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John C. Campbell Folk School - Bethany Chaney and Annie Fain Barralon
Jun 11, 2026
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Anthroposophical Youth Movement - Adeline Lyons and Gabel Cramer
Jun 7, 2026
58m 37s
Reyn Hutten, Lulah Entwistle - Outer Coast, Sitka, Alaska
Apr 17, 2026
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Antón Barba-Kay - Microcollege Education Against Digital Dehumanization
Mar 27, 2026
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| 6/11/26 | ![]() John C. Campbell Folk School - Bethany Chaney and Annie Fain Barralon✨ | folk schoolcultural heritage+4 | Bethany ChaneyAnnie Fain Barralon | John C. Campbell Folk School | Brasstown, North Carolinasouthern Appalachia+1 | folk artscraft+6 | — | 52m 49s | |
| 6/7/26 | ![]() Anthroposophical Youth Movement - Adeline Lyons and Gabel Cramer✨ | AnthroposophyYouth Movement+4 | Adeline LyonsGabel Cramer | Anthroposophical SocietyFree Columbia+3 | Fair Oaks California | AnthroposophyYouth Section+4 | — | 58m 37s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Reyn Hutten, Lulah Entwistle - Outer Coast, Sitka, Alaska✨ | microcollege movementhigher education+4 | Reyn HuttenLulah Entwistle | Outer CoastThoreau College+1 | Sitka, AlaskaAlaska+2 | Outer Coastmicrocollege+5 | — | 1h 12m 01s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Antón Barba-Kay - Microcollege Education Against Digital Dehumanization✨ | digital technologyeducation+5 | Antón Barba-Kay | Thoreau CollegeSt. John's College+6 | Cambridge University | digital dehumanizationclassical philosophy+5 | — | 1h 00m 05s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Troy Vine - Masters in Transformative Learning, Ruskin Mill Centre, United Kingdom✨ | Transformative LearningHolistic Science+3 | Dr. Troy Vine | Ruskin Mill CentreUniversity College London+4 | — | Transformative LearningGoethe+3 | — | 56m 42s | |
| 3/18/26 | ![]() A Public Affair w/ Douglas Haynes on 89.9 WORT FM -- The State of the Microcollege Movement✨ | microcollege movementeducation+5 | Grace Greenwald | Thoreau CollegeSpringboard Foundation | MadisonWORT 89.9 FM | microcollegeThoreau College+8 | — | 57m 07s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Matt Voz & Shawn Lavoie - Youth Initiative High School✨ | educationWaldorf education+3 | Matt VozShawn Lavoie | Youth Initiative High SchoolThoreau College | Viroqua, Wisconsin | Youth Initiative High SchoolThoreau College+3 | — | 53m 31s | |
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Esther Crotser, Livian Roth-Amodt - Education for Solidarity and Resilience✨ | educationsocial justice+5 | Esther CrotserLivian Roth-Amodt | Youth Initiative High SchoolMinnesota Immigrants Rights Action Committee | MinneapolisSt Paul+1 | Youth Initiative High SchoolMinnesota Immigrants Rights Action Committee+5 | — | 49m 59s | |
| 2/4/26 | ![]() Kristen Case - The Monson Seminar and Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar✨ | Henry David ThoreauMonson Seminar+4 | Kristen Case | Thoreau CollegeUniversity of Southern Maine+3 | Monson, Maine | ThoreauMonson Seminar+4 | — | 52m 33s | |
| 1/23/26 | ![]() L. Jackson Newell - Lucien L. Nunn, Deep Springs College History, History and Philosophy of Experiemental Higher Education✨ | higher educationprogressive colleges+3 | L. Jackson Newell | Deep Springs CollegeUniversity of Utah+5 | — | L. Jackson NewellDeep Springs College+3 | — | 54m 45s | |
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| 1/13/26 | ![]() Melanie Lenehan - Fircroft College, Birmingham, England✨ | adult educationDanish folk high school+3 | Melanie Lenehan | Fircroft College | BirminghamWest Midlands | Fircroft Collegeadult education+3 | — | 58m 08s | |
| 1/4/26 | ![]() Mette and Lars Højland - Human First!, Menneske Først, LifeDialogues, Danish Folk High Schools✨ | folk high school educationtransformative pedagogy+3 | Mette HøjlandLars Højland | Menneske Først – LifeDialoguesDanish national church | — | folk high schoolpedagogy+3 | — | 1h 08m 27s | |
| 11/25/25 | ![]() Kayleigh Johnson, Julia Machlin - Lamplight Program, Guntersville, Alabama | Lamplight is a free three week summer program located in rural northern Alabama where teens practice leadership and service by running the camp themselves and doing projects for their community. Along the way, campers learn real-world skills and how to live together as a community. This unique program is rooted by a strong sense of place and is inspired by the educational ideas of L.L. Nunn, founder of Deep Springs College and the Telluride Association, as well as by the radical folk school model of the Highlander Folk School. In addition to the summer program, Lamplight is part of the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center (SMCEC), which promotes cooperative models of education and economic life. On this episode of podcast, founding camper and current staff member Kayleigh Johnson and returning staff member Julia Machlin give us the scoop.Lamplight: https://www.lamplightsummer.org/Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center: https://www.coopeducation.org/Thoreau