Regeneration Education
for the 22nd Century
A Thriving Future
begins with learning foundations
that reconnect us to land,
community, and meaning
A Broad Educational Foundation
Thriving Futures 2100 explores how human beings developed the capacities for ecological awareness, cooperation, systems thinking, mentorship, symbolic meaning-making, and long-term continuity, and how these capacities can support thriving within today's interconnected ecological, social, and economic realities.
The project explores regeneration as a broad human challenge involving relationships between land, community, knowledge, identity, governance, learning, and long-term thriving.
The educational pathways support the creation of living regenerative learning environments where regeneration can be experienced, practiced, and shared. Through participation, stewardship, creativity, cooperation, and community life, the project transforms regeneration from an idea into a lived reality, exploring the possibilities of long-term human and ecological thriving.
Programs
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The Free Online Welcome Course
The free welcome course is the entry point into all Global Care Packs learning programs. It introduces the River System of Human Time, the Seven Directions Compass,
and the core practices that guide the Connect and Thrive learning journey.
Participants explore the framework and meet members of the learning community.
Learning Tools
The Narrative Path
The River System of Human Time traces humanity's journey through evolving relationships with land, community, knowledge, identity, and long-term thriving.
A Connecting Compass
The Seven Directions Compass connects the narrative and experiential learning paths through a shared framework for understanding, practice, and reflection.
The Experiential Path
Through field exploration, mentorship, and collaborative learning, participants develop the knowledge, skills, and relationships that support regenerative transitions.
Learning Domains
Global Care Packs
The Global Care Packs serve as a practical and conceptual container for the knowledge, skills, relationships, and sense of direction developed along both the narrative and experiential learning paths. As participants move through the learning pathways, they gradually fill their "care pack" with practical capacities for navigating personal, community, and planetary challenges.
The name GLOBAL CARE PACKS describes the program domains' core learning outcomes:
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Global Connection And Regeneration Economics
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Prosocial Partnership Action Communities
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Knowledge Systems Synthesis
Together, these interconnected pathways provide participants with the tools, understanding, and relationships needed to contribute to a more regenerative future.
Thriving Futures 2100
Welcome to the 22nd Century
Thriving Futures 2100 is a global series of place-based living learning events where visitors step into everyday life in the year 2100 and explore how communities learned to thrive through regenerative relationships with nature, community, and the wider world.
Like a historic village brings the past to life, Thriving Futures 2100 brings a possible future into the present through immersive learning stations, demonstrations, projects, and experiences that reveal both the destination and the transition pathways that made it possible.
These annual events are the shared goal of the Thriving Futures 2100 programs. Throughout the year, stewards, instructors, teachers, learners, community partners, and regenerative organizations work together to develop the knowledge, skills, relationships, and demonstrations that come together in each event. The result is a living learning environment where regeneration is experienced directly through participation, exploration, and community.