ABSTRACT
The unique experience of combining an ecovillage with a learning capability has generated insights into what it means to build up from the foundations of a more sustainable world. A gritty and integrated approach to transformative learning creates for participants the space for becoming entangled in the complexities at Lynedoch-a microcosm of the 'planetary context' to which Morin refers. A radical shift in uprooting our family from Johannesburg, South Africa, and beginning a life on the Spier Wine Farm, Lynedoch, Stellenbosch and finding the rhythms within a space contorted by centuries of violence through colonisation, slavery, massive ecological degradation and apartheid. Creating a sense of place has meant to paying attention to the traces of energy within the Lynedoch Valley at a multiplicity of levels. Working in small groups, they contribute to the Lynedoch community through morning work-gardening, tree planting, cleaning the SI, preparing food from the gardens for the crèche, aftercare, SI students and visitors.
