Full Schedule
*sessions are 1 hour long unless indicated otherwise
** THIS SCHEDULE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES **
Day 1 | Thursday, October 24th
8:30 am Ecuador / 13:30 UTC / 19:00 India
Opening Ceremony (2hrs)
con traducción al español
com tradução em português
Growing an Indigenous Ecoversity – The Story of EA Ecoversity where Education with Aloha (EA) is a Way of Life
con traducción al español
coming soon
In this interactive session people will be in groups of 4 sharing stories about the origin of their call to service (prompt can be altered if there is a more relevant prompt for the times).
We will listen for threads of 1. facts, 2. emotions and 3. values. We will then co-create a visual of what some of the shared values in our community are
Butterfly Talks
Strengthening Our Roots: Education that Serves our Ecologies
Rakesh ‘Rootsman’ Rak, Mercia Silva Eichmann, Nicolene Preez , Nissa Coit, Don Hall
(1hr 15 mins)
Rakesh ‘Rootsman’ Rak – Roots n Permaculture
Mercia Silva Eichmann – The Chestnut Tree Ecological School
Nicolene Preez – Autopoetic Education
Nissa Coit – EcoGatherings
Don Hall – My Educational Journey: Seven Lessons from an Environmental Leader
Pathways to Interbeing through Journeying and Bioregioning
Udi Mandel, Kelly Teamey, Gerardo Lopez Amaro, Rosemary Logan
This session will delve into Enlivened Cooperative’s explorations with the pedagogy of interbeing – building relationships with the more-than-human – embodying an approach which prioritises immersive inquiries into diverse knowledge systems to learn with the tools, concepts, and sensibilities needed to co-construct pluri-(and inter)-cultural, eco-socially just, and flourishing worlds.
Members of the cooperative will introduce two projects with interbeing at their heart: Enlivened un/learning journeys and Lauhala: weaving knowledge and practices, a cosmopolitical collaboration between weavers, artists, scientists and land stewards focusing on and learning with the pandanus tree in Hawai’i. The session will also facilitate a conversation on participants’ own tools and explorations for interbeing.
Who are the fungi, the aliens between plants and animals, who can turn death into food into life? What is it like to live as an underground, interspecies network? To explode in a flowering body? And how can this inform our lives as human animals?
Celebrate the elemental revelations of our precious bodies.
These ever brilliant vessels of genius are perfectly guided and provided for by the eternal and harmonious beauty of LIFE.
We are supported to follow our curiosity beyond domination thinking so we can freely express, allow, and welcome the natural intelligence we are in these times of catalytic and chaotic change.
There’ll be invitations for you to move your body and free your creativity and voice in your unique way – to see and be seen….and to KNOW you are LOVED.
Co-Creating The One Home UnivEARTHsity for Regenerative Future Building
In this highly interactive, creative session, you are invited to discover and become a co-creator of the One Home UnivEARTHsity for emancipatory, transformative co-learning, co-innovation and co-creation of a regenerative future. It is co-created “on the go” by all Earth citizens, as the “One Home Journey 2024-2030 – 7 years for 7 Generations” travels to all countries on Earth as a collective expedition to reimagine and to co-create a regenerative and inclusive future for the family of life on Earth.
With Earth, our One Home, as our teacher, and learning from wisdom keepers and innovative regeneration people, places and practices (Homes for Humanity) from all cultures and continents, the One Home UnivEARTHsity invites passionate and committed Earth Citizens of all backgrounds, ages and generations to seed and shape their own transformative initiatives, renewing self (inner home), community (local home) and our mother planet (Earth Home).
The One Home UnivEARTHsity is entirely free for everyone, regardless of age, background and prior qualifications, who wishes to co-create a future of wellbeing for all life. It is entirely based on a gifting culture and economy, and in turn accelerates and amplifies the emergence of an economy of planetary wellbeing.
Alexander and Rama, the co-founders of the Home for Humanity movement and co-initiators of the One Home UnivEARTHsity, invite you to explore, engage with, and co-create this fascinating co-learning, co-innovation, and co-impact forum – as a catalytic engine to re-imagining education in reverence to and in co-creation with the Earth.
13:15 pm Ecuador / 18:15 UTC / 23:45 India
Transmisión de saberes y haceres a través de las plataformas Wikimedia /
Transmission of knowledge through the Wikimedia platforms
with english translation
La movilización de saberes de una generación a otra se ha dado, durante la mayor parte de la historia humana, a través de la narración oral, los cantos y la educación comunitaria en entornos de respeto y conexión con la naturaleza. Hoy en día, se presentan nuevos desafíos y oportunidades para la conservación y difusión del conocimiento comunitario y la memoria colectiva, en este contexto ¿Cómo podemos, en la modernidad, diseñar proyectos que aprovechen las plataformas digitales y promuevan principios de colaboración y transmisión libre y abierta de saberes? ¿Cómo impulsamos una cultura de la participación?
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The mobilization of knowledge from one generation to another has occurred, for most of human history, through oral storytelling, songs and community education in environments of respect and connection with nature. Today, there are new challenges and opportunities for the conservation and dissemination of community knowledge and collective memory, in this context. How can we, in modernity, design projects that take advantage of digital platforms and promote principles of collaboration and free and open transmission of knowledge? How do we promote a culture of participation?
Since the turn of the last century humans have been building communities structured on technological and industrial practices that are steadily destroying the ecosystems that support life on the planet. “Regrotopia” is an alternative vision that supports the re-emergence of community living focused on eco-sosical regeneration and restoration.
