Every IRL program focuses on reestablishing a healthy relationship between the natural and human worlds, with a clear awareness that our future as a species depends on it. Learning is infused with awareness,insight and compassion for oneself, others and the world. Our experiential approach incorporates current knowledge with ancient wisdom in a down to earth way that imparts know how as well as knowledge. Participants find a deeper sense of purpose, develop tangible skills, create lifelong friendships, and become solutionaries who create a better world as they design a life that matters.

Education

Evolutionary Education
Programs/Courses

Purpose driven education to develop leadership capacities and evoke the entrepreneurial spirit, helping our emerging adults and our wise elders to create an authentic and sustainable livelihood.

Legacy Mentoring

Establishing intergenerational cooperation that brings together those transitioning out of the work force, with young adults transitioning into the workforce to help them find a meaningful place in society.

Build the relationships you want

Developing/maintaining healthy relationships is navigating the whitewater of life

John McMillin
feeding the hungry

was 15 in 1945 when his scientist father discovered that by feeding survivors of the Holocaust a slurry of vegetable juice and raw fish that would recover their strength in a short time. That set John on his life purpose of feeding people in the most dire circumstances. He played a key role in ending the Ethiopian famines in the 1980's, and inspired this initiative when he introduced us to the premises of ReGenerative Science.

Enterprise

Integrative Apprenticeships

Practical training through vital work in the rapidly growing sustainable agriculture/local food movement, and other segments of the green economy.

Make a dollar and a difference

We want our work to make the world a better place.  Building our business and entrepreneurial capacity, without loosing our soul, makes this possible

Vocation

Each of us has a unique gift to offer the world, a calling from deep in our soul.

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Mondragon
cooperative enterprise

grew from a single worker owned cooperative in 1956, to a series of interrelated companies that today employ some 80,000 members.  Centered in the Basque region it continues to succeed despite Spain's economic challenges. It is the most successful example of a long running (since 1956) commercial enterprise that honors labor as well as capital and sees human welfare as the priority.

Environment

World's Needs

We love in a time of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity

20 something's develop the skills to thrive in challenging times

High School/College Graduates learn skills to make a life & a living

50, 60, 70 something's
Re-Create your life...

An encore effort for Boomers to create the world you once imagined, and offer it to your kids and grandkids

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Thomas Berry
saving the planet

considered himself the first Eco-logian, bringing together a deep love of the earth with the ways we make sense of life. More than 50 years ago he foresaw the dilemma we face on the earth, and offered profound insight into its roots and a pointed to a path forward. His insight integrates the way we make meaning in western culture with a scientific understanding of the unfolding universe and the ecology of the earth.  

Creating a Life that Counts  
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Practical University Certificate in  Local Food ReVitalization
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When the conventional wisdom
no longer works - the IRL's Inspiration

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Live your life purpose - while you make a living

The Institute for ReGenerative Learning's programs offer
    >   a practical  educational experience for emerging adults seeking a meaningful way to use their talents
    >   a renewed sense of purpose for wise and  accomplished men and women
    >   inter-generational mentoring and integrative apprenticeships  are an integral part of every one of our contemplative educational programs

Today's challenges call for systemic solutions.  ReGenerative Learning integrates sustainability and evolution to develop tangible skills.  You will strengthen your capacity to design creative responses to the volatile circumstances we face on the planet, and you will develop the skills to earn a living at the same time through  cooperative business opportunities in local food  enterprises and other segments of the green economy that hold the possibility of meaningful employment

Our programs infuse learning with awareness, insight and compassion for oneself, others and the world. You will : (1) find a deeper sense of purpose;  (2)  develop tangible skills;  (3) create lifelong  friendships, and   (4) become a  solutionary who can create a better world.

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Take a New Perspective 1

This view provides a diagram that outlines the systemic vision that sits behind our offerings. It offers another mode of access to our thinking for those who prefer a holistic view as a point of access

Take a New Perspective 2

This view provides a diagram that outlines the core questions that our offerings address in a single, albeit complex, picture of the key questions that motivate our lives as human beings

Find your passion, hear your Soul's call