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Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, 
who share multidimensional, local and diverse 
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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Lana Jelenjev

Lana Jelenjev is a Filipina, now based in the Netherlands, who designs spaces for “KAPWA” (shared inner selves) to flourish.

Lana Jelenjev guides founders, community leaders and changemakers in re-imagining, designing and facilitating spaces for belonging, liberation and healing. Lana is a seasoned learning experience designer, strategist and community alchemist who dreams of a world where healing-centered ecosystems are flourishing.

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Re/membering Our Rooted Selves

What are your roots? What is your relationship with ancestry and heritage? How do they inform you now? How do you want to walk in this world? What do you wish to contribute? This is an invitation to re/claim that which has been left behind, feeding us as we move into the future. A call to re/connect to memory and ancestry, dreaming and imagination, and re/root through story-telling.

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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads and illuminating patterns

How do we cultivate response-ability? How do we engage in the present? How can storytelling be an active act toward these ends, and what does it mean to activate the ‘muscle’ of stories? What could playing with string figures teach us? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.

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Storytelling our way home: weaving threads & illuminating patterns

How can storytelling help us find our way home and ground ourselves in the present of these times? In this webinar, co-curators of advaya’s upcoming course, Re/membering our Rooted Selves, Maria Clara Parente and Naida Culshaw, dialogue with some of our course teachers: Anna Denardin, Aza Njeri, Lana Jelenjev, P. Mary Vidya Porselvi and Andreza Jorge.

Courageous vs safe conversations: holding tension with Lana Jelenjev Picture

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Courageous vs safe conversations: holding tension with Lana Jelenjev

How can we find that—in this uncomfortable space, even though there might be tension, there is trust—we are able to hold space for each other and surrender to what can unfold? For me, that is my invitation, to notice what are my survival responses." In Week 2 of Re/membering our Rooted Selves, community alchemist and seasoned learning experience designer, strategist Lana Jelenjev walks us through some possible survival responses and guides us toward courageous (different from safe) conversations.