WAKESEED

WAKESEED is a nonprofit association in Lisbon that runs workshops, retreats, ceremonies and school programmes, and designs and installs gardens. Its stated mission is to facilitate sustainability at both a personal and a collective level. The association works in a cooperative and inclusive way. It brings together professionals from different fields who share an ethic and a set of values, and who find in WAKESEED a place to develop their life purpose and to grow, individually and collectively. The team's roles include general founding and coordination, health and wellbeing, and educational development, among others. The work is organised into four areas: - Human Development: workshops on emotional intelligence, the enneagram, nonviolent communication and mindfulness, plus Ikigai retreats. - Vital Balance: meditation cycles, prânic therapy, Ayurvedic massage, cacao ceremonies and therapeutic massage workshops. - Agroecology: design and installation of sustainable and holistic gardens and therapeutic gardens, seed circles, and educational programmes for schools such as *Guardiões da Natureza*. - Bioeconomy: eco-entrepreneurship, alternative and ethical financing, and organisational sustainability. WAKESEED regularly organises recurring events. They include *Encontros às Quartas*, a series of online meditation and sharing circles, as well as open meditation sessions, cacao and chanting ceremonies, and the MAYOM Festival of Sound, Art and Wellbeing. Through non-formal education, workshops, retreats and community events, WAKESEED aims to make sustainability knowledge and these practices accessible to a broad and diverse public. It wants this to contribute to personal transformation, which it sees as a foundation for wider social and ecological change.