Unlearning & Relearning | Butterfly Talks | REC 2 0
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 04/03/2022

Fabienne Vaile
Educator with over 24 years experience, mother of 2 boys, podcaster on a mission to change the face of education. 
www.flourishingeducation.co.uk 

John A Duvall
Former professor of Communications and Media Studies at Elon University (NC) and Dominican University of California. MFA in Cinema Production (University of Southern California), PhD in Transformative Studies (California Institute of Integral Studies). Active in Transition Town movement for 15 years; Current participant in Transition Schools initiative. Author of The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century (2017). https://www.youtube.com/channelUCpbnMf5JKiv2nGlQFqUeGdg

Marcela Scarpellini
I rather listen than speak, I like accompanying people going through difficult times and I am better acquainted with silence and meaningful conversations than with small talk. Of course, I love to joke and listen to people’s imprudent and gentle occurrences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHNtGzwM5jo
 
Thais Pacheco Mantovani
Master in Holistic Science at Schumacher College (UK) and passionate about nature, Thais co funded EcoUniversity aiming to drive systemic changes through educational platforms facilitating dialogues between different worldviews and opening space for a more regenerative human presence on the land. https://www.ecouniversidade.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ecouniversidade/
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This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 2.0, hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance and partnering organizations and communities from around the world. It is an annual online conference to radically re-imagine the future of higher education.

https://re-imagining.education
https://ecoversities.org
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Why Butterfly Talks? 
Butterflies are not only extremely elegant and beautiful, they also serve important roles in the ecosystems that they are a part of: perhaps most significantly pollinating important food crops and flowers. Over the past four decades butterfly populations have been decreasing, with many species (including the Monarch) inching closer to extinction. As with the butterfly, many other of our sacred species, traditions, languages, cultures etc. are going extinct. In these talks we will hear from individuals and groups that are working to re-enliven, re-connect and re-engage through acts of education. Although these projects will be shared individually they are part of a larger distributed global movement. Each of these actions are significant with impacts and effects far beyond. These talks are organized to connect, share, inspire and spread these Butterflies' effects wider for the sake of re-vitalizing our human and non-human ecosystems.