Classes & Events

There’s nothing like experiencing ecovillage life first hand, but taking a virtual tour of Earthaven is a close second! 

The tour highlights ways in which Earthaven is striving to be a holistic, sustainable culture. The introductory overview tour examines the concept of sustainability at Earthaven through social, ecological, and economic lenses. Not only will you get a glimpse of what has worked through time, but also hear about what has been challenging. And you will have a chance to ask questions!

Curious about the Reclaiming Nature Connection Conference? Lia Grippo and NikiAnne Feinberg will talk about this year’s conference and answer questions.

Join us for an experiential course in conscious connection, including self-awareness (distinguishing between one’s thoughts and feelings), moving through fear, the power of vulnerability, and heart-centered. Participants will have the opportunity to address issues in their own lives with the group’s support.

Group Dynamics and Behavior: Guiding the young child with confidence and creativity.

This workshop will focus on what the young child needs and how we as adults guide them to it. Learn how the flow and structure of your day can help avoid behavioral problems!

This workshop will be held in East Asheville.

Have questions about the Earthaven experience programs: Experience Weekend, Action Week, or Experience Week?

Join instructors in a free online information session. After sharing about the programs, they will be available to answer questions.

Learn skills, gain insights, and get to know the Earthaven community. Get an inside look at the radical social and ecological experimentation that has taken place in this land-based community for over 27 years by joining us for Experience Weekend.

Be an active participant in the everyday rhythm of life and work at Earthaven Ecovillage. In this hands-on, service-based program, you’ll work side-by-side with residents, making meaningful contributions while exploring Earthaven’s neighborhoods, and expanding your ideas of alternative living.

Experience a deeply embodied knowing of your interconnectedness to all things. Extraordinary Realities offers an experiential introduction to the essentials of compassionate spirit relationship, communication, healing, and divination.

Join the homesteads, farms, and businesses of Earthaven Ecovillage for a hands-on, skill-building immersion in sustainable and climate-resilient community life. A residential service learning immersion in our unique community laboratory.

Our annual event focused on Nonviolent Communication, featuring classes and experiential learning. An experience designed to foster compassion and connection in our hearts, communities and world, and to spread the seeds of justice and love.

Looking for America: A 20th Century Hero’s Journey

Travel with master storyteller, Doug Elliott, on a journey of discovery. You’ll return from this rollicking journey of discovery with new insights, unusual perspectives and more than a few belly laughs.

Explore what it means to Belong. An intimate journey reconnecting to the deepest parts of ourselves, to ignite more authenticity, meaning, and pleasure in all our connections. Set aside the hustle and drop into a ritual space where we can re-collect what is most meaningful and tend to our grief, our longings and our relationships in ways that are nourishing, grounded, and life-giving.

A half-day introduction to death care at Earthaven.  After experiencing eight deaths in eight years, along with extensive study with our mentors, we are sharing out experiences with others who want to feel empowered to care for and honor their dead from their homes with their family and friends. Learn your rights and options.

Women’s Circles are an important way for women to connect with each other and with themselves. The Red Tent is a multi-generational woman-only space where women can honor the cycles of our lives. After taking this class, you will feel equipped to offer Women’s Circles and/or Red Tent Circles for the women in your life and have more structure for your own personal practice. Join Kaitlin Ilya Wolf in the Red Tent!

Hear one of the foremost voices in African spirituality speak about grief in her culture.

Renowned teacher and mentor Sobonfu Somé was one of the foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West. Mentored by her Dagara elders, she brought ancient indigenous African wisdom to our Western culture in a compassionate, loving, and joyful way. Sobonfu was in Africa when she died in 2017.

Gain an understanding of medicine systems so you can make an informed choice for yourself. In this series, we will identify and delve into five major systems of medicine, with the intent of enabling attendees to grasp the pros and cons of each, and to some extent to judge which will be their medicine of choice for a given ailment.

Concert with Storyteller and Naturalist Doug Elliott.

Have you ever had a swarm of bees fall on your head, been swallowed by a snake, dined on coon, or read God’s handwriting on the back of a trout? Well, Doug Elliott has and he tells you all about it. This program is flavored with natural history, traditional lore, outrageous personal narratives, regional dialects, soulful harmonica songs, and more than a few belly laughs.