In this presentation Liora Adler will share from her 50 years of experience in simple living practices that demonstrate how we can glide into a transition bak to “buen vivir” (good living) while continuing to do the needed world work of community building and ecosystem restoration.
This session will provide a viewing space for all audiovisual lovers and an imaginative break in REC’s busy schedule. The audiovisual circle is a platform where we produce films and audiovisual workshops on the topics that are closest to our hearts and inherent to those discussed in Ecoversities.
With a final discussion the Ecoversities audiovisual team will invite your opinions and share ways you can engage in our upcoming activities.
4:00 pm Ecuador / 21:00 UTC / 02:30 India (October 25)
REConnect Roots Fiesta!
(2hrs)
~~ Play and Connection ~~
Welcome, Music, Games, Intuitive Writing, Love Stories, Crewing, Embodied Play, Connection in Breakouts
DJ’d by Rakesh ‘Rootsman Rak’, with Andrea González Andino, sierra ying allen, Salo Espinoza, Eileen Walz, Dan Rudolph
con traducción al español
Queering the Economy:
What is MONEY?
Sergio Yeyo Beltrán & Deborah Frieze
(1hr 30min)
con traducción al español
What’s the Story with Interpersonal Neurobiology? A Participatory culture building session
In this session a brief lecture about the basic assumptions and clinical significance of Interpersonal Neurobiology will be interrupted by you, the spec-actors, who will be invited to talk back. Inspired by Augusto Boal’s Forum Theater, we will discuss and play with validating, giving voice, and empowering what we already knew when the scientist presented his grand discovery.
What does the neuroscience of attachment and relationship do for us? Do we demand accountability for the destruction and diminishment of culturally integrated relational wisdoms? What happens if we recognize empiricism as a cultural force not a superior way of knowing? How do we instill this humility into the neuroscientist character? Will we transform the lecture into a clown show? Into a parody of itself? Into a riot? Can we agree on something or agree to disagree? Can this be a form of collective healing? Together we will discuss and re-play the lecture-scene to see what future possibilities exist.
A grounding movement practice to reconnect to our body-spirits, mother earth, and one another.
Day 2 | Friday, October 25th
Block 1 | 11:00 - 18:15 UTC
6:00 am Ecuador / 11:00 UTC / 16:30 India
Daily Check-in
(25min)
Connection + Announcements
6:30 am Ecuador / 11:30 UTC / 17:00 India
Restoring Trust In Life: Learning through Traveling/Journeying
Wangũi Wa Kamonji, Camilio Bossio, Rozelle Pearl Meyer, Shruti Thayaril
One of the painful impacts of living in extractive systems based on scarcity and the contexts they create, is a deep sense of mistrust that Life (or anyone) has your back, that you are beloved and cared for. From here we do what one does when mistrust creeps into relationship, we block, separate and protect ourselves from relationship and try figure everything out alone, which only reaffirms the basis of the initial wounding system: that we are separate from Life and each other and that life is an individual pursuit.
Journeys undertaken as pilgrimage are an unlearning experiment weaving through many opportunities to repair trust with Life and humans. On this panel we will hear from 3 travellers: Camilo Bossio from Colombia on nomadism and hitchhiking through Abya Yala, Rozelle Meyer “Nxisa” a South Afrikan San woman on root tracking in east and southern Afrika, and Shruti Thayaril, on exploring forgotten foods on a solo cycle yatra through south India. Panelists will share on some of the journeys they have been on and the ways their journeys have rewoven trust in Life for them inviting us to meditate together on what experiments we could invite ourselves into, or accept, that would restore our trust in Life.
Change from within-Transforming Adversity into Leadership: The kanthari Approach
Paul Kronenberg
con traducción al español
Join us for an inspiring session led by kanthari’s co-founder, Paul Kronenberg. kanthari empowers change-makers who have overcome social and environmental challenges, equipping them with the tools and skills to create impactful organizations that address critical issues. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear remarkable stories of transformation and leadership. The session includes a 45-minute talk followed by a 15-minute Q&A..
The Courage of Care Coalition (courageofcare.org) is a non-profit dedicated to nurturing a growing network of relational facilitators and conscious leaders called to build compassionate, counter-oppressive, healing-centered and visionary cultures within their organizations and movements working for healing, justice and liberation. This session will offer participants an experience of our iterative framework, CourageRISE, which leverages spiritual, contemplative, psychological, philosophical and somatic lineages in service of expanding our heartfelt and skillful capacity for relational tending.
Body Mapping is a creative way to learn how your body attends to, experiences, acts & translates being in this world. This workshop invites you to experience bringing color (paints, markers, or crayons on paper) to map and know your body’s wisdom in the languages of sensations, emotions, energy, spirit – and perhaps entrained stories of experience, social, and cultural origins, might bubble up ready to be tended, released, or revitalized. This short session is crafted for the individual within the context of the collective, supporting the internal senses of agency and sovereignty, safety and adventure, culture and connection.
Pedagogía de la Pachamama (Madre Tierra)
with translation to english
com tradução em português
La pedagogía de la Pachamama, es la pedagogía de la vida, de la crianza y de las modalidades de aprender y enseñar en la Pacha Mama, en la vida misma, en lugares y tiempos de crianza, siendo este proceso vivencial e intergeneracional.
