Another way of existing isn’t just something we can imagine. In Laciana, we can encounter the knowledge of people who have practised it for generations.
What if becoming more doesn’t mean having more?
For generations, people here have learned to live within the conditions of the valley. Their knowledge lives in the communal pastures, the water, the stories, the work and the celebrations.
I call the principle behind those relationships communion.
Not simply community. A way of recognising that our lives belong to something larger.
What if that knowledge has something to tell us about the future?
“Perhaps the future is not something we have to invent. Perhaps part of it has been here all along.”
Watch the film to hear why I believe this matters—and why I invite people to experience it for themselves.
Another Way of Living Already Exists
What if another way of living isn’t something we have to invent?
What if part of it has been here all along?
Here in Laciana, the valley has been teaching people how to live for generations.
The communal pastures. The thousand fountains. The names of the fields, the animals, the plants. The stories, the songs, the dances.
These are not simply picturesque traditions.
They are expressions of something deeper: knowledge accumulated through generations of learning how to live together, within the conditions of the valley.
This is sustainable living shaped by experience, rather than a set of instructions.
I call this communion.
Not simply community. Not simply people getting along.
Communion with the land, the water, the animals, the people. Understanding that your own life is part of something much larger.
It’s almost as though the valley has been whispering the same lesson for centuries:
You cannot care only for yourself and expect the whole to flourish.
And the people listened.
They learned to share pastures, to care for water, to recognise the animals that crossed their mountains. They gave names to places and passed those names to their children. They found ways to work, tell stories and celebrate together.
Not everything has survived unchanged. But much of that knowledge remains here, in the landscape and in the people who care for it.
And it makes me wonder.
What if human evolution is not only about becoming more powerful, accumulating more or achieving more?
What if it is also about becoming more capable of belonging?
Perhaps sustainable living begins there: with recognising how much of life we share.
For four days, I invite you to explore that question with us.
Walk into the mountains. Learn the valley’s language. Meet the people who care for its animals and land. Listen to their stories.
Share the work, the food, the music and the celebrations.
Don’t simply come to observe a culture. Come and take part in it.
You don’t have to agree with my ideas. In fact, I hope you’ll bring your own questions, experiences and stories.
Because communion is not something I can explain to you until you believe it.
It is something we can experience together.
And perhaps, when you return home, you’ll see something differently.
Not because someone told you how to live.
But because, for four days, you experienced another way of living that has already been practised here for generations.
There is a place for you here.
Come to Laciana.
Belong to be more.
Experience it for yourself
Four days in the life of the valley.
