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Many of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers come to teach at Schumacher College. They come from all walks of life including business, academia and independent charitable organisations. All are highly experienced in their specialist subject, and several regularly contribute to the Schumacher College programme. Alongside the teachers, in order to create a supportive learning environment and a positive dialogue between teachers and participants, the courses usually have both a facilitator, and an academic course tutor who provides support to people seeking Masters level accreditation.
For Faculty, including Satish Kumar, Stephan Harding, Karen Blincoe and Brian Goodwin click here
October 29 – November 2, 2007
Food for Thought: Transforming the food culture of universities
Roberta Sonnino is Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning at Cardiff University (School of City and Regional Planning), where she has been involved in a number of research projects on agri-food and sustainable development. She has published extensively from her research on local food, rural development and sustainable public procurement.
Tom Kelly is Director of the Office of Sustainability at the University of New Hampshire, USA. He has been working in the field of higher education and sustainable development for more than 15 years.
Victor Kuri is Lecturer in Food Quality in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Plymouth.
Cinzia Scaffidi is currently Director of the Slow Food Study Center and is responsible for International Relations at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo and Colorno. In 2000 she was in charge of the Slow Food Award for the Defence of Biodiversity and since 2004 has been one of the coordinators of the Terra Madre meeting.
November 5-9, 2007
Roots of Learning: Approaches to holistic and transformative learning
Edmund O’Sullivan is Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and author of Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century. He is Director of the Transformative Learning Centre which does research and runs graduate programmes on ecological issues.
Abelardo Brenes is currently Research Fellow at the University for Peace (UPEACE), a Treaty Organization created by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1980 and based in Costa Rica and Professor in Promotion of Mental Health in the M.A. in Health Psychology at the University of Costa Rica.
November 26 – December 8, 2007
Ethical pioneers: an interactive masterclass for the new entrepreneur
Chris Nichols is a coach, facilitator and workshop leader with 25 years experience in global business development in both the commercial and non-profit sectors.
Guy Watson is founder of Riverford Farm, one of the largest organic vegetable farms in the UK.
Antony Turner is founder and Managing Director of CarbonSense, a consultancy which works with businesses.
Ian Sharp is an account manager at Triodos Bank.
Tim 'Mac' Macartney is the CEO of Embercombe, a social enterprise that seeks to ‘inspire committed action towards a truly sustainable world’.
Jonathan Robinson is a founder and director of The Hub. The Hub has borrowed from the best of a members club, a business incubator, an innovation agency and a think-tank to create a very different kind of institution.
Galahad JD Clark A seventh generation shoe maker runs Terra Plana at the cutting edge of ethical fashion and retail with projects such as Worn Again 99% recycled shoes and accessories.
Emma Jackson works with Catalyst Collective (a workers co-op that helps new worker and housing co-ops register and set up, and runs the legal registration process for housing co-ops on behalf of Radical Routes.
Karen Blincoe is a designer, environmentalist and educationalist and the Founder and Creator of ICIS.
January 7-18, 2008
Can the Earth Survive Capitalism? Exploring sustainable economic models
Marjorie Kelly is a Senior Associate at the Tellus Institute in Boston and co-founder of Corporation 20/20, a project to create a new vision for corporations. She also co-founded Business Ethics, a national magazine on corporate social responsibility, and is author of The Divine Right of Capital.
Peter Barnes is an entrepreneur who has founded and led several socially responsible businesses, including a worker-owned solar energy company and a socially screened unit trust. He is author of Who Owns The Sky? and Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons, and is a Senior Fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute in California.
Sir John Whitmore is a former businessman who now works as a coach and management consultant. He is author of Need, Greed or Freedom.
February 4-22, 2008
Designing for Sustainability: Systems, ethics and beauty
Ezio Manzini is Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and co-author of Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios of Urban Life.
Terry Irwin is a designer and lecturer at the University of Dundee, where she is working on a PhD in Natural Design.
Michael Braungart is a chemist and founder of the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg.
Alastair Fuad-Luke is a facilitator, lecturer, and author of The Eco-Design Handbook, with a special interest in “slow design”.
Karen Blincoe is a designer, environmentalist and educationalist. She is the Director of Schumacher College.