Por tanto, la pedagogía de la Pacha Mama, es una alternativa educativa que facilita la contextualización del currículo, posibilita a los estudiantes que aprendan a vivir en armonía con la naturaleza y por ende la educación sea más amable y acorde con la vida, no solo de los territorios indígenas, sino también de las ciudades.
The pedagogy of Pachamama is the pedagogy of life, of upbringing and of the modalities of learning and teaching in Pacha Mama, in life itself, in places and times of upbringing, being a process that is experiential and intergenerational.
Therefore, the pedagogy of Pacha Mama is an educational alternative that facilitates the contextualization of the curriculum, enables students to learn to live in harmony with nature and therefore education is more friendly and in accordance with life, not only in the indigenous territories, but also in the cities.
Collaboration requires setting aside some individual desires to integrate with the needs and goals of others. It involves a degree of self-renunciation in order to be part of a greater whole. Authentic collaboration begins by looking inward—facing one’s own fears and conflicts. This is the first step to overcoming oneself and becoming fully available to the collective process. Recognizing that others also have their own fears and challenges is essential to fostering a shared humanity in pursuit of the common good.
In this session, we will start with a theoretical exploration of collaboration, personal development, and community building. Once the foundational concepts are aligned, participants will engage in a practical exercise, drawing from their own experiences with individual and collective challenges in projects. Together, we will reflect on the techniques and approaches that can be applied to overcome these challenges, guided by both the facilitator’s expertise and the shared insights of the group. Through this journey, therapeutic techniques, active visualization and meditation will be combined with collaborative methods to foster personal growth and build an authentic community, all in service of our shared home: the planet.
What does Re-Imagining Education mean to you?
An open discussion to share what we are seeing and sensing around Re-Imagining Education. A space to share projects and actions we are taking and to broaden deepen our connections with each other and the wider movement.
Re-Imagining our Relationships to Death and Grief
Aerin Dunford, Julia Jackson, Bhawna Trivedi
(Interactive Workshop – 2.5 hrs)
Within the context of late-stage capitalism and the demise of the promises of modernity, grief and death are very much still experienced and seen as taboo topics. Many of us, educated in factory school systems modeled on western values of rationality, efficiency and endless growth, never learned how to be in generative, honest relationships with our grief and the griefs of the world. Instead, most of us have learned to turn away from the pain of endings and death… and the feelings that arise when we face our own mortality and the possibility of loss. People can often carry a double burden: the pain and grief of the original loss and then the shame and fear around sharing these feelings vulnerably with other people, particularly in groups. We wish to explore how we can practice being with and listening to grief as a force that infuses all of our lives… and not as something that we need to heal, change or fix.
In this session, Bhawna, Julia and Aerin will offer poetry, creativity and small practices for entering into deeper conversation about grief and death. We hope to open possibilities for cultivating more intimate, honest relationships with these inevitable experiences in our lives. We will open a space to listen to a few participant stories navigating the waters of death and grief. We hope to offer prayer and provocation and space to be with the messiness of our human experience.
What has the real world survived without modern education, and why is modern education antiquated when applying information/knowledge to Earth? Earth has not failed humans, but human “belief” systems based on dogma are failing Earth. Let’s take a non-anthropocentric look at education, religion, science, and the laws that keep them in place are failing Earth, Indigenous peoples, and even the people who have imposed the methods of failure.
Butterfly Talks
Reimagining Transformative Education: Academia and Community-led Initiatives as Partners in Participatory Action Research
(1hr 20min)
This panel showcases three exemplary cases of collaborative consortia between community-led initiatives and academic institutions, highlighting their contributions to innovative approaches in transformative education:
1) EuroREGEN Research Project: Focused on political advocacy by transnational networks of community-led initiatives, this project has significantly enhanced the understanding of such initiatives as transformative learning spaces. The findings are featured in the edited book “Solidarity Economy: Alternative Spaces, Power, and Politics.”
2) REGEN4ALL: Funded by the ERASMUS+ program of the European Union, this participatory action research project builds on the networks and knowledge produced in EuroREGEN. REGEN4ALL developed online tools that facilitate knowledge sharing and foster research partnerships between ecovillages and academic institutions. Key outputs include an online library, a “matchmaking” database, and a Code of Conduct.
3) Ecoprise: Another project supported by the ERASMUS+ program, Ecoprise aims to create a certification course on “Regenerative Entrepreneurship.” This course is based on the comprehensive framework of the Ecovillage Design Education program, promoting sustainable and regenerative business practices.
UniKebradas: recuperar la cultura de la gambiarra en las favelas y dar espacio a una nueva generación para abrazar los sueños y la sabiduría intergeneracional | UniKebradas: reclaiming the culture of “gambiarra” in the favelas and holding space for a new generation to embrace dreams and intergenerational wisdom
Gisele Paulino, Suzana Nory, Tina Costa, Bianca Najara
con traducción al español
Neste painel, vamos contar a história da Unikebradas, a primeira ecoversidade brasileira, e como um grupo de pessoas de diversos projetos que ainda não se conheciam passaram a criar os contornos desse coletivo que se constituiu a partir de um processo de escuta ativa, aprofundando e fortalecendo comunidades e seus saberes. Nossa busca por transparência, equivalência e colaboração culminou no acolhimento de jovens da periferia, numa trilha de aprendizagem intergeracional e socioemocional, onde Marcianos, Pérolas e Jornadas Intergaláticas dão nome a projetos que surgem de nossos corações, cabeças e corpos. Vc terá espaço para fazer perguntas e entender como mantemos esse fluxo criativo vivo sem nos apegar a nenhuma metodologia e mantendo nossa liberdade para a experimentação e revisão constante de percurso.
