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Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginatevePuppeteer- Zach StockPuppeteer Zach Stock joins us to discus his regenerative lifestyle in craft and action.
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2024-01-152h 11Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveNeuro-divergence: A Conversation with a FatherHow does understanding and supporting neurodivergent learning benefit all students?
In this episode we are joined by David Dolezal, a friend and father who brings us insights on his journey raising a neurodivergent child. We explore the benefits of nature play for being the catalyst for expression. David walks us through his process of learning the unique lens with which his son sees the world and the pragmatics of working within the system to receive support services.
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2023-10-302h 21Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveBlackbird RenaissanceIn this episode we interview Sleepy and Mitch from Blackbird Renaissance, a movement to bring forth creative, regenerative and authentic community networks. The conversation covers the challenges of creating a parallel system to the current paradigm where participants can drive meaningful change.
Learn more about the Blackbird Renaissance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0856RlA0ClU
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2023-09-261h 45Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEcological Educator Peter KindfieldThis is a rich conversation with seasoned Ecological Educator Peter Kindfield.
Peter reveals his insights on moving from an "All Children Left Behind" system to educational environments that mutually "leak value" between the participants.
Highlights include:
Home School Learning Communities
Synthesis through Integrating Dualities (chaos: domesticity)
Assessment Feedback Loops
Ecologically Driven Pedagogy
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2023-08-131h 57Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveCalendars and Learning CyclesIn this episode we digest some of the nuances and challenges of working with calendars and revisit the origins of how we developed a cyclical leveling system for assessing development by connecting with the Mayan sacred calendar.
A big shout out to antimoon.com for their content that helped provide direction and reassurance in fluid language learning. Thanks guys!
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2023-08-042h 03Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveThe 4th of JulyCarl and Ron reflect on how their time abroad has changed the way they consider their relationship to country.
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2023-07-052h 16Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveMusic Supports Early LiteracyMusic is a fundamental part of early literacy. Engaging old folk songs employs rich language and allusions that inform critical thinking and cultural development. In this episode, Pete Best-Hall joins us to discuss our journey with song and early childhood instruction.
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2023-06-172h 09
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginatevePlant Mentors Part II with Rudionna GarzaIn this episode we continue the conversation of plants as mentors and draw out the analogies to holistic education. Rudionna Garza joins us to share her journey and insights as a regenerative gardener and lead mentor of FLORA: the Forest Laboratory of Regenerative Arts.
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2023-05-191h 44
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveTine and Toil CSA Farm: (Plant Mentors Part I)This week we had the fortune to speak with Nathan Hastler Brooks of Tine and Toil Farm in Pottstown, PA. Nathan walks us through how he came to community based agriculture, the leap to running his own operation, and his relationships with plants and the soil.
Learn more about Tine and Toil Farm at: https://www.tineandtoilfarm.com
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2023-05-031h 43
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveChester's Wild Meats- Community Oriented ButcherWhere do you get your wild harvest processed?
In this episode we speak with Chester Emmons and Justin Howard of Chester's Wild Meat and Game Processing in Kalamazoo Michigan. Chester Emmons (yes, Carl's brother) describes his journey as an independent butcher and how he has grown a successful, community-oriented deer processing business.
https://chesterswildmeat.com/
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2023-04-081h 48
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEducating for the Soul (S3E6)In this final episode of season 3 (Calli), we review the essay by Thomas Moore "Educating for the Soul" which appears in Holistic Learning And Spirituality In Education: Breaking New Ground (2005), edited by John P. Miller and more.
We discuss the idea of breaking from the path of secular/conventional education that is not designed to teach for the soul. Why is the soul important? How might we change our behaviors and strategies to open up an embracing of soul centered learning?
Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Learning-Spirituality-Education-Breaking/dp/0791463524
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2023-03-303h 04
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveSo, You Want to Start a Nature School . . . Special Guest Kristina Flint of Children of the WildKristina Flint, Mama Chief of Children of the Wild forest school in Casco, Maine joins the podcast this week to discuss her venture into an in-home early learning business. We address challenges to launching into a solo endeavor and the people who inspire us to tale the leap.
