Category: regeneration
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Confluence
I recently spent an afternoon in the sparse conifer woods and grasslands of northern Arizona — north of the Juniper Mountains, west of the Sycamore Wilderness, at the confluence of the Verde River, Bear Canyon, and Hell Canyon. At about 4,000 ft above sea level, the base of the canyon is, in April, a welcome…
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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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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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