OurProgram

A welcome to the land, the local hosts and the gathered community, including an opening prayer offered by Elder Pai Nani. The opening establishes the purpose of the gathering, the authority and guidance of the wisdom keepers, and the agreements that make the space trustworthy.

A morning transmission led by the Yawanawá elder and family, with story, teaching and conversation in the form they choose to offer. The focus is not on consuming cultural content, but on beginning from relationship: with self, one another, the ancestors, land and the more-than-human world.

A simple collective act of care or making — tending the site, preparing food, working with natural materials, or another locally appropriate task. This is a practical expression of the Embassy principle that learning is embodied and participation includes contribution.

A concise presentation of the Embassy intention: Indigenous-led cultural and learning centres where food, governance, education and spiritual life are held as one living system. It addresses why Indigenous knowledge holders are essential to this work: their living knowledge offers guidance for system change precisely because it begins from interdependence, responsibility and continuity with place. The session names the safeguards clearly: sovereignty, consent, reciprocity, cultural boundaries and place-based adaptation.

Short contributions from invited practitioners working in the real world. Each contribution begins with a live question rather than a polished claim:  What are you trying to protect, restore or make possible? What is the pattern you had to unlearn? What changed when people began to relate differently? What is the next obstacle that needs collective intelligence? Stories may come from community-led visitor economies, ecological restoration, cultural renewal, governance, education, arts practice, conservation, social innovation or local enterprise.

A facilitated working session on the alternative future we are seeking to embody. Instead of beginning with crisis analysis, participants identify qualities, relationships and everyday practices that make a life-serving future recognisable: agency, reciprocity, attention, belonging, beauty, shared responsibility and living connection with place.

Participants gather around real initiatives and questions. They exchange not only what they can contribute, but what they want to learn from others. This creates the first map of the group’s living intelligence: people, places, skills, questions, projects and possible next collaborations.

A working session for impact investors, practitioners, knowledge holders and place-based stewards. Rather than asking only how to price nature, the group examines what different forms of evaluation make visible — and what they erase. We distinguish between measuring ecological conditions, valuing benefits, making an investment decision and assigning ownership or price. The task is to develop practical principles for capital and impact practice that recognise ecological integrity, community authority, long-term reciprocity and what must remain beyond monetisation. Questions include: • What can measurement usefully reveal about the health and regeneration of a place? • When does a "natural service" frame clarify responsibility, and when does it reduce a living relationship to an asset? • Who defines value, receives return and holds decision-making authority? • What evidence and commitments should an impact investor require before claiming positive impact? • Which values should inform decisions without being converted into a price? Output: a short set of decision principles and open questions for responsible nature-related investment — not a universal valuation model.

A guided encounter with the Norwegian context — forest, shoreline, fjord, food landscape or another appropriate route. The purpose is not excursion but orientation: to meet the specific ecology and cultural memory of the territory that hosts the gathering.

A shared meal followed by an evening of music, story, artistic expression and reflection. The shape is determined with the hosts and contributors. The question carried into the night is: What are we being asked to remember, and what are we ready to practise?

A return to the circle for teaching, story, prayer or reflection under the guidance of the hosts. The second morning allows the first day’s experiences to be brought back into relationship rather than rushed into conclusions.

A participatory session offered by the Yawanawá hosts and/or local contributors. It may include craft, song, cultural story, work with natural materials, food or another appropriate practice. What is offered remains at the discretion of the knowledge holders; no participant is entitled to material that is not offered.

The group reviews what has emerged: recurring questions, practical openings, relationships and commitments. We ask: • What must continue after this gathering? • Which actions belong locally, and which can be carried by the wider Embassy network? • Where can ancestral intelligence and contemporary capability meet without reducing one to the other? • What support, safeguards and resources are needed for the work to remain accountable and alive?

Rather than producing a generic declaration, participants develop a small, usable agenda for shared embodiment. Possible elements include: • a shared manifesto or statement of intent, written only from what the group has genuinely earned together; • a learning exchange between Embassy locations and aligned initiatives; • a small number of practical projects or working circles; • a cultural and ecological stewardship commitment for each place represented; • pathways for responsible support, resourcing and institutional relationship.

Participants form small groups around the opportunities that have become concrete. Each group identifies a first action, who will steward it, what help is needed, and when it will be reviewed. The point is not to leave with a long wish list, but with a few commitments that can enter the world.

A practical conversation about what enables continuity: time, hosting, cultural stewardship, governance, communications, documentation, funding and partnership. Resources are approached as a shared responsibility, not an extractive ask. The guiding question is: What does this work need in order to remain true to its purpose?

The gathering closes from the same relational ground on which it opened. Hosts, wisdom keepers and participants reflect on what has been received, what must remain protected, and what may now move onward. The closing may include prayer, song, silence, gratitude and a commitment to return to the work with care.