Collaborative and holistic learning in progress
– updated along our mutual journey
“The ultimate goal of sustainability is to improve and maintain human well-being, [...]
[whilst] protecting the earth’s life-support system.”
(Wu 2013 p. 1007)
I co-create collaborative and holistic workshops tailored to the needs of environmental and sustainability scientists from undergrad student to professor level as well as (non-scientific) people and organizations dedicating their private and work life to the promotion of human and natural well-being. To me, collaborative means the opposite of top down, i.e. me defining the focal topic(s) of the workshop and offering it to the participants. I prefer we together explore and specify what your need is or your needs are. I am responsible for turning your intention and goals into our workshop experience. A holistic approach, i.e. integrating verbal and non-verbal communication, embodiment, and creativity techniques, is core to our workshops.
I co-created workshops that acknowledge both thoughts and feelings, e.g. in the context of
a conference on sustainability and arts-based research hosted by Prof. Harald Heinrichs and Dr. Sacha Kagan at Leuphana University,
the A Mindset for the Anthropocene (AMA) conference hosted by Dr Thomas Bruhn and his lab group at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS),
10 year anniversary workshop of the The Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS),
an educational seminar for participants of the ecological federal voluntary service hosted by Stiftung Naturschutz.
Berliner Woche für seelische Gesundheit 2020: Pantarei Approach – Spüre Deine Kraft (wieder) in Krisenzeiten.
I feel honored to co-create workshops with a focus on well-being of students and academic professionals together with Prof. Berta Martín-López from Leuphana University. I have offered such workshops - in place and online - to the broad community of sustainability science students as well as to the students of the Minor in Sustainability Science who engaged in the two year action oriented research project on ecological restoration for sustainability.
Diving into the experience herself inspired Prof. Berta Martín-López to write a poem, that she is pleased to share with you:
Intimacy of sensing
Fingertips becoming hugs
— curiosity
—— reaching out
—— exploring together
—— being together
— and all of those
by preserving my inner soul.
The workshop IN TOUCH WITH WELL-BEING invited, among others, PhD candidate Theres Konrad to sense herself embodied, in a state of moving and feeling. Poetically expressed as follows:
many souls
like many leaves
on a tree
with ease we are moving
through space
receptive like your roots for water