Re-imagining education with Manish Jain & Benjamin Freud

In this episode, we discuss regenerative learning with transformational educators Manish Jain and Dr Benjamin Freud.

Manish Jain is a leading advocate for un-learning, de-schooling, and deepening place-based knowledge systems. He is the co-founder of Swaraj University, India’s first self-designed people’s university where each student can follow their own unique learning path, and Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India. He also helped launch the global Ecoversities Alliance, a network of alternative universities aiming to reimagine higher education.

Dr. Benjamin Freud is an educator, learning dialogist, writer, and podcaster. Benjamin is the Head of Upper School and Strategic Lead,Regenerative Education at Green School Bali, where he oversees the Middle and High School learning programs. He currently leads the design and implementation of the school’s Biomimicry for Regenerative Design (BiRD) curriculum, a first of its kind approach in K-12 that creates learning experiences in service of Life.

Episode hosts:

Dr Daniel Christian Wahl works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative design, whole systems design and transformative innovation. His vast catalogue of forward-thinking work (notably his book Designing Regenerative Cultures) has inspired and enabled people from all walks of life to apply regenerative design to their own contexts.

Philipa Duthie is a PhD student at the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Her research explores relational ecologies of belonging and the revitalisation of Place-relationships. Along with co-hosting, Philipa is also the producer of Coming Home to Life.