Events

Events

The First Two Yurts of The Zodiac Tent

The events at Heartland take place in our tribal campground and are a group transformational experience: we go in as a group and build a space together, we live as a tribe around the fire, we cook together and work together.

Through the event we help focalise the group forming experience, aiming to help each individual find their part of the group blueprint, his or her power-role, something each will take on with them to bring a deeper cohesion to their life. These events are not where you come to just hang out and be yourself, but where you lose that self, usually through hard work, internally and externally. We have worked with 400 campsites, and through 25 years have developed a new format of experiential tourism, this was formed with a strong influence by Italian rural areas, creating a blue print, where rural tourism is not a sale of an area. We have taught courses on this subject, teaching how the start of the tourism industry was experiential, with pioneers like Albert Smith who transported people into places without even going to visit them. Our focus though is different, it is the forming of group identities. Our work has taught us that globalization and the mind frame of square homes have created a world of separation inside us, where we hide in angles. 

Our tourism platforms and focus is thus the opposite, it helps people go into what we call “Group Mind”, helping a group into finding their repressed talents, who they are when they work in service of the whole. This we believe is a necessary step, that is lost in society, in the long forgotten past, tribes gave birth to new ones through what in Italy is called “Ver Sacrum” the Sacrani (the vowed) would have to leave the tribal land and establish a new land. This step is a big part of why in modern world politics there is so much focus on indigenous rights over land but no map to give them responsibility. Our aim is to help people who have lost their tribes realise that under the globalisation angles of separation they too are the sons of daughters of a tribal entity, they are too on their way to a vowed land, but it is a step they must discover in themselves as it usually buried under a lot of modern urbanisation. So our experiential tourism programs revolve around that, we mimic the processes that a tribe goes through, in order to help the individual to understand that true talent and specialisation only takes place as part of a larger entity, and what they were taught all of their lives, is usually just means to ignore this truth, un order to keep the global machine fed, by separating all of us from each other, and from ourselves. 

Past Events

The Gate of Magic (16th March – Spring Equinox 2015 )

An event intended to open the magical door of Heartland.

A small group, with the help of the quietness and ancient techniques to silence the internal noise, observed their  subtler feelings and using special nature walks learned that feelings are extensions, through which nature communicates with us are when we become totally immersed in it.
Each person learned ways to clean her own “root” system: that network of feelings and thought forms we carry as luggage and also had the experience of living in a small tribe in nature, living in a Collective Mind. (No electronic devices were used throughout this event).

The Yurt Makers Heart (Autumn Equinox – Harvest Moon 2015)

With another lovely group we came together for this gathering to make the next yurt of the Zodiac Tent which turned out to be the Libra Yurt. After a couple of sunny days, we had more rain in one night than we had had all summer little rainy, but brought the group together even more.

Some strong feelings came up and were held with the balance one expects from Libra. We also started making the third of the Zodiac Tent yurts yet await a sign as to which of the remaining ten it is…

The Fire of Dreaming: (24th – 30th May 2016)

We will be hosting Martins Brikmans, a specialist masonry rocket stove maker from Denmark, who will teach us and together build one of his wonderful stoves inside La Difesa, our old Italian house at Heartland. 

Yurts for Free: (31st May – 5th June 2016)

This is a short workshop where we will be teaching the woodworking basics you will need to build your own yurt: all the elements of frame making, and also how to create your own yurt-making event and through it,  build your own frame for free. In this way we hope to pass the art of yurt making to as many people as possible and re-populate this earth in a nomadic fashion.

If you are looking for a venue for an event, Heartland may be just that place and we can work with you to develop the event on whatever level – from just providing the land to holding the ground level (food, accommodation etc) to collaborating on the design and evolution of the event and help in getting the word out there.

Contact us with your ideas, we now focus on courses, and sustainable farming, aromatic herbs, heritage wheat and courses of tribal identity, the Cooperative has a new centre being developed also that can host smaller courses, and we are open to collaborators on all of those subjects too. We are developing a network of like minded projects so can possibly help you design similar aspects in your own project.