CoFSA brings together an intentional community of peers, supported by a collaborative digital platform, where individuals and organizations can connect, learn and exchange knowledge, support and inspire each other, and collaborate to build conscious food systems.
Starting from March 2023, the Alliance offers a series of collective inquiries and consciousness practice sessions. It is an opportunity to engage in inspiring conversations and transformative experiences, to collectively identify inner pathways for building more regenerative food systems.
Visit our events page to stay up-to-date on our happenings.
The collective inquiries bring together experts and stakeholders from around the world to share learnings, generate new insights and support collaboration and implementation on COFSA main areas of intervention. These areas include Conscious Farming and Community Development, Revitalizing and Strengthening Traditional Wisdom, Conscious Consumption, Cultural Transformation of Organizations, Conscious Food Policy Reform and Conscious Multi-stakeholders Dialogue. The collective inquiries will identify in particular existing initiatives, expertise, methodologies and tools, as well as opportunities for adaptation, replication and scale-up.
They are not intended to be isolated or one-off events, but rather the starting point for a broader and ongoing collective effort to implement CoFSA core areas of intervention.
After each event, an action group is established on the CoFSA digital platform, open to CoFSA members. These action groups host additional in-depth sessions, as needed, to allow for continued learning and collaboration among the participants and support the creation of a list of methodologies and tools that will inform the CoFSA service offer.
These sessions will allow participants to experience consciousness practices, how they can help cultivate inner capacities and be leveraged for food systems transformation.
Consciousness practices include: nature connection, mindfulness, deep listening, emotional awareness, compassion trainings, non-violent communication and conflict resolution.
All CoFSA events are available on CoFSA YouTube ChannelÂ
Members have the opportunity to connect with peers through a digital space for in-depth discussions, and intimate monthly coffee chats.
Twice a year, whole members come together in Alliance Gatherings, where they share updates on CoFSA activities, get to know each other, and discuss CoFSA activities and plans.
Also members have the possibility to join monthly online meditations offered by Satish Kumar for Farmers, Food Producers, Soil Lovers and all those working towards a better food system around the world. To register click here.
Members have the opportunity to connect with peers and discover like-minded people through a digital space for in-depth discussions, organized gatherings and intimate monthly coffee chats.
Also, they have the opportunity to join collective practices led by experts on deep listening, mindful eating, and meditations.
CoFSA enables members to form partnerships for deep collaboration. Members draw on each other’s experience and expertise to collaborate on specific issues and initiatives through dedicated self-organized action groups hosted in the Digital Platform. One action group already established is the Global Network of Local Hubs.
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The Global Network of Local Hubs is an action group bringing together a network of local centres or ‘hubs’ offering on-the-ground conscious food learning programs and retreats to local and global actors. It aims to facilitate an equitable exchange of knowledge and experience across local hubs and to empower members to co-create and provide programmes for a broad range of stakeholders. Â
The sessions serve as a framework for the collaborative development of a Conscious Food and Farming curriculum, led by Schumacher College, which aims to give learners and leaders the confidence and core knowledge to help build regenerative and conscious food systems at the grassroots level around the world.
CoFSA holds regular events, including webinars and dialogues, to inquire into key issues for conscious food systems, based on member interests.
CoFSA gathers and shares lessons learnt and best practices from the experience of its members in implementing relevant interventions, including through the development of case studies.
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CoFSA members collaborate to pioneer the application of consciousness approaches and practices for regenerative food systems into projects, dialogues and public and private policies. For more information, see ‘Application’.
