EcoGathering: The Emergence of a Collaborative Learning Network | REC 3.0
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 2024-01-14

EcoGather is a collaborative learning network dedicated to the vitality of ecosystems, the change-competence of communities, and the reorganization of economies to prioritize wellbeing. It applies the principles of cosmolocalism – small, local, open, connected – to education, enabling communities to learn from and transform our relationships with each other, the rest of the natural world, and life itself. Over the past two years, communities in Vermont, Colorado, Puerto Rico, India, and Bhutan have nurtured EcoGather from an inspiring concept to a richly populated learning digital platform full of learning tools designed to foster tangible application in the very real places we inhabit. We want people to access EcoGather courses, put the lessons to work in their homeplaces, and come back often to share the lessons gleaned from their experiences, as well as to inspire and fortify each other. In this way, we believe we can resource and connect communities capable of coping with collapse and living into humanity’s “sequel” guided by ecological knowledge and relational ethics. EcoGather has taken philanthropic support and turned it into educational resources that can be shared widely, but we must also figure out ways to sustain the staffing that keeps it all fresh, facilitates community, and maintains the quality of the learning experience. This session will introduce EcoGather, share some of what we’ve learned in our initial stages of creation, and invite participants to suggest and explore possible decolonial and transactional access models that foster regenerative engagement.

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BIO 
Nicole is a food systems innovator, educator, ethicist and attorney. Her approach to fostering change in and through food is grounded in systems thinking and ecological knowledge, attentive to relationships of care and reciprocity, and framed by comprehensive law and policy knowledge.

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This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 3.0, 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 education. In 2023 it was held from April 27th to 30th.

Learn more about the conference -  https://re-imagining.education
Learn more about the Ecoversities Alliance - https://ecoversities.org