Learning Route:
Dancing On Cliffs
Cohort 2: September – December 2024
6 Spots Remaining
Barichara is an incredible community of people working together to weave a common future. Very few places on earth have such a density and diversity of projects working together to create a way for their town to live in harmony with nature. A place where you can feel true connection, do meaningful work and find hope.
Meet Carlos Gomez, steward of Aguasanta, who has been working for 9 years to regenerate the native forest while creating a self-sufficient organic farm:
Or Diana Reyes who has founded a bee sanctuary, educating about ecosystems and helping people reconnect with nature:
The Dancing on Cliffs program has been designed for people looking for a new path in life. For those that are ready to overcome the fear of leaving your safety nets behind and embark on an adventure. Ready to dive into a new culture, take real, on-the-ground action and rediscover the fire that burns within you. Ready to embrace hope, connect with the people around you and allow child-like excitement back into your life.
Program Outline
Suna’s mission is to foster human self-authority in the construction of shared futures.
Dancing on Cliffs is a one, two or three month residential program which is hand-tailored specifically to you and your cohort. We select the best offerings from our education ecosystem and design an experience to facilitate real change in your life and your possibilities to contribute to a healthy and beautiful planet.
The process is built on a combination of:
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High impact, hands-on learning opportunities
Get your heart pumping and contribute to inspiring projects making real change
02
Highly Crafted Workshops
Learn first hand from experts with years of real world experience in your fields of interest, while cultivating a meaningful and impactful life.
03
1-on-1 Mentoring Sessions
Learn from community leaders sharing the bounties of learning collected over years of experience.
04
1-on-1 Inner Guiding Sessions
Have conversations with our facilitators to support you in the process of “being the change”.
This is woven together by recurrent ceremonies to celebrate achievements and frame the learning process.
What does a day look like?
- Wake up in a colonial house, enjoy the morning breeze and warm weather. Hear the birds. Have some coffee or herbal tea.
- Go to learn from hands-on experience in some of Barichara’s most amazing projects.
- Enjoy a delicious lunch with the group.
- Return home and rest.
- Head off to one of the regenerative and creative workshops or dive into insightful conversation with your mentor or guide.
- Enjoy the sunset, have a walk, mingle with some new friends, enjoy the rich cultural life of Barichara or simply rest.
- Go to bed and fall asleep immediately with the satisfaction of having fully used your energy to do something meaningful and recover to do the same the next day.
You can choose whether to embark in the one-month, two-month, three-month program. The duration correlates with how far on the journey you want or need to go with us.
Month 1
The first month is designed to rekindle your inner fire, inspire and facilitate transformation of your inner world. It entails:
- 4 high-impact weeklong hands-on learning projects
- 4 meaningful and highly crafted workshops
- 4 rich and invigorating mentoring conversations
- 4 deep ecology-guiding sessions
- 8 celebrations and collective updates
- 1 activation ceremony
Month 2
Designed to develop capacities and possibilities for active, meaningful and skillful engagement with the world. It entails:
- 4 high-impact three-day long hands-on learning projects
- 12 life-skills training sessions
- 4 meaningful and highly crafted workshops
- 4-6 rich and invigorating mentoring conversations
- 4 deep ecology-guiding sessions
- 8 celebrations and collective updates
- 1 maturation ceremony
Month 3
The third month is designed to foster the creation of a personal project or endeavor that manifests creative self-authorship in the construction of shared futures in the local community.
The specific design is created with each of the participants according to their own unique inner call and support necessities.
All months include full housing in a open, rammed-earth house in Barichara, Colombia’s most beautiful town, transportation within the program’s activities, all materials and a healthy lunch Monday through Friday. For the other meals both grocery stores and restaurants are within walking distance.
Who are we looking for?
This program is meant for people who acknowledge that humanity’s current industrialized and extractive mode of life is heading towards collapse; and instead of closing their eyes or turning towards the screen, they want to do something about it – something creative and brave. Yet, they also realize that all necessary change stems from within and are willing to do the work “to be the change they want to see in the world”. Because restoration must happen within and around, and restored systems – be them forest or people- naturally serve life.
This is an invitation for walkers on all paths, ages 25-40, to connect in the community of Barichara, where the native indigenous and all of the succeeding generations, have created a place where life-enhancing relations come first; and out of that relationality hope-giving projects, people and knowledge grow like wild plants. Join the SUNA education ecosystem where more than 30 of these projects, people and workshops come together to weave the thread of your transformative journey.
Supported
If you struggle to fund your basic needs and have limited access to resources in your family and community, or if you would not be able to access this program without a discounted payment option, consider paying at this level. We value your presence and contributions to our community and do not want any economic circumstances to be a barrier to attendance!
Sustainer
If you are able to meet your needs with relative ease while budgeting your educational and entertainment spending – for instance, you are able to take classes and eat out occasionally as long as you are mindful – consider paying at this level, which will help sustain these programs at a modest level.
Supporter
If you move through the world with financial ease and the means to fulfill many of your wants as well as your needs – you are able to eat out when you want, abundantly meet your needs through employment or can comfortably not work, have access to family wealth, own property, etc. – consider paying at this level, which will help us ensure the long term sustainability of our programs while keeping our offerings accessible to those with access to fewer resources.
The Team
Felipe Medina
Lead Facilitator
Jakob Seidler
Facilitator and Operations
Alejandra Camargo
Facilitator and Finances
6 Spots Remaining
If you have any questions contact us through WhatsApp +57 322 303 6160 or E-Mail suna.barichara@proton.me