Education & Restoration
for Collective Liberation
Re-storying identities & restoring territories with Indigenous communities in Ecuador.
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
FOR INTERNATIONALS
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FOR LOCALS
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.
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.
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
Shadira Ruiz
Community Counterpart
from Nina Shunku Association
"Rehearsing Change has converted itself into a process of liberating education that has strengthened us as an organization, and encouraging us to work as a collective"
Saul Bautista
Community Counterpart from Pintag
"Rehearsing Change was an evolution in my own life. Since we began these classes and this exchange, we have learned so many things, such as valuing our land and neighbors, to create a more harmonious connection within the community and a wider vision of what the true meaning of community is, of working towards an objective that doesn't benefit just one person but everybody."
TESTIMONIALS
“This program pushes you to live with and understand others from backgrounds which can differ dramatically from your own. In this program you are not just studying in a country, you're studying with a country. You work alongside people who have new perspectives and ideas that will stick with you.”
Evan Oravec
American University
our PARTNERS
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