Our crowdfunding campaign is now live! 🌱 Visit https://chuffed.org/project/thelivingcentre to see our video and learn more. Our goal is to raise $85,000 in the next month to expand our centre and inspire a community of people who want to work together, redesign and lead new ways of co-creating with the Earth and each other. For each dollar you give, we will match it - and more
- with a selection of in-person or online workshops, mentorships and correspondence courses, a retreat in our straw-bale studio, private sessions with us and even organic pawpaw seeds. If you have the ability to donate to our campaign, we are grateful for anything you can contribute. There are many ways to participate, and if donating isn't an accessible form of support for you right now, we would be grateful if you could share our campaign on your social media and with your friends and family. If you have any questions or you'd like to get involved with the centre and/or our campaign, please leave a comment or send us a message. Thanks again for being a part of this vision. We're looking forward to connecting with you and co-creating the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible 💚
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Shantree (Walter) Kacera opened Spirit of the Earth, ‘The Living Centre' in 1983 to fulfill a dream of being in the country and learning how to live in accordance with the laws of Nature. This he did wholeheartedly, creating a beautiful and sacred space for healing and learning, originally known as "Balance Life Gardens". He was joined by Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera in 1997. Over the years the Centre has offered life-inspiring programs and services to thousands of people on their evolutionary journey. Over the course of 30 years, The Living Centre has transformed into an integrated, multifunctional, ecologically rich, and productive living classroom. The purpose of The Living Centre is to promote a renaissance in human thought, values and conscience based on healing, eco-sustainability and openness. Our wish is to grow together as global citizens; to contribute towards the creation of a culture based in peace; as we look to life and common humanism as the core values for a sustainable society. The principal courses offered at The Living Centre integrate physical, emotional, spiritual and ecological health and well-being as the four essential factors in achieving human potential, success, and creating a healthy, happy, balanced life and society. The Living Centre has welcomed thousands of students from over twenty countries around the world — youth, adults, families and elders — seeking a deeper connection with the natural world and solutions for restoring human and planetary health. Many of these students have since become practitioners, ecological designers, herbalists, forest gardeners, community leaders, and educators, using what they have learned at The Living Centre to make positive change in the world.
