Resourcing
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Developmental Guidance
Are you - in one way or another - working on transforming educational practice, communities, or systems to become more life-affirming? And do you long for the occasional ‘time-out’ in which you’re resourced to reflect on your projects, what their unique potential is, what they ask of you personally, and what’s needed to shape them with more vitality and viability? We offer dedicated one-on-one resourcing sessions for this purpose. Sourced in regenerative frameworks and principles, we’ll ask sharp questions, share honest observations, and support you to find clarity and coherence in what your role and next steps can be.
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Developmental Workshops and Talks
Shifting educational practices and systems to states that better serve the well-being and thriving of students, educators, and the communities and place of which we’re part is no easy task. It asks for commitment and collaboration of many stakeholders. That’s why we offer workshops and talks - be it for a team working on a project, on a symposium or conference, or another type of event. Aligned to your specific context and needs, we approach workshops and talks as an opportunity to ‘look at things differently together’. In doing so, we weave in the story and principles of regeneration, but we do so not in a way that imposes but in a way that invites collective exploration.
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Developmental Trajectories
If you want more structural and intensive support than developmental guidance and / or developmental workshops and talks can offer you, we’re open to exploring possibilities. We do, however, avoid ending up in ‘implementation roles’. In every project we do, we design local capacity building into the process, so that what we do is always co-creative and when we leave we’re confident that things will continue to develop.
Our approach to resourcing is grounded in the lineage of regenerative development (see the 'about' page). This approach is distinctly different from a traditional approach of teaching best practices to be implemented in new contexts and/or offering direct advice as to what to change or do. Rather, we see resourcing as a process of awakening and strengthening the innate capacities of people and systems to evolve themselves and their systems. We lay emphasis on the story of a place and its people, on the collaborative effort of sensing potential and developing motivation, and of building synergetic projects and communities that enable working together in new, value-adding ways. This is where regenerative frameworks come in handy, such as those brought together in The Art of Regenerative Educatorship. These are frameworks that enable us to think more systematically about the regenerative potential of education and educational systems, without imposing standard solutions everywhere. They open up new ways of thinking and seeing, and can assist in mindfully shaping collective developmental processes.