The Integral Ecology School

ESI (Escola de Sustentabilidade Integral in Portuguese) is an international community offering regular courses in Portuguese, French, and English. Courses are held in a live online format as well as in-person in Brazil, India, and France.

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Get to know ESI better

Watch this video in which Débora Nunes, university professor, writer, and founder and coordinator of the Integral Ecology School, presents ESI. (Subtitles in English are available for all videos on YouTube.)

Courses

The ESI courses are currently being held in an online format and are divided into three modules.

Module I- Coherence and Joy

This module lasts four months, with 8 live, 3-hour, virtual gatherings taking place fortnightly. The course is usually held from March to June and September to December each year.

Included in this module:

  •  24 hours of live virtual meetings (with special guests, videos from the School’s collection, sharing circles, and exercises that engage our mental, emotional, body, and soul intelligences, among other activities);
  • Access to a virtual platform with new learning materials available with each session:           videos, articles, practical activities to mobilise the four intelligences, guidance for self-       observation rituals, guided meditations, etc;
  • Access to an online group for the egregore
  • Personalised support throughout the course from the “guardians of the subtle field of the egregore”.
Module II- Paths of Transition

This module is composed of 13 virtual gatherings of 3 hours that take place every week, according to the moon phases. Using the lunar cycle allows the group to align with an external part of Nature; helping to regulate and encourage self-observation and stimulating the group dynamic. With the new moon comes opportunity for new beginnings, with the waxing moon we are given time to structure and take form, with the full moon comes opportunity to harvest and evaluate, and with the waning moon the space to settle and tie up loose ends.

Included in this training:

  • 24 hours of live virtual meetings (with special guests, videos from the School’s collection, sharing circles, and exercises that engage our mental, emotional, body, and soul     intelligences, among other activities);
  • Access to a virtual platform with new learning materials available with each session: videos, articles, practical activities to mobilise the four intelligences, guidance for self- observation rituals, guided meditations, etc;
  • Access to an instant online chat with the group at any time and participation in an additional smaller group organised around each participant’s affinity with the elements of Water, Fire, Earth, and Air;
  • Personalised support during the course by participants who are “guardians of the subtle field of the egregore”.
Module III- Surrender and Self-Governance

This module is exclusively for those who wish to pass on the methodology of the Integral Ecology School as facilitators. The essence of ESI methodology is the search for internal alignment between what one feels and thinks, and external alignment between what one says and does. Acknowledging the harmful effects that egocentric and superficial lifestyles have on Mother Nature, we become inspired to turn towards introspection and live in an ecological and community-based way. At the heart of this quest is the inner alignment that allows us to reach our own transcendental truth, with the intention of transforming ourselves in order to transform the world.

In-Person Workshops

The virtual trainings are complemented by immersive workshops that bring face-to-face community experiences: practicing together to develop the four intelligences, in search of coherence and joy.

Brazil

Immersions at the Farm of the Future

France

Chalet in the French Alpes

India

Immersions in Auroville

Testimonials

What our students say about ESI…

An amazing experience! We’re not alone and community building based on trust and friendship can work miracles for changing the inner and outer worlds, making our common visions come true.

Ana Lúcia Lage

Brazil

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