College: https://thoreaucollege.org/Our Guests:Kayleigh Johnson is from the small town of Douglas, Alabama, located within Marshall County. When she was twelve, she became involved with Lamplight as part of their very first group of campers. Throughout the years Kayleigh has become more involved with Lamplight and is now a staff member. Outside of Lamplight, Kayleigh is working towards her general business degree as a freshman at the University of Alabama, where she later hopes to continue on to law school. Kayleigh aspires to combine everything Lamplight and college will teach her, into a career as a non-profit lawyer who stands up for worker-owners everywhere. This aspiration stems from working with SMCEC and other non-profits in contact with SMCEC. One of her favorite memories from Lamplight was in her last year as a camper when her and two other campers plus one staff conspired to purchase the staircase and charge everyone a toll to use it during the real-world simulation experiment.Julia Machlin hails from Ithaca, the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, where she first developed a passion for student led education. After completing undergrad, she found herself toggling between working in education and the Labor Movement, including teaching Social Studies in East Harlem, and working with various workers centers, and SEIU in hopes to find a marriage between two worlds working towards student and worker empowerment. It wasn't until she found Lamplight and the work of the Sand Mountain Cooperative Education Center (SMCEC) where she discovered a niche and intersection of people trying to solve similar problems. For the last four years, Julia has been a returning Lamplight Staff member, and now sits on the board of SMCEC. She is also one of the creators on Glow and Grow, a coopertivelt structured fundraising program that grants writes for burgeoning nonprofits in Alabama, and trains students to simultaneously be worker owners and grant writers. Some of her favorite SMCEC memories include getting Frank Hurricane to perform at the 2025 Brick and Barn Conference, and holding fundraisers in her friend's Brooklyn Bars. When she isn't in Alabama or Ithaca, Julia can be spotted in New York, completing her Masters in Education at Teachers College at Columbia University. She looks forward to a future of building worker power by way of empowering students in and out of the classroom. | 55m 07s | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | ![]() Libby Sanders - Camphill Academy, Camphill Research Network | Elizabeth (Libby) Sanders is the Executive Director of Camphill Academy, which offers tuition-free higher education in anthroposophic inclusive social development. Her academic work at the intersection of ecology and spirituality in America initially led her to the Camphill movement in 2011. In the interim, she has conducted research on public policy and disability services, models of communal living, inclusion in communal contexts, and critical anthroposophic research methodologies alongside her work in Camphill. Libby lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with her partner, Clayton, and their cats.https://camphill.edu/https://research.camphill.edu/ | 1h 07m 40s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | ![]() Ivey Patton - Gap Year Launchpad | Ivey Patton, founder of Gap Year Basecamp, is a passionate advocate for transformative travel experiences. As a dedicated gap year counselor helping young adults plan and thrive on travel adventures around the world, she guides young people through the complexities of independent travel and helps them choose from the vast number of amazing gap programs and opportunities.After college and a decade of world travel, Ivey settled with her family in Durango, Colorado, where she’s worn many hats: teacher, small business owner, summer camp founder, and ski instructor. Fueled on caffeine and enthusiasm, she’s happiest when exploring on foot, wild swimming, and eating breakfast at foreign cafes.Gap Year Launchpad Brussels 2025: https://www.unschooladventures.com/trips/gyl-2025/GYL Brussels 2026: https://www.gapyearbasecamp.com/brussel-summer-2026Program Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1Ox9MhXuPY8Px5JRZ9R9VLT-wAr8yqKIOzRPzotbMDgA/edit?usp=sharing&urp=gmail_link | 52m 38s | ||||||
| 10/27/25 | ![]() Ezra Fradkin, Liz Jordan - Kroka Expeditions, Adventure Education, Wilderness and Consciousness | Kroka Expeditions is a non-profit wilderness expedition school and organic farm that fosters a living relationship with the natural world and the development of skilled, compassionate, and community-minded young people.Working with youth ages 9 to 19, Kroka provides unique wilderness programs centered around the cultivation of consciousness and altruistic will. The container of multi-day expeditions traveling through wild places is one that pushes us as human beings to experience vulnerability and reliance on community (both human and non-human). In return, we are rewarded with humility, compassion, elation, a sense of reverence for the natural world, and a deep feeling