In this panel, we will tell the story of Unikebradas, the first Brazilian ecoversity, and how a group of people from different projects who did not yet know each other began to create the contours of this collective that was born from a process of active listening, deepening and strengthening communities and their traditional knowledge (which we call “gambiarra”). Our search for transparency, equivalence and collaboration culminated in welcoming young people from the periphery, on an intergenerational and socio-emotional learning path, where Martians, Pearls and Intergalactic Journeys give names to projects that emerge from our heads, hearts and hands. You will have space to ask questions and understand how we keep this creative flow alive without getting attached to any methodology and maintaining our freedom to experiment and constantly review our path.
The Re-imagining Cafe
11:00 am Ecuador / 16:00 UTC / 21:30 India
The Re-imagining Cafe – Social Open Space
(1 hr)
PLAYGROUND (Part 1)A playful and flirtatious hour of generous questions, listening and heartbeats.
Poetry of Re-Imagining
Lauren ‘Proper’ Breland, Ms. Butterfly (Vanessa Meng)
In this 2-part workshop Proper and Ms. Butterfly will explore poetry through the lens of spontaneity, expression and impact.
PLAY from HOME (Part 1)
Dan Rudolph
Day 2 - Friday, October 25th
Block 2 | 18:30 - 00:30 am UTC
13:30 Ecuador / 18:30 UTC / 00:15 India (OCT 26)
Welcome to Block 2
Connection + Announcements (25min)
14:00 Ecuador / 19:00 UTC / 00:45 India (OCT 26)
La poesía como herramienta politica y filosofica de los pueblos indígenas | Poetry as a political and philosophical tool for indigenous peoples
with english translation
La poesía para los pueblos originarios está inmersa en todo lo cotidiano. De ahí radica su conexión con la filosofía de los mismos.
La poesía sostiene y acompaña los procesos de lucha y resistencia de los pueblos.
Poetry for the indigenous peoples is immersed in everything in everyday life. Therein lies its connection with their philosophy. Poetry sustains and accompanies the processes of struggle and resistance of the people.
Cultivating a Global Curriculum for Local Leadership in Regenerative Food Systems
Pavel Cenkl, Kate Rudd and Dr Lisa Trocchia
This session will outline our 2-year project with the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance to build a globally-distributed, transformative learning programme to empower new local food and farming leaders to catalyse systemic change and cultivate authentically regenerative cultures. Our session will outline lessons from the process of developing a cross-cultural, multi-national distributed grassroots curriculum across five continent as well as outcomes from the two-year project.
Butterfly Talks
Composting, Caring, Regenerating and Bringing New Life
Barnaby King, Indy Rishi Singh, Gabriela Montenegro, Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo
Barnaby King – Owning Your Shit (and composting it)
Indy Rishi Singh – Regeneration
Gabriela Montenegro – What if the university were at the service of each person’s singularities, of the purpose of the local community, thinking globally and acting locally for regeneration?
Nandini Gosine-Mayrhoo – Nurturing the Nature Leaders of Tomorrow, Today.
Learning to Live
Fully in the Gift
Ethan Hughes, Kazu Haga, sierra ying allen & Camilo Bossio with Siddiq Khan
En esta sesión hablaremos sobre la metodología de Semilla Solar, un viaje de aprendizaje basado en 8 arquetipos masculinos, honrando ritos de pase y la ciclicidad de la tierra. Este es el resultado del estudio de más de 19 años de la psicóloga y pedagoga Mariha Alexandra Proaño, dentro de la investigación sobre cómo potenciar nuestra biología y transformar nuestra psique al servicio del colectivo humano.
Challenges and Levers of Going Against the Current to Reimagine Higher Education
Clément Moliner-Roy
(1.5 hrs)
To develop educational initiatives that diverge from the mainstream model, we must overcome numerous challenges: it’s like swimming against the current. In this interactive workshop for those involved in developing alternative models of education, you will be guided through reflections, conversations, and brainstorms to explore the challenges you face and the levers to overcome these challenges in hopes of “giving birth to a new society in the womb of the old one.” Clement will also share some insights from his research on this topic..
Our work at Weaving Earth seeks to regenerate the wisdom of intuition alongside the development of tangible skills for living in and responding to the climate emergency. Concerned by the prevalence and disturbance of the “attention economy”(Jenny O’Dell), which capitalizes on the sacred technology of our awareness, we believe “liberating our attention” (adrienne marie brown) transforms our capacity to be present to the social and ecological needs and changes of our times. We trust that when we have access to pattern recognition and our ancestral lifeways, we are able to collaborate with planet and spirit to instigate miraculous care in our respective bioregions for our human and more-than-human relatives.
18:30 Ecuador / 23:30 UTC / 05:15 am India (OCT 26)
The Re-imagining Cafe – Social Open Space
(1 hr)
Day 3 | Saturday, October 26th
Block 1 | 11:00 - 18:15 UTC
6:00 am Ecuador / 11:00 UTC / 16:30 India
Welcome to Block 1
Connection + Announcements
(25min)
6:30 am Ecuador / 11:30 UTC / 17:00 India
The Grandmother’s Wisdom, Power and Influence in Education | La sabiduría, el poder y la influencia de la abuela en la educación
Silvia Rocha, Mônica Rosales, Eliza Bernal de Oliveira
con traducción al español
The session will be led by a group of Grandmothers. They will share from their direct experiences and wisdom. In the session they will explore grandmotherhood, education, the power of ancestrality in different cultures in Brazil.
