Reposted here from The Regenerative Learning Network (RLN):

A few reflections from RLN Founder Pavel on some recent regenerative learning successes:

I was reflecting today on some more recent ways that I have found in my now 20 years in academic leadership to put into practice the ideas behind regenerative learning. Apart from these programmes, the of my academic career in the shape of things I had ‘made’ — always with the help, guidance and support of expert colleagues, students and other stakeholders.

Transformative Education — a Master’s programme at Schumacher College developed in 2022-23. Inspired by the College’s three decades of community-focused head, heart and hands pedagogy, this programme explores the interwoven fabric of place-based learning, global pedagogies, complexity and ecological thinking. Students will be ‘guided to frame, develop, and practice skills that can help shift both thinking and practice to make meaningful change in relationships between the human and more-than-human world through their own development of curriculum, programme design, and framing of learning experience’. 

Movement Mind and Ecology — a Master’s programme at Schumacher College established in 2020 and currently in its third year led by the exceptional team of RLN’s own Rachel Sweeney and Marie Hale. The programme’s focus on the intersection of ecological thinking, movement practice and environmental philosophy is a truly transdisciplinary engagement of how we can leverage our relationship with the more-than-human world through practice-led learning to facilitate authentic change in the world.

Local Leadership for Regenerative Food Systems — a programme begun in 2021 with the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA). A truly globally distributed learning curriculum co-created from the ground-up with the help of a global Network of Local Hubs, to facilitate an equitable exchange of knowledge and experience for food systems practitioners of diverse backgrounds to develop the inner capacities needed to build regenerative and conscious food systems at grassroots level. The programme will be built of a series of dynamically interlinked modules offered both online and facilitated at site-based practice centres in locations around the world with plans to pilot the programme in 2024.

There are of course many more examples (and even more from my RLN colleagues!) — from regenerative agriculture programmes to integrating the management of learning and ecology in an organisational leadership framework to bioregion-based learning networks to implementing place-based and practice-led learning in hybrid and online settings — but as many of us struggle with what we can tangibly do and how we can best implement regenerative frameworks in our organisations, it’s helpful to reflect on what’s possible.