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2023-03-011h 49
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveChaos vs. Domesticity: The Magic of Coyote Energy in Learning (S3E5)How do we allow space for the unexpected to drive learning? How do we suppress our need for control in order to see the never-before-seen moments germinate into authentic relationships that build trust and fruits of development for all participants in the learning environment?
In this episode:
Herman Hesse- Beneath the Wheel- What is the aim of conventional education?
Penetrating our little boxes of ideology and the natural tendency to categorize
The importance of humor (Trickster Energy) in and out of the classroom
The relationship between toil and gratitude
2023-02-181h 23
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveFunction & Design of the Learning Environment (S3E7)How does the design of a Learning Environment propel or limit learning potential?
In this episode:
Designing a learning environment to move beyond utilitarian function and secular aesthetics to exalt something greater than us.
How does the design of a learning environment (and sometimes the adults themselves) limit growth?
Rant on why children should be able to eat snow.
Learning Pods and Forest Schools.
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2023-02-141h 28Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveFollowing a Cosmic Rhythm with Special Guest Kevin SmithKevin Smith is a renowned drummer based in Denver, Colorado. In this episode Kevin walks us through his journey as a drummer over more than six decades of music evolution. Kevin grew up mingling with high profile celebrities and musicians being the son of Kenny Smith, co-founder of Taylor's Supper Club, a popular venue on West Colfax through the 50s and 60s. He recounts the grief of losing his younger brother at an early age, his spiritual quest, and the evolution of music as a drummer having dropped out of middle school to hit the road touring.
2023-02-041h 39Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveUpcycling to Create Learning Resources: Toys from Trash (S3E5)How do our resources define our relationship with our ecology and creativity?
In this episode Carl and Ron discuss the evolution and process of developing a creative eye for seeing the possibilities in turning refuse into resources for holistic learning environments.
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2023-01-261h 25Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveBecoming a Queen Bee: Special Guest Jenn BonillaBuzzing this week . . .
Jenn Bonilla reminisces about her process of learning English in an immersive, hands-on environment of anything-goes learning with los Gringos Locos at Studio 1 (Amerikanoestudios) in Esparza, Costa Rica. She describes her process of adopting two children within the Costa Rican social system. Jenn also emphasizes the importance that hearing stories and myths at the studio have stuck with her through the years.
We get into:
why we don’t need an army of English speakers born from English grammar bootcamps
killer bees
machismo vs. feminism
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2023-01-242h 42Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEducating for the Future: Special Guest Matthias ZimmerlinMatthias Zimmerlin is a vice principal at the Peter Thumb School in southern Germany.
Matthias and Carl met when Carl's punk band was touring Germany in the mid 2000s. Now they reconnect having both ventured into education. We dig into School Development through Change Concept of Performance and look for shared insights between the current education qualities of Germany and the U.S.
A question we explore is, "How do we educate for what students will need in the future?" Are trade schools a better route for success than academic degrees? How do schools share...
2023-01-192h 46Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveWe Are All Animals (S3E2)Put the wild back in education!
More crazy holistic education stories as we discuss deepening relationships with animals.
In this episode we discuss some ways that animals (dead or alive) help add enrichment to education. We share ways that we have used road kill, sudden death of class pets, and hunting byproducts as (inexpensive) class resources. We explore these practices as veneration for the animals.
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2023-01-051h 10Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveAlternative Currencies (S3E1)This episode kicks off season 3 (Calli) and explores the practice of exchange that happen and in many ways dictate the ways relationships are built and maintained within communities.
How do we build relationships and educational leverage without grades?
Where is value expressed that goes beyond the cash transaction?
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2022-12-312h 41Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveGift to the Divine (S2E15)How do we give a gift to something bigger than us? How can education include service, celebration, and veneration to non-human elements responsible for life?
Carl talks about corporate culture: contradictions, exploitations, and immature leadership.
What constitutes a gift for the divine?
Why investing in local relationships is more regenerative than mining exotic cultures of tourist wisdom?
