Welcome to our website!
Submitted by kevan on Fri, 2007-03-30 12:30.At Khula Dhamma Community we find much joy in sharing a harmonious, meaningful and uplifting existence with kindred spirits. We aim to manifest a conscious, supportive and self-sufficient community that celebrates and co-creates with Nature; where all ages and cultures come together to explore the mysteries and possibilities of human spiritual potential.
“LIVING is LEARNING is LOVING”
Submitted by anne on Wed, 2010-07-28 16:54.A Workshop on
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING OPTIONS
“LIVING is LEARNING is LOVING” was run in April this year. It was Khula Dhamma’s first workshop open to a paying public!
Parents and other interested members at Khula Dhamma were searching for responsible ways to school our children in an environment which is loving and child-centred. We had reached a point where making more firm decisions around our children’s education was becoming a priority. We have eight children under the age of 8 here at the moment.
A LAND BLESSING for KHULA DHAMMA
Submitted by anne on Tue, 2010-07-27 22:49.Our Permaculture Design course, having succeeded in allowing us to formally map out and plan the activities we intend to facilitate here at Khula Dhamma, got us thinking that this might now be the time to have a LAND BLESSING.
PERMACULTURE DESIGN WORKSHOP
Submitted by anne on Mon, 2010-07-26 17:09.It took months of planning and eventually in January 2010 South Africa’s leading Permaculture Design expert, Kent Cooper (Tahir), arrived here to start a 10 day intensive with the members of Khula Dhamma. Khula Dhamma is a large farm of 300 Hectares and Kent’s brief was extensive: to design housing, school, working and farming space. This meant constructing huge maps of the farm where we could start pinpointing large scale farming areas; grazing areas; woodlots; indigenous forests and grasslands to protect; housing for +30 prospective members and internal farm roads to lay out.
The first South African ECOVILLAGE CONVERGENCE
Submitted by anne on Sat, 2010-07-24 17:15.This was held at Khula Dhamma in September last year. It felt like a pioneering event to us and we were very excited to host the lovely people from other ecovillages in South Africa. They came from Xhabbo Ecovillage (near Swellendam), Zuvuyo Ecovillage (in the KZN midlands) and Berg en Dal (near Ladismith in the Cape).
The original intention was to focus on building a network among actual ecovillages so we can set up a network-cum-resource / support group forum (possibly through an existing ecovillage awareness website).
ALIGNMENT PROCESS
Submitted by anne on Thu, 2010-07-22 17:33.at Khula Dhamma in January 2010
Ninnette, one of our new members, brought in all her skills to run an ALIGNMENT PROCESS in January. She saw the process as a tool to help the growing community get down to basics – as she kept saying, “get from the roots to the leaves” and not the other way around.