La sesión estará dirigida por un grupo de Abuelas. Compartirán sus experiencias directas y su sabiduría. En la sesión explorarán la abuelidad, la educación, el poder de la ancestralidad en diferentes culturas de Brasil.
Throughout millennia, societies have evolved, each bringing forth unique knowledge, histories, and philosophies shaped by their distinct realities. These constructions, developed through particular ontologies, metaphysics, and epistemologies, have often been ignored or relegated to obscurity by dominant powers favoring their own scientific theories or national narratives.
Can these nations be brave enough to take responsibility of where humanity is currently?
How can the rich, diverse perspectives that have been marginalized, be uplifted? What is our role?
The session will include conversation over theory, practices, and have folx participating using materials sure to be found in their own spaces! It will encompass spreading confidence, encouraging self-expression and speaking on our personal mission and works.
Architecture Da Vida: bio-(de)construction and other forms of building
Maria Agraciada and Alessandra Pomarico
com tradução em português
Join Maria Agraciada and Alessandra Pomarico for a reflective session on how we can build spaces that are fully integrated with the environment around us. Drawing from the concept of the human as an integral part of the environment—a “body-territory”—this session will explore how to work with the materials and resources the environment naturally offers. Together, we will consider essential observations about the non-humans in our surroundings and ask important questions about how to create spaces that allow life to continue pulsing. This session invites participants to rethink space-making in harmony with the world around us.
We all have access to quite a generous and generative source of inspiration: our imagination. The Not Yet Lab is a simple process, we’ll be accessing the Not Yet for crumbs, nudges, gems – whatever you want to call them – guiding you towards what you want to see more of in this life.
Building Collaboration and Cooperation Across Transformative Networks|
Creación de colaboración y cooperación a través de redes transformadoras
con traducción al español
This panel brings together leaders from different networks to engage in a dynamic exploration of how mutual support and collaboration can be cultivated. Through open dialogue, we will explore shared goals, challenges, and opportunities for working together in meaningful and impactful ways.
Este panel reúne a líderes de diferentes redes para explorar de forma dinámica cómo puede cultivarse el apoyo mutuo y la colaboración. A través de un diálogo abierto, exploraremos objetivos compartidos, retos y oportunidades para trabajar juntos de manera significativa e impactante.
Death is both the ultimate uncertainty and the only certainty. The mother of all unknowns and the only true known. Our stories about death and our relationship with it profoundly impact our lives, from personal well-being and transformation to relationships and societal systems like education, economics, religion, and politics. We invite you to explore death as an integral part of life, considering its personal, social, and metaphysical contexts, and how it can transform your life. This session will use death as a lens for mindful presence, incorporating guided visualizations, movement, and breath-based work for deep unlearning and transformation.
Making Art History Inclusive
Beyond art-therapy models, this session will discuss how art can be removed from a utilitarian purpose, but returned to its importance in play and exploration.
I suggest ways to remove art from its pedestalised/gallery status and tokenistic representation, in order to understand it as a a way of understanding the world—how people have seen art to build community is a simple means to understand the connections in the world.
In simple words, art history is the story of our world. And it’s imperative to teach it as a story—with possibilities, multiple interpretations, and space for creative exploration.
To that end, I’ll be using information from a new module ARTmosphere has collated to start this conversation.
Butterfly Talks
Love In Action
Jodie Evans, Seila Fernández Arconada, Vera Franco, Medha, Wangũi wa Kamonji
Medha – Transformation of Higher Education Pedagogy through Spirituality (Bhakti)
Wangũi wa Kamonji – braiding a basket: a Zine meditation on regenerative beyond-capitalist care
Jodie Evans – Cultivating A Peace Economy
Seila Fernández Arconada – (Eco)Socially Artistic Praxis as Seeds for EcoSocial Renewal
Vera Franco – After Matriarchy & Patriachy — Archiarchy
Re-Imagining Research
Rutendo Ngara, Four Arrows, Adler Yang, Phoebe Tickell, Edgard Gouveia Júnior
(1hr 15 mins)
This session will feature researchers from different backgrounds and explore modes of research that might stretch our notions about how and why we research. Through themes like Indigenous cosmologies, imagination, and play, the conversation has the potential expand our understanding of research possibilities.
An embodied exploration of how clowning practice can foster capacities that we need in order to adapt to enormous social and environmental challenges we are facing, capacities such as Machado Oliveira’s 4 H’s (humility, honesty, humor, and hyper-self-reflexivity
A Pedagogy of Howling: Pains and Possibilities of Re-imagining (higher) Education from Within
The decarbonization of the rich, which is market-based and export-oriented, depends on a new phase of environmental despoliation of the Global South, which affects the lives of millions of women, men, and children, not to mention non-human life. Women, especially from agrarian societies, are amongst the most impacted*
The current model of ecological transition is inscribed in the same exploitative, colonial, patriarchal paradigm of late capitalism, ready to sacrifice life on the planet for the gain and power of very few. How to think and act for a truly just transition that protects life in all its forms against extractive neoliberal forces at work today? What are the strategies and tactics of eco-feminists, popular, community, and territorial feminisms emerging today in those territories that are the most affected by the so-called ‘ecological’ transition?
As a base for our conversation, we will discuss some of the points highlighted in the Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South * an important document that illustrates the dynamics at stake today and their different impacts. We highly suggest reading and circulating it!
