Eco-Civ Educator Network
A New Program Emerging from the Living Earth Youth Dialogues Sharing From The Heart – Introducing an innovative program inspired by the heartfelt conversations of the Living Earth Youth Dialogues.
The main catalyst
Xinlin Vivian Song
Xinlin Song is an educator, writer, and program director at Yunhe Centre, a place-based learning program founded in 2015 in Danba, a former mining county of the eastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, China. Her work focuses on forming cross-sector Glocal collaborations to create meaningful dialogues that ignite social change.
At Yunhe Center, her work focuses on developing programs that engage locals and the visitors with meaningful dialogues towards cultural appreciation, self-development and ecological restoration. She also writes bilingually about regenerative development, worldview change, teachings of indigenous ecological wisdom, and re-valuing the countryside for various publications within China and beyond.
Xinlin is currently working on deepening her knowledge of the place and the community where Yunhe Centre is embraced while developing programs and experiences that facilitate a process of De-learn, Re-learn, and Re-member. She is also a researcher of the new economic theory, and the traditional ecological knowledge, and where these two meets.
Program Components
Definition
Eco-Civ Educator Network is a supportive online community of ecological educators coming together to work on individual or collaborative projects aimed at creating positive changes within the educational system in alignment with Eco-Civ.
Learning Circles
Delve into the teachings of process thinkers such as Whitehead, John Cobb, and John Dewey, and draw inspiration from the Center for Ecoliteracy, Chinese traditional philosophy, and world Indigenous wisdom in our engaging Learning Circles.
Project Lab
Support educators in collaboratively creating and refining teaching methods while offering a platform for testing these approaches with fellow educators and students who share similar goals and values.
Funding and Application Support
Develop a comprehensive Eco-Civ literacy curriculum and establish partnerships with public and private schools and learning centers.
Regional Gathering
Structure and Format
Set up regular online meetings and workshops facilitated by community members, an online forum, or a WhatsApp group for sharing resources, along with an introductory page on the Living Earth Movement website for important announcements.
Listening to You
Further engagement and suggestions are welcome!
