Sept 2018
in our 6 foundations
Cal-Earth is at the cutting edge of Earth Art and Ceramic Architecture technologies today. Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili in 1986, it’s scope spans technical innovations published by NASA for lunar base construction, to design and development of housing for the world’s homeless for the United Nations.
Demonstration Center showcasing holistic ways of designing human environments, revitalizing the land and facilitating deeper understandings of ourselves and one another through experiences in nature. Tiny Earthen Houses too!
Education center highlighting empowering and cutting-edge environmental perspectives through fun, hands-on activities that teach practical solutions at the household and community level.
Urban EcoVillage demonstrating the processes, strategies and techniques for creating a healthy neighborhood ecologically, socially and economically.
Organic farm that cultivates resilient food systems and empowers others to engage in gardening, composting, vermiculture, beekeeping, natural pest control and organic soil amending.
EcoVillage of visionary business leaders, health practitioners, co-parenters and educators forming heart-centered community through effective governance, spiritual exploration, and collaboration.
Homestead & Education Center practicing regenerative agriculture, integrated animal systems, watershed restoration, and perennial agroforestry using permaculture ethics and principles.
You’ll learn from over a dozen master sustainability and community living teachers who live what they teach!
Bryan and Shayna go far beyond your generic tour guides.
They are expert facilitators who will be taking you on a transformative journey
to release your fears, build life-long relationships
and step into your fullest potential.
Shayna Gladstone is a global organizer, transformational facilitator, sustainable land steward and co-founder of Earth Journeys and NuMundo, both organizations promoting personal and planetary transformation. Shayna is trained in Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects”, has a Permaculture Design Certification and has been working with clients for years to help them activate their impactful dreams. She has considered nature as her temple since she was a child and has always had a deep connection the earth. While being a digital nomad growing NuMundo, she and Bryan worked at ecovillages and sustainable living projects all throughout Central and South America. Shayna’s presence is inspiring and her ability to ignite passion in others is remarkable.
Bryan Arturo is a community organizer and highly adaptable facilitator who is also a land steward. Supporting proven solutions to restore water to drought-stricken California and healing land through integrated animal systems energizes Bryan daily as a certified permaculteralist. He has facilitated retreats & socially impactful gatherings from Chile to Costa Rica to California, supporting grassroots movements as his primary objective. Bryan co-founded Earth Journeys and supported NuMundo‘s global impact center database since it’s inception. Bryan’s bursting love and laughter is no joke.
“This is the embodiment of creating a future that is sustainable, regenerative and can extend our values and our visions and our dreams into the future and I think that’s why I was able to get out of the day-to-day 40-hour job and come here and just take it in for all that it is.”
“Going on the tour opened a new door to my life. One that I’ve been wanting to open for a long time- it basically just thrusted me into this world of like learning about our earth.”
“My experience with the Sustainable Living Tour was a lot like coming home. Being a part of such a gracefully facilitated journey brought such a loving empowerment to myself, allowing me to feel into my true potential and what that could look like as a service to all.”
“This tour not only highlighted amazing farms, communities and educational centers that support and practice sustainable and regenerative systems, but it was also important to the organizers, Shayna and Bryan, to facilitate a safe space where each person was encouraged to go deep within and bring forward our own strengths, dreams and visions. We were supported to challenge ourselves to move forward in our paths of being the best and highest vibrational human beings we can be, and to formulate our plans for how we want to show up in that role.”
“The Sustainable Living Tour was everything I could have imagined in an experience that would allow my heart to blossom open to expose my gifts that are here to be in service to the world. Through group activities that fostered community building, an undeniable support system held me as I pushed through my weaknesses and built up my strengths…This journey was a well thought out, nurturing incubator that gently guided me into creating a lasting vision of my purpose and passion.”
The Sustainable Living Tour will forever change your life in the most brilliant and authentic ways. I would recommend that anyone seeking to make a significant change for the better seek Earth Journeys out.
“The Sustainable Living Tour afforded me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deeply and quickly connect with others of like mind and kindred spirit. The Core Values emerging from exercises led by proficient facilitators further encouraged collaboration among our group of seasoned and budding changemakers, leading to profound realizations, affirmations and motivations.”
“Perfectly balanced between personal growth, community building and hands-on sustainable skills; the whole experience felt like a magical school field trip.”
“The quality of connection that I had with other people on the tour was really astounding. I felt like within 4 days I had made better connections with people than I have made with some of my friends back home in 4 years.”