How to Regenerate Entire Bioregions | Cómo regenerar toda una biorregión
con traducción al español
Join us for this special session where we explore what it really takes to regenerate an entire bioregion. You will learn how Barichara, Colombia and the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion in Canada demonstrate the power of creating “sister bioregions” that learn together while working at these holistic scales.
The future of education will be bioregional. The same can be said for human existence as part of the living planet we call Earth. Come spend an hour with us and learn more!
Acompáñenos en esta sesión especial en la que exploraremos lo que realmente se necesita para regenerar toda una biorregión. Aprenderá cómo Barichara (Colombia) y la Gran Biorregión de Tkaronto (Canadá) demuestran el poder de crear «biorregiones hermanas» que aprenden juntas mientras trabajan a estas escalas holísticas.
El futuro de la educación será biorregional. Lo mismo puede decirse de la existencia humana como parte del planeta vivo que llamamos Tierra. Venga a pasar una hora con nosotros y aprenda más.
Pump and Dump: How to escape the empire, the predatory economy and the master / slave relational dynamic + practices from ADVENTURE-VERSITIES
Andre Gonzalez Andino, Eric Allen, sierra ying allen, Jeroen Derkinderen
(1hr 30min)
11:00 am Ecuador / 16:00 UTC / 21:30 India
The Re-imagining Cafe – Social Open Space
(1 hr)
In this session we will Play! And build skills and practices that will support you to integrate more play into your daily life. There will be cycles of playing and reflecting (Praxis) to help bring more awareness to our patterns. This is a 2-part series, feel free to join just one or both.
A space to come together and integrate our experience of the Re-Imagining Education Conference through creative reflection, poetry, connection and expression.
A playful and flirtatious hour of generous questions, listening and heartbeats.
Creating a House of Belonging & Ancestral Remembrance: The Community Art-Practice of The Rites of Passage Project
Pooja will share the process of creating the Rites of Passage ‘ritual-art houses’ (in 2013 and 2021) both collaboratively created by dozens of women, in which each room represented a theme of initiation, ancestral remembrance & healing in the lives of women from birth to death. Intended to serve as visionary template for the creation of other community-based ritual-houses that will be linked together around the globe, the Rites of Passage Project offers a living vision of what Prema calls “a village way of life” – one in which children, elders, and women across the life spectrum learn from and with each other what it is to be fully human, and fully woman. Rites of Passage is an experiment in radical belonging and place-making; a reclamation of the role of art & ritual in healing intergenerational trauma and reimagining culture; a celebration of the wisdom of Nature’s cycles and a disruption of the colonial framework; and a grassroots example of how a group of people can illuminate their wider community by sharing their own lived experiences. While the project focuses on women, it is relevant to anyone who has a mother, a sister, a wife and daughter or friend – which is all of us!
Day 3 - Saturday, October 26th
Block 2 |18:30 - 00:30 am UTC
13:30 Ecuador / 18:30 UTC / 00:15 India (OCT 27)
Welcome to Block 2
Connection, Energizer + Announcements
(25min)
14:00 Ecuador / 19:00 UTC / 00:45 India (OCT 27)
Unlocking Destiny: Self actualization as a route to learning for the benefit of the whole
The session will draw on holistic learning and practical approaches to learning based on the African cosmology and the science of consciousness.
Firefly Frequencies: Practices of Radio, Affective Listening, Transversal Transmission & Sonic Gifts
Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, Alessandra Pomarico, Nikolay Oleynikov
(1hr 45 mins)
Firefly Frequencies is a radio platform that brings together artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists and activists from many different countries. For us radio is a place of gathering where many voices can meet, mix, transform. A membrane, a communal body that perpetually reinvents itself through different modalities and temporalities, a fugitive place that focuses on the powers of deep listening. In this session we will listen together to fragments of our recent podcasts and discuss the radical potentialities of radio today.
Are you feeling disconnected from your community and frustrated with traditional politics? Join us for an immersive online workshop exploring “Regenerative Civic Engagement”! We’ll move beyond cynicism and rediscover the power of collective action. Through interactive exercises and discussions, you’ll learn playful techniques to connect with neighbors, unleash your imagination for community solutions, and discover tools to hold local government accountable. Leave feeling empowered and equipped to co-create a thriving future for yourself and your community.
The Being of the Territory
Juan José Lugo Bernal, Albert Salazar, Keala Young
con traducción al español
This session will be an open conversation among Juan Jose, Albert and Keala, exploring how we can give voice to the territory from various perspectives and personal journeys. Each guest will share their unique approach to connecting with the land and environment. Together, we will reflect on these experiences and discuss how we can collectively become more aware of the presence and essence of the territory, deepening our understanding of its “being” in our lives and communities.
All Ages Needed: Learning through Intergenerational Friendship | Se necesitan personas de todas las edades: Aprendizaje a través de la amistad intergeneracional
con traducción al español\
(1.5 hrs)
What alchemy is possible within mixed-age encounter, collaboration and friendship? How might learning spaces be in service to intergenerational repair and reconnection? What abundance & beauty lies beyond age segregation for educational initiatives?
Join this virtual campfire to hear inspiring stories from across continents and contexts, paths dedicated to centering intergenerational friendships in the pursuit of community learning and care.
¿Qué alquimia es posible en el encuentro, la colaboración y la amistad entre personas de distintas edades? ¿Cómo pueden los espacios de aprendizaje estar al servicio de la reparación y la reconexión intergeneracional? ¿Qué abundancia y belleza hay más allá de la segregación por edades en las iniciativas educativas?
