6 -12th Oktober, 2025
Vilnius, Lithuania
About this event
Untamed Ecology
The 2025 Intensive confronts the deepening fault lines of global polarization — manifesting as political fragmentation, regional and continental wars, resource-driven trade battles, escalating climate crises, and the rising specter of unpredictable pandemics.
Around the world, political and interest groups are locked in a battle of narratives, vying for the hearts and minds of everyday people. But our two decades of work bridging the Global North and Global South have revealed something quieter — and more powerful — beneath the noise: a deeper reality where human connection transcends ideology.
Diversity and Interdependence
Outside the glare of media cycles and political framing, people from vastly different worlds come together — not despite their differences, but because they see through them. Like ecosystems that thrive through diversity and interdependence, these grassroots collaborations emerge across boundaries, supported by something more ancient than any narrative: the enduring spirit of the land itself.
Our inspiration
draws from the enduring wisdom of surviving Indigenous cultures — teachers in the art of listening to and living by the spirit of the land. In our view, this seamlessly converges with Arnold Mindell’s Earth-based Psychology— a path that weaves together the insights of modern physics with the depth of intercultural awareness, grounding transformation in both the seen and unseen forces of life. As community builders, we are called to rediscover this voice together, to sense its presence in the rhythm of daily life, and to let its guidance shape both our personal paths and our shared futures.
2025 Intensive Themes
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The Spirit of the Land and the Indigenous Voice - Path to Collective Alternatives
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Innner Work for Watershed Moments in Life - Creating Alternatives for Yourself
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Alternatives in Relationships: The Creativity of Conflicts
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Migration, Territories, Borders, Wars and Indigenousnes - Alternatives to Mainstream Narratives of Polarization
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Death, Life and Creativity - the Alchemy of Body Symptoms
Who we are
This Clinic is an initiative of the Deep Democracy Institute International. We are members of the Deep Democracy Alliance, an alumni network of DDI colleagues from East Africa, West Asia, Southeast Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Australia, and the USA, all of whom have completed a Process Work Diploma program.
Our annual Intensive courses are regularly attended by co-learners from our global community — an essential expression of our organization’s core purpose and the meaning behind our logo: Unity in Diversity.
We are a member of the International Association of Process-oriented Psychologists (IAPOP) and our training program follows their guidelines.
We broadly indentify also with the Pluriverse Movement, whose core idea is based on the concept that there is no single universal way to live well, organize societies, or relate to nature. Instead, it honors diverse worldviews, cosmologies, and ways of knowing and being.