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2022-12-072h 34Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveMerit vs. Virtue with Micah SturrEducator, coach, father, writer Micah Sturr joins us this week where we discuss a shift of focus from merit to virtue in instruction. Micah brings his positions as a high school girls basketball coach and English teacher to frame what works on the court that doesn't happen in the classroom.
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2022-11-101h 32Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveAdventure School Anvil Academy with Andrew CulpAndrew Culp takes Carl and Ron through his journey as an educator from fourth grade teacher to principle to educational entrepreneur. He reflects upon the keystone events that guided him to founding Anvil Academy, an adventure hybrid school for boys in their middle school years.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-culp-51667823/
https://theanvilacademy.org/
#homeschooling #educationReform #holisticEducation #alternativeEducation #middleschool
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2022-10-281h 49
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveGamification of Learning with Paul DarvasiRon and Carl bring in special guest Dr. Paul Darvasi who is an educator, game designer, and researcher who keynotes, lectures, writes and consults on the intersection of digital games, simulations, narrative, social justice, culture and learning and happened to be Carl's high school teacher of English in Santiago de Chile. Carl and Paul revisit those early years and hash out life as a game touching on:
- Pul's current project, an Afghanistan Reforestation video game
- Paul's origin as an educator in Santiago de Chile
- Saturn’s return and patterns of th...
2022-10-262h 01Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveMultilingual Holism: Embracing Language Diversity in the Classroom (S2E11)Largely inspired by the work of Wade Davis, cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer, Originateve began practices of multi-lingual holism. See Davis' Ted Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7vK0pOvKI
In this podcast, Ron and Carl dive into common challenges with the conventional thinking and practice of multi-lingual learners in the classroom. How can we see diverse languages as a gift rather than a roadblock to learning? How can teachers within the English domain coming from different mother tongues utilize their gift to benefit learners with the added richness of their "ways of be...
2022-10-221h 51Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEmotional and Spiritual Learning - James Fowler 3/3 (S2E10)Hosts Ron Green and Carl Emmons complete the mini-series on Emotional and Spiritual Learning bouncing off of the ideas of theologian James Fowler. They touch on Fowler's stages 4-6 diving into:
- The nutrition of delicious conversations
- Transformations due to living abroad
- Pursuing personal passion vs. submitting to the "Real World"
- Universalizing faith- the pursuit of compassion and love for all
- Questioning personal authority rather than implied authority
- Call Out/Cancel Culture
- Personal Responsibility
- Rumi Poem...
2022-10-081h 55Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveBuilding Emotional & Spiritual Intelligence - Special Guest James TerrellJoin us for this 4th episode on emotional and spiritual development is the voice and expertise of our good friend and colleague James P Terrell, who has been coaching on emotional intelligence for the last 40 years.
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of active listening.
- Robert Carkhuff’s method of therapy
- How to measure empathy
- Kairos: How do we develop a sense for the right timing?
- Authenticity: Can we be authentic prior to our own deconstructions? Censorship doesn’t trump authenticity.
- Steiner’s challenge to educators: minimi...
2022-09-301h 56Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveDecentralizing Education (S2E8)Our hosts sit down for a 3rd take on how to foster Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence. Life happens and they head down the rabbit holes of:
-Using Whatsapp to promote Active Listening
- The decentralization of education
- The exasperation felt/caused by the government on the achievement gap
- Recap on the difference between Storytelling and Story reading
- The art of cold reading and the aberration of round robin/popcorn reading in our classrooms
- A few reasons behind the failure of High School English programs
- The...
2022-09-232h 32Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEmotional & Spiritual Learning Part III: James Fowler 1/2 (S2E7)In Part III of our segment on Emotional and Spiritual Learning, we take a jab at Fowler's Stages of Faith which seeks to outline a pathway towards spiritual development parallel to what Kohlberg defined as Moral Development and Piaget did for Cognitive.
