April 18-19 2025
The Gift: Awakens
A Community learning initiative
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. Also featuring kid's activities like: Woodshop, Theatrics, and Arts & Crafts
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
Schedule
Voice of the Ancients w/ Eri Takeya
Communion through sound and song links us the river of ancient memory. We call in the elders of our universal heritage through sound and silence, and receive the gifts of our ancestral wisdom to guide us on the journey.
Evening
The Future of Education w/ Zamir Dhanji
Is our education system preparing us for a thriving future, or is it stuck in an outdated paradigm? What if education wasn’t just about knowledge, but about unlocking human potential and shaping culture itself?
Explore how education sits at the heart of civilizational transformation, influencing everything from personal maturation to the evolution of society. Discover how The Gift pioneers a new architecture of learning, designed to help individuals and communities step into their most authentic and meaningful service to the world.
Village ABC's w/Danibella Vita
The Village ABC’s is an invitation to step over the threshold into a world of wise stewardship and onto a path of alignment, beauty, and collective care. This artful workshop introduces four essential frameworks—Agile, Brief & Concise (Conscious Communication), Awareness, Boundaries & Consent (Authentic Connection), Allies, Borders & Cultures (Decolonized Activism), and Agreements, Blockchain & Community (Decentralized Governance)—awakening the foundational rhythms of regenerative relationships and shared leadership.
Morning
Friday, April 18th, 2025
Gift Academy Live
Tribes Guide To The End of The World w/Nico Rotundo
Step into a space of inquiry, wisdom, and collaboration as we reimagine our relationships with each other, ourselves, and the planet. Together, we’ll explore resilient strategies, shared values, and the power of dynamic cultural evolution. A regenerative reality is more than just another food forest or no-till garden. Actionable steps everyone can take to show up for people, planet and peace. "A tribes guide to the end of the world as we know it."
Afternoon
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.
Woodshop, Theatrics, Arts & Crafts Storytelling with the Littles
An afternoon with fun activities for the kids, which will culminate in a game of "Manhunt"! 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
Contribution
We are offering this gathering in the Spirit of The Gift.
We ask attendees to contribute $25-50 per day, which covers all classes, workshops/activities and also includes lunch.
You can attend both days, or just one of your choice - and can offer additional funds to pay-it-forward for future events.
Once you register, you will be directed to a contribution page. Your RSVP helps us know how many people to prepare food for and to setup the space.
This gathering is limited to 50 people per day
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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
Cassandra Terrazul is a cultural visionary dedicated to fostering regenerative communities, cultural resilience, and deep human connection. With a background in psychology and a passion for intercultural collaboration, she weaves together diverse traditions, knowledge systems, and regenerative practices to ensuring that gatherings and initiatives serve as catalysts for deep learning, collaboration, and paradigm shifts.
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.
We are 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
Service & Self-Discovery
Expanding Impact & Building Community
Learning & Transformation
The magic we create together
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
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.
Be part of the evolution of Awake —a center devoted to embodying the seed of a new earth.
Experience Awake
April 18-19, 2025 in Uvita, Costa Rica
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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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La Casa Redonda is an initiative to support the creation of a living, breathing village culture—an ongoing gathering that fosters deep relationships, village resilience, and collective sense-making
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