Welcome! Holly Foundation is a micro-multinational non profit educational corporation founded in February 2008 and currently awaiting approval of its application for 501(C)(3) status. The Foundation is engaged in developing and supporting holistic education, authentic community building, deep democracy, permaculture and eco-centres worldwide. We are dedicated to the four keys of the ecovillage movement: social, economic, ecological and worldcentric. Authentic community, built through harmony-building language, consensus decision making, partnership models, and holistic institutions is the touchstone for creating a new culture of nonviolence and peace. Through working together, playing together, learning together and honestly sharing our joys, pains, feelings, needs and resources with our brothers and sisters of whatever race, creed or religion, we build the authentic community out of which can arise a new sustainable culture of health, wholeness and global justice. In support of this mission, we conduct these interrelated programs:  • Gaia Connections®, in conjunction with Juggler Press publishes books and articles in holistic living, authentic community building, self enquiry, radical and eco-psychology. Get the whole story on the pioneering work of the ZEGG and Tamera communities on love, intimacy and new models of sustainable relationship in their first book published in English, Liberating Love.  • Use Your Vacation to Save the Earth! We conduct summer schools in the context of community building in several centres in the mediterranean rim. See the summer 2008 programme in Greece of the Kalikalos Living-Learning Centre and their links pages for a comprehensive list of holistic education centres in the mediterranean.  • Community Building. We offer trainings and events in authentic community building based on the original model developed by American psychiatrist and writer, M. Scott Peck with significant additions from the practical experience of the ecovillages of Auroville in India, ZEGG in Germany and Findhorn in Scotland.  • Partnership Projects. We collaborate with other Global Ecovillage groups to extend the reach of our own efforts within our overall mission.  • Intern Programmes. We assist the placement of volunteers worldwide in sustainability projects by connecting the young-at-heart into the growing network of international action-learning community building and holistic projects. Please see our About Us page for an in-depth overview and more information on how you can help these projects expand to bring our vision of wholeness to more regions, communities and institutions worldwide. Support our on-going efforts in authentic community building, holistic education and sustainable technology education with a tax deductible online donation!

This site last updated Sunday, February 12, 2008