Awakened Village
Awakened Village (AV) is “a community of change” located in Northern New Jersey using a “church-in-a-community” model. This means a Christian core group creates and supports a wider non-faith-specific spiritual community, in this case focused on creating “The World That Ought to Be”.1 AV is culturally an “alternative community” specifically for “Crunchies”2 and their families. In pursuit of serving this community, AV has launched The AV Collaborative, a home schooling learning center practicing intuitive, conscious parenting as the basis for child development in the context of Project-Based Education (PBE).
The initial core team of UK have all been participants in AV. Much of the current contextualization of The Journey Map has been developed through Community Facilitation at AV. Currently, AV is working on the development of adult Personal Development for the 4th position on the map: “In/Out Growth”.
Connecting to AV
AV is a relational network, so getting involved means getting to know the people. You can start by finding them on Facebook.
AV on UK
- AV has a discussion Forum on UK for topics and conversation related to UK themes. A private AV Admin forum also exists for core team communications and planning.
- Blog posts and articles related to AV use the AV tag.
AV Related Posts
Transforming “SHOULD”
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Launching the Dojo
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Awakened Village
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What Makes Us Different From the Machine?
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ChatGPT Gets SOF Concepts Better Than My Friends
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References & Notes
- “The World that Ought to Be”, for Christians and some Jews in the group, is a contextualization of “The Kingdom of God”.
- “Crunchie” is a localized term for “Granola Moms” — parents who seek deeper connections to nature, natural ways of being, organic foods, and integral economies (those arising directly from identity and relationships). These families tend to be critical of systems dominated and mediated by corporations and bureaucratic government agencies and have non-conformist impulses and aspirations.