Personal and Community Development

Personal and Community development lies at the core of our philosophy and has an important impact in how we orient our communal governance and leadership. It also functions at the core of providing a healthy environment for all of our community members and anyone who steps foot at soil to soul. Personal and Community development includes communal group activities, personal spiritual practices, and external community outreach.

Community Cohesion & Governance

Decision Making through applying sociocracy, in which at a smaller scale we apply the principle of consensus minus-1. Sociocracy is a system of governance that seeks to create psychologically safe environments and productive organizations. It draws on the use of consent, rather than majority voting.

Everyone that is integrated in our community, both long and short term will be introduced to the basics of conflict resolution, self-responsibility of communication, non-violent communication.

New members are integrated through an orientation compass in which we have a buddy system so that new members are paired with existing community members. Introduction to community guidelines.

Welcome ritual

Guardians of the vision

- Board Members

We have core board members which are able to oversee the project development and guard the vision and the mission of the project. This creates a larger collective purpose which serves to align the actions and intentions of individuals within soil to soul.

Community Commitments

4 hours per week of core chore (individual responsibility)

2 hours per week (communal physical group activity - gardening?)

1 weekly sharing circle per week: checkin, feedback and project planning

Bimonthly project development review - vision assessment and manifestation

Collective maintenance pot 50 euros per week

Collective project development pot 50 euros per week

Celebration: every quarter and milestone + once per week we have an open space for a group to organize a weekly celebration that is oriented around dance, singing and ritual.

Individual Development

Each individual has their own daily practice

Every morning at 9am we lead a one hour spiritual practice

Check in before each working and group session

Communication of needs and feelings

Skill sharing of health and wellbeing practices founders

External Communal Outreach

Soil to Soul Ambassador

Ancestral and Land guidance from external community members, community integration

Linkages with local networks and partnerships through events and workshops