You too can achieve longevity, less expenses, more fun and fulfillment by rendering your personal life and that of our planet more sustainable.  We all need better health and lower energy bills.

At Sophia’s International Learning Center, we incubate, implement and teach exciting ideas and scientific findings to create a better world. We discuss theories and we practice what we teach.

Understanding the ongoing destruction of pollution, wars, global warming and the greed for the last oil, SILC focuses on Education toward Responsibility, Renewable Energy, Living Foods, Organic Gardening, Off-the grid Building, Non-toxic Technology, New Teamwork, Natural Fashions, Self-healing, and Higher Consciousness. In addition, we want to network with others around the globe through The International Media Center.

Sophia’s International Learning Center is a conference center for seminars, practical training and a growing intentional community.  It is also a place of media production.  We invite you, the individual, your youth group, school class, corporate group, family, and all interested parties to come and learn, to join us as members, and/or to support us financially. We want you to share in the development of the visions and practical applications needed to change the course of our consumer culture – so that we can live in more harmonious ways with each other and the ecology on planet Earth.

Contact:

(607) 847-6606 or jsophia@TheInternationalMediaCenter.com

for Europe: +49-234-28 82 85

FOUNDER AND FUTURE FACULTY

The Founder is Prof. Johanna Sophia, professor of Film (directing, writing, production), independent thinker, educator and real life business woman with a wide range of qualifications and experience – see Resume.  She will be joined by other seekers, philosophers, leaders in the Green movements, politicians, scientists, practitioners and healers such as, for example, Paul von Ward, Dr. Maritta Koch-Weser, Joschka Fischer, David Wolfe, Jeremy Leggett, Janine Selendy, Thilo Bode, Prof. Fritjof Bergman, Dr. Gay Conough and many others.

The following sectors are to be developed on the grounds of Sophia’s International Learning Center: 

1)                  As of Fall, 2006, we have been offering Practical Training for Eco-Construction where individual young people or small groups are learning by working on the existing old farmhouse, its attachments and a barn, ecologizing them with natural materials, water-proofing, building bathrooms and conference rooms and a solar roof and generally rendering the buildings inhabitable together with professional builders such as German builder Klaus Roeske, solar specialist Dr. Gay Conough and others.

Later, the Eco-construction group will focus on building Enertia self-sustaining houses and the larger conference center as well as a pond for water conservation and swimming.

2)                  A Live Food Kitchen and Raw Food Production center catering fresh meals and dried, packaged Raw Foods, such as raw breads, crackers, snacks and sweets to a growing health food community in the broader region. 

3)                  An agricultural/Organic Gardening center where people of all ages can learn by hands-on training, at weekend seminars, during planting or harvesting seasons, or to study the theory and latest advances in bio-dynamic and permaculture gardening at special seminars with invited speakers and experienced organic growers and farmers.

4)                  A Health and Recreation Spa using integrated Cleansing and Healing Foods programs to demonstrate and teach sustainable health and longevity – offering rejuvenation programs to spa guests seeking “pampering” or initiation into a new lifestyle over hours, days, weekends, weeks or longer periods of time for those needing to heal themselves of more severe health conditions.

5)                  A new type of Waldorf oriented school, The International Waldorf School arising out of a multi-lingual, multi-cultural homeschool group that is both age-integrative and real-life project oriented, and that incorporates both local and international exchange students and teachers.

6)                  A media production and learning center The International Media Center focusing on low budget production of digital media where future-oriented groups from the US and abroad can learn the basics of media production and share their materials to build on the global exchange of knowledge and art, particularly among groups working for a more peaceful, sustainable world.  Here Prof. Sophia and filmmakers such as Michael More, Davis Guggenheim, and similar, lesser known media experts will teach and produce work with the students.

7)                  An independent University affiliated with other independent, recognized institutions of higher learning around the globe, such as the Universitaet Witten/Herdecke in Germany, or the Sekem University for Science and Agriculture in Egypt, and others.

8)                  A small Intentional Community living on the land and off the land as much as possible, inhabiting the self-sustaining houses built using “Enertia” construction.  This community will explore and gather experience on new “village organization,” a new “work and fun” definition and will collaborate with New Work-New Culture concepts and the groups around Prof. Fritjof Bergman and others.

THE LOCATION:

Sophia’s International Learning Center is situated on 23 acres of land in the gentle Western hills of the Catskill Mountains in the State of New York, about 4 hours to the North-West of New York City.

Placed just outside a small village called New Berlin, it is also central to five university cities with a rich cultural and progressive life: Oneonta, Binghamton, Ithaca (Cornell), Syracuse, and Utica.

There are several organic farms in the area that are reachable within minutes.  And a short bicycle ride away, the village of New Berlin offers basic provisions, a beautiful public library, a lumber yard and hardware store, and a proud Sicilian restaurant, the owner of which might just be interested in coming our way and “going organic”…