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Effective Education Foundations
for the 22nd Century
OUR WORLD
can thrive into the next century
if we build effective education foundations for connected and regenerative economic systems
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Learning Domains
Nature Connection and Earth Regeneration
Create innovative solutions for a good Anthropocene
Understand our common roots: By exploring our shared cultural source, we can build on a common foundation
Learn from nature: Practicing core routines like nature connection, tracking, and awareness teaches us valuable lessons for solving problems
Locate ourselves in Ecosystems: Gaining a sense of space and relationships through mapping, navigation and communication
Connect through bioregional diversity: Recognizing earth responsive divergent cultural systems allows for a wider range of ideas and perspectives
Understand our common roots: By exploring our shared cultural source, we can build on a common foundation
Learn from nature: Practicing core routines like nature connection, tracking, and awareness teaches us valuable lessons for solving problems
Locate ourselves in Ecosystems: Gaining a sense of space and relationships through mapping, navigation and communication
Connect through bioregional diversity: Recognizing earth responsive divergent cultural systems allows for a wider range of ideas and perspectives
Prosocial Connection and Community Regeneration
Explore the science of successful prosocial economies
Study evolution and learn from traditional knowledge: Evolutionary science shows us how our ability to cooperate developed within land-based knowledge systems
Understand motivation: Intrinsic motivation and emotional needs models can help us understand what drives people to take prosocial action
Research collaboration and explore how humans learn: Adaptive intelligence models and prosocial processes can teach us how we can adapt and learn to cooperate effectively. Understanding and mastering the power of out-group agression with prosocial methodologies
See the bigger picture: Contextual behavioral and change sciences can show us how communication and situations influence cooperation
Study evolution and learn from traditional knowledge: Evolutionary science shows us how our ability to cooperate developed within land-based knowledge systems
Understand motivation: Intrinsic motivation and emotional needs models can help us understand what drives people to take prosocial action
Research collaboration and explore how humans learn: Adaptive intelligence models and prosocial processes can teach us how we can adapt and learn to cooperate effectively. Understanding and mastering the power of out-group agression with prosocial methodologies
See the bigger picture: Contextual behavioral and change sciences can show us how communication and situations influence cooperation
Universal Connection and Human Regeneration
Unlock our individual and community potentials
Learn from deep history: By tracking key moments in evolution, we can see what it is to be human - our strengths and challenges
Engage with the universe: Seeking a "universe referent citizenship" encourages us to see ourselves as part of a larger whole
Embrace diversity: Hearing different perspectives and ideas is crucial for finding creative solutions
Imagine a better future: By envisioning a thriving future for humanity, we can work towards making it a reality
Learn from deep history: By tracking key moments in evolution, we can see what it is to be human - our strengths and challenges
Engage with the universe: Seeking a "universe referent citizenship" encourages us to see ourselves as part of a larger whole
Embrace diversity: Hearing different perspectives and ideas is crucial for finding creative solutions
Imagine a better future: By envisioning a thriving future for humanity, we can work towards making it a reality
Programs for Adults
For Teachers and Educators
Connection and Regeneration Economics Education Program
This program is designed to transform education by equipping the next generation with the skills to build a regenerative economy. It includes a dedicated teacher education program and comprehensive curricula for students aged 7-18. Using a historical narrative about human economic systems, this program helps students understand how to design economies that work in harmony with the planet. It empowers young people to become innovators and leaders for a sustainable and equitable future.
This program is designed to transform education by equipping the next generation with the skills to build a regenerative economy. It includes a dedicated teacher education program and comprehensive curricula for students aged 7-18. Using a historical narrative about human economic systems, this program helps students understand how to design economies that work in harmony with the planet. It empowers young people to become innovators and leaders for a sustainable and equitable future.
For Community Pioneers
Prosocial and Partnership Community Program
This curriculum is for adults, including educators and community builders, who are ready to take action and build stronger, more resilient communities. Focused on regenerating relationships, it teaches the practical skills of cooperation, empathy, and collective well-being. Through hands-on, land-based experiences, online learning, and rites of passage, this program helps you cultivate the mindset that regeneration is a present relationship, not a future goal. It's a path for people to become living examples of interconnected care.
This curriculum is for adults, including educators and community builders, who are ready to take action and build stronger, more resilient communities. Focused on regenerating relationships, it teaches the practical skills of cooperation, empathy, and collective well-being. Through hands-on, land-based experiences, online learning, and rites of passage, this program helps you cultivate the mindset that regeneration is a present relationship, not a future goal. It's a path for people to become living examples of interconnected care.
