IDEA

The School os Life is our approach to lifelong learning. As part of cooperativism, the ongoing education of all members is a core value.

The School of Life is and will be open to all members and guests at AlmaOhana. Come to learn about non violent communication, land regeneration, permaculture, thai massage, natural remedies, languages, philosophies, all sorts of skills like construction, managment, plant-based cooking and more. The offers will be as diverse as our members and our networks!

Lifelong Leanrning also includes honouring the mistakes we made and fixing it as far as possible. This can be in connection to the land itself - good intentions don’t prevent mistakes and hence learning oportunities. It is important to us to acknowledge where we did wrong and together work out what we can learn from it for the future and how to mitigate the issue.

NOW - what we are doing

• There is constant teaching & learning amongst us members and full support amongs the team for each persons learning and growth
• We take trainings together (sociocracy, experts coahing us on the land,…)
• With our still very limited infrastructure we can only host small short-term workshops for now
• Practicing openness to ways to learn, unlearn and improve. Being honest with the mistakes we have made and doing our best to fix it and do it better in the future.

FUTURE - what we would love to do

• AlmaOhana’s vision shows a powerful education and healing centre at it’s core. As it’s ”end”. The means are plentiful and include land regeneration, water retention, living together and well, integrated living spaces, holistic actions and more. AlmaOhana is a School of Life project in itself. Some of this vision includes:
  • Have a big workshop space and accomodation for guests to offer week- or month long trainings in all different subjects (bodywork, agroecology, preventative health, systemic thinking, healing, skillsets…)
  • Host an alternative school for kids, teens and young adults where they learn and practice to be self-reliant and competent and inspired to collaborate
  • In addition to courses and intensive trainings we have weekly classes running at Além in Odemira and in the workshop spcaces on our land

CONTRIBUTE - How you can help