of belonging.Grounded on 120 beautiful acres of forest, wetland, and farmland in Marlow, NH, the Kroka Village has grown over the years to become an intentional community of residential staff, a biodynamic farm, and a basecamp that supports the magic of learning and growth to happen. Offering 8-weeks of summer programs, spring and fall programs for school groups, and two semester programs, the Kroka Village is a bustling place!Ezra Fradkin: A New England native, Ezra grew up in an intentional community in Amherst, Massachusetts. After high school Ezra attended Kroka’s Ecuador Semester and went on to study sustainable food systems at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, VT. He completed an MA in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College (UK) in 2021. Ezra joined the Kroka team in 2016 has since held roles from expedition leader, program administrator, campus manager and is currently serving as a co-director.Liz Jordan: Liz joined Kroka 4 years ago, and is currently the semester director. She grew up in northern Virginia, and has worked as an educator--in classrooms, in the wilderness, and in yoga studios--throughout her adult life. Liz has studied many things in formal classroom settings, but feels the most alive and joyful when moving her body outside and crafting. Liz currently lives in Vermont with her husband, their 2 children and other adorable creatures.Kroka Expeditions: https://kroka.org/Thoreau College: www.thoreaucollege.orgDriftless Folk School: www.driftlessfolkschool.org | 1h 00m 46s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Jennifer DeCoste - LifeSchoolHouse, Folk School Networks, Community Development | Jennifer is dedicated to work that builds strong and connected communities. She is the Founder of a non-profit network of barter-based folkschools called LifeSchoolHouse that began n Nova Scotia, Canada. This platform for grassroots skills sharing creates stronger mor interconnected neighborhoods and reduces the impact of social isolation by offering nourishing spaces where neighbors can learn, connect, and thrive. This project has been scaled globally and Jennifer is the first person in Atlantic Canada to receive the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship for her work.Jennifer and her partner are also growing a new social enterprise in Nova Scotia called FireLoch: a space in the forest for community, care, and continuous learning. As a social enterprise, FireLoch is a forested retreat space with a sustainable model to support charitable work: offering bursaries and scholarships for deep rest and care for teams from the Non-Profit and Charitable sector in Nova Scotia.Jennifer has two children and sources great joy from introducing them to the true prosperity in Atlantic Canada: a history of cooperative action, the shared wisdom of multiple generations, and the kindness of strangers.LifeSchoolHouse - https://www.lifeschoolhouse.com/ Download Jennifer's Book "Tea for Community" - https://www.lifeschoolhouse.com/start-a-folkschoolOrder "Tea for Community" from the Folk School Alliance - https://www.folkeducation.org/Sys/Store/Products/346171FireLoch Gathering Place and Retreat - https://fireloch.com/Thoreau College: www.thoreaucollege.orgDriftless Folk School: www.driftlessfolkschool.org | 59m 33s | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | ![]() Chris Higgins - Philosophy of Formative Education | Chris Higgins is Professor and Chair in the Department of Formative Education in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College where he co-directs the BA program in Transformative Educational Studies and the Ph.D. program in Formative Education. A philosopher of education, he has written on the existential dimensions of teaching and learning, the idea of education as a public good; humanism and liberal learning; imagination and aesthetic education; practice and vocational formation, and the experimental tradition in higher education. He is the author of two books, The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024).PDF of Chris' book Undeclared: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5780/UndeclaredA-Philosophy-of-Formative-HigherAmazon link to purchase physical copy: https://a.co/d/buF1N3IRomance and Reality of Vocation: https://socialconcerns.nd.edu/research/virtues/magazine-home-fall-2025/the-romance-and-reality-of-vocational-fit/Thoreau College: www.thoreaucollege.orgDriftless Folk School: www.driftlessfolkschool.org | 1h 08m 42s | ||||||
