Regenerative Cultures for Learning: A Conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl, Ph.D.

Regenerative Cultures for Learning: A Conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl, Ph.D. | Benjamin Freud

Posted By: Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.

In this episode, I speak with Daniel Christian Wahl, international consultant and educator specializing in biologically inspired whole systems design and transformative innovation. He is the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures and has worked with local and national governments on foresight and futures, consulted companies like Camper, Ecover and Lush on sustainable innovation, and has co-authored and taught sustainability training courses for Gaia Education, LEAD International and various universities and design schools. Daniel’s experience and views on regenerative cultures are part of a larger systemic conversation that involve education and the pressing need for change.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Building capacity in ourselves, others, and life, over looking for fixed solutions;

• Making the teaching of bio-productivity a measure, if not the measure, of success;

• Being receptive to place so we can become expressions of place.

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Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.

Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Coconut Thinking, which creates learning and action experiences where all learners have a common purpose; positive impact on the welfare of the bio-collective — any living thing, sentient or plant, that has an interest in the healthfulness of the planet. Benjamin also works as the Whole School Leader of Learning and Teaching at an International School in Thailand. He was the Academic Coordinator at Misk Schools, which, as the school of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is the most prestigious and high profile school in the kingdom. In 2018-2019, he was also the Head of Upper Primary and Middle School at Misk. Prior to this, he was Vice Principal of the Middle School and High School at the Harbour School in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in History, an MSc in Education, an MBA, an MA in International Relations, and a BA in International Affairs. Benjamin was born and grew up in Paris, France. He moved to the U.S. when he was 15 and spent 11 years there in different cities, before living in the U.K., Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and now Thailand. He started his career in consulting for Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, working with people whose ambitions were no less than to change the world. This experience had a profound effect on Benjamin’s outlook on education, innovation, and entrepreneurialism.