Our Vision
Regenerative, inclusive movements of current and future freedom builders, where nourishment is enjoyed and care prioritised, as we share skills and experiences to grow in strength.
Our Mission
Create a healing and training centre in the beauty of nature, where activists, organisers, carers and workers learn, recover and grow the practices needed for strategic, sustainable freedom building.
Our Values
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We recognise and honour the whole humanity of every person.
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We accept the conditions of our current reality and strategically prioritise recovery and joy.
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We intentionally build collaborative relationships to learn from each other, and spaces for multiple visions to bloom.
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We commit to effective working over the long-term, and to compassion and recovery practices.
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We celebrate that we are all bound together through overlapping struggles and experiences, as well as the complex and shifting natural systems of life.
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We strive for constant collective reflection so that our work is action-driven, effective, and leads to real meaningful outcomes.
As a co-operative, we also subscribe to and are bound by the internationally agreed Co-operative Values & Principles
Our Why
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Collectively, we face a triple threat.
Post-COVID there is a crisis in both long-term physical health impacts and mental health. Exhaustion, anxiety, alienation and isolation are widespread. Additionally, previously-concealed traumas are increasingly being brought into the light for discussion and understanding.
There is an economic crisis as wealth – or the lack of it – continues to polarise, wages are held down, and costs of the essentials for life spiral wildly.
An environmental crisis of global heating is underway, which will result in forced migration for millions of people, food and water shortages, and increasing weather disasters.
As people who believe in a safer, freer, more just and equitable world, we need to be sustainable for the long haul, and discover collective solutions to structural problems old and new. Yet, some activist cultures and physical training spaces may compound harm. We find a neglect of self- and collective care in our institutions, organisations, and campaigns. We see a lack of attention to the body in activist circles, and a lack of attention to society and systems in fitness or wellbeing circles.
This creates a disjointed approach to social change, disconnected from nature, with body and healing de-prioritised. An intentional and integrated approach to looking after ourselves recognises this the only way we will deliver on our goals of social justice and transformation.
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Inspired by the Highlander School, we are creating a co-operative training consortium, offering services in a mixture of mediums. We want to share and teach a holistic approach to collective care and health, connecting with nature and learning from each other.
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Physical power can be a foundation that enables change – but often those who are most able to benefit from this are already the most resourced. We want to expand access to the tools to build healing, strength and resilience to the communities most impacted by oppression.