The Origins podcast series follows the thematic breakdown of Originateve's Certified Mentorship program. For more info, please visit: https://originateve.org/certified-mentor-program/
If you are interested in joining a discussion group that expands on these topics, let Carl know: carlemmons@originateve.org
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2022-09-161h 55Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEmotional & Spiritual Learning PART II (S2E6)This Episode is a continuation of the topic of Emotional and Spiritual development. The conversation this week kicks off with Ron's "imix" immersion into his first hunt. This becomes an apropos scenario by which to consider crucial aspects of learning:
The need for mentors
Kairos vs Chronos
Lifelong learning
To live is to play out the ancient myths (Toe Bone and Tooth, The Listener)
How to foster Ritual
Cyclical Learning
Natural cycles that follow the seasons
The folly of the educational calendar, school gardens and bean sprouting
How missing something is indicative of our spiritual and emotional relationship...
2022-09-051h 39Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEmotional and Spiritual Quotient (S2E5)In the wake of the passing of Carl's father, our hosts return with the fifth episode of the second season of the Origins podcast and plunge into the importance of emotional and spiritual learning. How does it happen in education? How do we support it? How do we address these realms that seem to be taboo in conventional education?
Topics addressed:
Learning ritual from other cultures and mentor who model spiritual practice
The important of ancestors in the spiritual process
Being open to learn what you may not be intending to learn
The linguistic roots o...
2022-08-291h 48Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveCyclical Learning (S2E4)The end of linear learning is near. In this fourth episode of our second season of the Origins podcast, our hosts highlight the subtle and stark differences between cyclical, spiral and linear learning models that have permeated the last 200 years of modern education.
***Remember that we have a wonderful online discussion group that interacts on the topics of the Origins Podcast on an ongoing basis. If you are interested please email our host at: carlemmons@originateve.org
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2021-03-201h 13Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveNarratives of the Anterior, Exterior and Interior (S2E3)Are you ready for a story? In this episode, our hosts, re-member the Grimm Fairytale of Little Brother and Little Sister. Along the way a bountiful feeding unfolds drawing all those gathered at the banquet into the feast to be had in these far too often dismissed narratives of the Anterior, Exterior and Interior.
Focus: Tolerance for ambiguity, lyricism, narrative and linear abstraction, the psychology of the fairytale, the role of metaphor in building relevance and meaning, deep memory.
A special thanks to Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Martin Prechtel, Daniel Deardorff, Martin and so many oth...
2020-09-282h 14Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveNarratives of the Anterior, Exterior and Interior (S2E3)Are you ready for a story?
In this episode, our hosts, re-member the Grimm Fairytale of Little Brother and Little Sister. Along the way a bountiful feeding unfolds drawing all those gathered at the banquet into the feast to be had in these far too often dismissed narratives of the Anterior, Exterior and Interior.
Focus: Tolerance for ambiguity, lyricism, narrative and linear abstraction, the psychology of the fairytale, the role of metaphor in building relevance and meaning, deep memory.
A special thanks to Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Martin Prechtel, Daniel Deardorff, Martin and...
2020-08-112h 28Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveSocial and Cultural Comparisons (S2E2)In this episode, our hosts, Ron Green and Carl Emmons, remember their own cross-cultural experiences of immersion into local life in Chile, Costa Rica and China.
Topics, questions and ideas addressed include:
Why is it important to compare cultures?
What is a third culture kid?
The crucial differences between tourism and travel.
Public and Private Education systems stateside and abroad
What to do with the undeniable privilege that stems from affluence?
When respect is the barrier to relationship
Expat communities overseas
The taboos we get away with as...
2020-07-251h 19Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveTo Be a Plant (S2E1)Co-founder of Originateve and host of the Origins Podcast, Ron Green, kicks off this podcast with his own origin story of how he first came to regenerative practices that would lead him down exciting pathways into Ethnobotany, Biodynamics and everything in between.
Carl also brings to the forefront the struggle of paradigm shift when we choose to take on that which we did not know of growing up. This is precisely the way towards Holism: a persistent shift away from specialization.
What does it mean to have relationships with plants?
How do our relationships...
2020-07-061h 01Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveEcstatic Risk-taking (S1E7)Emergent Curriculum takes over our podcast and veers our hosts towards a jagged dialogue regarding the role of risk-taking as a quality and skill to develop as Mentors. Becoming a life-long learner requires risk-taking. The alternative, as Joseph Campbell would put it, is specialization—within such a scope a life-long trajectory is possible but at a loss for the holistic potential we all carry within. Robert Bly wanted nothing to do with any of this--he was more in line with the Mystics, like Hafiz and Rumi, whom he worked so hard towards bringing into our myopic vision field.
