In this episode of The (Re)generative Education Podcast I chat with dr. Daniel Christian Wahl, international thought leader, consultant and educator involved with a variety of educational programmes in the field of regenerative design at Schumacher´s College, Findhorn College and Gaia University amongst others.
In this chat Daniel argues for a shift from education as problem-solving and becoming locally attuned to the uniqueness of place within bioregions. The process we need to educate for is the ability to act in the face of dynamically changing contexts. He sees the heart of regeneration as integrating human patterns with conditions that are conducive to creating life. Subsequently the challenge for education to play an active part in restoring this connection. This, he argues, is a destination without arrival.
In this discussion the following systemic barriers and opportunities emerged:
- The importance of taking a relational, connected (holistic), perspective on what life can be.
- The power of starting education from the way our minds constructs narratives, structures and organizes the complexity of the material world.
- The ability of design to act as a DJ that mix-and-matches to apply connected knowledges into practice that is right at the intersection of hollistic approaches to sciences.
- The big challenge for education is to bring back the kaleidoscopic picture of bringing a lot of different disciplines together to understand the complexity of which we are a part.
- Argues for a more humble approach to science as an appropiate participation in complexity, with the main aim being to finding better questions to ask.
- The importance of placing education central in one’s life as well as our communities.
- Avoiding the mistake of engaging with dichotomies and playing with the space in between and/or.
External Links:
Daniel Christian Wahl – Medium
Designing Regenerative Cultures - Triarchy Press
Daniel Christian Wahl - Resilience
Daniel Christian Wahl, PhD | LinkedIn
Daniel Christian Wahl – GaiaEducation.org
Qualitative Systems Thinking | H3Uni