For Elders and Earth Stewards
Knowledge System Synthesis Program
This program is for visionary leaders and mentors who seek to understand the foundational principles of human knowledge. It offers a framework for integrating Indigenous relational knowledge and Western scientific reasoning to guide a transition toward a regenerative future. Participants learn to become stewards who can think generations ahead and foster a humble, caring form of collaborative leadership. This is a journey to synthesize different knowledge systems and become a force for positive, lasting change.
This program is for visionary leaders and mentors who seek to understand the foundational principles of human knowledge. It offers a framework for integrating Indigenous relational knowledge and Western scientific reasoning to guide a transition toward a regenerative future. Participants learn to become stewards who can think generations ahead and foster a humble, caring form of collaborative leadership. This is a journey to synthesize different knowledge systems and become a force for positive, lasting change.
Program Courses
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Programs for Youth
7-9 Year Olds
Connect and Thrive Inspiration
Pathfinders invites younger learners into the journey through simple daily routines at home and on the land, supported by sit spot and playful practice. The focus is inspiration, so children notice, name, and share what they find, while the compass keeps attention on nature connection, prosocial storytelling, and first questions about the wider unknown. Programs run across seven school locations worldwide and use the book’s Experiential and Narrative Tracking Paths to link practice with purpose and with the River System of Human Time story.
Pathfinders invites younger learners into the journey through simple daily routines at home and on the land, supported by sit spot and playful practice. The focus is inspiration, so children notice, name, and share what they find, while the compass keeps attention on nature connection, prosocial storytelling, and first questions about the wider unknown. Programs run across seven school locations worldwide and use the book’s Experiential and Narrative Tracking Paths to link practice with purpose and with the River System of Human Time story.
10-12 Year Olds
Connect and Thrive Focus
Bridgebuilders develops teamwork and shared responsibility as learners deepen skills in shelter, water, fire, and food, focus group habits, and learn to plan together in mentoring circles. The compass frames prosocial learning with clear agreements and community tasks, and the narrative path introduces regenerative stream economies so students connect daily practice with local care and simple economic choices. Sites operate in coordinated global locations, with Elders and partners guiding Two-Eyed Seeing across the three learning domains.
Bridgebuilders develops teamwork and shared responsibility as learners deepen skills in shelter, water, fire, and food, focus group habits, and learn to plan together in mentoring circles. The compass frames prosocial learning with clear agreements and community tasks, and the narrative path introduces regenerative stream economies so students connect daily practice with local care and simple economic choices. Sites operate in coordinated global locations, with Elders and partners guiding Two-Eyed Seeing across the three learning domains.
13-15 Year Olds
Connect and Thrive Transformation
Wayfinders turns skills and focus into design and reflection, so crews take on real projects, study thresholds of disconnection, and practice connected community methods. Learners work across the three domains while exploring the River System of Human Time, source-evolved capacities, and the Anthropocene, with rites of passage style challenges sized to place. The aim is transformation through coordinated land work, intercultural dialogue, and systems thinking that ties story to action.
Wayfinders turns skills and focus into design and reflection, so crews take on real projects, study thresholds of disconnection, and practice connected community methods. Learners work across the three domains while exploring the River System of Human Time, source-evolved capacities, and the Anthropocene, with rites of passage style challenges sized to place. The aim is transformation through coordinated land work, intercultural dialogue, and systems thinking that ties story to action.
16-18 Year Olds
Connect and Thrive Mastery
The high school program consolidates mastery across Nature, Prosocial, and Universal domains, with advanced projects in restoration and regenerative design, participatory governance and storytelling, and cross-cultural inquiry and futures planning. Students read local and regional systems, plan with partners, and take on stewardship roles that prepare them for connected regenerative economies and leadership beyond school. The Seven Directions Compass and the two linked paths keep work aligned across sites and seasons.
The high school program consolidates mastery across Nature, Prosocial, and Universal domains, with advanced projects in restoration and regenerative design, participatory governance and storytelling, and cross-cultural inquiry and futures planning. Students read local and regional systems, plan with partners, and take on stewardship roles that prepare them for connected regenerative economies and leadership beyond school. The Seven Directions Compass and the two linked paths keep work aligned across sites and seasons.
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