Weaving Back the World: Stories from the Ecoversities Alliance by the writing fellows of 2025 Edited by Vespera Meng and Manish JainCover Art by Libby Hoffenberg | libbyjennifer.com This collection of articles is written by the writing fellows of 2025 as part of celebrating Ecoversities’ 10th anniversary. Weaving Back the World gives us insight
by Jinan KB of Do nothing parenting Original text published on his substack here. AI “A teacher, also often called an educator or schoolteacher, is a person who helps others (students or learners) to acquire knowledge, competence, or values through the practice of teaching. While the term often formally refers to a paid professional working in
This film takes you inside kanthari, the Impact Leadership Institute named after the tiny but fiery Kanthari chili from Kerala, India. Experience firsthand the raw, emotional, and eye-opening stories of change-makers from around the world who have overcome unimaginable hardships and are now igniting positive impact in their communities. From survivors of childhood trauma and
This deck of cards can serve as an oracle, as ideas/questions that may trigger group reflections as well. Each card contains the energy of an essence from the Yukon territory, associated with it there is a paragraph and a question arising from the essence of the flower, element, mushroom… In this way, we will be able to recognize and relate to them, as well as use their particular characteristics to open veins of knowledge, generate and nourish curiosity, and understand ourselves better. It is the creation of an imaginary of healing that, through experience, allows for the delivery of messages that lead to profound reflection and contact with the essences.
Words can be extraordinarily powerful. They can help us recognise and appreciate feelings, experiences and natural phenomena that we may otherwise not notice or may take for granted. Words can also introduce us to other ways of existing, aspects of different cultures and new concepts that can alter where we put our energy and change our
Indicibile (Unspeakable) is the title of a workshop that was organized with the intention to test a psychedelic compound, changa, with a group of artists that could try it out during a few days, while collectively creating their own setting. The title obviously refers to something that cannot be told. The experiences arousing with changa,
By Alessandra Pomarico (firefly frequencies, Free Home University, Ecoversities), Nikolay Oleynikov (firefly frequencies, Chto Delat), Elliot Perkins (Ultra-red) “What does it mean to listen? After almost ten years as part of the collective experiment of Free Home University and other learning communities, my answer today would be: to suspend the impulse to find an immediate
By Giulia Crisci, Alessandra Pomarico, Nikolay Oleynikov “This intention and this spirit connect all of us here (and with many beyond the here and now) speaking to how we work, why we produce art, and specifically how we make radio to make a community. “Radio” has been for many of us an autonomous learning zone,
by Rehana Tejpar and Dan Rudolph “Nasruddin, why do you ride a donkey backwards?” “What are you talking about? I’m facing forward. It’s the donkey who’s facing backwards!” – Mulla Nasruddin, a 13th-century wise fool from present day Turkey Beginnings In most parts of the world, humanity is trapped in overlapping systems of power that
Walking in the footsteps of educational visionaries Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society), and Marshall Rosenberg (Mutual Education), this session begins with grounding in learning as a voluntary and collaborative activity oriented to the needs and capacities of all involved. This, then, serves as the entryway into an exploration of larger
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