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World Community Institute

As the individual sense of Self grows and the life impulses are nourished, community becomes essential as that which sustains the life. Community is the vital connections of the genius of each person living into a shared imagination leading to the creation of culture and the world. This collective sense of the future formed from vital agreements about life, enhances the creative capacities of each member of community and augments the world view, tapping into the spirit of abundance that is the living world.

In order to keep the many conversations and branches of ShadeTree vital, groups of diverse people are gathered together for seminars. These unique learning environments, where mutual inspiration and meaningful exchanges occur, inspire and encourage purposeful work throughout the world.

The intention of the World Community Institute is to access a new type of knowledge. A knowledge that does not pass through the traditional infrastructures of our culture, the universities and such - but rather a learning process where people find mentors and teachers by coming together in a shared space for a period of time to learn there. The term used to be the "Journeyman Scholar", where a person traveled to different places to experience learning rather than stay at one school to experience instruction. The World Community Institute is designed to facilitate people planning their destinies better, both personally and collectively. It is "community", a collective process where individual destinies converge to create a whole process, a whole system through which every person can be able to fulfill their individual life path.

Strategic Objectives of the Institute include:

(a) promote work for peace, international understanding and co-operation;

(b) develop a critical understanding of major contemporary problems and social changes and the ability to play an active part in the progress of civil society with a view to achieving social justice;

(c) promote increased awareness of the relationship between people and their physical and cultural environment, and fostering the desire to improve these relationships;

(d) create an understanding of and respect for the diversity of customs and cultures,

(e) promote increased awareness of, and giving effect to various forms of communication and solidarity at the family, local, national, regional and international levels;

(f) develop the aptitude for acquiring new knowledge and capacities for the full development of the person;

(g) and to ensure the individuals' conscious and effective incorporation into life by developing the ability to create, either individually or in groups..