Our DNA
Like biological DNA, a community's social DNA is the code it grows from. This page sets out ours: what you are joining, and what we expect of you.
Purpose
Liminal Village exists to prototype a regenerative civilization, weaving together community living, healing practices and open-source technologies, and sharing everything we learn.
Extractive systems leave us disconnected
A real-world lab you can live in
Upgrade the operating system of society
The thresholds we live on
Liminal, from the Latin limen: threshold. We don't pick a side of old divides; we work in the space between, where new things grow.
“The space where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. That's a good space where genuine newness can begin.” — Richard Rohr
Biomimicry, permaculture, open source
Ancient wisdom, current knowledge
Care, trust, mutual credit
Clinic meets community wellness
Inner growth, collective intelligence
Hackathons that reward the commons
Stewardship over property
Inner purpose, rewarded contribution
Core values
Our compass for every decision, each one paired with what it looks like in practice.
Regeneration
Leave it better than you found it
Interdependence
No one thrives alone
Care
See a job that needs doing? It's yours
Trust & accountability
Make agreements, keep them
Commons
Return what you borrow
Gift & abundance
Share food, skills and time
Openness
Open source, open books
Experimentation
Proposals, not complaints
Wholeness
Body, mind, heart and spirit
Natural cycles
Live by the moon, not the clock
Agreements
The shared grammar of community life. Everyone practises them, imperfectly but sincerely.
Be impeccable with your word
Don't take anything personally
Don't make assumptions
Always do your best
Practices: what is expected of you
You are not a guest at a retreat. You are a co-creator of a temporary community, and you share responsibility for how it goes.
Personal
Your own goal for the lunation
Local
Something for the people & land here
Global
A cause that matters for the planet
Align
- Read this page & the onboarding docs
- Join ReGenerativa APS
- Agree how you'll contribute (8 capitals)
- Confirm dates before booking travel
- Arrive with the new moon
Contribute
- 2 h/day member · 4 h/day volunteer
- Claim tasks via the bot, follow through
- See a job? It's yours
- Follow the protocols
- No shoes inside · label your food
Co-create
- Gift a talk, workshop or practice
- Join circles & feedback
- Voice tensions with proposals
- Propose projects
- Share meals, fire & collective cleaning
Close the cycle
- 3 days' notice
- Clean room, sheets & mat
- Return what you borrowed
- Deep clean = bonus + deposit back
- Send a 2–5 min video
Counts as contribution
- Maintenance
- Cleaning
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Childcare
- Events & facilitation
- Emotional support
- Offering workshops
- Approved projects
Doesn't count
- Social activities
- Attending circles
- Attending workshops
Roles & membership
Soft Holacracy: authority sits in roles, not people. Anyone can hold several roles, and roles change as the village does.
Village roles
Culinary
Meals, pantry, low food waste
Sustainability
Garden, produce, resources
Space & Logistics
Common spaces, supplies
Community Facilitator
Meetings, mediation, learning
Wellness
Healing, culture, support
Technology & Finance
Platforms, open finances
Ways to take part
Member
+ lunation or phase ticket, insurance included
Volunteer
lower financial contribution
Sponsor
financial support; time welcome
Visitor
donation · short stays only
Tools
A cybernetic operating system: open tools that make tasks, roles, time and money visible.
Coordination
HolonsBot
Tasks · roles · quests · profile
Holons & HoloSphere
Community OS · shared memory
Lunations
Our year in moons
Quests
Missions to join
Services
Skills & booking
Open Collective
Every euro, public
Docs & protocols
+ Liminal Surfboard AI
Hackalong
Build together
Inner & relational tools
- Non-Violent Communication
- The Four Agreements
- Circles & feedback sessions
- Soft Holacracy
- Ikigai
- Internal Family Systems
- Integral Theory
- Spiral Dynamics
- Enneagram
- Wondering Journey
The living lab
- 100% renewable energy
- Open-source FarmBot
- Open-source water purification
- Biopool (in transformation)
- Permaculture garden & composting
- Indoor & outdoor co-creation spaces
- Fast internet across the site
- Rooms, caravans & tents
Does this DNA resonate?
If these values feel like yours, come and co-create the next lunation with us.