Únete a esta hoguera virtual para escuchar historias inspiradoras de distintos continentes y contextos, caminos dedicados a centrar las amistades intergeneracionales en la búsqueda del aprendizaje y el cuidado de la comunidad.
Pedagogy in and of times of Pain and Crisis: Towards a transformative approach
Michal Osterweil
(1.5 hrs)
This will be an interactive workshop/session exploring skills and tools I have developed as part of my project, Transformative Pedagogy in Times of Crisis. The goal of the workshop is to give participants an opportunity to explore their own somatic default settings when it comes to pain or conflict, discuss the challenges of teaching in such crisis ridden times, and gain concrete practices/skills for creating a brave container/space for doing this work, bringing our full selves to the class-room and inviting our students to do the same.
The Tale of Two Futures: Conquest or Reverence?
In this engaging talk, we explore the intersection of indigeneity, engaged foresight, and futures thinking, drawing a contrast between two potential pathways: “Conquest” and “Reverence.” The journey delves deep into the wisdom of indigenous knowledge systems and their approaches to foresight, showing how traditional and ancestral ways of knowing can inspire different perspectives on future-making, sustainability, and global challenges.
The “Conquest” pathway represents a future driven by colonial paradigms, extractivism, and domination over nature—a path that has informed much of our modern worldview. Conversely, “Reverence” offers a counter-narrative, rooted in respect for the environment, community-centric values, and holistic well-being—principles deeply ingrained in indigenous worldviews. Through this lens, the talk unpacks how foresight can serve not only as a tool for anticipating change but also as a practice of cultural immersion, memory, and honoring the past to inform transformative futures.
The session is designed to encourage the audience to think critically about their roles in either perpetuating the conquest mentality or embracing a reverence-based approach. It aims to bridge the gap between the wisdom of indigenous traditions and the potential of futures thinking to foster more just, sustainable, and inclusive worlds. Participants will leave with a renewed understanding of how diverse narratives and cultural practices can shape anticipatory governance and the futures we collectively imagine.
“We are the University”: A People’s Assembly for building international solidarity, knowledge and action plans for Higher Education in our era of planetary crisis.
Calum McGeown, Sinéad Sheehan, John Barry, Ken Boyle, Mark Kelly
How can engaged, intentional dialogue help shape pathways for reclaiming the transformative power of higher education? The Climate Justice Universities Union
(CJUU) has been hosting deliberative People’s Assemblies across the island of Ireland to explore this potential in reimagining what “fit for purpose” universities would look like and do in the context of our planetary emergency. Drawing on these experiences, the CJUU will facilitate this taster participatory session to address the question, “What can an international alliance of higher education staff, students and activists do about the planetary crisis?” The session will aim to create a co-learning space in which participants can share insights, ideas, experiences, concerns and ideas for collective actions as we attempt to build an effective international movement to advance climate justice within, through and across our universities.
Navegando el Ecosistema del Alma a través de la Experiencia Directa / Navigating the Ecosystem of the Soul through Direct Experience
Nina Rodríguez, Makarios Andrade, Julián Poma, Sergio Álvarez, María Emilia Chamorro
with english translation
Co-creando espacios vivenciales de acompañamiento colectivo junto a jóvenes para (des)aprender juntxs y poner la Vida en el Centro. Reimaginando el aprendizaje para un futuro regenerativo. /
Co-creating experiential spaces of collective accompaniment with young people to (un)learn together and put Life at the Center. Reimagining learning for a regenerative future.
Waterversities, Breathing Aliveness to Water
Simone Johnson, Asato Nakamura, Etsuko Gorst, Archana Iemajar, Albert Salazar
(1.5 hrs)
Waterversities is a passion project reuniting water worlds and wisdoms across the Earth and the cosmos. It has an aspiration of nurturing ecologies for connection, restoration, attention and care towards the biosphere and her fellow inhabitants, where human beings can enter into right relation.
Towards Relationality & Resilience: experiments in social weaving for collective wellbeing
Join us for an interactive dialogue on practical ways to deepen relationships in your community to land and people. We’ll share some recent experiments we’ve instigated in this direction and invite discussion of how you might ripple this in your own circles.
Animal characters, stories, and experiential exercises introduce children and adults to the superpowers of their smart bodies. Using the wisdom of the animals, people learn playful practices to support their physical and mental health, learning, and self-esteem. Self-Regulation skills support the developing brain and nervous system. Self-regulation skills prepare people for learning and social engagement, while helping mitigate the impacts of trauma, stress, and digital devices.
18:30 Ecuador / 23:30 UTC / 05:15 India (OCT 27)
The Re-imagining Cafe – Social Open Space
(1 hr)
Day 4 | Sunday, October 27th
Final Block |11:00 - 18:15 UTC
6:00 am Ecuador / 11:00 UTC / 16:30 India
Welcome – Final Block
Connection, Energizer + Announcements
(25min)
6:30 am Ecuador / 11:30 UTC / 17:00 India
Learning from Nature / Aprender de la naturaleza
Satish Kumar
con traducción al español
Peregrino de la paz, activista de toda la vida y antiguo monje, Satish Kumar lleva más de 50 años inspirando el cambio global. En esta sesión compartirá la sabiduría que ha recogido en torno a Aprender de la Naturaleza.
