Traditional Dream Factory

AMBIVALENT — a solstice gathering at TDF 🌿♊️ One last event before TDF closes for the summer break. June 19–21 at Traditional Dream Factory, Alentejo. If you’ve been waiting for a reason to finally come — or come back — this is it. Two days of workshops, rituals at golden hour, movement, star-gazing, music, silence, and the kind of encounters you didn’t plan for. Saturday night: a DJ set at our forest stage. 🌲🎶 It’s also a birthday celebration. At least six Geminis are turning another lap around the sun, and we want you there. → Join us for the full weekend (Friday–Sunday with stay) → Or Saturday only if you just want to come for a boogie Want a discount code + personal invite? DM one of our birthday Geminis — Ani, Bart, Gus, Tonya, Julia or Guy — and tell us you’re coming. We’ll sort you out 🎉 Full details + booking in bio 🔗

"We need to learn to be Human" — a young person in the audience spoke, and the room filled with emotion and recognition. This was the root of what unfolded at TDF this weekend during our Living Territories gathering. Heartfelt conversations about things that matter to us all. Goat cheese, honey and pear sandwiches lovingly prepared by our brunch fairies. And of course the screening of Aldeias do Futuro — a film that didn't let us leave unchanged. Locals expressed their wish for more visits from TDFers. Young people shared their vulnerability openly. And the message from the filmmakers that really sticks with us: how do we move towards living from the land rather than just on it? How do we listen more deeply - to the land, to our neighbors, to the culture landscape we are integrating into? Thank you to every human who showed up and brought your colors and your gifts. And thank you to Re.Rural for what you're building — pathways for young people back to the land, to themselves, to community. We were moved. The seeds planted here are already growing. If this is the conversation you've been missing - you know where to find us. 🌱

Join us on Saturday for a very special Land tour! 🍃 This weekend, we have our monthly Land tour, the last one before we close for the Summer, and it's going to be a special one. Along with the usual tour and presentation explaining all the details of the project, we'll also have a Documentary screening! 🎥 "Aldeias do Futuro" is a Portuguese Documentary that explores regenerative projects seeking to reinvent spaces towards more connected and balanced futures. And TDF was one of the projects featured in the film! Join us for this very special afternoon and opportunity to see TDF in a unique way! Comment on the post with the word Visit, to receive all the info on how to join! 👇 We'll see you all there 👋

🌱🎬 Villages of the Future Documentary screening in Abela! Texto em português embaixo 👇 A documentary about the people and places reimagine village life in Portugal is coming to TDF — and we’re one of the projects featured in it Aldeias do Futuro — Villages of the Future — follows real places where people are building something different. Ecological regeneration, local economies, genuine belonging. Not as an ideal. As a daily practice. We’re hosting the screening here, on the land the film is partly about, and we’d love for you to watch it with us. You just need to join, there's no charge! June 6th · 19:30 · Traditional Dream Factory, Abela More than a film night — it’s a chance to gather, watch, and open a real conversation about what becomes possible when communities come together with intention. What can be born here if we come together with care? Comment Film or send us a message to register. Come and bring someone who needs to see this. 🌿 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🌱🎬Exibição do Documentário Aldeias do Futuro em Abela! Um documentário sobre as pessoas e os lugares que estão a reimaginar a vida nas aldeias em Portugal chega ao TDF — e nós somos um dos projetos que fazem parte dele. Aldeias do Futuro acompanha lugares reais onde as pessoas estão a construir algo diferente. Regeneração ecológica, economias locais e um verdadeiro sentimento de pertença. Não como uma ideia. Como uma prática diária. Vamos acolher a exibição aqui, no terreno sobre o qual o filme foi parcialmente realizado, e adoraríamos que viesses ver o filme connosco. Só tens que te juntar, não tem qualquer custo! 6 de Junho · 19:30 · Traditional Dream Factory, Abela Mais do que uma noite de cinema — é uma oportunidade para nos reunirmos, assistirmos e abrirmos uma conversa verdadeira sobre o que se torna possível quando as comunidades se juntam com intenção. O que poderá nascer aqui se nos unirmos com cuidado? Comenta Film ou envia-nos mensagem para te inscreveres. Vem e traz alguém que precisa de ver isto.

