Culture regarding stimulants
 

We support a healthy and stimulant free life because

  • Stimulants work against our guiding principle
  • We want a stimulant free culture, where we can trust that everything served is healthy
  • We want to create a safe space for people, who are attempting to deal with addictions to sugar, coffee or alcohol, and other stimulants
  • Stimulants are often very unsustainable both in terms of how they affect health of the consumers, transport and for the most also unfair conditions for the producers (people who grow them in poor countries for large industries).

As a part of creating this community culture, we neither serve nor offer each other products containing sugar, coffee, alcohol, food additives and other stimulants or consume it in front of each other. The vision keeper circle can make an exception if appropriate. Personal use of mild stimulants is at each other’s discretion as long as it doesn’t become part of our community culture. Our shop offers healthy and more sustainable snacks and we are happy to support newcomers while adjusting to this policy.

Creating and maintaining a new culture
 

Creating and maintaining a culture of the new paradigm doesn’t come by itself. It takes continuous effort and willingness to embrace ourselves and each other when we fall back in the ways of the old paradigm, sometimes not once, but several times in a day.

  • Creating the habit of using a new terminology is an important part.
  • Focus on finding balance between self-care, community-care and social life in the community is essential. It affects the individual as well as the community negatively, no matter which one is sacrificed.
  • Ability to relate to where people are and change hats/roles and allow others to change hats/roles has to be developed.
  • Weekly sharing circles hold space for each person to share what is alive in them.
  • Various courses, practices and methods hold space for personal and spiritual development, improving communication and preventing conflicts to develop.
  • Prioritizing to resolve conflicts immediately maintains harmony.
  • Organizing various community events contributes to ‘community glue’.
Supporting each other in the process is necessary. We are all humans.