Restoring Relationship, Healing Community
Nature: The Sacred, Natural Design, & Relationship
Restoring Relationship, Healing Community
Evolving sustainable culture via nature, deepening connection, and healing interpersonal/transpersonal relationship, we create new experiences that can act as a catalyst to galvanize our local-global communities toward regenerative existence.
The Harmony Project was initiated to help nurture regenerative, altruistic connection, and interpersonal/transpersonal relationship via our connection and relationship with Nature. The knowledge inherent in the Nature’s flows, rhythms, cycles and relationships are applied through the integration of ancient, Ancestral-Indigenous, and Eastern wisdoms; healing technologies; wellbeing self-practices; and relational/folk/ethno-botany. Inner relationship and personal healing work are cultivated and supported to engender altruistic interactions and community.
The Conservatory’s Natural Design: Holistic Health, Healing, & Environment model informs our approach to restoring relationship/community and contributing to the renewal of humanity. Holistic health and healing address our experience as Spirit embodied and discovering deeper awareness of Self and the true nature of our existence. This includes creating balance and maintaining fluidity (natural ebb and flow) of our energy, emotions, states of consciousness, inner-external environment, and the navigation of everyday experiences and challenges. Workshops, classes, 1:1 and group sessions, and nature immersion retreats support personal healing work for rematriation, reclamation, and re-storying of individual, ancestral/family, and collective narrative and experiences. The NSC provides affordable offerings to increase accessibility and support underserved/disadvantaged populations who are often disproportionately BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in the personal-collective work to heal, develop, grow/expand, and experience freedom to live fully from truth, creative purpose, and prosperity.
The Harmony Project consists of:
- Natural Design: Restorative Living & Sacred Space Curation
- Heart Journeys: A Path to Personal & Collective Healing
- Culture of Sustainability (COS) Collaborative & Leadership Program
- Living Sanctuary Intentional Healing Community
Natural Design: Restorative Living & Sacred Space Curation applies the model to deepen inner relationship creating a lifestyle and living environment in relationship with nature as sanctuary for holistic health, wellbeing, growth, and development. Curating sacred space, infusing nature and natural elements into our home, resets us from day-to-day experiences that contribute to elevated stress response, mind-body imbalances/dysregulation, and dis-ease as well as emotional overwhelm and trauma. The concept topophilia and related studies have shown that people who love their environment are drawn to restorative spaces that benefit their health helping them enjoy a high quality of life. One study’s participants associated their environment with feelings of connection or belonging, safety, comfort, and well-being. The internal harmony of our spirit-heart/mind-soul-body (inner environment) can nurture and harmonize our home/living environment in a similar way. As we holistically heal, we are able to balance and restore our inner relationship and relationships with others. This engenders a cohesive inner and home/living environment that is calming, peaceful, and restorative…sacred space.
Heart Journeys: A Path to Personal & Collective Healing includes a monthly healing group that assists with emotional pain/wounding and soul loss from oppression of the spirit and trauma (personal, intergenerational, transgenerational, ancestral, community, ethnic/cultural, historical +); while, nourishing the spirit-heart/mind-soul-body to experience restoration, growth, development, peace, balance, and a revitalizing living environment that supports whole life health and wellbeing. Unhealed trauma may create challenges with health conditions, social interactions, relationships, communications, and contribute to micro-/macro-aggressions and other harmful actions against one another. Individual work in supportive community nourishes the spirit (and the spirit aspects of heart-soul and the mind-body), deepens inner relationship, and cultivates altruistic, reciprocal relationships with others further developing vibrant connection. One-to-one sessions also are available for a more in-depth focus.
The Culture of Sustainability (COS) Collaborative is a diverse nature-based, community of individuals, organizations, and businesses unifying vision to develop innovative models, methods, and strategies toward altruism, transformative learning/justice, social-economic-environmental restoration, stewardship, and sustainable local/global communities. People learn, develop, and work together drawing from experientials of Ancestral-Indigenous and Eastern wisdoms, heart journeys, inner inquiry, noetic/multiple ways of knowing, nature immersions, applied research, and interdisciplinary studies. We address the intersectionality of local-global issues (i.e., poverty, discrimination, and subjugation; housing-food-resource insecurity; violence and systemic aggression; and overconsumption/natural resource depletion +) that affect the planet’s ecosystems, social-economic development, holistic health and wellbeing, and our quality of life. The connection between societal structure and relationship development has far reaching implications in co-creating a sustainable culture that is harmonized with the environment.
The Sustainable Community Design (SCD) Leadership certificate program provides nature-based, holistic relationship and community building training to become effective altruistic stewards and change agents. The curriculum includes a social ecopreneurship startup community with a hybrid co-operative and incubator. We help participants to develop an eco-based vision/mission, clarify strengths and needs, and design practical strategies/tools. Assistance and resources are provided for increasing economic, housing, and food security; while, reducing the individual-collective carbon footprint and general over-consumption. This program helps to increase altruistic presence and resources in underserved, disadvantage, and communities while contributing to the restoration of the planet.
The COS Collaborative and the SCD Leadership program are instrumental in the development of the Living Sanctuary Healing Community, an intentional healing community (IHC), land trust, conservancy, and preservation. Living Sanctuary IHC will provide assistance and resources for healing from adversity and trauma as well as increasing economic/healthy housing/food security and restoring land-community relationship. This is the first of several nature-relational projects to nurture regenerative, altruistic relationship and establish a holistically supportive, green-sustainable/carbon neutral intentional community assisted by collaborative partnerships. Our Leadership certificate program also will provide students with an opportunity to contribute to the intentional community’s development.
The Harmony Project is a multi-dimensional approach for engaging in dialogue and co-creating effective resources and tools for reducing our collective carbon footprint and general over-consumption. Our work is to increase altruistic relationship and contribute to the healing of communities and the Earth. Contact us to learn more and participate in the Harmony Project!