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Trainings for Transformation
Over the past decade, three cohorts have graduated from this transformational process, which blends wilderness experience with eco-literacy to prepare trainees for returning to their roots.
Community of Practice
Graduates and facilitators of the Trainings for Transforming form the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective. All are dedicated to reviving culture and nature across the continent, sharing learnings and support as this work unfolds in different contexts.
Accompanying Indigenous Peoples
Having returned to their roots as part of the Trainings for Transformation, Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners accompany indigenous communities on their own transformative journeys. Participatory and joyful ways to bring complex cultures back from the brink include storytelling, elder-centred dialogues and ecocultural mapping. These tools stimulate memory, confidence and inspiration.
Reweaving Resilience
Reviving time-honoured indigenous wisdom anchors communities. Their earth-centred culture becomes the tap root from which they can adapt to challenges, flourishing amid a continent in crisis. Rather than relying on top-down, ‘conservationist’ or ‘development’ interventions to protect African ecosystems, this holistic approach enables communities on the frontline to take the lead through their own deep ecological knowledge, practices and governance systems.
Earth Jurisprudence
Humans are a young species interwoven within a wider, wondrous and ancient web of life. Indigenous traditions worldwide remind us that we have the capacity to live in respectful, and even reverential, relationship with these ecosystems in which we are embedded. This is how humans have lived for most of our history. Earth Jurisprudence calls for a transformation away from the current dominance of human-centric systems destroying our home, towards the Earth-centric systems we know can sustain all life.
