Living Roots Ecovillage: Founding Member group formed. New web site soon..
Apprenticeship Program: centered around Organic Gardening and Farming, but also balanced with the Healing Arts, including Mentoring, Massage, and Yoga.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Shares now available for the 2012 Season. Go to our CSA page for more info.

Mailing List: Email michael@indianacommunity.org to be added to our list to be informed by email of upcoming workshops, community events, and healing arts specials.

Workshops: Area workshops led by the Center and other like minded organizations.

Photo Gallery: Pictures of community events, our weekly dinners, garden growings and more!

Center Needs - help our service oriented organization by being of service to us. Please contact us to contribute in the following ways:
Needs List, Volunteers (garden,etc.)
 

Coming Soon: this website will be transforming into the new website for Living Roots Ecovillage
The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc. envisions a world in which all communities have access to healthy, locally-grown, organic food and herbal medicine which are grown in ways that are both environmentally and personally sustainable. Holistic Life Counseling/Coaching - first appointment free
See our Healing Arts page for more info.

Join our new Facebook group called:
Southwest Indiana Network of Organic Growers
Its purpose is to share knowlege, dialogue, and community amongst its members

Local Indiana Author and Friend, Kyle Kramer, publishes new book, A Time to Plant, As its about spirituality and organic farming, it's right up our alley. Check out the reviews and buy a copy here.
A NEW LOCATION!
We are now located at 505 1/2 Main St. in Jasper, just off the square and above Finishing Touches. We welcome new Healing Arts Practitioners Scarlett Winters, N.D., Certified Traditional Naturopath and Sarah Baldwin, Herbalist and Reiki Master.

Recent Newspaper Articles Published About Us:
Article on Moonflower Medicinals
Article on The Center's Farm
Article on Sustainable Gardening
Article on What's Your Tree
Article on Julia Butterfly Hill

Mission and Goals:

The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc. aims to strengthen community vitality by not only supplying our nearby communities with healthy, locally-grown, organic food, but also by promoting, inspiring, and educating others to do the same.

We are focused on the process of growing plants as much as we are the end results. We infuse gardening and farming with yoga and meditation. This leads to a way of growing food that is not only environmentally sustainable but also personally sustainable. This way of gardening is holistic in nature. It recognizes the cycles and patterns of life, which can best be explained and embraced from a mind, body, heart, and spirit perspective.

By sharing our skills, passions, and deeper life purpose with others we hope to empower them into peaceful action, transforming their lives in positive ways that align them with the health and happiness they seek, whether it be living a life working with plants or something else that serves the common good. With this spirit we have established a regional “CENTER” that supports positive growth for a healthy and regenerative future. The “Center” aims to:

  • Offer educational, counseling and coaching opportunities as well as personal, cultural and economic solutions to current hardships
  • Add value to people's lives by sharing our passions and skills
  • Collaborate peacefully and mindfully; to create a network of allies in order connect people to the resources they need
  • Inspire a peaceful culture and to deepen individual relationships to nature, to people and to community
  • Connect and listen deeply to our inner wisdom and to live in alignment with our own life purposes
  • Contribute to growing global movement of consciousness raising
  • Work creatively, intentionally and with integrity, maintaining an open mind and a loving heart
  • Re-generate a culture of health and happiness for the present and future generations.

The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc. is currently offering services in the following areas:

The RESOURCE CENTER :

The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc. is working to establish a COLLECTIVE of community members doing work in these same areas.  We have formed an ONLINE DIRECTORY that connects the public with individuals and organizations working in these areas in Southern Indiana.  If you or someone you know wants to be listed in this directory please email michael@indianacommunity.org with your vision, goals and services.

If your wondering WHY The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc. our definitions might help...

Center: an integrated place of education, healing, sustainability, community, living, and growth
Community: a supportive, social group with common interests and values (that bridges cultures)
Empowerment: to enable, to inspire strength from within - yielding peaceful action and positive change for the greater good of all

 

The Center for Community Empowerment, Inc., 505 1/2 Main St., Suite 7, Jasper, IN 47546, (812) 639-3170