What does it actually take to live in community?

Across the world, intentional communities are experimenting with some of the most important questions of our time:

How do we share power?

How do we repair conflict?

How do we create belonging?

How do we build cultures that can actually last?

Every day, communities are generating hard-earned wisdom through lived experience.

Yet most of those lessons never leave the communities where they were learned.

Liberation Learning exists to change that.

I'm documenting intentional communities around the world as they navigate cooperation, conflict, and belonging—not as ideals, but as lived practice. Together, we're building a documentary series and shared learning infrastructure that helps communities become one another's teachers while inviting the rest of us to learn alongside them.

HELP COMPLETE PHASE ONE

$25,000 by October 1

Over the past year, I've largely carried this project on my own—building trusted relationships with intentional communities, traveling across four countries, capturing hundreds of hours of footage, and laying the foundation for what Liberation Learning is becoming.

Today, the project has outgrown what one person can sustainably carry.

The relationships are built.

The stories are unfolding.

An experienced, values-aligned production team is ready to begin.

Funding is now the only thing standing between the footage we've captured and the pilot we know it can become.

By October 1, we're raising $25,000 to:

Bring our production team on board
Complete filming with the final two pilot communities—Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and Tamera
Begin professional editing and post-production
Organize and preserve hundreds of hours of documentary footage

This pilot becomes the foundation for larger grants, institutional partnerships, and the long-term future of Liberation Learning.

Watch the campaign trailer to see what's already in motion.

Why October 1 Deadline?

Our production team is ready. Momentum is here! Participating communities are waiting to invite us to film in November.

If we reach our goal, production continues immediately and the completed pilot positions Liberation Learning for major grants, institutional partnerships, and the next phase of filming.

If we don't, the project slows dramatically while we continue piecing together funding one step at a time.

What Your Gift Makes Possible

This campaign funds the next critical phase of Liberation Learning.

Your support will:

Complete filming with Dancing Rabbit and Tamera
Bring our cinematographer, editor, and production collaborators onto the project
Professionally edit the pilot episode
Organize, transcribe, and preserve existing footage
Build the infrastructure needed to pursue larger grants, institutional partnerships, and long-term distribution

This campaign doesn't fund the entire documentary.

It funds the critical next phase that allows Liberation Learning to become a professionally supported, long-term educational initiative.

What We've Already Built

✔ Filmed in the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Ecuador

✔ Trusted relationships established with 10+ participating communities

✔ Hundreds of hours of documentary footage captured

✔ Fiscal sponsorship secured

✔ Experienced production team identified and ready to begin, pending funding

What is Liberation Learning?

Liberation Learning is more than a documentary. It's a long-term effort to transform isolated community experience into shared learning.

Each episode follows communities through real challenges, compares their lived experiences, and transforms those stories into practical learning for practitioners, educators, communities, and anyone asking how humans might live together differently.

Rather than searching for the "best" model, Liberation Learning asks:

What can we learn when communities become one another's teachers—and invite the rest of us to learn alongside them?

Why This Matters To Me

Over the past several years, I've immersed myself in intentional communities around the world.

No matter where I went—different countries, different cultures, different communities—I found people wrestling with remarkably similar questions.

Ones that came from real heartbreak, failure, and repeated harm, and the daily practice of learning to live together.

Professionally, I curated educational programs for people interested in intentional communities, but what I witnessed on the ground from my years of visiting and living in communities was far more complex than anything we could teach online.

There was more vulnerability, contradiction, beauty, struggle, and far more wisdom than was ever making its way beyond the communities where it was being lived.

I couldn't stop asking myself:

What are we inviting people into?

If more people are looking toward intentional communities as part of the future...

What responsibility do we have to honestly document not only what inspires us—but what this work truly asks of us?

That's why I bought a camera, started filming, and am now building Liberation Learning as an educational ecosystem that uses visual storytelling a first access point for deeper learning.

This is the most important work I've done and I am completely committed. I hope you join me.

Help Carry This Forward

This project has reached a turning point. It has grown way beyond my own capacity. Now it's time to be held by a community.

Your support isn't simply helping to produce a documentary series. You're helping preserve one of the largest ongoing experiments in cooperative culture.

You're helping transform lived experience into shared learning. You're helping communities become one another's teachers. And you're helping ensure these lessons remain available and accessible for the generations still to come.

If this vision resonates with you, I'd be deeply grateful for your support.

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!

**Liberation Learning campaign and marketing materials were created in collaboration with AI tools. This project would not exist at the stage it does now without this support.

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