Spirit of Life Centre – a Mediterranean retreat centre for those who seek to realise Care for Creation

SOL Community is an independent forum and Sangha for

guests and visitors of The Spirit of Life Centre, Mani, Greece
and students of Eco-Campus.

SOL Community is here to support and benefit individuals:

we aim to help their communities to orient themselves,
understand, consider and respond effectively to the
demands of living in times of change.

As ecologists and sustainability practitioners we understand

that faced with issues and concerns it is not necessarily to
government or institutions, universities or academics,
politicians or leaders that we have to turn to.

As men and women, as members of community we can look

to other sources of help: those around us, the marketplace,
our communities – as well as our own unique response as
citizens of the planet. SOL Community welcomes members of Agora Forum in the
UK.

“Agora” is the Greek word for “marketplace”. The word is chosen with its
resonance with citizenship, participation and open society that made Greece the
“cradle of democracy” in its early days. The challenges we face, as citizens of the
planet, demonstrate it is time now for us to achieve together what we cannot
achieve alone.

Agora Forum and SOL Community welcome thinkers and entrepreneurs, eco-
visionaries and scientists, artists, writers and teachers as well as creative
specialists, ecologists and all those whose livelihood depends on Nature.

We comprise a network of members and specialists that

you can be introduced to, in order to meet, exchange
ideas, listen, collaborate and share ideas and contacts
that may be relevant to your career, enterprise or
organisational needs.

SOL Community
SOL invites those who want to comprise a network of
like-minded people - Community members and their
friends who share positive values and ethos.
We offer people the chance to live, work, study and do
business with each other from a position of respect,
based not on manipulation or greed, but co-operatively,
with regard to the interests of People and Planet.

The services we offer

Our key points of specialisation are: people-ready
organisation, sustainable business development,
eco-living, work-life balance, ethical enterprise,
Social Enterprise and community regeneration.

Our points of reference

Take a look at our points of reference: some of
the people who inspire us, the organisations
whose values we share.
Here are a few people whose thinking can unlock
human potential:

“To know what is going on, takes sense. To know what to do about it, takes wisdom”.
Spirit of Life Centre – a Mediterranean retreat centre for those who seek to realise Care for Creation

 Sun Tzu
 Lao Tzu
 James Lovelock (ecologist)
 Satish Kumar of Resurgence
 Dee Hock (founder of VISA International)
 Ketan Patel of Goldman Sachs
 Joanna Macy (writer)
 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (independent academic and business advisor -
former Thinker of the Year)

 Resurgence Magazine
 Schumacher College
 Forum for the Future
 Feasta: Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
 FLOW
 New Economics Foundation
 International Business Leaders’ Forum
 The Soil Association
 Friends of the Earth
 Slow Food
 The Hub
 Alliance for a New Humanity
 Centre for Human Ecology
 Zaadz
 Social Venture Network

Initiatives that we support, include, among

others:
 Transition City Bristol
 Bristol Sustainable City Charter
 Schumacher Council
 World Cafe
 Bordeaux Quay
 Knowle West Media Centre
 Fair Trade Foundation
 Be The Change
 In Praise of Slow
 World Futures Council
 Eco-Campus@ The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece

Membership benefits
The newsletter is available for FREE.

Student membership is for those who want to study for an

independent career or achieve financial independence, and
includes a year’s subscription to Resurgence magazine.

Membership entitles members to discounts and savings on

courses, workshops and seminars as well as invitation to
events on our programme calendar.
If you do not have membership, non-members’ rates
apply.

We also have Family Membership – this is especially for those who want to take
advantage of family bookings, for recommended UK holidays, leisure activities
and retreat centre vacations.

“To know what is going on, takes sense. To know what to do about it, takes wisdom”.