In order to create a new world out of the dumpster fire we see blazing all around us, we’re all gonna have to pitch in. This is an all hands on deck situation. The world we came from didn’t prepare us for what we’re building. We’ve found the end of the line for the old ways.
And so, we need to do new things in new ways. There’s a lot of things we’ll each be figuring out, doodling on the back of napkins and trying out. Each of us will learn things from these experiments, these observations of things that do work, that do heal, that do bring us closer to ourselves, closer together, and closer to the kind of world we all want to live in.
Those ideas are going to need to spread somehow. If you figured out a piece of it, if you’ve tried something that works, you’re gonna have to learn how to share that. Hoarding ideas is old world. From my view, we don’t have time for proprietary anymore.
I believe we are all going to have to learn how to be teachers. We’re all going to have to share our wisdom and findings with others in ways they can understand and apply. We’re gonna have to share in the field. Educate in the wild. Out there where real life is happening.
Wild Education, in my mind, is a different approach to the problems we face collectively. It’s a new way of being in the world. One where we question the way things have ‘always been done’, one where we articulate basic values and principles, one in which we consider long term consequences and second order effects. Wild Education is a way of life in which we approach life with curiosity and creativity. We merge our connection to our intuition with an experimental orientation to life and then we share our findings with others.
This isn’t about finding some hack or shortcut that gets us ahead at the expense of others. This is about bringing others with us because we understand that we’re all connected and we’re all in this together. Individualism leads to competition. Collaboration is what will lead us forward.
I’m not talking about some utopian fantasy where it’s all peace, love, and rainbows. I’m talking about real, practical, pragmatic solutions to the problems plaguing our world and realizing that we can either be a part of the problem or a part of the solution. I’m talking about basic equity. Fundamental thriving.
My dream for the world is a pretty low bar actually… let’s just not create a dystopian hellscape? Can we start there? Can we dream better dreams than how we find each other in an apocalypse? I think we can. I believe we must.
We are creators. We are powerful. And what’s even more powerful than an individual with an idea is a community that collaborates. And to do that we must question, experiment, learn and share what we find. I believe that Wild Education is the way we save the world, one person, one idea, one share at a time.
There’s much more to say about this to come, and I hope you’ll join me for the journey.
