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Resistance, Resilience, Regeneration
I had the great pleasure of joining Zoë Rom and Brendan Leonard on the Trailhead podcast recently, and I’ll admit I haven’t had a conversation so thoughtfully interwoven with philosophies and embodied practice since having taught in our Movement, Mind, and Ecology program at Schumacher College in 2023. At one point, Zoë asked about some…
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Dharmic Approaches to Learning as a Living Relationship
It was my honour to be invited to the Dharma Civilization Foundation Academic Symposium to lead a session on “Education — Learning Beyond Data” with Professor Prasad Jayanti. My talk, Learning as a Living Relationship, underscored the urgency underlying our current educational tipping point — and the opportunities for reimagining a living systems-based future for…
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Coherence: Regeneration and Practice in India
“Every journey is a journey inwards,” wrote former Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld in his 1963 book, Vägmärken. My journey to Pune and Bhubaneswar in India over the past fortnight has been no different: I’ve come away with new friends, new ideas, reimagined practices, a shift in inward and outward perspectives, and most…
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Interlinking Sustainable Democracy and Sustainable Education
Last month, I had the great pleasure of joining my co-author Pravar Petkar, at the International Centre for Sustainability in London to launch our paper, Interlinking Sustainable Democracy and Sustainable Education: A Roadmap for Reform. As we write in the summary, the paper “addresses sets out a conceptual approach to democracy and education which can…
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Placemaking through Change: 100 years of adaptive learning
Rachel Sweeney As we approach the 100 year mark of the Elmhirst’s legacy on the Dartington Estate in Devon, South West England, there is an opportunity to critique the lineage and direction of arts and environmental education at Dartington through recent notable developments, forming out of the past 5-10 years, and perhaps fortunately aligning as…
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Swimming upstream in Japan’s Green Valley
Rachel Sweeney My Japan travels start in Kamiyama Village, approximately 3 hours south of Osaka on Shikoku Island, where mornings are spent integrating high altitude walks with late seasonal dips in extraordinarily crystal clean rivers (trying to avert the local forest servicemen from calling the emergency services to ‘rescue’ the crazy foreigner from arctic conditions,…
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Cultivating a Global Curriculum for Local Leadership in Regenerative Food Systems
I had the great pleasure of presenting at the Reimagining Education Conference 4.0 on 25 October 2024 with my colleagues Lisa Trocchia and Kate Rudd on our continuing work with the Conscious Food Systems Alliance and Prescott College on a global distributed learning network for local food system leaders around the world. A link to…
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Disrupting Fixity: A Path toward Regenerative Practice
Maybe it was the autumn foliage on the verge of turning along the riverbanks and edges of New Hampshire fields, themselves having turned into palettes of ochre and sepia from weeks of late-summer drought — perhaps it was the deepening topography as I drove further north — or likely also it was the late afternoon…
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Hunting the wild lemon / Vad citrom vadászata!
. Along the north shore of Lake Balaton in western Hungary, on one of the low green hills that overlook the arc of the lake to the south, seeds of a multi-layered community, artistic, and ecological regeneration are being sown by colleagues from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Through an emergent project called…
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A Confluence of Learning: Ecology, Democracy, and Education
Landscapes are always in flux, adaptable, and resilient, and unreservedly open to the world, as democracies must also be. Although I often find the solace of inner spaces seductive — the close focus, isolation and quiet a welcome respite from a fraught world, I’ve found more recently that letting go is also core to building…
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