Covid-19 Programming updates
As of January 2023, Pachaysana no longer treats COVID as a crisis situation. Instead, we have integrated it into our regular health and safety programming, for which it receives special attention, including a vaccine requirement and quarantine protocols in the case of infection. The public health crisis did lead to the creation of new programming, for example our virtual courses and workshops. Please see our current online programming below, as well as our ever-developing plans for in-person study abroad programs. Visit our FAQs page for more information.
Online programming
Re-imagining intercultural education and study abroad... online
The numerous crises we are facing have exposed cracks in our most long-standing institutions. In this online program, Pachaysana converts the cracks into opportunities for planting seeds of change. Our faculty is joined by community-based educators from Ecuador to co-teach two courses in English, using participatory methods to inspire a new way of doing online education, a way that is born from the cracks. Our college and university partners can contract an entire course solely for their institution or open the courses up for direct student enrollment. Learn more by opening this brochure or reading testimonials. (Spanish courses available upon request.)
creating spaces for collective unlearning and dreaming
Pachaysana offers a series of workshops and webinars on "unlearning" that can complement ongoing course instruction (we have worked with departments of Geography, Latin American Studies, Indigenous/Native American Studies, Theatre, Arts Administration, Education, Anthropology, Dance, and more), assist in program or campus community development (e.g. an effort to decolonize community engagement practices, or to strengthen a student-led club) or as faculty development seminars (we combine themes/methodologies into an unlearning series). Read about our most popular offerings (Identity and Pacha, Storytelling for Social Change and Epistemic Justice), each one that can be done as a dynamic webinar, an interactive workshop or a combination of both. We work closely with the contracting institution to tailor each offering to their diverse needs. Please inquire for prices and more information and read testimonials.
In-Country programming
Rehearsing Change: Semester-Long Study Abroad
Adapting our study abroad Model to the new reality
SPRING 2023
We are pleased to announce that Rehearsing Change returned to its normal schedule and structure for the Spring 2023 semester. Students have the option of host family stays or living in community-run volunteer housing sites. We have community partner sites in the rural highlands and Upper Amazon.
Regular semester programming will continue in Fall 2023. Applications are open!
Please visit our FAQs page for more information
short-term programming
Adapting our study abroad Model to the new reality
We are now running short-term programs! We have run a handful of two to four-week programs in 2022 and 2023. As with our semester-long program, protocols have been put in place to ensure the health and well-being of all involved. We are now accepting inquiries for 2024 programs. Please click here or inquire for more information on working with us to plan a short-term program.