eimaste

What is eimaste
Eimaste is a nature- and arts-focused alternative education (co-learning) initiative, based on freedom-respecting technology.

A few words of responsibility and care
Hello! My name is Chrystalleni Loizidou and I have been developing and coordinating eimaste since 2018, in an effort to surround myself and my child with a sense of community and abundance that doesn't require "parking our children while we go to work". The cooperative has been through various iterations, involving a whole lot of people. Please visit eimaste.net to read more about our events, our shared principles, experience and qualifications. For now, let me own my clear and deeply felt personal responsibility of mindful care for the offerings and the people that become engaged through the pooling of resources facilitated by eimaste via this platform. To cite Carolina Cortes, a friend who opened my heart with her example of acceptance and generocity: may it circle! May we keep finding ways to share, unite and support each other in flow.

More about eimaste
Eimaste is a nature-focused, skillsharing, community-building initiative, connecting people and families whose needs are not quite met by the local extended-family support system (e.g. families in transition, moving from abroad, in a process of reconfiguration, or with additional needs, lone parent homes, homeschooling or unschooling families). We have been providing support in the alternative education community island-wide while coordinating regular offerings that cultivate solidarity, mutual assistance, and an extended notion of kinship.

Aside from the parents' cooperative, eimaste is also a network of shared homes or a rogue artist residency project made up of various locations around Cyprus, with an emphasis on engaged and restorative artistic practices of freedom, community, and co-presence. Since 2018 eimaste has been growing into a network of places to gather in spontaneous symposia, to write / compose cures for political illusions, establish software freedom, eat green food, dance and tell stories in circles, go for walks, and be together to thank and celebrate life. Eimaste, in the spirit of A Casa Lar (Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, 2019), receives people to be in kitchens and gardens, to travel the island together, and to play and work with children and animals. An energetic place for creation and to practice living together. Eimaste also connects a network of [recovering] educators across fields and different kinds of institutions in a tender deconstruction of pedagogic and schooling practices, and free play.

https://eimaste.net/
https://parentscollective.eimaste.net/team/