Connect and Thrive
Regeneration Steward Programs
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.
An experiential learning journey for:
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18-35 years olds
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Gap year seekers (between school and university, or university and career)
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University students (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral)
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Recent graduates exploring purpose and direction
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Young professionals seeking meaning, transition, or reorientation
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Considering teaching, environmental work, community development, or social entrepreneurship
Participants join an international cohort to travel through landscapes shaped by river systems while exploring the River System of Human Time narrative as a personal, community and conceptual learning journey.
Through field exploration, collaborative inquiry, and shared community life, expedition participants examine regenerative transitions as lived questions about how communities thrive across generations.
The Learning Experience
Place-Based Exploration
Participants travel through river valleys, coastlines, and mountain landscapes while studying the ecological and historical forces that shape communities.
Knowledge Systems Dialogue
Group discussions explore how different cultures organize knowledge, governance, and cooperation across time.
Collaborative Learning
Participants work together in small international teams to investigate real-world questions about community resilience and regenerative practice.
Expedition Community
Living and learning together creates a supportive environment for reflection, challenge, and personal growth.
Expedition Landscapes and Regions
Thailand and Malaysia
Beginning within the Phetchaburi River region of Thailand and the tropical forest systems of Peninsular Malaysia, this expedition moves through limestone karst landscapes, rainforest corridors, river systems, agricultural valleys, and Indigenous forest territories.
Catalonia and Pyrenees
Beginning along the Mediterranean coast, this expedition moves through the river valleys, volcanic hills, and mountain landscapes of Catalonia and the Pyrénées-Orientales region of France.
Pacific Northwest, Canada
This expedition explores the river systems, forests, and coastal ecosystems of British Columbia.
Participants travel through old-growth forests, and lake, river and the marine environments of the Pacific Northwest.
20 Day Regeneration Steward Intensive
The Regeneration Steward Intensive is a small-group immersive learning journey for participants seeking meaningful adventure, ecological awareness, creative collaboration, mentorship, and future-oriented learning.
Over twenty days, participants live and learn together through direct experience within forests, rivers, mountains, coastal regions, and rural communities in Canada, Spain, and France. Through ecological observation, storytelling, systems mapping, reflective dialogue, theatre, music, tracking, journaling, collaborative inquiry, and nature connection practices, cohorts explore humanity’s relationship with the living world and the challenges and possibilities of regeneration transitions.
The program combines experiential learning, ecological literacy, systems thinking, mentorship, and creative narrative exploration inspired by the River System of Human Time framework and the Seven Directions Compass.
Participants explore three interconnected learning domains:
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Nature Connection and Earth Regeneration
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Prosocial Connection and Community Regeneration
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Universal Connection and Human Regeneration
Designed for gap-year students, educators, homeschoolers, creative explorers, community innovators, and emerging regeneration stewards, the Intensive develops practical capacities for ecological awareness, collaboration, reflective inquiry, communication, systems understanding, and meaningful participation within rapidly changing global conditions.
Small international cohorts are intentionally designed to support genuine connection, intercultural exchange, collaborative creativity, and memorable shared experience.
10-Week Steward Foundations
The Regeneration Steward Foundations Program is an extended experiential and narrative learning journey exploring educational foundations for regeneration transitions through community living, mentorship, creative collaboration, and immersive shared experience.
Building upon the Regeneration Steward Intensive, participants move from personal exploration toward collaborative creation, facilitation, communication, and public engagement. Working in small international teams, cohorts develop immersive narratives, theatre, music, ecological storytelling projects, systems mapping experiences, creative media, and experiential learning activities inspired by the River System of Human Time and the Seven Directions Compass.
A central focus of the program is the collaborative design of future Thriving Futures 2100 Living Learning Events. Participants investigate areas of regeneration that most interest them and work together to create interactive learning experiences, presentations, exhibits, workshops, performances, and visitor activities that help bring thriving futures to life for schools, families, communities, and the public.
These learning pathways connect narrative exploration with direct experiential practices related to ecological awareness, community relationships, mentorship, reflective inquiry, creative expression, communication, and long-term regenerative perspectives.
Participants continue developing practical skills in:
• ecological observation and systems awareness
• mapping and tracking practices
• cooperation and collaborative governance
• narrative inquiry and meaning-making
• experiential education and mentorship
• stewardship and applied community practice
• creative facilitation and immersive storytelling
• presentation, media, and event design
Designed for gap-year students, educators, creative practitioners, sabbatical learners, homeschoolers, and emerging community mentors, the program supports deeper development in experiential facilitation, ecological literacy, collaborative leadership, creative communication, and regenerative community learning while contributing to the creation of future Thriving Futures 2100 experiences.