****CENTERS GATHERING****
Directory of centers: http://centersgathering.org/directory/

^^ Over 20 centers here. All will likely be leads.

In 2014 The Haven hosted the International Holistic Centers Gathering (CG.5). It is listed as a "featured center" on http://www.centersgathering.org, the official website of the International Holistic Centers Gathering. Their self described vision is "the transformation of individual lives and a global culture of holistic, ecological and spiritual awareness and practice.

The International Holistic Centers Gathering serves as the principal meeting point for Centers both well established and new, that address the new consciousness currently emerging worldwide. A valuable instrument of planetary awakening it aims to include all centers on all continents" (CG.3). Among their directory of centers is Breightenbush Hot Springs, Esalen Institute, Findhorn Foundation, and Mount Madonna Centre (CG.1). That means that, including The Haven, 4 of the 6 places listed on Ecstatic Living's site are Centers that address this "new consciousness". Ecologia Youth Trust, Findhorn Foundation and Kitezh Community were three of the 27 centres that attended of the 2012 IHCG (including Harbin Hot Springs, The Haven, Breightenbush Hot Springs, and Esalen Institute).

In 2014 The Haven hosted the International Holistic Centers Gathering (CG.5). It is listed as a "featured center" on http://www.centersgathering.org, the official website of the International Holistic Centers Gathering. Their self described vision is "the transformation of individual lives and a global culture of holistic, ecological and spiritual awareness and practice.

In a blog post by Tess Raithby on The Haven's website, Tess describes her trip in 2013 to the Kitezh Youth Exchange, founded in 1992 by Dmitry Morosov. She says "the community... [has] created their own Haven, their own safe place to bring children into" and established "ways of working with these children that were unfamiliar" to her. In fact, The Haven held their own "Kids in the Spotlight" program with the youth at Kitezh, which was their reason for visiting the community (Haven.10).

So what exactly is Kitezh? "Since 1993 Kitezh has functioned as a non-government, non-profit home and school for orphaned Russian children in a community of foster families who live together on a large piece of land in a rural area 300km south of Moscow in Kaluga region near Baryatino... There are 20 permanent resident adults, who care for 30 children as foster parents and teachers. Their goal is to provide for 50 families with 200 children with the long-term intention to create 50 Kitezh villages elsewhere in Russia" (Haven.12). Liza Hollingshead, founder of Ecologia Youth Trust, first met Morosov in 1992, just a year after he founded Kitezh. In 2012 on centersgathering.org, Hollingshead writes "Over the past 20 years, through the vehicle of Ecologia Youth Trust, I became more and more involved in supporting this extraordinary experiment. In 1996 we took a group of our Youth Project teenagers to Kitezh where they camped in a field and learned to eat buckwheat and dill! The following year Dmitry brought a small group of children, all orphans, to Findhorn and they visited other parts of Scotland as well" (CG.3).



Centers Gathering [CG] {
1. Directory of centers: http://centersgathering.org/directory/
http://archive.is/mR7eT


2. Connecting The Haven, Esalen Institute, Mount Madonna Center, Breightenbush Hot Springs, and Findhorn Foundation: http://centersgathering.org/
http://archive.is/JRvkD

3. Findhorn, Kitezh, and Ecologia Youth Trust: http://centersgathering.org/2012/05/08/findhorn-kitezh-and-ecologia-youth-trust/
http://archive.is/CYm1D

4 - 2012 attendance and partnership with GEN: http://centersgathering.org/2012/05/21/which-centres-attended-the-2012-gathering/
http://archive.is/gBvrZ

5. 2014 IHCG was at The Haven: https://centersgathering.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/registration-now-open-for-the-2014-holistic-centers-gathering/#more-2247
http://archive.is/XlXgp


Findhorn:
http://centersgathering.org/directory/findhorn-foundation/
http://archive.is/taYwv

Esalen:
http://centersgathering.org/directory/esalen-institute/
http://archive.is/P7wLL



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