Resources

Full Moon Reflections

Liliana Gutierrez is a graduate of the Academy Fellowship Program based in La Paz, Mexico.

As you look at the moon tonight and enjoy, take a moment, take a breath, feel the circle you belong to, feel the circle you are… take a moment and surrender to the full simplicity and power of a circle.

It is 8 o’clock in the morning, […]

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I Would Choose No Straw!

Academy Fellow, Marissa Jablonski PhD, is a development engineer and educator who collaborates and cooperates with transdisciplinary groups worldwide wrestling with complex concerns related to water,  sustainability, and culture. In this blog, Marissa shares her recent experience working with hotels in Phuket, Thailand to eliminate single-use plastics in their rooms.
WHAT IF YOUR NAME GOT WRITTEN ONTO EVERY PIECE OF PLASTIC YOU USED… […]

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Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation

 

Academy Fellow, Joshua Cubista, is an international experiential designer, facilitator, and strategist. This month Joshua co-authored and published the Global Education Futures Report: Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation.

 

We paradoxically live in the midst of accelerating global complex socio-ecological challenges while at the same time we are immersed in a windfall of increasingly vibrant human innovation and ingenuity the world over. […]

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The Soil Under Our Feet

When people and organizations have different stakes and challenges within complex systems, how do we help them collectively create change?
The following is taken from an article (reposted from the Presenting Institute) written by Academy co-Founder, Hal Hamilton, and Elizabeth Reaves of the Sustainable Food Lab. You can read the full article here.

This past June, while facilitating a learning journey with a […]

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Free Webinar – Restoring Leadership as a Noble Profession

Creating Islands of Sanity: Restoring Leadership as a Noble Profession

On May 11th, the Academy hosted Margaret Wheatley in discussion about her latest book: Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity.

You can watch the webinar here

Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles, as a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. […]

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The Journey from Academy Fellow to Faculty

Our former Donella Meadows intern Catherine Rocchi, talked with Yunlan Ni about her experience as an Academy Fellow 

A participant in the first cohort of Fellows, Yunlan Ni feels deeply transformed by the Fellows program. “People sometimes think the word ‘destiny’ is too much,” she said, “but I really feel that way about the Fellows program.”

Yunlan describes the Fellowship as “a […]

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