Category: Regen Learning
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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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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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Taking Root: Oxford, Agroecology, and Regenerative Learning

I am still fairly vibrating with the inspiring sessions, ideas and conversations at last week’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, an annual gathering of ‘farmers, growers, activists, policymakers and researchers from around the world who are interested in transforming our food system.’ This year more than 3500 attended on-site and online, with standing room only in…
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The Future is Now: Weaving threads of an educational reimagining
Recognising the limitations of current educational frameworks to meet the evolving demands of learners, human and more-than-human communities and our shared socio-ecological systems, there is an ever more urgent need to fundamentally reimagine and reshape an approach to education through a collaborative and regenerative approach.
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What is Regenerative Learning?
At this tipping point in geo-history, when gigantic mistakes have been already been made, humans need to be learning closer to the roots of life. The awesome secret of life is that it is regenerative–the organism or system (life) itself creates the conditions for more life, infinitely.
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Regenerative learning in practice
RLN Founder, Pavel, shares recent regenerative learning successes in academic leadership. This includes the ‘Transformative Education’ and ‘Movement Mind and Ecology’ Masters’ programs at Schumacher College, and the ‘Local Leadership for Regenerative Food Systems’ program co-created with the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance. These globally distributed, practice-led initiatives intertwine ecological thinking and place-based learning, aiming…