Our award-winning documentary Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration showed that we can rebalance our global climate through large-scale ecosystem regeneration.

We already know how to regenerate ecosystems, restore water cycles, and increase resilience to extreme weather events around the world.

So why aren’t we doing it at the scale needed? This course emerges from that question.

Deep ecology facilitator Emily Coralyne Bishop & activist and writer Martin Winiecki – together with world-leading radical visionaries and practitioners – invite you into a holistic learning journey to restore aliveness and awaken our imagination.

You will learn how to navigate the painful paradoxes of ecological activism in a generative way and ground your work in connection with the animate web of life.

This course is for you if you long for a more relational, embodied, and life-centered way of engaging with the world.

If you feel that the ecological crisis is not only a technical or economic problem—but also, as Indigenous philosopher Vine Deloria Jr. suggested, a “crisis of relationship.” A crisis of broken bonds of care. A crisis rooted in systems that compensate for the loss of belonging through domination, control, and accumulation.

From within these systems, attempts to solve the crisis often end up reproducing the very patterns that created it.

Gathering a learning community from around the world, this course will help you to embrace the deeper roots of the ecological crisis and explore pathways of healing, from the philosophical and mythological dimensions down to practical tools and actions.

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What you'll experience & learn

Group processes to metabolize
ecological grief

Exercises and rituals to build reciprocol relationships with the more-than-human world

How to shift from fear-based action toward a deeper motivation rooted in love for life

hOW TO ENGAGE YOUR IMAGINATION TOWARDS REGENERATIVE FUTURES

How to connect the dots between ecological, social, and psychological crises

Tools and pathways to ground activism in care, spirituality, and a culture of connection

Course content & structure

Beyond the Paradox consists of 8 live sessions over 4 weeks,
with two sessions per week.

Live on Zoom (recordings available of Tuesday’s sessions & introductions of Thursday sessions)
5:00–7:00 PM GMT | 7:00-9:00 PM CET | 1:00-3:00 PM EST | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PST

TUESDAYS:
Content, frameworks and
collective inquiry

THURSDAYS:
Embodied practices, exercises, and rituals - inspired by The Work That Reconnects

JUNE 9

Unpacking our Collective Conundrum

Setting the frame and exploring the ecological mega-crisis through a systemic lens that combines intersectional analysis, systems theory and complexity theory. We will confront some fundamental denials in contemporary environmentalism and explore what systems change might entail.

JUNE 16

Embracing the Wound of Separation
with Pat McCabe

This session will explore the ecological dimension of trauma and gently embrace the sickness – both in the world and within ourselves – that keeps inflicting harm. We will offer ways of grounding ourselves in our bodies and with spirit, and holding our wounds compassionately – so that we can stitch ourselves back into belonging and become responsible members in the hoop of life.

JUNE 23

Healing our Broken Relationship with Life
with Sofia Batalha

Challenging the notion that the ecological crisis is merely a technical and economic issue, we will embrace modernity’s broken relationship with the community of life and, with the help of eco-mythology, storytelling and somatic exercises, re-enchant our bond with Earth.

JUNE 30

Imagining Regenerative Cultures
with Ozioma Egwuonwu

We will look at inspiring, practical examples for taking action towards raising community-based ecological alternatives and help you awaken your imagination for your place in this regenerative revolution that combines purpose with passion and joy of life.

JUNE 11

Gratitude

When we recognize and honor all of the beauty around us, it evokes an aliveness. Gratitude is an abundant resource itself, as it strengthens our resolve to face uncertainty and chaos with an open heart. In this session, we explore our collective effervescence and take stock of what we have, love, and don’t want to lose.

JUNE 18

Facing the World's Pain

In this session, we will create a space to consciously face the overwhelm and to process the pain of losing what we love about this world. In these times, many of us aren’t able to name and move through our natural responses to the immense loss on the planet. As a result, we ignore, numb, push through, and disconnect to avoid the heartbreak. Consciously metabolizing grief is a way to honor pain while keeping our hearts open.

JUNE 25

Perceiving in New & Ancient Ways

When we connect to our ancestors, and all the beings that come after us, we might feel our place on the continuum of life. We perceive the little time we have as a human being, at the same time we sense the huge opportunities and impact our lifetime has on the future. In this session, we will open to “deep time,” and explore Joanna Macy’s idea of “World as Lover, World as Self.”

JULY 2

Going Forth

After deep experiences that expand our minds and hearts, what do we do with our new connections and insights? In this session, we will reflect on our experience together, planting seeds of intentions and action for what we will carry into our lives from this course, and support each other with a ritual calling on the wisdom of ancestors, future ones, and other beings.

If you have questions about the course, please email Emily at: contact@ripplesofregeneration.earth

We strongly recommend you attend the live sessions. Tuesday’s sessions will be accessible afterwards, but Thursday’s sessions won’t be recorded to allow for a space of vulnerability in our rituals and sharings. If you're not able to attend one or several of Tuesday’s sessions, you will have access to the recordings afterwards and be able to exchange with fellow students.

A NOTE ON RECORDINGS

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How we learn together

This is not just an intellectual course —

it is a holistic learning journey engaging mind, body, heart, and spirit.

INTERACTIVE EXERCISES

Breakout groups and live inquiry to process ideas together in real time.

EMBODIED PRACTICES

Somatic exercises and rituals inspired by
the Work That Reconnects.

INTEGRATION RESOURCES

Materials after each session to deepen learning beyond the live calls.

GUIDED REFLECTIONS

Structured prompts to deepen personal
insight during and in between sessions.

CEREMONIAL SPACES

Heart-centered sharing and relational
practices to build community.

ONGOING ACCESS

Course platform, materials, & peer exchange remain open after the course.

The greatest barrier to effective climate action is not
a lack of solutions.

Your Guides

Emily Coralyne Bishop

A water activist, facilitator, and community organizer devoted to the cultural and ecological regeneration of our relationship with water. Her path has been shaped by early organizing to ban fracking in New York and California, academic study in sociology and social change, and collaboration with movements for earth stewardship. Her work bridges activism, spirituality and systems thinking, inviting a return to reciprocity, responsibility, and collective care.

Martin Winiecki

A community organizer, writer and activist focusing on ecology and international solidarity. His thinking has been informed by life and mentorship in intentional community, by learning from and with frontline communities in the geopolitical south, elders and visionaries from around the world, and weaving together deep ecology, critical theory, anarchism, and systems theory. He will lead and facilitate the content-focused Tuesday sessions.

Guest Speakers

Pat McCabe

(Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She focuses on reconciliation of masculine and feminine energies, restoring the Sacred Masculine, and addressing archetypal wounding caused by our misuse of technology, ceremony, and science.

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Ozioma Egwuonwu

Internationally celebrated speaker, strategist, and expert in transformational strategy. Advises communities, governments and companies on complex change initiatives. Speaker at global stages including the UN, TEDx, and universities. Founder of World Dream Day and BurnBright International, a transformational consultancy that specializes in activating human potential.

Sofia Batalha

Certified in ecopsychology, Indigenous and liberation psychologies, and applied mythology. Eco-myth activist and author exploring deep relationality, belonging, and consciousness through interdisciplinary approaches, including community practice, decolonial thinking, and diverse artistic expressions.