Community

Build your circle before you need it.

Simple living cannot be built alone. A free and meaningful life needs association: people who share values, tell the truth, practice responsibility, learn skills, support one another and help each other stay steady when life becomes difficult.

Why This Community Exists

Simple living cannot be built alone. A free and meaningful life needs association: people who share values, tell the truth, practise responsibility, learn skills and help each other stay steady when life becomes difficult.

This is not a community for lifestyle performance or passive criticism. It is a place for people who want to simplify, grow, serve, prepare and reconnect with nature, family, work and spiritual purpose.

Guides, Leaders, Builders and Supporters

The starting point is not a job title or a social rank, but the nature of the individual and the contribution that person can develop in service to the whole.

Guides

Guides help preserve wisdom, clarify meaning, teach, mentor and keep the higher purpose visible.

Leaders

Leaders help create order, protect what is valuable, make decisions, hold responsibility and guide people through challenge.

Builders

Builders help produce real value through food, land, local economy, resources, systems, trade and practical livelihood.

Supporters

Supporters help make everything real through service, craft, care, implementation, cooking, fixing, organizing and steady presence. Your role is not a box. It is a starting point for service.

Community circle gathering at School of Simple Living
Community gathering at School of Simple Living

What you receive

  • Reflections and a hands-on framework on Simple Living & High Thinking.
  • VPTI and VPTI resources.
  • Invitations to courses, workshops, retreats and community calls.
  • Practical prompts for simplifying your life.
  • Guidance on family, work, food, land, communication and spiritual direction.
  • Opportunities to meet Guides, Leaders, Builders and Supporters.
  • Access to future training paths and community-based learning.
  • Encouragement to move from anxiety into preparation,
    isolation into association and criticism into creation.

We are not here merely to escape a dysfunctional world. We are here to rebuild life at the root—beginning with ourselves, extending into our families and growing into communities of responsibility, abundance and spiritual purpose.

Community Practice Membership

Practice sessions, open calls and shared learning

The Community Practice Membership gives you access to regular live sessions anchored in the Simple Living & High Thinking framework and Transformative Communication practice.

Two practice sessions per month

Rotating themes — simplification, family practice, communication, dharma work, inner practice. Live and recorded.

One open session per quarter

A free open community call with no fixed agenda. Questions, sharing, connection across Guides, Leaders, Builders and Supporters.

Membership fee — self-chosen

EUR 5 / month minimum. Suggested tiers: EUR 5, EUR 10 or EUR 20 depending on what fits your situation. Service-based alternatives considered on request — reach out via contact.

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Coming soon

Community Platform

A dedicated online space for members is being built: shared recordings, discussion threads organised by dharma type, practice accountability groups and resources for each area of the SLHT Mandala.

Members who join now will have founding access when the platform opens.

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