What is a Village?

"In the simplest terms, it is the intersection, and interconnection of people and place" explains Jamaica Stevens, author, event producer, and community activist. "How do we create a culture shift towards communities of celebration, cooperation, resilience, and respect?"

Jamaica set about sharing some answers to these questions in her culture-shifting ReInhabiting the Village project. As a former board member and ongoing collaborator with the Fellowship for Intentional Community, Jamaica continues to contribute innovative design thinking and people-focused approaches to gather people consciously around a common cause, to harvest inspiring collective intelligence, and to enjoy ourselves along the way!

Here she talks more about the ReInhabiting the Village project, to help us live more wisely on this planet:

 

ReInhabiting the Village

You can find this gorgeous book with all of it's interesting articles and insights, along with an accompanying Workbook full of activities to deepen your understanding, at the Communities Bookstore:

https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/reinhabiting-the-village/

 

How do we Live like a Village?

On a recent episode of the Conscious Community Podcast, we get to hear more about Jamaica's ideas on 'How to Create a more Cooperative Culture.'

Hosted by Janae Jean and Spencer Schulter, their deep and wide-ranging conversation gets into the importance of the medium of artwork to reflect and change culture, how festivals can actually be enriching and regenerating to environments and participants, how engaging in local government and intergenerational cooperation is necessary, and why we must band together to create the change we need.

You can listen to this full podcast here:

 

Also, here is the full article about this podcast episode, with links to more episodes and podcast providers:

https://consciouscommunitymagazine.com/jamaicastevens/

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