Communities for Future
Online Summit
Our Response to the Climate Emergency
February 1-10, 2020
Om Sunisa
Om Sunisa grew up in a rural village and was from her very beginning immersed in community life. When she noticed negative developments in her birth village, she started to study communities more in-depth - both in theory and in practice. From her experience, she shares about the major elements for empowered communities, the ways to support youth and her core solutions to make a real shift. As a Buddhist, she especially emphasizes the first path of the eightfold path: The right view and understanding of the world, which builds on a holistic worldview of interconnectedness.
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- Introduction
- Om's journey within communities and deep nature connection
- Negative developments in her birth village
- Key elements for an empowered community
- Ways to support the youth
- Core solutions to make a real shift
- The unique contribution of Buddhism in these times
Om Sunisa is an educator based on Holistic Worldview, Deep Ecology and Ecovillage Design Education. She lived and worked as a facilitator at Wongsanit Ashram, a social engaged spiritual community, and Panya project in Thailand altogether for 9 years. Om has facilitated courses for NGO workers, young Buddhists activists, international students and children. She is co-founder and program director of the Gaia Ashram community/nature restoration project and Gaia School Asia. She has been involved in GEN since 2007 initiating NextGEN groups and the NextGEN network in Asia since 2014.
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4 Comments
Thank you, Om, what a precious work: to go with your knowledges andcexperiences into a “normal” village and to support the community and community members to develop in a healthy common life again. Real peace work. ♡~☆~♡
Your dedication Om inspires. So many many people leave their villages of birth to seek Luck elsewhere, and you stayed, went away, and returned!
Dear Om, Its amazing to hear you and its a subject so in my heart would love to learn and experience more. Your energy radiets.
So interesting to have a voice of someone who grew up in an actual traditional community! What a shining inspiring woman <3