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Connection to nature
Regenerate soils, biomass and ecosystems. Reconnect humans with nature. Leave room for Nature, with a Permaculture applied to humans.
Ecovillage & CRIC*
*Cultural Research and Invention Center
La Maison Passerelle
Embodying regenerative culture into humus, humans and living beings through radical cooperation, arts and permaculture.
A laboratory for knowing oneself, each other and nature, in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, French Pyrenees.
Do we really know how to cooperate?
The realities we face today
Loss of trust and wariness of one another
Individualism and isolation
Depression and burnout
Eco-anxiety and solastalgia (loss of the living world)
Facing these realities, La Maison Passerelle explores another path: learning again to cooperate, between humans and with the living world.
The project
A Cultural Research and Invention Center
La Maison Passerelle is part of a worldwide network. It is a place to experiment with a culture of regenerative cooperation for humans, living beings and Earth.
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Cooperation
Improve human relationships through tools that foster a high degree of cooperation. Coaching, mediation, relational clarity practices.
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Creation of a new culture
Cultivate the art of feedback, artistic creation and scientific research as vectors for personal evolution and societal inspiration.
We develop 4 key skills
- Connection to the living world and to ecosystems
- Radical cooperation to move towards healthy relationships
- Openness to multiculturalism and to every domain of life
- Introspection through creativity and emotional autonomy
Embodying a Culture of Cooperation!
Our work in the field
What we are already doing
Permaculture training
Exploring the bond between humans and nature, transforming agricultural practice. Supporting individuals, citizen collectives and companies through transformative CSR.
Biodiversity regeneration
Sanctuarising natural spaces, strengthening the human bond with other living species.
Mediation and coaching practices
Relational clarity, conflict resolution, immersion in cooperation, discovering and practising emotional intelligence.
Growing an ethical culture
Demonstrating that cooperation works by producing resources born from our research: articles, podcasts, videos, shareable tools.
We offer discovery workshops open to everyone, in collaboration with actors engaged in the regeneration of the territory.
The land
Grounding the research on one hectare of earth
A place has been found in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the French Pyrenees: one hectare to host life, research and hospitality.
What will come to life there
- Workshops, trainings and retreats around Arts, Cooperation and Permaculture.
- Hosting company and collective seminars in a place surrounded by nature.
- Social and permacultural research: a place of living and agricultural production, cultural transformation residencies, and resources crafted to experiment in daily life.
A refuge of nature and creation
La Maison Passerelle is your bridge to the essential, where the energy of the mountains meets self-expression.
- The large living room with its warm wood stove invites calm and fireside evenings. Push the furniture aside and it becomes a wonderful practice space: dance settles in very regularly.
- The green terraces overlook the buildings: a contemplative pause from above, surrounded by the forest.
- The river and the spring, on the neighbours' land and accessible with their agreement, offer a fresh dip in pure water, the very symbol of Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
- All around, some ten hectares sanctuarised by the neighbours, to explore off the beaten tracks.
The financial course
€350,000
to purchase the land
donations and solidarity loans
€20,000
for renovation
donations and participatory work camps
How to contribute?
Every gesture builds the bridge
La Maison Passerelle is a French non-profit association (loi 1901). Here are all the ways to take part in the project.
€13,000 already raised
goal €350,000
Vote for our project
Send us boosts to help us win prizes on the Artizen platform. The full guide opens right below.
Make a donation or a solidarity loan
For the purchase of the land and its renovation. Contact us for more information.
Volunteer & cooperate
Join the collective action to search for funding and take part in our participatory work camps.
Spread the word
Help us share our resources and our events!
The fun-ancement
Give on HelloAsso
Open the campaign page The donation module is hosted by HelloAsso, which handles the payment.
The guide
Supporting on Artizen, step by step
The campaign runs on Artizen. Here is the whole path, step by step, to contribute in a few minutes.
$10
the price of one Artifact, the unit of support
100%
of Artifact sales goes to the project
x2
every dollar is matched by the partner fund
🏆
every purchase lifts the project up the prize leaderboard
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Open the campaign page
The button at the end of this guide takes you there.
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Create an account
Click "Login" at the top right of the Artizen page, then "Sign up". An email address is enough.
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Choose your amount
The buttons offer $50, $100 or $500. Any other amount works too: each Artifact costs $10, buy as many as you wish.
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Click "Buy" and pay by card
Payment is made by bank card, in dollars.
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Send boosts
After a purchase, the "Boost" button (the lightning bolt) sends support points. They lift La Maison Passerelle up the season leaderboard, where prizes can be won.
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Comment and share
A comment on the campaign page, or sharing it around you, raises its visibility even more.
A few platform words
- Buy purchase Artifacts to fund the project
- Boost support points that improve the ranking
- Match your donation doubled by the partner fund
- Prize cash prizes won on the leaderboard
- Open edition unlimited number of Artifacts
Rewards are offered on the campaign page: the board game "What Do Potatoes Say?" ($40), remote coaching sessions ($80 to $120) and more.
Open the campaign on Artizen
A question before contributing? Write to us: bonjourici@lamaisonpasserelle.com
Who are we?
The human beings at the source of this project
Ludivine Thiburs
Coach and teacher in creative communication, I support entrepreneurs, students and collectives to move through their blocks, free their deep identity and develop a living communication.
Having a ground for creative exploration around emotions, a garden of Chinese medicinal plants and forming a tribe with families are my aspirations for La Maison Passerelle.
Gabriel Lechemin
Permaculture Wizzard Coach, Performing Artist Painter & Possibilitator Metakinesiology Coach | Mediator | Permaculture Designer
- Authentic Communication Catalyst -
Trained and in training with Possibility Management©, Symbiokinesiology©, CNAM Paris, David Holmgren Design©
Growing permaculture gardens and growing connection through deep conversations are my aspirations for La Maison Passerelle.
The Village of Possibility
A worldwide team of possibility creators supporting La Maison Passerelle by organising events across France.
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