Education & Restoration
for Collective Liberation
Re-storying identities & restoring territories with Indigenous communities in Ecuador.
Learn alongside Indigenous community educators in Ecuador. Our Unlearning Retreats invite you to question familiar assumptions, reconnect with land and community, and imagine other ways of living and learning.
"The retreat challenged me to rethink how I teach, conduct research, and engage communities... bringing the idea of “unlearning” into my pedagogy by encouraging students to examine not only what they know, but how they came to know it.”
Dr. Obasesam Okoi
Associate Professor in Justice and Society Studies
University of St Thomas
August 2026 retreat
FOR INTERNATIONALS
FOR LOCALS
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
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