Our Mission
To regenerate our sacred connection to country, community and culture.
Our Dream
A world where we live in harmony with the Earth, ourselves and each other.
A world where we nurture and celebrate the spirit of permanent culture.
OUR VALUES
EARTH CARE
- We show reverence and respect for the Land and its living history.
- We believe in celebrating and working in harmony with the cycles of nature.
- We honour and respect all living things.
- We leave a positive trace, based in reciprocity, as we move across the landscape.
- We work in ways that rebuild natural capital.
- We support local, ethical and regenerative producers.
- We use and value renewable resources.
- We aim to create zero waste in all of our activities.
- We embrace seasonality and sustainability when it comes to our food.
- We acknowledge and celebrate the beauty and abundance that always surrounds us.
PEOPLE CARE
- We maintain positive momentum through clear, focussed and purposeful action.
- We honour the wisdom of our Elders and children.
- We believe in the power of right relationship.
- We provide opportunities that support our members to flourish into their full potential.
- We operate and communicate from a place of honesty, transparency, love and respect.
- We cultivate a healthy group ecology that honours the unique gifts and offerings of all.
- We conduct our activities in a manner that is safe and responsible.
- We believe in the power of shared meals, stories by the fire, sharing in circle, and dancing barefoot on the Earth.
- We remain curious, open-minded and cognisant of cognitive bias.
- We encourage initiative, self-determination and interdependence.
- We partner with people and organisations who share our values.
- We strive to inspire, educate and empower a new generation of change-makers.
- We encourage and value feedback - to catch and store inspiration and to help us grow.
FUTURE CARE
- We are a financially-healthy, adaptable and transparent not-for-profit organisation.
- We embrace an integrated paradigm approach when it comes to organisational structure.
- We maintain positive momentum through clear, focussed and purposeful action.
- We creatively and efficiently respond to change.
- We foster a culture of voluntary contributionism and self-responsibility, founded in collective trust
- We value access over ownership and encourage symbiotic exchange.
- We encourage self-reliance, and actively contribute to the regenerative economy.
- We set limits on consumption, and adopt a philosophy of fair share.
- We believe in the power of Indigenous story, knowledge and wisdom, in keeping culture alive.
- We treasure our unique culture and know that it is integral to our future success.
- We invest time, energy, patience and love into raising the next generation of Earthkeepers.
- We maintain a universal perspective and can laugh at ourselves and the grande cosmic joke that is life.