RegeneratED Retreat

Thanks to the success of last year, we are delighted to be running RegeneratED again this year.

Read this report to find out more about last year’s event.

The Visionaries and The Quadrangle invite you to a community gathering of educators to explore ways to grow a more regenerative education system. This invitation is for anyone working in formal and informal learning, mainstream and alternative settings, across all ages, from cradle-to-career and beyond.

We’ll enquire into systemic challenges and new approaches to education as well as providing a space to slow down and connect through mindfulness, embodiment and nature connection practices – so as to help you to reconnect with your purpose within education.

Spend a weekend with other educators outside the classroom and leave feeling more connected to nature and better equipped to lead as a healthier, more nourished self.

We are living in a time in-between worlds, facing urgent calls to evolve our relationship with nature, with younger generations, and with social justice. Will you join us?

Join us to
Rediscover your intrinsic motivation for being an educator and discern smart next steps. This weekend will include a collective imagination process, exploring regenerative education as a key ingredient in shaping a healthier future.

Resource yourself by meeting a truly diverse and supportive community of education leaders; unlikely allies, working in many different ways, whilst sharing one core commitment: to better support future generations and nature to flourish.

Revitalise yourself with a restorative and restful weekend in a beautiful natural setting, nurturing your health, wellbeing and nature-connectedness.

Image credit: Federico Rivas

Costs
The cost of the ticket covers accommodation, running costs for the weekend and all food and drinks.

Abundant Ticket – £600
For those with the means to pay for their place and another with less means.
Standard Ticket – £350
A standard price ticket, which helps to cover the events running costs.
Subsidised ticket – £150
A subsidised ticket, thanks to our sponsors Be The Earth Foundation. These are open to anyone who needs it to access the event.

Accommodation
Accommodation will be provided on site across a mix of some private and twin rooms (available on request), a very comfortable dormitory and a beautiful campsite.

What is ‘Regenerative Education’?
“Education for regenerative cultures is about the life-long process of enabling and building the capacity of everyone to express their unique potential to serve their community and the planet and in the process serve themselves.” – Daniel Christian Wahl

Many sectors and leaders are starting to look towards more regenerative futures i.e. one in which people and planet thrive together.

Could we navigate the steep learning curve ahead by learning more from earth’s living systems? How do we live, learn and work in healthier and more adaptive ways, thriving within planetary boundaries? Might we be able to support people and communities to not just ‘do no harm’ but proactively support our planet and its many residents?

This retreat is for you if…..
-You’re on a mission to improve how we educate and support children, young people and our planet to thrive.
-You work in formal or informal schooling, alternative provision, outdoor education, further education and/or progressive education.
-You want to connect with others who are also helping to create a healthier paradigm in education.
-You support educators through training, wellbeing, consulting, coaching, facilitating.
-You are a driven young person and/or someone with an ambition or calling to work in education and learning.
-You are interested in systems change, exploring conflicts that might be holding us back and/or more regenerative approaches to economy and society.
-You value creating intentional space to dream big and you like to translate ideas into action.

During the weekend we will explore three guiding themes centred around the idea of kinship – exploring ways we might regenerate the relationships we exist within.

As your hosts, we will invite you to explore at the level of values, experience and identity. We will offer opportunities for deep systems enquiry, we will create space for emergence and co-creation to explore pressing issues and topics, we will look at some of the conflicts and polarisations that might be holding us back, and we will weave nature connection and wellbeing practices throughout the weekend.

Expect to leave feeling deeply nourished by nature, inspired by your peers, and stimulated into new paradigms of understanding.

Our guiding themes are
– Kinship with yourself
How do we equip ourselves and others to lead from a healthy self?
What self-care practises and rituals can help us and our learners to thrive?
How do we nourish ourselves to be able to think beyond the everyday and participate in a larger shared mission?

– Kinship with each other
What’s outside our current awareness and what can we learn with and from each other?
Who might be key or as yet unknown allies with whom you should be collaborating?
How do we build safe and supportive communities of practice without getting overwhelmed?

– Kinship with nature
How might we help learners to reconnect with nature and feel its healing benefits?
How could nature be even more of a co-facilitator or teacher in your workplace and pedagogy?
How do we practice reciprocity?