Summer
School
2026.

A guided inquiry into spiral logics across nature and culture, exploring how spiral principles can be used to design and sustain processes that remain coherent, adaptive, and generative under conditions of change, pressure, and constraint.

learn about decolonial feminist approaches to foreign policy and reflect on how you, in a deeply interconnected world, can navigate global politics by interrogating power and sowing seeds for softer and gentler alternatives.

Through decolonial theory, liberatory pedagogy, and guided personal reflection, learners will develop the language, tools, and embodied practice to transform how they raise, teach, and care for children.

This course invites you to explore sustainability from a place of empowerment, connection, and inspiration rather than fear and urgency. Drawing on environmental psychology, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom, it focuses on embodying practices that create meaningful impact. By the end, you’ll feel equipped to engage with environmental work authentically, reconnect with the land and community, and lead initiatives grounded in purpose and care.

A transformative experience to reclaim your imaginative powers: Journey inwards by using a blend of mindfulness-based practices and interdisciplinary techniques to dismantle internal barriers, unlock your unbound potential, and integrate imagination into your life and work.

Leaders learn to design systems needed to thrive with the Relational Leadership Design Framework, a paradigm that reframes leadership from a positional function into a collective capacity grounded in consciousness, context, and presence.

This workshop explores feedback as a relational, dialogical encounter to foster meaningful feedback happenings, grounded in emotional safety and equity, in diverse spaces: from educational contexts to workplace and community spaces.

Learn to see and reshape the hidden forces shaping human behavior—within yourself, your relationships, and your environment—through a Development by Design (DxD) approach grounded in neuroscience, systems thinking, and critical theory.

Do you have an idea that has been tugging at your heart? It's time to create the space and time to birth this venture into the world so that "one day" becomes "today"!

A 4-week relational lab for people questioning what matters to them, exploring the stories behind their values, and experimenting with how to live in closer alignment with what they stand for.

How do we continue to resist oppressive systems in adverse climates, while taking care of ourselves? This course works through what holds us back in our advocacy work and how to overcome those limitations sustainably.

Learners will gain the knowledge, critical frameworks, practical tools, and collective imagination needed to understand how technology perpetuates oppression, how to resist digital surveillance capitalism, and how to migrate to and/or think about building alternative technologies rooted in community ownership and liberation.

Collective study and generative writing space to write from within ruptures—mapping out the geography of betrayal, grief, and oppression towards mapping the geographies of hope, joy, and liberatory modes of being and belonging.

Build a stronger foundation for meaningful work through practical lessons in nutrition, movement and emotional wellbeing designed to help changemakers sustain their energy, health and impact over time.

Build real AI literacy, a clear stance on AI and personal framework so you can decide how to engage with it in a way that protects your expertise, your standards, and your way of thinking.

Co-create radical visions for liberatory futures through radical imagination, collective visioning, and collaborative worldbuilding.

What's wrong with "international" development as it stands today and what can YOU do about it as an activist?

What are the costs & conveniences of modern food? From who makes it to what goes in it, we want to re-establish our connection with food and where it comes from.

Together, we'll unpack how hyperindividualism shapes social change work; reroot into our need for relational reciprocity and interdependence; and explore how we can weave wider webs of solidarity and support in our lives and leadership