Shane Sylvanspring
Shane Sylvanspring
Town planner, ecovillage design educator
Shane is an environmental and social activist and professional town planner who is passionate about eco living and intentional communities. Shane is an ambassador and trainer of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Australia and has run half a dozen Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) courses in Australia, and around the world. Shane has also developed the Village Development Program (VDP), an EDE inspired course for future residents of the Bruns Ecovillage, facilitating, along with other community experts, over 150 possible residents through the program. He also has developed and been part of design teams for other large ecovillage projects in Australia.
Shane draws upon his own experiences of living in communities in Australia and around the world, time with indigenous communities, working within local government and the EDE framework when developing or assisting communities. He is also trained in Dynamic Facilitation, Non-Violent Communication, Sociocracy, Earth building, Permaculture, Transition Towns and Deep Ecology. Shane is the director of Landsharing Community Services, and is the founder, with his wife and two children, of an emerging intentional land-sharing community currently being created in the Northern Rivers NSW of around 25 adults and 13 children. He is the co-founder of COREM.