Gatherings
Planetary Gatherings
The Global Gatherings are moments to bring together people who are running or who are deeply involved with ‘alternatives’ to higher education — working within, against, and beyond the modern university — as well as in locally-rooted learning spaces that are regenerating community and a sensibility of coming back home.
Many of these places are connected with different grassroots, social and ecological movements, indigenous communities, and others.
There is an emerging constellation of eco-versities — people and communities reclaiming their local knowledge systems and learning practices to restore and re-envision learning processes that are meaningful and relevant to the call of our times, that cultivate new stories and possibilities, and that re-connect and re-generate diverse ecological, social, economic, and cultural ecosystems in the spirit of coming home.
In the Global Gatherings the intention is to design the time and space together, maintaining the ethos of a collective, inclusive, and ecological approach. Therefore, the gift of the volunteers and members of this service circle is to help make this Global Gathering a reality while maintaining deep communication and collaboration with the local ecoversities hosting team.
Encuentros Regionales
Ecoversities Regional Gatherings are multi-day gatherings, similar to our global gatherings, to exchange and cross-pollinate between ecoversity partners from a specific region and strengthen the relationships among different members, communities and contexts within these regions. The objective of these gatherings is to learn from one another, as well as plan and implement common actions in specific issues particular to those contexts.
There have been Ecoversities gatherings in India (for the India region), Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico (for the Latin America region), Hawaii (for the Pacific Region), Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam (for the Asian Region), Uganda and Cape Town (for the African region), Jordan (for the Arab region) and Italy (for the European Region).
The Regional Gathering Service Circle coordinates with the regional weavers, relational networks, local communities and local ecoversities in the organizing of these regional gatherings. Their process involves looking for potential avenues, securing funding, logistics, identifying key learning questions, and bringing attention and awareness to the needs and realities of their territories with relational rigor.
Upcoming Gatherings