| 8/16/25 | ![]() Episode #67: Ezra Sullivan - Threefold Educational Foundation Youth Co-Lab | For this episode of the Microcollege podcast we welcome Ezra Sullivan, of the Threefold Education Foundation in Chestnut Ridge, New York, one of the major centers of anthroposophical work and study in North America. This fall, Ezra will be leading an innovative new semi-individualized learning program called the Youth Co-Lab. This program aims to "rethink how society could reflect the nobility of the human soul" and is structured around three interconnected pillars:Study: Developing an inner capacity for meaningInitiative: Creating projects that address contemporary challengesService: Grounding wisdom in practical community engagementBorn in Los Angeles, Ezra Sullivan moved to South America after high school to initiate an inquiry into the life and being of man and nature with meditation and agriculture. In Latin America, Rudolf Steiner’s ideas quickly reached Ezra through work with biodynamic agriculture. He returned to the US three years later and the following nine years were focused mainly in the Pacific Northwest on biodynamic agriculture, nonprofit leadership, the intentional communities movement, and non-violent activism. In 2022, Ezra studied at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. His focus now lies primarily in the social realm including adult engagement in Anthroposophy and renewing organizations. In 2024, Ezra moved to Threefold Community in New York.Links:Youth Co-Lab: https://threefold.org/youth/Beginning Anthroposophy Intro Course: https://threefold.org/introcourse/Threefold Education Foundation: https://threefold.org/Thoreau College: www.thoreaucollege.orgDriftless Folk School: www.driftlessfolkschool.org | 59m 23s | ||||||
| 8/1/25 | ![]() Episode #66: Julia Buskirk, Benjamin Bernard-Herman - Thoreau College Residencies | Over the past several months, Thoreau College has marked several milestones in our growth and development. As of this year, we are now able to offer transferable college credits for our summer and gap semester programs through a new partnership with Prescott College. And this summer we will be welcoming several students from Oberlin College and Stanford University to Wisconsin as interns and participants in our July Driftless Field School program through exciting new partnerships with those schools. Find out more about Thoreau College and apply to the Metamorphosis Gap Semester on our website www.thoreaucollege.orgOn this episode of the podcast we meet two people who have had a big impact on the growth and development of Thoreau College while exploring our unique Scholar-in-Residence program which enables scholars (or artists) to participate in Thoreau College as teachers and mentors for up to a year at a time while working on major research and/or creative projects of their own.Benjamin Bernard-Herman was the 2023-2024 Thoreau College Scholar-in-Residence and is currently serving as a Thoreau College Faculty member as one of the lead instructors of our 2025 Driftless Field School summer program. He is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago whose dissertation research is focused on the spiritual and ethical beliefs and ideas that inform the lives and decisions of people engaging in small scale agriculture here in the Driftless Region, including members of the Amish community and back-to-the-land movement, and practitioners of biodynamics.Julia Buskirk was the 2024-2024 Thoreau College Scholar-in-Residence, as well as a past participant in our Fellowship program in 2021. A native of Milwaukee and a graduate of UW-Madison, Julia has spent the past year teaching and mentoring Thoreau College students while conducting archival and oral history research for her forthcoming historical novel which is focused on agriculture and ecology here in the Driftless Region during the era of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.Learn more about our Residency program here: https://thoreaucollege.org/residencies/ | 59m 06s | ||||||
| 6/21/25 | ![]() Episode #65: Stanton Davis - The Living Voice, Breath, Vitality, Theater, Viroqua Shakespeare Festival | Stanton Davis is the Head of Voice and Speech at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where he serves as speech and dialect coach for the graduate and undergraduate actors. Previously, he served in similar roles at Temple University's Theatre Department and SUNY New Paltz where he taught voice, acting, Shakespeare, dramatic literature, and stage combat.Stanton received his MFA in acting from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program, and his BFA from the University of Utah Actor Training Program.Stanton has worked professionally as an actor (stage, film and TV commercials), fight choreographer, stagehand, director, stunt man, voice coach , dialect coach and education director at theatres throughout the country. Stanton is a member of the Independent Fight Director's Guild and is a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voice Work.Professional credits include: The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC) Peoples Light and Theatre, The Wilma, The Lantern, and Intrepid Theatres (in Philadelphia), Delaware Theatre Company, City Theatre of Wilmington and First State Children's Theatre (In Delaware), The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Lab Arizona, Court Yard Players Touring Company, Arizona Jewish Theatre, AKA Theatre, Tucson Actors Studio, Candlelight Theatre Company (NYC), New Paltz Summer Rep, York Little Theatre, and the Arizona, Tucson, South West, Baltimore, Wisconsin, Park City, Utah, and now Viroqua Shakespeare Festivals | 1h 06m 12s | ||||||