Coming Together in Pain:
A Path to Connect in Times of Bloodshed
(1hr 20min)
In moments of deep pain, how can we come together to seek understanding? Led by an Israeli and a Palestinian facilitator, this session creates space for open dialogue and personal reflections. The speakers will share their experiences working in the intersections of pain with Nonviolent Communication and active listening, exploring how these approaches have helped them navigate through trauma and foster connection. Through storytelling and conversation, we will explore the possibilities for building common ground and transforming pain into mutual understanding. This 90-minute session invites honest engagement and the potential for collective healing.
MULAT: Breaking the Blindspot, Diving into Accessibility
The Filipino word ‘mulat’ means “aware, conscious, eyes open”. This session for the blind and sighted to interact and explore digital accessibility together. This is an interactive session introducing accessibility tools (audio description, alternative text) and accessible games where the blind and sighted community can enjoy and play together.
Para sanar las dolencias del cuerpo hay que saber utilizarlo y moverlo conscientemente nos ayuda en un 80% a drenar las energías densas acumuladas, trabajamos la respiración, el estiramiento, el movimiento fluido y la energía interna reflejada en nuestras articulaciones, sentidos y emociones, una practica para despertar el cuerpo y jugar con el Alma🥰
Mothering AI Systems with Ecosystemic Values and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Wakanyi Hoffman, Dominic Muyasa, Shai Tubali, Barnaby Willet
con traducción al español
Join us for a panel discussion that explores the integration of ecosystemic values and Indigenous ways of knowing in the development of AI systems, rooted in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, and other forms of indigenous and heart-centered wisdom. We will discuss how these value systems can guide the ethical frameworks of AI, drawing on Indigenous wisdom to highlight sustainable, holistic approaches that foster empathy, communal harmony, and environmental stewardship.
Una mesa redonda que explora la integración de los valores ecosistémicos y las formas indígenas de conocimiento en el desarrollo de sistemas de IA, enraizados en la filosofía africana de Ubuntu y otras formas de sabiduría indígena y centrada en el corazón. Debatiremos cómo estos sistemas de valores pueden orientar los marcos éticos de la IA, basándose en la sabiduría indígena para poner de relieve enfoques sostenibles y holísticos que fomenten la empatía, la armonía comunitaria y la protección del medio ambiente.
Surviving/Disrupting Formal Institutions while Serving in them
Geci Karuri-Sebina
As the stress on our global systems mounts, how do we as individuals and communities respond? Shaun Chamberlin has been holding cohort-based learning journeys that explore the themes of Dark Optimism and our collective need to prepare ourselves for Surviving the Future. Join us in conversation as we share what has emerged from these potent cohorts and how the realities of our times can inform the types of learning we engage in.
YouthVersities: É hora de plantar! Germinando novos sonhos
Es hora de plantar! Germinando nuevos sueños | It’s time to plant! Germinating new dreams
con traducción al español
with english translation
O que você sonha em viver?
YouthVersities, o mais novo ecoversite que germinou durante o Global Meeting, sonha em fazer brotar a esperança em nosso presente, na certeza de que também estamos lançando as sementes da vida futura.
A partir do poder gerador do nosso nascimento, seguimos naturalmente o impulso de tecer os fios que nos conectam, possibilitando a nutrição necessária para o nosso crescimento.
Pretendemos, gentilmente, criar um espaço para a cura coletiva, cocriado pelas lentes de nós, jovens aprendizes.
Juntos, faremos uma viagem no tempo e nos conectaremos com aqueles sonhos que nunca envelhecem. No final, compartilharemos com a rede as histórias de nossos sonhos realizados.
Nossa intenção é tecer caminhos de sonho em sonho, fortalecendo a linha eterna que nos conecta, a linha da VIDA.
Venha plantar conosco!
What do you dream of living?
YouthVersities, the newest ecoversite that germinated during the Global Meeting, dreams of sprouting hope in our present, in the certainty that we are also sowing the seeds of future life.
From the generative power of our birth, we naturally follow the impulse to weave the threads that connect us, enabling the nourishment necessary for our growth.
We kindly intend to create a space for collective healing, co-created through the lenses of us, young apprentices.
Together, we will take a journey through time and connect with those dreams that never grow old. At the end, we will share with the network the stories of our dreams come true.
Our intention is to weave paths from dream to dream, strengthening the eternal line that connects us, the line of LIFE.
Come plant with us!
The Role of Andean Rituals in the Transimision of Culture
Chavín de Huantar is an ancient ceremonial center that was built 3,200 years ago and lasted for eight centuries, shaping an Andean region through a vision based on community, unity in diversity, reciprocity, and complementary duality. How did they manage to pass knowledge from one generation to the next over such a long period without resorting to violence or written language? In this session, we will explore Andean rituals as a means of transmitting complex cultural dimensions—symbolic, social, and sensory—beyond cognitive processes and representational thinking, and how they contribute to the preservation, transmission, and reproduction of culture.
9:30 am Ecuador / 14:30 UTC / 20:00 India
Sacred Sites as Ecoversities
Earthrise Collective moderated by Rachael Knight, Pooven Moodley, Rutendo Ngara
(1hr 30min)
con traducción al español
A moderated deep dive comprising of wisdom keepers, activists, thought leaders from the Earthrise Collective, which will include an aspect of ceremony.
11:15am Ecuador / 16:15 UTC / 21:45 India
Closing Ceremony & Carnival
(2hrs)
During the second part of this session, Adventure-versity will share invitations and ideas to practice nature-friending that have emerged through two pedagogical offerings rooted in nature and adventure: “Getting it Together” and “Siguiendo Pasos Andinos”.