2020-06-161h 11Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveSacred Space (S1E6)Origins Warrior of Beauty Cipactli podcast Episode 6: SACRED SPACE
What makes a space sacred? What happens when we take art built from the imaginations of our children and celebrate it? How is a learning space regenerated out of mundaneness back into its sacred origins? When is a learning space sacred enough to be worth protecting? Why are so many teacher lounges stagnant?
Overcoming our own inadequacies and skepticisms towards that which is sacred.
Sacred basics: Fire, Darkness, Candles, Smoke, Nature, Ritual, Ceremony. Story.
Special thanks to OE Certified Mentor: John Bunjil Bro...
2020-05-171h 42Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveGuerrilla Play Areas & Nazi Neighbors (S1E5)Origins Warrior of Beauty Cipactli podcast Episode 5: Guerrilla Play Areas & Nazi Neighbors.
In this episode we tackle and wrangle the insanities of most modern playgrounds. Kids deserve better! We are hard at work designing nature play environments. A key element of nature play environments is space for the unexpected. "Along comes the fox...", eats up one of Ron's chickens, making way for an emergent curriculum approach to podcasting.
Brace yourselves!
ORIGINS is an ORIGINATEVE podcast that addresses both the theory and practical applications of regenerative and holistic lifestyles.
Our hosts: Ron...
2020-05-1040 minOrigins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveFree Play (S1E4)Origins Warrior of Beauty Cipactli podcast Episode 4: Extended Play during COVID-19.
In this episode we will address: being quartered, "encerrados en el cuarto": What COVID-19 quarantine is revealing about our children, education systems and lifestyles? Will our children return to their quarantines in traditional classroom settings? Parents are getting a fair glance at what it is like to have their kids "locked up" all day in their "quarters".
ORIGINS is an ORIGINATEVE podcast that addresses both the theory and practical applications of regenerative and holistic lifestyles.
Our hosts: Ron Green (aka Lucian Nathair...
2020-05-0342 minOrigins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginatevePlay in times of COVID-19 (S1E3)Origins Warrior of Beauty Cipactli podcast Episode 3: Play in times of COVID-19
As COVID-19 subsides in China, our co-host: Carl Emmons kicks off this episode with a comprehensive sharing of new programming that has unfolded in Shishi now that kindergartens have, thankfully, closed their doors. Our host, Ron Green, then brings around the stark contrast between how conventional education, seeking to mold the child into what society wants them to be, misses the mark of what Steiner states we should be doing: facilitating a child's discovery of who they are.
Key questions and prompts include:
2020-04-261h 00Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveRepairing the Education of the Past (S1E2)Origins Warrior of Beauty Cipactli podcast Episode 2: Repairing the Education of the Past
This episode addresses the need for breaking bad habits within educational practice as well as our personal lifestyles in terms of our relationships with ourselves, others, the planet and cosmos. PLAY THERAPY is introduced into, what we refer to as, the conversation that never ends. Key questions and prompts include:
- What if PLAY were the framework for best educational practice?
- Instructors as monitors vs playmates: Why are we so hands off during recess?
- How can we foster...
2020-04-171h 01
Origins: Holistic Learning & Regenerative Practice by OriginateveThe Game (S1E1)ORIGINS is an ORIGINATEVE podcast that addresses both the theory and practical applications of regenerative and holistic lifestyles. Our hosts: Ron Green (aka Lucian Nathair) and Carl Emmons (aka Gluskabe) are the co-founders of the Originateve non-profit established in 2013--based out of Denver, CO, USA. The ORIGIN podcast follows the curricular framework of the ORIGINATEVE Certified Mentorship Program.
This Cipactli Episode (E1): The Game addresses existential questions such as: HOW DO WE EDUCATE NOW? Join us as we scuba deep into educational concepts such as:
- Life-long Learning.
- Specialization vs Holistic Approaches to Lea...
2020-04-1148 min