SOUTHWEST
What is Kalapa?
Kalapa is an empowerment curriculum and developmental pathway, for Positive Change Agents, organized along the 8 directions of the compass. Each direction has a core competency and one or more best practices.
These practices are the most effective we have found for creating harmony within yourself, with others, and with the Earth.
You do not need to master all 8 areas! The promise is that if you achieve basic competency in 3 of the 8, this will significantly up-level your ability to make a difference.
What is the Southwest in Kalapa?
Core Competency:
Develop a first-name basis relationship with the natural world, and know how to surround yourself with the things you need, increasing your sustainability and resilience.
Best Practices
- Nature Awareness and Skills
- Permaculture Design
- Deep Adaptation
Why
Humanity is on a collision course with Nature. Most humans are alienated from nature and disconnected from our source of sustenance. Civilization exists only by geologic consent. Our lifestyles are vulnerable and fragile to the extent that our infrastructure is both destroying the planet and unable to be resilient in the face of climate change, economic instability, and peak oil.
As individuals we need to begin to reclaim the parts of our humanity that are interconnected with the ecosystems in which we live, and learn how to thrive within climate uncertainty and in a way that is less reliant on harmful and outdated technologies.
Economy is a subset of ecology. Our lifestyles of more-more-more are destroying ecosystems and indigenous cultures worldwide.
Collectively, we need to find a way to reintegrate humanity into the landscape in a way that does not undermine our very life-support systems.
What If
Imagine starting the process of becoming native to your place! What would it feel like to start to know the community of plants, trees, birds, and insects that surrounds you?
What would it be like to know the edible and medicinal plants that grow right where you live?
Imagine being able to plan for the future, grow more of your own food (if you wish), and living more in sync with natural rhythms…
How
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