Interactive workshops and strategic design processes to activate your gifts and build thriving communities
Learn From Thought-leaders In Our Bio-Region
Practice Village Technologies For Cultural Intelligence
Cross-pollinate Projects and Build Bridges
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A Transformative 2-Day Community Learning Journey
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Teachers from The Gift Academy share talks and workshops on themes of culture, nature and social architecture. Up-level skills and gain new ideas to be more resourced in your sense-making and gift for the world.
Day 1 : Learn From Thought-Leaders
Day 2 : Learn From The Village
Learn from each other through council, community panels and creative experiences that teach us about what is more alive and real in our community.
The Gift Awakens is a totally unique convergence of community, education, and creative expression
What to Expect:
- New relationships, ideas and connections to further your passion and projects
- Enhanced collaboration and awareness of strengths and weaknesses in our communities
- Lot's of fun, family connections and wholesome activities
Whether it is climate change, inequality, migration, food security or mental health, there are numerous issues facing humanity today.
More and more, people like yourself are looking for ways to help solve these problems and prepare themselves for the major changes ahead. We can’t wait for a government to step in and provide the necessary support or solutions.
We have to come together as communities to learn, heal, create and communicate in ways that empower us to create a culture that is resilient and resourced.
Preparing for a complex and uncertain future
Schedule
Fire Circle
Evening
Tribes Guide To The End of The World
Issues Mapping
Voice of the ancients
Afternoon
Community & Cultural Transformation
Village ABC's
Morning
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Gift Academy Live
Vocal Freedom w/Uria Tsur
Evening
Panel : Parenting in a Foreign Land
Parenting in a foreign land comes with unique challenges, from raising children without the usual support systems to navigating cultural differences, language barriers, influence of technology and unfamiliar policies. In this panel we will gather parents who have had a broad spectrum of experience with raising children in a diverse and ever-evolving environment.
Manhunt - Hide & Seek Meets Tag
The ultimate showdown where kids become stealthy escape artists and parents transform into relentless trackers. Will the grown-ups outsmart the chaos, or will the kids disappear into the jungle?
Afternoon
Invocation of Council
As we gather we create a moment of collective remembrance, where wisdom is carried not by any one person, but by the circle itself.
Explore the edges of cultural integration, what it means to support single mothers, and how we restore mentorship as an essential thread in the development of a resilient village.
Morning
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
'La Casa Redonda' - Roundhouse Gathering
You are invited to Awake, Uvita, Costa Rica, for The Gift Awakens. As we develop programming around consciousness, creativity, and education in this land-based community, your participation helps to shape what Awake becomes.
Embrace The Gift.
Join us in supporting the growth of Awake —a center devoted to embodying the seed of a new earth.
The Power of Awake
April 18-19, 2025 in Uvita, Costa Rica
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The Journey is guided by the principles of reciprocity, self-awareness and service.
By embracing these principles, we challenge the story of separation, fostering a sense of unity and shared responsibility as we truly see how everything is interdependent
our guiding framework
reciprocity | self-awareness | service
Through narrative work and strategic design processes, participants acquire the knowledge and capabilities ask big questions and explore big problems.
Service & Self-Discovery
Develop the wisdom and interpersonal skills to allow community to be a mirror as we collectively address real-world problems in with keen sense-making and "village-mindedness".
Expanding Impact & Building Community
Through novelty, unpredictability, connection, complexity, and awe, we foster flow. This enhances human curiosity, passion, and purpose.
Learning & Transformation
meet your guides
Facilitators
Nicolas Rotundo
Nicolas has melded advanced systems and natural cycles for a comprehensive understanding of the interdependencies of Life. Ranging from scaled agroforestry to ecosystem restoration he has contributed to holistic design and implementation that values people as integral to lasting change in 16 countries on over 50 different land bases. Nic bridges the technological and the ecological, developing sophisticated systems for controlled environment agriculture.
Zamir Dhanji
A graduate from NYU with a self-designed degree in Spiritual Economics, Zamir spent a decade in sustainability education, arts and youth mentorship. While serving on the board of directors for the Teen Journey Society he helped guide global Rites of Passage programs through Canada, India and Peru. Trained in counselling by Dr. Gabor Maté, he co-created Patterns to Presence a program for healing attachment trauma. He teaches classes and trainings at the Awake Center, where he serves on the leadership team and guides The Gift Academy.
Terra Fleenor
Terra is a holistic hybrid instructional designer, community organizer, relationship coach with over 20 years of event experience. She has worked with Envision Festival and organized countless transformational events focusing on fostering individual resilience and supporting the revival movement.
She’s co-creator of Holistic Life Tribe, a vibrant digital community where seekers come together to pursue personal growth, professional enhancement and holistic transformation.
Cassandra Montaudon
International Consultant, Facilitator, and Trainer, Eva is a Palestinian born in Israel and based in Costa Rica. Founder of Peace Activation, Eva has spent 30 years working in conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Specializing in conflict transformation and women's empowerment, she is committed to fostering peace from within individuals to create lasting community impact. This dedication inspired her to create Peace Activation and advocate for “soul-based peacebuilding.”
Danielle Gennety
Danielle is an activist for ecological restoration, architect of place-based communities and alchemist of decentralized governance economies.
A former corporate project manager of IT systems, Danielle has been facilitating change in networked environments for over 30 years. She now lives in Costa Rica, contributing to projects that bring blockchain-based tools for collaboration and crypto-philanthropy to real world applications that incentivize economic restructuring around caring for public goods.
Yes, it’s important to that you attend all the sessions. This is a carefully curated experience to ensure that you have the true impact of what is being offered.
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Lunch is included each day. Dinner is pay-by-weight. We encourage attendees to bring snacks and other delights to share!
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This is for anyone looking to embody deeper purpose, make-sense of the times we are in and enhance their capacity to serve their community. If you feel compelled to make a collective difference and shift ourselves into more mindful, connected and compassionate culture...this is for you.
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The Gift is a realization that life is a gift, and what we give is our gift back to life.
In a world where all domains of life have been de-sacralized, The Gift is a movement to support a cultural awakening that is non-dogmatic and eminently pragmatic.
#NewEarth #VibrationalFrequency
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The Gift Awakens is an experience designed to stimulate deep inquiry, and harness collective intelligence to provide you with trust and clarity to do what inspires you most to expand and serve your community.
It's a place to explore the knowledge, practices and cultural processes needed to sense-make and address the problems in a sacred way with celebration.
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