Our next Webinar is almost here! Join us next Monday, the 1st of July, for a unique opportunity to dive deep into TDF! Hear directly from our team, where the project is at the moment, what the next steps are we're going to take, and how you can be a part of it and contribute! We're hosting them on the first Monday of every month, so there'll be more opportunities to join if you can join us on the next one. Don't miss out on the perfect opportunity to get caught up with all things TDF, and to ask the team directly any questions you may have. Write Webinar in the comments, or check our Bio for more info!

🇵🇹 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 · 🌍 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 ↓ ᴘᴛ ᴀʙᴀɪxᴏ ↓ Something is gathering in Alentejo. Four movements. A living territory. An honest question: How do we belong to place again? On 6 June, we gather at TDF for film, land, workshops, co-creation and real conversation. We will screen 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, a Portuguese documentary about the rural regeneration movement. Not just to watch from the edges. But to be part of the conversation. To listen. To connect. To feel what wants to emerge next. Comment 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔 and we’ll send you the invite. 🌿 Living Territories Weekend · 6–7 June 📍 Traditional Dream Factory · Alentejo 🎬 Documentary screening · 6 June — Algo está a reunir-se no Alentejo. Quatro movimentos. Um território vivo. Uma pergunta honesta: Como voltamos a pertencer a um lugar? No dia 6 de Junho, juntamo-nos na TDF para cinema, terra, oficinas, cocriação e conversas reais. Vamos exibir 𝘼𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙞𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙤 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙤, um documentário português sobre o movimento de regeneração rural. Não apenas para assistir de fora. Mas para fazer parte da conversa. Para escutar. Para conectar. Para sentir o que quer emergir a seguir. Comenta 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔 e enviamos-te o convite. 🌿 Territórios Vivos · 6–7 Junho 📍 Traditional Dream Factory · Alentejo 🎬 Exibição do documentário · 6 Junho #Regeneration #RuralRegeneration #EcovillageMovement #Alentejo #AldeiasDoFuturo

TDF will be at the Gathering this year bringing practical tools for social renew, we’re exploring the edges of who we are collectively in the waking necessity tending to build a new paradigm of interdependence - while staying real with our own capacity. We’re bringing our learnings, lived experiences and our methods of connection through play and curiosity. Throughout our years of efforts to step out of the mainstream and found a village of decentralized governance we’ve found a lot of value not only in what we’ve built but where we’ve broken, how we show up after that and how to move forward. A multi dimensional blueprint to being and building together. Can’t wait to see you there 🌱 Interested in collaborating or joining us? Comment Pre-gathering and we will share with you how to get involved ✨

We are looking for our next citizens! We have made every mistake a community can make. Fought over decisions. Lost people. Started over. Figured out, slowly, what actually supports us in building this thing. Some things are consistent: the land is growing, the DAO governance structure is proving itself, and more and more amazing humans keep showing up. If the video spoke to something in you, this is the moment to be part of it before it is finished. What comes next is building the co-living spaces, and whoever joins the journey at this point still gets to shape what TDF becomes. Comment VILLAGE. I will send you the details. 🌱

Here’s a little photo dump from what we’ve been up to this May. Saving baby birds, community culture building workshops, harvesting veggies from the garden, replanting the sauna roof, acro yoga, DJ workshops, sound healing sessions. Never a dull moment with all the gifts that people bring into the space. This place is magic because the people who come share their gifts, their energy, their skills and their time. We appreciate every single one of you! Thank you for making TDF special. Curious about joining our on going co-creation? Reach out! We would love to have you. What gifts do you love sharing in community? Let us know in the comments! 🌱

June at TDF is open, and we want you here for it! Come co-work from the land. Cook together. Get your hands dirty in the garden if you want to. Slow down in a place that’s actually alive. We’re a regenerative intentional community in Portugal and in June we’re opening space for people who want more than a place to stay- people who want to genuinely be somewhere, with someone. What makes this different: we’re not handing you a program. We hold open space, which means there’s real room for your gifts. Your skills, your offerings, your ideas. If you want to host something, teach something, build something; we’re listening. The culture here gets shaped by who shows up. That includes you. The whole month has that quality. But it builds toward something. On the solstice we’re gathering, small and intentional, the way we do everything here. Shared meals, music, ceremony, people who mean it. It’s the kind of night that becomes a marker. Before and after, from Spring to Summer. Whether you come for a week, two weeks, or the whole month, you’re not just booking accommodation. You’re stepping into a living community, and helping make it what it becomes. June is open. Come co-create it with us. Comment „June“ and we will send you the possibilities for staying with us 🌱 We can’t wait to have you 🫶🏼