovillage souls — welcome to the EDE course in Denmark!

A 3-month Health, Happiness and Green Living course in Avnø combines the transformative power of the EDE and PDC (Permaculture Design Course) programs. Made with immense love, depth, and fun by the Avnø Oasis ecovillage community 🥰

Have you ever been thinking of visiting Findhorn?

Come and immerse yourself in the great joy and healing capacity of music, nature and ceremony and consciously cross the threshold to bring in the New Year in Findhorn, Dec. 27th 2023 - Jan 3rd, 2024!

Charlottendal is looking for a person who could help coordinate the volunteers, making weekly plans, assisting work and help develop new projects.

A cherished pizzeria nestled within the heart of this renowned ecological community is up for sale and the current owners would love to pass on the business to buyers who have the dream of living in community and could use this opportunity to make that dream a reality!

For more information, please contact labohemefindhorn@gmail.com

For reading this newsletter, sharing it in your community and your ongoing support! 

And if you have a volunteering opportunity, event or course you'd like to share through GEN Europe. You can always send information (and ideally a photo) to fran@gen-europe.org for publication on our social media, website or Telegram groups and to me at carolin@gen-europe.org for it to be shared in the Moon Cycle News!

In Community,
Carolin