| 11/5/24 | ![]() Episode #64: Craig Holdredge, Ryan Shea - Goethean Science, Nature Institute, Ghent, NY | For this episode of the podcast I spoke with Craig Holdrege and Ryan Shea of the Nature Institute in Ghent, New York about the theory and practice of a very different way of doing science, informed and inspired by the work of the great German poet, scientist, and statesman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In contrast to the reductionist paradigm of science as it is often practiced elsewhere today, the Goethean approach seeks a perspective on nature characterized by wholeness and interconnection through a sensitive and self-aware methodology in which the relationships between the phenomena and the observer are not forgotten. Craig was a visiting instructor at Thoreau College in 2020 and we are very excited to welcome Ryan to Wisconsin as guest instructor this coming spring during our Spring 2025 Metamorphosis Gap Semester.Craig Holdrege is the Nature Institute’s director and spearheaded its founding in 1998. His passion is to develop what Goethe called “delicate empiricism” — an approach that learns from nature how to understand nature and is infused with a cautious and critical awareness of how intentions and habits of mind affect human understanding. Craig carries out studies of animals and plants that tell the story of these organisms as dynamic and integrated beings within the larger web of life. He has written many articles and books, including Seeing the Animal Whole—And Why It Matters, Do Frogs Come from Tadpoles? and Thinking Like a Plant. Before co-founding The Nature Institute, Craig was a high school biology teacher in Waldorf Schools, working in Germany for 12 years and then in the U.S. for nine years. Since the early 1990s, Craig has been involved in teacher training. Craig has a Ph.D. in sustainability education from Prescott College in Arizona. He completed a Masters-level, non-degree program in phenomenological science at the Science Research Laboratory at the Goetheanum, Switzerland, and has a B.A. in philosophy from Beloit College.Ryan Shea taught at Providence College for eight years, including courses in philosophy of science, environmental philosophy, and nature writing. He has B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy. He brings to his work at The Nature Institute a broad knowledge of ancient philosophical biology (especially Aristotle), the scientific revolution, phenomenology, German idealism, and Goethean qualitative science. Ryan has been interested in Goethean Science since he was a teenager. He began working part-time for The Nature Institute in spring 2023 and is full-time as of September 2024. He is excited to now have the opportunity to develop Goethean practice through research and teaching. He is interested in pursuing the nature of metamorphosis in different realms of the living world, and what it means to read the “book of nature.” Nature Institute: https://www.natureinstitute.org/Metamorphosis Gap Semester - Spring 2025 - https://thoreaucollege.org/metamorphosis-spring/ | 1h 07m 29s | ||||||
| 11/1/24 | ![]() Episode #63: Grace Greenwald - Pedagogies to Address the Meaning Crisis | On this episode of the podcast we talk with Grace Greenwald, Research Director at the Springboard Foundation for Whole Person Learning about the white paper she recently researched and wrote entitled "Distinctive Pedagogies that Address the "Meaning Crisis' in Higher Education:" Case Studies from Microcolleges and Living-Learning Institutes." This study is a marvelous new resource for the growing Microcollege Movement, featuring case studies of 4 exemplars of this new field: Thoreau College, Outer Coast, the Tidelines Institute, and the Seguinland Institute. Applying concepts from the work of cognitive scientist John Vervaeke on the "meaning crisis," Grace explores ways in which intimate, place based, and physically engaged higher education programs like these help to cultivate a sense of meaning and purpose for their students. Grace Greenwald graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Biology concentrating in Neuroethics, and received her M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied education leadership and school design. She served on the team building Outer Coast, a nascent liberal arts college in the rural island community of Sitka, Alaska, and later supported The Burke Middle School in Boston and Workshop U in Philadelphia. At Springboard, Grace helps to tell the story of emerging small-scale, place-based schools and their communities through portraiture, research, writing, and narrative. On her own time, Grace is learning her way around a woodshop, and thinking about the role that labor, building, and fabrication could have in our education system.Springboard Foundation for Whole Person Learning: https://www.springboardlife.org/Distinctive Pedagogies that Address the "Meaning Crisis" in Higher Education: https://indd.adobe.com/view/50a1af48-a183-4a1e-91bb-c70ae0defa91Outer Coast: https://outercoast.org/Tidelines Institute: https://www.tidelinesinstitute.org/Seguinland Institute: https://www.seguinlandinstitute.org/Thoreau College: https://thoreaucollege.org/ | 57m 25s | ||||||
