How to Do

a Gaia Foundation Project

This page is intended to gelp you with doing your own Gaia Foundation Project as a part of your own dedication to the 3 objectives of the Gaia Foundation. If you are interested in starting your own Gaia Project please contact

John Croft

at the Gaia Project Support project
Gaia House, 35 Camberwell Street, East Vic Park
phone (08)9470 5334,
email: [ jdcroft@yahoo.com ]

NOTE: * Indicates Projects Started since the list of Gaia Projects in the last Gaia Journal (1998)

STARTING YOUR OWN GAIA PROJECT

Most Gaia Projects tend to go through four stages, as shown in this diagram. All projects start as the dream of a single individual person. By sharing this dream with others, through a "dreaming circle" the dream becomes a collective dream of the project team. The next stage is the process of planning. Many Gaia Projects use the system of the Karabirrdt, a group process which creates a Gaia Project as a Critical Path Diagram, which makes delegating tasks and organising a budget very simple. Each Gaia Project is self funding, although assistance can be obtained through a Fundraising Workshop. "Doing" the project then is mapped, as jobs are complete it gets recorded on the Karabirrdt. The final stage of any Gaia Project is to celebrate the achievement. Celebration costs are a legitimate project expense. By the time of completion, the individual's skills and abilities, and their sense of personal empowerment has been transformed, communities have been strengthened, and the continued flourishing of life is better secured.

GAIA PROJECTS COMPLETED before 2002

  1. Intentional Community Building Weekend Pinakarri
  2. Community Building Weekend Mia Mia Denmark
  3. Community Building Weekend Bunbury
  4. Y2K Community Resilience in Fremantle, Denmark and Bunbury
  5. SWANS (Shambhala Warriors Action & Support)
  6. Gaia South West Carters Road Windmill Project
  7. Community Resilience Networking
  8. Heart of the Oldgrowth Website Development
  9. Max Lindegger Visit
  10. "Coming Back to Life" Training
  11. "Coming Back To Life" Joanna and Fran Macy Visit
  12. *Fran Peavey in Australia
  13. *Go Vivienne Project
  14. *Money Raising Workshop

CURRENT LIST OF GAIA PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN 2004

See <HERE>

CORE GAIA PROJECTS 2002-2003

  1. Membership (GaiaNet) & Projects Record
  2. Gaia Foundation Journal
  3. Gaia Foundation Website
  4. Gaia Aid
  5. Gaia Project Support Project
  6. Gaia Community Land Trust Project
  7. Gaia Foundation Tasmania

OTHER PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

2002-2003

  1. Gaia House and Billabong Gardens (Perth)
  2. Sustainable Living Institute - Carters Road Community
  3. Planit Earth Project
  4. *November Magic - Anti-Globalisation
  5. *Living Earth Solutions - Collie Ecovillage Development
  6. "Centre for a New Aussie Dream"
  7. Culture Jamming
  8. Frog Community Recovery Project
  9. "Councils of all Beings"
  10. "Ki Aga Me: On Eden's Path"
  11. Community Builders in the City
  12. Deep Ecology, Community Building & Art
  13. Environmental Art Project
  14. Noongah Language Development
  15. Community Developing Auditing & Monitoring
  16. Drumming Training
  17. "Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh" screenings
  18. Walpole Wilderness Preserve & Community Vision Building
  19. Post RFA Community Enterprise Developments
  20. The Lorax Centre
  21. Gaia House Library (Perth)
  22. Gaia House Library (Popanyinning)
  23. Eagle Vision Community
  24. Park Farm Deep Ecology EcoVillage, Bridgetown
  25. Pilgrimage Project Film Fundraising
  26. *Gaia Pigrimage Projects in Russia
  27. *Pilgrimage Labyrinth Project - Canberra
  28. Fremantle Community Garden Group
  29. Gaia Foundation New South Wales
  30. Centre for Inquiry into Earth Healing Denmark
  31. Creat.Choice.Com
  32. *Atomic Oz
  33. *Sustainability Interest Group - R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.
  34. *Being an Ally to Asylum Seekers
  35. *Community Building Weekend Eagle Vision Community
  36. *Students and Sustainability
  37. *Wild Screen
  38. *Sustainable City Living
  39. Margaret Whittle's Visits 'Round the Traps

GAIA PROJECTS ON HOLD (since last Gaia Foundation Journal)

  1. Gaia House and Community (Denmark)
  2. WA Timber Industry Building Bridges Project
  3. Gaia Community of Artists - Jochen Menard
  4. Gaia House (Perth) Photographic Project
  5. Elders in Support of Youth