The types of joint activities are as follows:
- We will experience different aspects of community together during the workshops. Each workshop lasts from two to four days and detailed information about the workshop content is available below in the workshop description.
- There will also be online classes, of two types. The first are those workshops that cannot be completed on site due to the complex process of emerging a solution. For example - developing a common mission for the community will certainly take many weeks and a series of online meetings will serve to develop it. Their frequency will depend on where the group ends the stationary workshop. The second type of online meetings are weekly, hour-long circles, which will be an extension of the community building workshop (CBST, CBW)
- The third type of classes is everything that will help build a sense of community in the group. These activities will be interwoven with the workshop and will be completed during and after the workshop. There will be dancing, singing, rituals, working together, cooking together. The course of these classes will depend on many factors - weather, mood, topic of the current workshop.
- Sometimes it may turn out that some of the participants will require support in the form of therapeutic activities. This should not be demonized, but some of the workshops will touch on intimate areas of each participant and it is not entirely clear what memories or traumas may be revealed.
A detailed plan/schedule of all classes is posted below
The school's curriculum is developed based on three assumptions.
Firstly - although the entire training process does not have to lead to the creation of a fully functioning community (although it can, especially when the group of students is an existing group/community), the order of the workshops is crucial, as it allows for 'going deeper' - for greater intimacy and closeness in the group. Without this closeness, some of the workshops will be artificial, and some solutions will not be possible to develop.
Secondly - the workshops are very clearly divided into two groups. The first group (blue) is a group of practical skills, e.g. rituals, creativity or conflict resolution. Most of the workshops belong to this group. The second group, which includes two workshops (pink), is a group that de facto 'enables' all the other workshops. They are, as it were, the 'lubricant' that sets the entire training mechanism in motion. These workshops are Community Building Workshop and Common Earning.
Thirdly - the workshops are mostly facilitated, not led. During these sessions, there is some transfer of knowledge from the leader to the group, but we assume that the group has enough experience and wisdom to be able to develop its own methods of action.
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- COMMUNITY BUILDING SKILLS (CBST).
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Edward Groody + facilitators |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Edward Groody |
| CONTENT |
Combine communication skills with circle time to produce a state of community, according to Scott Peck's guidelines |
| PURPOSE |
The goal of the workshop is for the group to open up to further workshops, to create community together throughout the training cycle. Building closeness, a sense of safety and acceptance of otherness will be the 'grease' for the next workshops. |
- MY PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Joanna Frankiewicz, Dorota Ostoja Zawadzka |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Dorota Ostoja Zawadzka |
| CONTENT |
The essential goal of the workshop is to discover one's 'gifts' and their role in the emerging community. Gifts are not talents. A gift is the discovery of what I can give to the community that will be of great satisfaction and pleasure to me and a benefit to the community. |
| PURPOSE |
Developing a method of finding one's place in the community. Developing methods of appreciating gifts by the community. |
- MISSION OF THE COMMUNITY
| DURATION. |
4 days |
| PROVIDING |
Joanna and Leszek Frankiewicz |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Simon Sinek |
| CONTENT |
Work with deep beliefs about one's own values and answers to questions like - why am I in this world? Why do we form a community? What are our individual goals, expectations? How can I translate them into a common, coherent community mission? |
| PURPOSE |
The purpose of the workshop is to develop a common position on the question - why are we doing this? The answer to this question will be primarily to provide motivation for further work for the entire group and to give meaning to the actions and hardships undertaken. It is intended to prevent discouragement in difficult situations, since difficult moments, in the case of a unified vision, will be supported by all members of the community. |
- COMMUNITY BUILDING - CBW
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Facilitators - Emilia Slimko as senior + facilitators in training |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Scott Peck |
| CONTENT |
Work in a circle to deepen the created state of community and create a deeper community before the rituals module |
| PURPOSE |
The goal of the workshop is to deepen the state of community that emerged after the first CBST workshop. The next workshop will be much more challenging when it comes to and finding common positions, giving up for the sake of the group sacrificing and trusting the Spirit of Community. |
- BIODANZA
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Joanna Mikolajczyk |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Joanna Mikolajczyk |
| CONTENT |
Simply three days of experiencing dance, joy and intimacy. The workshop can be interspersed with a circle and/or working together, but so that the main purpose of the workshop, i.e. dance, is not pushed into second place. Dancing is the basis of this workshop. You can try to start introducing rituals (gently) based on dance. |
| PURPOSE |
Deepening closeness in the group. Introduction to rituals. |
- RITUALS
| DURATION. |
5 days |
| PROVIDING |
Françoise Rambaud |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Françoise Rambaud |
| CONTENT |
Practical introduction to rituals based on the experience of indigenous peoples from around the world. Practicing some basic rituals related to the elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Minerals, Nature). Ritual as
Artifacts of rituals - temples, shrines, role of fire Individual and collective rituals - when and how to use them? |
| PURPOSE |
Developing a method of finding one's place in the community. To work out methods of appreciating the gifts by the community. |
- DECISION-MAKING
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Dorota Ostoja/Leszek Frankiewicz |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
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| CONTENT |
Medicine wheel - children's fire/ Kiva Method Hopi Indians/ . |
| PURPOSE |
Development of the group's decision-making method(s) |
- JOINT EARNING
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Joanna and Leszek Frankiewicz |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Joanna and Leszek Frankiewicz |
| CONTENT |
Business idea for a group and/or for individuals. Joint work and rituals as energy to power the earning system. Principles. |
| PURPOSE |
Development of the group's decision-making method(s) |
- COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Zuzanna Wisniewska |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
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| CONTENT |
Working out the values of the community. Code of conduct, instructions, formalisms. Legal issues of operation, costs, payments, etc. Admission and verification of new members, compatibility of their values with the community's mission. Acceptance of volunteers. Succession, departure from the settlement. Joint education and childcare. Representing the community. Division of roles according to gifts, talents, etc. |
| PURPOSE |
Develop possible scenarios for events that will take place that can be guarded against or prepared for. Provide a safe framework for the operation of the community. |
- CONFLICT RESOLUTION
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Edward Groody + ko facilitators |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Edward Groody |
| CONTENT |
Edward's module, which will be ready at the end of 2025 |
| PURPOSE |
Preventing and resolving conflicts when they arise in the spirit of Community Spirit. Mediation based on the presence of community spirit |
- CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY WITH A HIGHER POWER
| DURATION. |
4 days |
| PROVIDING |
Joanna Frankiewicz |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Joanna Frankiewicz |
| CONTENT |
Vedic Art Workshop. Alternatively, if someone has a deep aversion to painting you need to create a workshop of the same but with someone else. The whole workshop is about surrender and about creating based on and this surrender. |
| PURPOSE |
Access to unlimited creation, Empowerment of one's sense of self-worth. Self-belief and gratitude to the Higher Power, however we understand it |
- COMMUNITY IN SOCIETY
| DURATION. |
4 days |
| PROVIDING |
Zuzanna WIśniewska |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Zuzanna WIśniewska |
| CONTENT |
Methods and best practices of community -outer world interactions. Trainings, events, sales activities. |
| PURPOSE |
Engaging with local authorities and local people. Promotin CB style in local environment |
- FACILITATION PRINCIPLES/INDIVIDUAL PLANS
| DURATION. |
3 days |
| PROVIDING |
Dorot Ostoja Zawadzka |
| OWNER/CREATOR |
Dorota Ostoja Zawadzka |
| CONTENT |
Principles of facilitation of meetings, circles. The basics of these skills are needed by people, because during the function of the community, they will be the ones to facilitate meetings or workshops.Develop individual action plans after school |
| PURPOSE |
JW |
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