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21-23 NOV 2025 💧 Water Cycle Revival Course

Creating abundant, fire-proof and drought-proof ecosystems on your land ★ Weekend Course ◩ Central Portugal
21-23 NOV 2025 💧 Water Cycle Revival Course

đŸ•șđŸŸ Proudly presenting:


» A hands-on introduction to small-scale water cycle revival at a beautiful centre in the foothills of the Serra da Estrella mountains in Central Portugal

» For you if you're keen on busting whatever's not true about ecosystem regeneration—and being the change we all wish to see

» Led by Guilherme Weishar from EcoAtivo and Raymundo Resink from Miracle Project. Two passionate practitioners, teachers and co-founders of MĂŁos na Terra ("Hands in the Earth"), a community-driven initiative that's been coordinating eco-regeneration actions across the Beira Baixa region in Central Portugal since this summer’s fires

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Read on for a course summary, detailed info and to register

Course Summary

  • Learn the principles of rainwater harvesting, how to “think like water”, read the landscape and implement water-retention structures for the good of your lands and community.
  • Walk the terrain, map flows, and then see these ideas come to life in a site design for Guilherme's Quinta do CĂ©u.
  • Make learning stick through hands-on field exercises—marking contours, planning small water-retention structures, and translating principles into action.
  • Go home with a clear framework, practical skills, and the confidence to begin regenerative water work on your own land or with your community.

What will this weekend give you?


A shift in mindset
Busting the myths that can keep us stuck in (invisible) degradation loops, and embodying natural, abundance-increasing patterns.

Adaptive knowledge

  • Mitigating drought–flood–fire risks, “thinking like water” and working for water.
  • Do’s and don’ts of water harvesting, water retention, and earthworks like swales, ponds, dams and terraces.
  • Do’s and don’ts of (inter)planting, mulching, irrigating and managing.
  • Designing with the result in mind, planning for the next season, and learning with agility as you go.

Practical skills

  • Practice quieting the mind and letting the land speak through you.
  • Become a reader of landforms, soils, vegetation, flows, threats and opportunities.
  • Build small water-retention structures, safety valves and erosion-stoppers that you can implement immediately—no machinery needed.

Empowerment and connection
Because no one is as smart as everyone, and together we are so much better at being the change we wish to see.

What Will You Be Doing?

  1. You’ll receive frameworks designed to empower you in becoming a co-creator of strong, lush and healthy environments—through the element that connects all: water.
  2. You’ll put theory into practice.
  3. You’ll have the chance to ask remaining questions at the end, so that you can go home with the skills you need to start where you are.
  4. You’ll receive links to our sources of inspiration and deeper dives, to help you shape your own learning journey.

Your teachers


This course is led by Guilherme Weishar, project manager of Environmental Association EcoAtivo and Raymundo Resink, co-founder of the Miracle Project Association.

Raymundo (left) and Guilherme (always right)

Guilherme got into rainwater harvesting by participating in a reforestation project in La Muela, Spain, in 2017 , led by the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation. In this 1-month project, he got to experiment with building small check dams. In 2018, he participated in an Erasmus Youth Exchange with a 10-day programme focused on watershed management. In 2021, he became EcoAtivo's project manager and has since hosted many ecological interventions with volunteers and course participants.
» EcoAtivo.pt

Raymundo followed Syntropic Agroforestry courses in the Netherlands and Portugal, and recently completed a six-month water cycle revival course at WaterStories.com. Miracle Project is the culmination of his dream: a community-driven ecosystem and people regeneration project. A model site and learning centre that reinvents how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the planet.
» MiracleProject.earth

Inspired by lumineers like Sepp Holzer (Austria), Brad Lancaster (Rainwater Harvesting, USA), Zach Weiss (Water Stories, USA), Jos Willemsen (Teaming with Life, The Netherlands) and Ernst Götsch (Syntropic Agroforestry, Brazil), Guilherme and Raymundo have been honing their skills by doing what they love: learning while teaching.

Details and registration

🏡 Course location


📆 Dates and times

  • Friday 21st November 16:00—arrival, dinner and introduction
  • Sunday 23rd November 16:00—closing

Download the complete program here.


đŸŒ± Course prices

Included are accommodation at Ananda Kalyani's guest house and all meals for the duration of the program

  • Early bird ticket: €135 (until 2nd November).
  • Regular ticket: €160
  • Solidarity ticket: €200 (this will contribute towards the ongoing ecological regeneration projects in the region, thank you so much!)


đŸ€Č Special tickets

  • Special discount ticket (limited to 3 people with financial difficulty): €110
  • Neighbour ticket for people who don't need accommodation: €90 (includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday)


🍍 Good to know

  • Meals will be vegan. Let us know in the registration form if you have additional dietary needs.
  • You're welcome to join yoga and meditation classes in the mornings and evenings (and equally free not to joinPlease get in touch with g.weishar@ecoativo.pt 😄).
Click here to register


đŸ˜± Need more info?
Please get in touch with Guilherme: g.weishar@ecoativo.pt

Cover photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

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