February 25-29, 2008
Roots of Learning: Educating for community and sustainability
Heila Lotz-Sisitka is Chair of Environmental Education and Sustainability at Rhodes University, South Africa. She has contributed actively to the inclusion of environmental and sustainability principles and programmes in South Africa’s new education system. She is Editor of the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, and Chairperson of the 2007 World Environmental Education Congress Scientific Committee.
March 3-20, 2008
Development: What Next?
Gustavo Esteva is an independent writer, a grassroots activist and a “deprofessionalized intellectual”. He was invited by the Zapatistas in Mexico to be their adviser in 1996. Since then, he has been very active in what today is called Zapatismo.
Vandana Shiva is a physicist, environmental activist, feminist, and author of many books. She established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights, and directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy.
Daleep Mukarji is Director of Christian Aid, a major UK development NGO. He previously founded and ran a health and development project in India.
Clare Short MP is MP for Ladywood in the UK. She resigned from the Government over the Iraq war. She was UK Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to May 2003.
April 7-11, 2008
Tackling Climate Change at Home
Peter Harper is Head of Research and Innovation at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, UK. His publications include Radical Technology an influential early textbook of technical alternatives, The Natural Garden Book and Lifting the Lid on low-impact sanitation systems.
Julia Hailes is a consultant and speaker on sustainability issues and co-founder of SustainAbility. She is author of many books, including most recently The New Green Consumer Guide.
Alastair Sawday set up a green publishing company in 1994, and his Special Places to Stay series and Little Earth Book seek to encourage environmental awareness. He was a pioneer of ethical travel in the 1980s, running a company that specialised in cycling and walking tours.
April 21-25, 2008
Inspired Leadership: Seeing organisations as living systems
Margaret Wheatley is a world-renowned consultant and speaker who has worked on management issues with a wide range of companies, governments and agencies in all continents. She is author of Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and most recently Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time.
May 5-16, 2008
Reconnecting with Nature as Healer
Cathrine Sneed is founder of The Garden Project in San Francisco, USA which offers structure and support to former offenders and at risk youth through job training in gardening, counselling, and assistance in continuing education. She has spoken widely about her work and has been honoured with such awards as the National Caring Award, the Hero for the Earth, and the National Foundation for the Improvement of Justice Award
Mary Aver is a shaman and healer and has trained in many psychotherapeutic approaches, studying Eastern philosophies, teaching meditation and spiritual development. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Cranfield School of Management and a trainer/consultant in personal and professional development.
May 26-June 6, 2008
Creating Nature: Art in the landscape
Susan Derges is a photographer who uses the natural world as her darkroom to create images of water flows and the night sky around her Dartmoor home. She has created a major commission for the Eden Project’s new Education Resource Centre in Cornwall and has exhibited her work around the world.
Lynne Hull has pioneered “trans-species” art, creating sculpture installations as wildlife habitat enhancement and eco-atonement for human impact. She has worked in the American West and eight other countries with a variety of wildlife agencies. Currently she is working on Migration Mileposts, linking communities in the Americas who share migratory birds.
James Marriott is a writer, artist, activist and naturalist. He is a Co-Director of PLATFORM, which since 1983 has brought together artists and activists to create projects and campaigns that help the struggle for ecological & social justice in London, PLATFORM’s home, and distant elsewheres impacted by that metropolis.
June 16-27, 2008
Soul of Science
Arthur Zajonc is Professor of Physics at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. In 1997 he served as scientific coordinator of The New Physics and Cosmology, a dialogue with H.H. the Dalai Lama. He is author of Catching the Light, co-author of Quantum Challenge, and co-editor of Goethe’s Way of Science.
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of many books, including The Rebirth of Nature and, with Matthew Fox, Nature Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality.
July 14-25, 2008
Sacred Activism
Mary Evelyn Tucker is Professor of Religion at Bucknell University, USA and Co-Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is author most recently of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter their Ecological Phase.
John Grim is a visiting scholar at the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, USA and Co-Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. He previously taught courses in Native American and indigenous religions, religion and ecology, ritual, and mysticism in the world’s religions.
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, the award winning Journey to Ladakh and the best-selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (co-author).
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