Returning to the Mother: Coming HOME from School | REC 3.0
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 2024-02-01

The mother can show up in many forms and faces. From the divine to the Earthly, the intangible to being held in loving arms. What does 'Returning to the Mother' mean to you? What does Home mean to you? What is your relationship to Home? What about school? What might each of these represent? How do they relate to 'Returning to the Mother'? Join us as we seek to interpret these questions and collectively deepen our ability for connection.

Karina Rodríguez
Constantly invited by life to find answers and create new paths, I have explored and gestated diverse paths. From the stars, design, transpersonal psychology, education, motherhood, plants and art; they all lead me inward; there where I cannot escape from the cry of my soul that asks me to embrace myself naked, complete... here and now. https://elnidocasaabierta.com/author/karinaars185/page/3/

Wangũi wa Kamonji
Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner who researches and translates indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art and honey. Her work is motivated by the twin challenge of healing and generating new realities for the present and future. Informed by research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; and facilitating spaces for critical consciousness and transformation, Wangũi seeks to provide rooted embodied tools for Afrikans to heal the colonial traumas of past and present, and (re)create ways to live regeneratively with themselves, Earth and ancestors again i.e., for us to decolonise and reindigenise. Her work involves ancestral connection, dance choreography, improvisational movement, ancestral song, ritual design, indigenous food, oral storytelling, written poetry, story and essays, collective creativity, processwork, and nervous system regulation with the Resilience Toolkit™. Wangũi is based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika. https://www.instagram.com/_fromtheroots/


Yeyo Beltrán
Sergio "Yeyo" Beltrán has designed and participated in multiple intercultural group facilitation experiences. He is co-founder of the University of the Earth in Oaxaca and Tools for Good Living, A.C. He currently supports and disseminates popular communication projects and educational alternatives around the world and practices the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations as an external consultant for companies, institutions and non-profit organizations. He is a member of the Ecoversities Alliance among other global networks.
https://www.instagram.com/yeyoenoax/?hl=en

Sophie Strand (wasn't able to attend due to health reasons)
Sophie Strand is a writer focused on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine is forthcoming from Inner Traditions Fall 2022. http://sophiestrand.com/
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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.

http://re-imagining.education
http://ecoversities.org