Cultivating a Global Curriculum for Local Leadership in Regenerative Food Systems
This session will outline our 2-year project with the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance to build a globally-distributed, transformative learning programme to empower new local food and farming leaders to catalyse systemic change and cultivate authentically regenerative cultures. Our session will outline lessons from the process of developing a cross-cultural, multi-national distributed grassroots curriculum across five continent as well as outcomes from the two-year project.
Pavel Cenkl
Pavel Cenkl is Academic Dean at Prescott College and the Founder of the Regenerative Learning Network. His work focuses on the intersection of transformative learning, community and ecology and building a more regenerative and resilient educational future. Previously Head of Schumacher College (Devon, UK) and Dean of Sterling College (VT, US), Pavel writes and speaks widely about curriculum design and pedagogy, global learning networks, environmental humanities and philosophy and has developed programmes in ecology, humanities, outdoor skills and recreation, regenerative food and farming, and more.Kate Rudd and Dr Lisa Trocchia
Kate Rudd
Kate is a researcher working at the intersection of new economic thinking and inner-outer systems transformation. For the past year, she has been facilitating the collaborative design and development of a learning programme for a globally-distributed network of grassroots learning centres linked to the Conscious Food Systems Alliance and Prescott College. The ‘Local Leadership for Regenerative Food Systems programme’ aims to cultivate the inner capacities of learners and practitioners to weave regenerative and conscious food systems in their own bioregions. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of York and Invited Faculty of Nova Health Institute.
Lisa Trocchia
Lisa brings almost 45 years experience as an educator to her role as Director of the Master of Science degree program in Sustainable Food Systems at Prescott College. She is passionate about the role of food systems change in leveraging transformative social change, and continues to develop social network design, communication, and education as conscious approaches to activating equity, collaboration, and self-organizing.
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