SUNA Barichara
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Meet the people, projects and practices of Barichara through workshops, volunteering, mentoring and immersive learning journeys. Learn through participation in the life of a place.
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SUNA
Your life is part of a shared future.
Fostering self-authorship for the construction of shared futures.
SUNA is a living learning ecosystem connecting people, practices and places. We accompany journeys of discovery, belonging and creation, helping people shape their own lives and contribute to the futures we share.
Our purpose
What does self-authorship mean?
It means developing the capacity to discern, choose and create your own path, in relationship with other people and the living world. It is not about going it alone, but recognizing what matters to you and acting from there.
Shared futures connect that personal agency with belonging, responsibility, collaboration and care for life. What each person discovers and chooses also shapes the world we live in together.
Two ways into SUNA
SUNA Global
A living question, a journey of your own.
What does it mean to be human on Earth right now? Explore this question through a personalized journey connecting experienced practitioners, ongoing guidance and practices carried into everyday life.
Discover SUNA GlobalWhy this learning matters
Personal thresholds in a changing world
Many people are navigating questions of identity, purpose, belonging and contribution. At the same time, our societies are reconsidering how to live on Earth.
We don’t see these scales separately. A personal threshold—a change of life stage, vocation or place—is also an opportunity to participate more consciously in the web of life. SUNA connects both through experience, inquiry, relationship and practice, for people at different stages and transitions of life.
How learning happens
A journey in five movements
- 01
Bring a question
It doesn’t need to be clear yet. Something that stirs or calls you is enough.
- 02
Encounter people and practices
Mentors, guides, projects and crafts that respond from lived experience.
- 03
Experiment
In your daily life or in the territory: with your hands, body and conversation.
- 04
Reflect and integrate
With accompaniment, to make sense of what you lived.
- 05
Carry something forward
A practice, a commitment, a creative work or a form of service.
Each journey varies by program and person: there is no single curriculum.
Principles
The ground we share
- 1.
Integrity of Life
Each being is a whole and belongs to a wider web of life. Emotional integrity is an essential dimension of human experience.
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Unity in Diversity
Each person carries a distinctive expression and contribution. Belonging provides fertile ground for that uniqueness to unfold.
- 3.
Love as a Generative Force
Love connects, creates and sustains. Learning grows through care, relationship and participation.
- 4.
Self-Authorship and Co-Creation of Shared Futures
We participate in shaping our lives and shared realities through conscious choices, relationship and responsibility.
- 5.
Interdependence and Care for Life
We belong to a living Earth and cultivate reciprocity and responsibility across species and generations.
Where to begin?
I want to explore a journey
Tell us what moves you and we’ll help you find a fitting path.
Begin a conversationI want to contribute a practice
If you accompany processes, teach a craft or hold a practice, join SUNA Global.
Contribute to SUNA Global (external form, opens in a new tab) ↗I want to explore Barichara
Projects, workshops, mentors and guides in the territory.
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