| 10/30/24 | ![]() Episode #62 - Drs. Rutger Engels, Ginie Servant-Miklos - Bildung Climate School, Rotterdam, NL | This week on the podcast we spoke with Drs. Rutger Engels and Ginie Servant-Miklos, who recently staged the "Bildung Climate School," a part-type summer pilot program in Rotterdam, the Netherlands that draws inspiration from the model of the Danish folk high school as described by Lene Rachel Andersen in The Nordic Secret as well as from the microcolleges in the United States. Carefully structured from a research perspective to test pedagogical strategies and program impacts for future prototypes and initiatives, the Bildung Climate School brought together students from differing tracks of the Netherlands' highly stratified post-secondary education system for 2 hours per day for 9 weeks during the summer of 2024. The program they experienced put into practice elements of what Ginie calls "the pedagogies of collapse," combining a frank examination of the sobering ecological and economic challenges facing humanity with embodied artistic and social practices and techniques for working through anxiety, building community, and even having fun.Ginie Servant-Miklos is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experience in education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research and education work focuses on developing innovative pedagogies for societal impact. She developed the Experimental Pedagogics educational design framework, co-founded the Bildung Climate School with Prof. Rutger Engels, and is the author of Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It. She is a Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network for educational innovators in the Netherlands. She is the founder and chair of the board of the FairFight Foundation, an organisation that provides girls and women from Zambia, Zimbabwe, and India with the mental and physical benefits of martial arts practice, as well as educational support. Ginie is a vocal activist for sustainability and gender equality, advocating for change through public engagements like TEDx talks, debates, podcasts, and other digital media outlets. Ginie obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Kent, an LLM in International Law from Kent Law School, an MA in International Relations from Sciences Po Lille, a PhD in Education Philosophy and Psychology from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a post-doctoral research grant in Sustainability Education from Aalborg University. She was also a visiting professor in Experimental Pedagogics at Tyumen University.Rutger Engels, PhD, is an award-winning full professor in Developmental Psychopathology, at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), and a board member of the venture philanthropy ‘De Verre Bergen’. Dr Engels received his MA in Psychology at the University of Groningen, his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Maastricht, followed by a post-doc at Utrecht University. In 2001, he was appointed as a professor in Nijmegen. From 2014-2018, he was CEO of the Trimbos Institute, the National Institute for Mental Health and Addictions, and a distinguished professor in Developmental Psychopathology at Utrecht University. From 2018-2021, he was Rector Magnificus of EUR, one of the top public research universities of Europe. Currently, he is cofounding a specialized mental health clinic on psychedelic-assisted treatments. His fundamental and applied research focuses on mental health and substance use in adolescents and adults. In the last decades, he has coordinated programs aiming to design, test, and ship (technology-enabled) interventions for mental health, addictions, resiliency, and personal growth. | 1h 09m 24s | ||||||
| 10/8/24 | ![]() Episode #61: Felipe Medina, Jakob Seidler - Suna Barichara, Colombia | In this episode of Microcollege, we speak with Felipe Medina and Jakob Seidler, two of the co-founders of Suna Barichara, an aspiring microcollege and educational center located in a remarkable rural community and dry tropical forest biome in the mountains of Colombia. According to their website, Suna Barichara is "a living education platform created to support people become the authors of their lives and weave futures of connection and reciprocal flourishing of life. This is what we mean by growing whole... Suna offers an open registry and series of learning routes, that grant locals and visitors the possibility of meeting meaningfully to learn how to live better on earth in connection. Suna is a Muysca word that means the meeting of important or sacred paths."Join us for an inspiring conversation about the influences and life experiences that have led Felipe and Jakob to this project and about how thoughtfully enacted place based education might serve as an alternative to the extractive industries that have done so much damage in rural areas of Latin America and elsewhere in the world.Suna Barichara: https://sunabarichara.com/Thoreau College: https://thoreaucollege.org/ | 54m 10s | ||||||
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