Living Systems Designer Program, mini-EDE
Programme Overview
Type: Face to Face
Date: March 18th to 22nd, 2026
Language: English
Contact: ensemble@papillons-voyageurs.net
Location: Govardhan Ecovillage, India
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This course brings together social innovation, ecological design, transformational worldviews, and regenerative economics to empower changemakers to co-create thriving communities.
Through a living-lab experience, participants explore how to:
- Build resilient relationships across diversity
- Design landscapes and systems using permaculture principles
- Re-imagine money, value, and livelihoods
- Transform worldview and consciousness
- Activate real projects for regenerative change
Participants leave with:
- a project prototype
- embodied practices for community resilience
- tools for regenerative design and facilitation
- and a network of allies for ongoing collaboration
This is not just a course — It is a space to experience the world we want to build.
Course Schedule
- Day 1 — Social Fabric
Explore storytelling, shared governance, nonviolent communication, and conflict transformation while cultivating community across difference and diversity. - Day 2 — Ecology
Engage with permaculture ethics and whole-systems design through hands-on field experiences that ground theory in soil, observation, and practice. - Day 3 — Economy
Reflect on personal relationships with money, explore shifting global economic narratives, and develop skills in fundraising and collaborative project formation. - Day 4 — Worldview
Reconnect with nature and inner transformation, question inherited assumptions, release what no longer serves, and cultivate regenerative ways of seeing and being. - Day 5 — Integration
Present project designs, receive generative feedback, integrate learning, and close the journey with reflection, connection, and celebration.
Meditation, nature immersion, and group work weave the days, inviting participants to engage head, heart, and hands.
The course is designed for: educators, community leaders, eco-village builders, activists, youth, citizens seeking more meaningful futures,
Registration
30 000 INR for educational | Additional for Accommodation includes food INR 2500-4000/day
*Prices per person