• ENCOUNTERING:

    WINTER 2022

    On our way to encountering a community where we can unfold onto our next step of evolution, as our potentials, as adults, as parents, as a family, as villagers, as moving parts of Gaia.

  • Hello & Welcome!

    We are a nomadic family committed to exploring, experimenting and developing a regenerative culture that provides value to Gaia, we are the Culture Caravan Nomadic Nanonation.

     

    We are encountering a space where we can collaborate with other families in the rising of our children (i.e. homeschooling, nature school, supporting children's culture), have a space for our mini-bus home to park, rent an additional small living space.

     

    Here there's more about us, our estimated timelines, the value that we bring, our proposal for collaboration and some questions for you.

     

    WHO:

    We are 2 adults (Melissa and Jorge) and 3 children (Olivia:5y/o, Simon:4y/o & Jun:2y/o). We currently live in our mobile home mini-bus, which we use as our temporary home as we transition from place to place.

     

    [picture of us in front of the bus]

     

    We started a journey of healing and coming closer to the Earth about 10 years ago, after awakening to the reality of what the modern capitalist culture is causing the planet. We went traveling, exploring different parts of the world, different cultures, communities and ways of living.

     

    We have been cultivating tools, maps, language and skills having culture to culture conversations, for deeply connecting with one another, through our feelings and aliveness, to support intimacy, healing, transformation, as individuals, as couples, as teams, and as organizations.

     

    WHEN:
    From December 1st to June 1st 2023 (6 Months). Open to negotiating longer or shorter stays.

     

    NEEDS:

    These are our basic needs:

     

    • A covered place to park our bus (we could provide the covering with a temporary structure car garage)
    • Ability to move our bus once a week to keep engine and mechanisms in use. This could be valuable as a weekly mission to pick up food for the community or for transporting people in and out of the community.
    • A place to do laundry
    • Access to WiFi for online calls
    • A way to have a bath (3-4 times a week)
    • Drinking water to refill our jugs
    • Electricity (extension cord to our bus)

     

    WANTS:
    Integrated worktrade (the work that we’re already doing to account as worktrade: holding space for children, cooking, cleaning spaces, holding space for feelings & healing, humanure, sourcing food, holding space for worktalks, holding space for circles, etc.)
    Integrated meals, food sharing culture. Space for cooking and sharing food with community members.
    Another living space additional to our bus for our personal space.
    A place for holding space for feelings (loud sounds)
    Possibility for children to be included in happenings of the village (i.e.: cooking, harvesting, cleaning, organizing) with an assigned spaceholder
    Working with people to bring to Canada a 5-day transformative self development training program called Expand The Box.

    OFFERING:
    We’re willing to negotiate taking over one or more of these roles in the community:
    Cooking
    Humanure
    Homeschooling and Holding Space for Children’s Culture* to Emerge
    Conflict Resolution & Circle Technology, Sharing Circle, Talking Circle, Intimacy Cafe.

    These are other skills that we want to provide for the community:
    Holding Space for Emotional Healing Processes & Feelings Work
    Language Translator (English, French, Spanish) for international collaboration
    Sourcing and Picking up Food
    Bridging collaboration between local and international communities
    Holding Space for Intimacy Cafe
    Creating and holding transformative, alive, extraordinary spaces
    Tools, maps, distinctions and procesess for moving from hierarchical structures (visible or invisible) to circular technologies.

    We offer a monetary exchange of $500/month as a monthly contribution to the community.

    *Children’s Culture: The way that children naturally organize themselves to exchange knowledge and skills, from older age groups to younger age groups.

    EXPERIENCE:

    For the last 7 years we have been on a journey to find community in Mexico, Canada (Ontario & BC) and Colombia. Our main experience has been as Village Weavers, weaving a tapestry of relations across the world of nomads, communities and villagers. Here’s the most relevant experience that we’ve gained on our journey:

    Rumi Wasi Retreat Center in Putumayo, Colombia (2 months)
    Piping water from closeby river using gravity
    Making jungle home safe for children
    Planting seeds and tending fresh gardens
    Building with bamboo

    OUR Ecovillage in Shawnigan Lake, BC (3 months)
    Jorge completed the 1 week intensive Permaculture Design Course
    Regularly cooking in industrial kitchen for 30 people and twice for a wedding of 100+ people
    Permaculture gardening and CSA box preparations
    Experienced the burn out from living in a community where one person has unsustainable amount of responsibility.

