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Living Learning Experiences

Learning comes to life through
shared experiences in real places

Living Learning Experiences bring together the narrative and experiential learning pathways across three programs:

Teachers and Educators - CARE Education
Regeneration Stewards - Knowledge Systems Synthesis
Community Pioneers - Prosocial Community

Education Foundations for Thriving Futures
The foundation book for Thriving Futures 2100 programs

The book introduces the River System of Human Time, a narrative framework for exploring humanity’s journey from our shared evolutionary past into the complex realities of the Anthropocene. It follows the development of human capacities, knowledge systems, relationships and ways of organising life, asking how the choices made across generations have shaped the world we inherit today.

At its centre is the idea of Regeneration Transitions: learning how to maintain, renew and strengthen the conditions that enable life to thrive across generations. The book explores this through three interconnected dimensions of Nature, Prosocial and Universal Connection, bringing together research, different knowledge traditions, lived experience and the practice of tracking to investigate relationships between people, communities and the living world.

Education Foundations for Thriving Futures provides the conceptual foundation for the Thriving Futures 2100 learning programmes. It presents education as an intergenerational journey that combines narrative and experiential learning, helping people develop the knowledge, capacities, relationships and practical experience needed to participate thoughtfully in Regeneration Transitions.

The book introduces the River System of Human Time and the educational foundations behind Thriving Futures 2100 and its approach to Regeneration Transitions. To order a copy, click here.

Global Care Packs Learning Domains

Nature Connection and Earth Regeneration

Learning to Live Within Living Systems.

This domain begins with direct relationship.
Before systems can be restored, people need to feel, read, and understand the living world they are part of.

Being
Participants start by rebuilding everyday connection with land and place through simple, repeatable practices. Sit spot routines, sensory awareness, and naturalist observation bring attention back to soil, water, weather, plants, animals, and seasonal change. This establishes presence and care as a baseline.

Tracking
From here, learners develop tracking skills. Tracking trains attention, pattern recognition, and humility. It teaches how to read signs, test interpretations, and adjust understanding based on evidence. Mapping, navigation, and landscape awareness help participants locate themselves within ecosystems rather than outside them.

Living
As skills deepen, participants explore how different bioregions shape different cultures, practices, and regenerative strategies. Learning expands from personal awareness into bioregional literacy, showing how land-responsive cultures emerge and why no single solution fits all places.

Toward Mastery
At advanced stages, this domain supports land restoration, regenerative food systems, ecological monitoring, and stewardship practices. Mastery here means being able to work with living systems over time, reading feedback, repairing damage, and contributing to long-term ecological health.

Prosocial Connection and Community Regeneration

Learning to Work Together Across Differences.

This domain focuses on how humans organize, cooperate, and resolve conflict in real communities.

Being
Participants begin by recognizing the diversity of roles, temperaments, and motivations within human groups. Families, teams, and communities thrive when different strengths are understood as complementary rather than competing.

Tracking
Learners study how cooperation evolved, drawing from evolutionary science and long-standing land-based knowledge systems. Attention is given to motivation, status dynamics, reward systems, and aggression, not as moral issues, but as biological and social realities that can be guided rather than denied.

Living
Through group practice, mentoring circles, and shared tasks, participants apply prosocial methods in real situations. Communication tools, agreements, and feedback processes help groups learn how to navigate tension, out-group aggression, and power differences without fragmentation.

Toward Mastery
At advanced levels, this domain supports community governance, partnership systems, and collective action. Mastery means being able to help groups align around shared goals, maintain trust over time, and regenerate social infrastructure that supports long-term projects and intergenerational care.

Universal Connection and Human Regeneration

Learning to Navigate Meaning, Change, and the Unknown.

This domain addresses the deepest layer of regeneration: how humans relate to meaning, purpose, and uncertainty.

Being
Participants begin by noticing how their own sense of identity, purpose, and belonging has been shaped. Attention is given to how people encounter the unknown through experience, story, symbol, and reflection.

Tracking
Learners explore deep human history and key evolutionary moments to better understand core human capacities and challenges. Creation stories and cosmologies are approached as relational systems that orient people within land, community, and time, not as explanations to be proven or dismissed.

Living
Through storytelling, dialogue, and reflection, participants practice holding multiple perspectives without collapse or domination. Elders, mentors, and cross-cultural learning help individuals recognize how personal symbols and shared meaning form, shift, and support community continuity.

Toward Mastery
At advanced stages, this domain supports leadership grounded in humility, responsibility, and long-term vision. Mastery here means helping communities navigate change, grief, uncertainty, and possibility while maintaining coherence and care across generations.

The Free Online Introduction Course

Discover the ideas, people, and learning pathways behind Thriving Futures 2100 and Global Care Packs through a short introduction that combines storytelling, practical awareness skills, and a simple experiential activity.

Meet the initiating team, explore the foundations of the narrative and experiential learning paths, and take your first steps into a learning journey focused on thriving and regenerative futures.

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Experiential Place Based Programs

Cowichan Valley, BC, Canada

Based between Camp Woodlands on Cowichan Lake and an oceanfront house in Chemainus, while visiting Hwiemtuns Sacred Cedar Lodge on Cowichan Tribes Territory, participants explore regenerative education, ecological stewardship, Indigenous learning perspectives, food systems, and long-term community resilience across forests, rivers, lakes, and coastal landscapes.

Regeneration Education I

Regeneration Education I introduces the foundational frameworks, learning domains, and experiential practices of regeneration education for the 22nd century. Participants explore the interconnected relationships between ecological literacy, systems thinking, cooperation, experiential learning, and long-term human development through the Nature Connection, Prosocial Connection, and Universal Connection domains. Integrating the River System of Human Time, the Seven Direction Compass, and experiential and narrative learning paths, the course develops practical skills in observation, mapping, ecological awareness, collaborative inquiry, and interdisciplinary learning that can be applied across educational, community, and personal contexts.

Regeneration Education II

Regeneration Education II expands the foundational work into deeper systems integration, mentorship, curriculum application, community regeneration, and advanced experiential practice. Participants investigate how regenerative knowledge systems, cooperative structures, ecological relationships, and meaning-making frameworks can function within contemporary educational, social, and economic realities. Building on the experiential and narrative learning paths introduced in Regeneration Education I, the course focuses on facilitation, governance, stewardship, mentorship, regenerative project development, and the application of regeneration education frameworks within schools, communities, organizations, and emerging learning networks.

Festival 2100

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Where the learning comes together

Festival 2100: Regeneration Economics in Action is a travelling living learning experience that brings the River System of Human Time to life. Schools and other visitors journey through five experiential learning areas, exploring how humans have lived, learned, cooperated and organised their societies and economies, and the regeneration transitions that could shape the future.

Festivals take place in different locations around the world, wherever possible beside a river or within a living landscape. Global Care Packs participants join the Festival as trained mentors, working alongside the core Festival team and local communities to turn learning into shared experience and action.

Education Foundations for Thriving Futures The foundation book for Thriving Futures 2100 programs

Global Care Packs Learning Domains

Experiential Place Based Programs

Festival 2100

Education Foundations for Thriving Futures
The foundation book for Thriving Futures 2100 programs