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What is Co-Creation?
As defined in The Co-Creator’s Handbook, coauthored by Carolyn Anderson and Katharine Roske, co-founders of our community, co-creation is “Co-participating consciously with the laws or patterns of the Creator; conscious alignment with the essence of others and with nature; Self aligning with Self, vertically and horizontally.” A conscious co-creator is one who surrenders and aligns their will with the intention of Creation, the universal mind, the designing intelligence, Spirit; one who shares their gifts and actualizes their dreams in synergistic play with other co-creators to bring forth a new world.

History of Co-Creation at Hummingbird
Hummingbird Living School is a project of Global Family, a non-profit organization since 1986. Global Family has a rich history rooted in global transformational work. Through its approach and skills, facilitation and training, as well as its books, "The Rings of Empowerment" (1993) and the later version, The Co-Creator’s Handbook (2001), Global Family continues to steward and promote the principles and practices of co-creation.

In addition to the pioneering work of Global Family other members of the HBLS core team have made a significant contribution in the field of innovative education. One individual was on the core founding team of Boulder Graduate School (1980-1990), a progressive educational institution devoted to transpersonal and holistic studies, which became integrated into Naropa University in 1990. Several others have been instrumental in the founding and cultivating a variety of holistic and experiential models of education including Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Misty Mountain Free School, Boulder Valley Institute and Earth Guardians Environmental Program.

Hummingbird Ranch was founded in 1996 with the express desire to bring forth a model of co-creative community and ecovillage. Hummingbird Living School is emerging as a living laboratory for conscious evolution, embodying a co-creative way of life.

Current Offerings for 2010

Community Apprenticeship Certification Program: May 29th- August 8, 2010

During this summer 2010 Community Apprenticeship Certification Program we will be presenting introductory level teachings of the same core learning modules that constitute the Co-Creative Community Building Certification Program.

Cultivating Co-Creative Community ~ Living the Human Dream: September 9th-12th

How do we live in these metamorphic times and migrate between worlds? In this workshop, you will experience how to cultivate co-creative community and be supported in moving through deep metamorphosis into manifesting and living the Human Dream—a healthy, loving and fulfilling world that works for all.

The Co-Creative Community Building Certification Program

The Co-Creative Community Building Certification Program offers a powerful set of learning modules that support individuals and groups to gain a strong foundation of understandings, skills and practices which can stabilize a successful co-creative community or project. We offer this program as a part of our one and two year residence programs for those who are called to live and learn with us at Hummingbird Living School. The following are the core learning modules that comprise this Certification Program.

• Co-Creative Team Building
• Resonant Field Cultivation – Attuned Alignment
• Heart-centered communication skills - self-responsible communication and conflict resolution
• Global and Project Vision/Mission/Purpose
• Governance and Decision Making

One and Two year Residential Certification Programs at Hummingbird Living School

The partner relationship between Hummingbird Living School’s Certification Program in Co-Creative Community Building and the Center for the Human Dream’s Certification Program in Shifting to the Human Dream, offer the powerful foundation of a two-year multi-certification residential program at Hummingbird Living School. This program offers you the possibility, according you your goals, to acquire several certifications, including: Hummingbird Community Apprenticeship Certification, Co-Creative Community Building Certification, Permaculture Certification, Shifting to the Human Dream Certification, as well as others that you may weave into your unique program. Upon completion of this residential learning program graduates will be empowered as individuals (and groups) to be optimally prepared to found their own intentional, sustainable, co-creative communities, and/or be leaders in local, bioregional, and global transformation. This curriculum empowers individuals, intentional communities, transformational projects and organizations in pioneering the pathway into the New Dream in a very conscious and proactive way as a daily life practice.

For further information, contact Robert Griffin at or call 575-387-5587.