    Elemental Collective in Sooke, BC (9 months, 2019-2020)
    Intimacy journeying with community members, talking circles, co-creating.
    Natural birth of our 3rd child and another natural birth a few months after (teamwork for supporting mothers)
    Holding space for Homeschooling and Nature School
    Learning local plant & mushroom medicine
    Humanure Management (deposit station, washing station, compost toilets)
    Circle technology, gathering in a circle, council, decision making.

    Everything Edible Landscaping in Sooke, BC (9 months, 2021-2022)
    Humanure Management
    Decolonization research and experiments
    Escaping Patriarchy team and context
    Plant & Mushroom food and medicine training (local wild edibles)
    Holding space for weekly local wild foods potluck
    Sharing and talking circle

    Culture Caravan (4 years, 2018-present)
    Teamworking, conscious communication
    Organizing nature immersion community events
    Creating support for families, mothers and children
    Marketing and digital communications
    Gameworld design & context setting
    Collaborating as a nomadic family with land based communities

    QUESTIONS:
    Do you want us in your community?
    Are there any other families with children living in your community?


    CONTACT US:
    Culture Caravan: contact@culturecaravan.xyz
    http://culturecaravan.xyz

    Melissa Denuzzo
    +1-778-584-5810
    melissadenuzzo@gmail.com
    http://melissadenuzzo.mystrikingly.com

    Jorge Pedret
    +1-778-350-3330
    jorgepedret@gmail.com
    http://jorgepedret.xyz

  • Culture Caravan Stands For...

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    Caravan Family

    Diversity. Movement. Natural Cycles.

    We value the freedom to move, the learning experiences of traveling, the freeing of the spirit when we step into a completely new territory. Our ancestors wandered nomadically in tribes, recognizing the impact of our actions, respecting the cycles of nature of abundance and change, gracing the earth with gentleness and beauty.

     
    We see the nomadic people of these times, the refugees, the immigrants, the travelers, the wanderers, the hermits, here and out there, finding our place in this great time of great transformation, touching this place and every place with gentleness.
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    Initiations

    From an education-based to initiation-based Culture

    Joining culture caravan is an initiatory process into Elemental Alchemy (Fire, Air, Earth, Water), your Emotions (Anger, Joy, Fear, Sadness), your Archetypes (Earth Guardian, Healer, Gameworld Builder and Intimacy Journeyer/Village Weaver).
     
    The initiations happen organically as you move from one element to the next. In each element you get to integrate in your 5 Bodies what it feels like to be that element, the emotions connected with that Element. By the end of your 4 transformations you have experienced in your 5 Bodies what each element feels like, how it feels to transition from one to the other, how it feels to be present in your feelings, initiating you as an Elemental Alchemist Experimenter.
     
    This process can be repeated once every 3 months, to go deeper into your connection with the elements, to play with different people, to integrate new things learned, to practice your stand in the different elements.
     
    Other initiations available:
    • Verbal reality to Experiential Reality
    • 3-3-3: a short, loud, active practice that expands your Emotional Body's capacity to experience and express Feelings and Emotions, beginning with anger.
    • Trigger Hunter: Vampire Entities Initiation.
    • EHP: Emotional Healing Process.
    • Your Gremlin: The king of your underworld
    • Map of Possibility: Everything is as is, until you make a story.
    • Low Drama: The trinity that reigns the world of the unconscious.
    • First Possition: Be centered, be grounded, be in your personal bubble of space.
    • Sleeping overnight alone in the woods
    • Bow drill friction fire
    Contact us to learn more about these Authentic Adulthood Initiations.
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    Nature Immersion Experience

    Developing meaningful relationship with nature

    We provide a transformative space for clients and spaceholders for connecting in a meaningful way with nature, discovering the nature within and without, primitive skills and the infinite mysteries that nature holds.

     
    The focus and experience changes from group to group, our spaceholders being role models and learners of connection with nature, serve as a guide for participants to discover and nurture their own connections.
     
    Learn about Technopenuriaphobia, the fear of the lack of technology. Until you heal it, this fear controls your life.
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    Archiarchal Music Spaceholder Training

    For children of all ages

    Music, rhythm, heart beating, feet stomping, hands clapping, humming of voices, something changes instantly in your world when you hear music. Within you exists the potential to tune in and it all goes from there. Choosing Love to guide your musical expression, the obstacles that seem impenetrable for your reason, the sounds tell stories, the changes and frequencies of changes, the pauses.

