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Education & Restoration
for Collective Liberation

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Re-storying identities & restoring territories with Indigenous communities in Ecuador.
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Join us this summer for Pachaysana’s Unlearning Retreats—immersive, land-based experiences co-created with Indigenous communities in the Andes and Amazon. Designed for educators, activists, and lifelong learners, these retreats invite participants to unlearn colonial narratives, practice new ways of knowing and being, and reimagine their roles in creating more just and relational futures.

"A much-needed decolonial perspective on community building and cultural change. I'm thinking deeply about ways in which we can actually slow down, be more community-centered and cultivate joy and celebration while doing serious work on critical global engagement.”

Hui Wilcox,
Dean, Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship, 
Professor of sociology, Macalester College

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FOR INTERNATIONALS

SEMESTER-LONG
STUDY ABROAD

Community-based, intercultural education study-abroad program that encourages us to rehearse the change we wish to see in the world.

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IN-PERSON
UNLEARNING
RETREATS

Explore, study, and practice Unlearning alongside our community partners in the Highlands and Amazon of Ecuador.

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SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

Work in partnership with agrarian, Indigenous and/or activist Ecuadorian communities on existing community projects.

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UNLEARNING
WEBINARS & WORKSHOPS

Usually contracted by faculty or staff for professional development and community building.

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FOR LOCALS

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CHILDREN OF THE LIVING FOREST SchOOL

An unprecedented approach that opens the space for indigenous youth in the Amazon rainforest to explore their identities, language and forests, while simultanuously training them how to navigate the western world.

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HUMANS FOR
ABUNDANCE
program

​Partnering with indigenous families in Ecuador to restore their forests and re-story their identities by provide economic incentives that build a pathway to transition from toxic monoculture and deforestation to earning a living as ECOSYSTEM RESTORERS.

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UNLEARNING & DECOLONIAL WORKSHOPS

Ecuadorian students and staff explore, study, and practice Unlearning alongside our community partners in the Highlands and Amazon of Ecuador.

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 SEMESTER-LONG
& summer programs

"If you're looking for a fair-trade, truly hands-on study abroad experience where you can learn, explore, and create alongside local counterparts and international students alike, then this is the program for you."

-Maddy Maurice

American University

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Cada semestre, hay tres excursiones educativas, en las que los estudiantes internacionales participan en conjunto con las contrapartes de la comunidad.

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Queremos formar cohortes diversas de individuos excepcionales y apasionados. Tratamos a nuestros solicitantes con un toque personal y les damos a todos nuestra seria consideración.

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TESTIMONIALS

Aunque nos gusta pensar en la experiencia de aprendizaje como un todo, para propósitos académicos dividimos toda la experiencia en cuatro  cursos más un estudio independiente opcional

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Hacking the Education System with Indigenous Communities

of the Amazon Rainforest

Sustainable Forest Management   *   Regenerative Agriculture     Ancestral Indigenous Knowledge  *   Entrepreneurship 


our PARTNERS

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