Flagstaff College/Communiversity is founded on the urgent need to learn to live in ways that are life-affirming and responsive to the ecological threats facing our world today.

 The Flagstaff Communiversity difference: We take seriously the great ecological and social changes that are underway and ask, “How can education contribute to human flourishing and the well-being of the world? How can we make our communities vibrant and resilient centers of life?

 The community is our orienting principle. We offer programs that are intentional, structured, and geared toward acting locally. Instead of an abstract concept or the backdrop for personal achievement, the community is a vital presence, and that vitality is central to the goal of communiversity education. We offer a non-hierarchical, inclusive education. We do not grant degrees, we contribute the the well-being of community life.

Flagstaff Communiversity is inspired by a deeply ecological way of thinking. We call it a relational worldview and its primary principles are:

• Everything is interconnected.    

• Everything has value.  

• There is a profound relationship between beauty, creativity, and life.  

• Nature is not lifeless, insentient matter and reality is not fundamentally mechanistic.  

• Reality is emergent, evolutionary, creative, and social. 

• We live in a world of feeling beings in responsive relation to each other.              

• All beings aim to enjoy the vividness of life.