     
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    Become an Experimenter

    Experiential Learning

    No intelectual idea that can replace first hand experience, experimental 5-bodies learning let's your curiosity lead, your own questions, lead the experience of where you could go next. Experiencing nature from your center, grounding and bubbling, reveals your belonging in this place. Awareness is the name of the game, hazards are everywhere in nature, awareness of hazards develops common sense and safer playing.

     

    Learn more about Becoming an Experimenter.

  • Organizational Structure

    Participants in the Culture Caravan are Collaborators. Collaborators take Radical Responsibility for the Gameworld to thrive. For the Gameworld to thrive, Gaia needs to thrive.

     

    Collaborators of the Culture Caravan are: Men & Woman, Artists, Parents, Nomadic Travelers, Journeyman/woman, Shamans, Naturalists, Evolutionaries, Musicians, Permaculturists, Spaceholders, Experimenters, Researchers, Edgeworkers, Earth Guardians, Healers. Culture Caravan Teams.

     

    Culture Caravan is an evolving organism, given life by the Collaborators that participate in it.

    Culture Caravan doesn't belong to anybody and cannot be owned, rather, it is an energetic field of collaboration, a disipative structure that changes shape with the life given by its Collaborators.

     

    Culture Caravan uses circle technology to collaborate and make decisions. It's not a hierarchical organization. The prototype power structure is the Torus (a donut shape) made out of Circles within Circles, and Circles on the Circles that are called 'Nodes'. The Circles do not have to be equal in size, or equal in distance from the 'roots'. The Circles are not concentric, for example, where the 'inner circle' takes 'more responsibility' than the 'outer circles'. That would simply be more hierarchy in disguise.

     

    Want to join Culture Caravan?

  • Values & Currency

    Culture Caravan Gameworld is guided by these Bright Principles:

    Love, Presence, Respect, Teamwork, Discovery, Growth, Connection, Responsibility, Simplicity, Minimalist way of living.

     

    Some of the non-material values that are commonly traded in the Culture Caravan Gameworld are:

    Creating Possibility, Cause Adventure, Disillusionment, Worktalks, EHP (Emotional Healing Process), Authentic Adulthood Initiations (such as 333 and Trigger Hunter).

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    WHO

    We are 2 adults (Melissa and Jorge) and 3 children (Olivia:5y/o, Simon:4y/o & Jun:2y/o). We currently live in our mobile home mini-bus, which we use as our temporary home as we transition from place to place.

     

    We started a journey of healing and coming closer to the Earth about 10 years ago, after awakening to the reality of what the modern capitalist culture is causing the planet. We went traveling, exploring different parts of the world, different cultures, communities and ways of living.

     

    We have been cultivating tools, maps, language and skills having culture to culture conversations, for deeply connecting with one another, through our feelings and aliveness, to support intimacy, healing, transformation, as individuals, as couples, as teams, and as organizations.

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    TIMELINE

    We're looking for a place from December 1st to June 1st 2023 (6 Months). Open to negotiating longer or shorter stays.

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    BASICS

    These are our basic needs:

    • A covered place to park our bus (we could provide the covering with a temporary structure car garage)
    • Ability to move our bus once a week to keep engine and mechanisms in use. This could be valuable as a weekly mission to pick up food for the community or for transporting people in and out of the community.
    • A place to do laundry
    • Access to WiFi for online calls
    • A way to have a bath (3-4 times a week)
    • Drinking water to refill our jugs
    • Electricity (extension cord to our bus)
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    WANTS

    • Integrated worktrade (the work that we’re already doing to account as worktrade: holding space for children, cooking, cleaning spaces, holding space for feelings & healing, humanure, sourcing food, holding space for worktalks, holding space for circles, etc.)
    • Integrated meals, food sharing culture. Space for cooking and sharing food with community members.
    • Another living space additional to our bus for our personal space.
    • A place for holding space for feelings (loud sounds)
    • Possibility for children to be included in happenings of the village (i.e.: cooking, harvesting, cleaning, organizing) with an assigned spaceholder
    • Working with people to bring to Canada a 5-day transformative self development training program called Expand The Box.