About Us

Axladitsa is a family olive farm, handed from one generation to another.  In 2006, two women came to steward it,  Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley who were following a call to create a living experiment of discovering new ways of living and working.  Their seeking of new possibilities met the old ways of the land, and a beautiful journey and relationship began which continues until today.

Living wholeness, the weaving of the old and new, is the pattern we are experimenting with at Axladitsa. It is a real time inquiry, not a concept, but rather a life practice of individually and collectively living our lives and our vocations as a legacy to future generations.  This pattern has been sourced by living in relationship with the land.   The Living Wholeness Institute (LWI) was founded by Maria, Sarah and Vanessa Reid to harvest this collectively discovered body of knowledge.  A hallmark of LWI is working with the invisible, the more subtle level. We create containers at Axladitsa, LWI’s campus,  through place based residencies and immersions, where a collective re-membering of what it means to be in intimate and integrated relationship with oneself, with others, nature and with the animus mundi, the soul of the world.

The ‘us’ of Axladitsa is a field of people who have deep care and kinship with the land and the area.  A circle of guardians support this living experiment.  They offer time, practical skills, finances and moral support. So Axladitsa continues to be a family farm held by an economy (taking care of home in Greek) of friendship and kinship.

Living and learning on this land is an act of stewardship, a respectful stance that the earth is a living being and we are in a reciprocal and mutual relationship.  We know that the natural world has intelligence that we can learn from and support to amplify.  Meaningful conversations are, therefore,  at the heart of everything we do – being in conversation with each other to learn, teach with humility and to move to deeper understanding.  This also includes being in conversation with the land and with nature – giving the world around us a space at the table. 

Maria (Greece), Sarah (UK), Vanessa (Canada), Panagioti (Promyri, Greece), Kamyar (Iran/Turkey), Yitzhak (Israel/Mexico), Linda (UK), Valerie (UK/France), Mark (Germany), Baghdadi Family (Syria/USA), Teresa (USA), Deborah (USA) Lisette (Netherlands), Mark (UK), Stathis (Greece), Rowan (Denmark/Colombia), Leander (Germany), Freddie (beloved dog), Mia (beloved cat), Max, Talulah, Mish Mish, Nerantzi (Mia’s children), Mega, Tarzana, Willow, Cleo, Koritsaki, Smooz, Squeak (existing Axladitsa cats), Cappuccino (Axladitsa’s crazy sheep dog)