Our partners
Friends of the community
We are building the foundations of the world where we want to raise our children in accordance with our values
kindness, welcoming diversity, sharing knowledge and expertise, mutual support and respect for all that IS.
Near Mont-Laurier, at the entrance to La Vérendrye Park, a group of "vivalists" are busy making their dream a reality: escaping the frenetic pace of our contemporary lifestyle by adopting that of our ancestors.
Driven by a desire to live in harmony with nature and eliminate the trappings of modern life, these visionaries nurtured their project for a long time and are now putting it into action. Right now, they are living this extraordinary adventure: building a human-scale village that combines expertise, ecology, and aesthetics, in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
Held during the summer months, Camp Vivaliste welcomes young people aged 12 to 16, sharing ancestral knowledge through activities that foster creativity, group harmony, solidarity, play, mutual support, communication, and kindness. Building shelters, fire-making by friction, crafting primitive bows, blacksmithing, weaving, and braiding will equip your children for wilderness survival and create unforgettable memories.
The Salon of Strangers
(Inc. company)
The Salon des Inconnus is a tourist accommodation center and an Artists' Salon (a research center for performing and emerging arts) that offers accommodation, activities and facilities to both tourists and Artists in Residence.
Located in the Favier house, an ancestral jewel of the village of Namur in Outaouais, the Salon des Inconnus draws its inspiration from two marginal salons that have marked the history of art: the salon des refusés, a response to the establishment represented by the Salon de Paris, and the Fleurus salon of Gertrude Stein, master patron and discoverer of talents such as Picasso, Cézanne, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and other unknowns of the Roaring Twenties.
The Salon des Inconnus' mandate is to discover and nurture new, unknown, self-taught or marginalized artists who do not necessarily have access to the resources of the conventional system.
To reduce the artistic waste caused by gatekeeping and the abusive classification of art categories. To promote artistic mutual aid, share discoveries, allow ourselves to explore new ways of creating, and establish a collection of works and memories of the new Roaring Twenties.
In addition to the 5 themed rooms (Musician, Writer, Filmmaker, Masters and The Glasshouses) of the Inn and the massage therapy room, we find the Gypsy Bus, The Yurt, The Mini-Scandinavian and the Lumberjack Camp.
The Neo-Ancients
The revival of ancestral knowledge
(Solidarity cooperative)
The Neo-Ancients are a cooperative of artisans passionate about ancestral and traditional knowledge that enables a lifestyle based on simplicity and closeness to nature. We are reviving the skills that allowed our ancestors to live through the seasons, inhabit, and adapt to the northern landscape.
Our areas of expertise are numerous and varied: woodworking, traditional building techniques, the manufacture of traditional and ecological winter equipment, and ancestral leather tanning techniques. We are passionate about developing alternative ways to meet our basic needs in a resilient, self-sufficient manner that respects the land we live on.
The Beech Centre (non-profit organization)
Born in 2020, in the midst of a societal crisis, the Beech Eco-community continues in its conviction to create a world with strong human ties connected with nature.
By integrating the concepts of conscious communication and, newly, sociocracy, the members of the Beech Eco-community have a vision of being a radiant and inspiring community, a place of reference for all people who are looking for new ways of living together, in communion with nature, in harmony with this earth that gives us life.
Through weekly activities such as heart-to-heart activities, sharing circles, dinners, collaboration and planning days, the members of this vibrant community weave this human web that allows for inner growth.
Through food gardens and greenhouses under construction, there is a promise of resilience in a constantly changing world.
« Together with nature
La Nuée Collective (non-profit organization)
Since 2020, the Collectif La Nuée has embodied a supportive, ecological, democratic and culturally rich eco-community, placing collective action and human relations at the heart of its concerns.
The Beech Habitat (non-profit organization)
Eco-village, ecological construction, agroforestry and global permaculture, Echo-Magic Artisan Co-laboratory
On the Roofs of the World
Vipassana Montebello Center