The Regeneration Lab

"We are not mechanics, we are more like gardeners or stewards who plant seeds," Lucia tells us, describing her teaching philosophy organized around the four seasons. From winter's inner work to autumn's harvest, she guides students through natural cycles of growth that honor both head, heart, and hands. Driven by her children and a refusal to continue "education as usual,&...

Yolan uses the metaphor of a mountain climbing expedition to describe teaching: students must learn to be responsible for themselves first, then work interdependently, and ultimately collaborate with non-humans—the circular economy, energy systems, and biodiversity itself. "It's not my mountain, it's their mountain," Yolan emphasizes, explaining why student ownership is central...

The role of business should be to do good for society and the planet," Eddy declares. "Business and being a business person is not about individual wealth and fame." Having transformed from what he calls "a regular businessman trained in a very neoliberal way" into an educator, Eddy embodies the personal transformation that many in this series describe: reaching a point wh...

For Kristin, regeneration isn't just an add-on to entrepreneurship education—it's an invitation to fundamentally rethink what entrepreneurship even is. "I hope entrepreneurship education is opening up to rethink what entrepreneurship is, and it doesn't solely mean founding a start-up or exploiting a business opportunity," she explains. With a strong social-ecological justi...

Mirjam sees herself as an incubator preparing caterpillars to become butterflies—holding a safe space where transformation can happen before students are ready to fly. Having grown up close to nature, she's evolved from human-centered design to planet-and-human-centered approaches, and she's not afraid to challenge conventional tools. When the Business Model Canvas wasn't enough, sh...

Trudie's journey from humanitarian aid to entrepreneurship education was shaped by witnessing the limits of well-meaning interventions and the dangerous lack of systems thinking in development work. Fear for her children's future drove her to completely reimagine how she teaches - and biomimicry became the key. "When I started looking at entrepreneurial learning through the lens of...

"It is important not to jump straight into solutions but staying in the uncomfortable, not knowing, having to listen, understanding better, do it all over again - staying in the zone of discomfort," Ilona explains. As the guardian of winds who supports students to find their way of flying, Ilona understands that transformation requires unlearning before relearning - and unlearning means...

Rob's research in Malawi on material arrangements and entrepreneurial behavior led to a profound insight: it's not just entrepreneurs who have agency—the everyday materials and systems around us shape what's possible. Using the metaphor of a football coach with a new team every year, Rob describes the challenge of creating learning experiences where students understand systems think...

Bruno's metaphor of the chef supporting apprentices to find their unique expression captures his belief that education is fundamentally about connection and craft. But what makes Bruno's approach distinctive is his willingness to be vulnerable. "An educator wins a lot if he is able to be vulnerable towards students, so they see there's a human being in front of them," he s...

Charles uses the metaphor of animal tracking—where many different paths lead to the same animal, and complexity increases the more you zoom out—to describe the intricate work of regenerative entrepreneurship education. Inspired by witnessing value-based entrepreneurship in Africa, where money wasn't the first priority, Charles challenges the mechanistic worldview dominant in the West and inst...

While mainstream entrepreneurship is about acceleration, innovation, and speed, Sergia offers a radically different metaphor: compost—slow, natural growth through decomposition and regeneration. Growing up connected to the land and sea in Galicia, Sergia brings a deeply place-based perspective to education, emphasizing that we must be "in, for, and of" our local contexts. Through nature...

"We don't start-up businesses, we start-up people," Yvette declares, capturing her fundamental reframing of entrepreneurship education. For her, uncertainty isn't something to fear—it's a source of hope and inspiration. Yvette's teaching is centered on helping students learn to embrace and navigate uncertainty, understanding that collaboration and diverse teams are es...

Catherine doesn't see the classroom as a space for delivering content - she sees it as a relational field where she's deeply interested in what's happening between people. Driven by a strong sense of justice and what she describes as an "obsession with inequality and unsustainability," Catherine's teaching journey took a decisive turn in 2021 when the IPCC's &quo...

Sebastian opens with a bold pedagogical move: meditation on the floor, shoes off, in the middle of an entrepreneurship class. As someone who deliberately challenges himself to push students out of their comfort zones -even when it makes him feel insecure - Sebastian believes that discomfort, resistance, and friction are not problems to be solved but energy to be harnessed. Using the kite runner me...

"We need to let go of some of the old maps," Juliane tells us, describing herself as a mapmaker who sends learners out to explore their own paths. But this isn't about abandoning students—it's about recognizing that in the current system, the old maps lead toward finite resources, and that's not where regeneration can take us. Juliane's turning point came from studyin...

Robin's metaphor says it all: students come to class with wings—some bigger, some smaller—and as the "guardian of the winds," Robin's role is simply to provide the conditions they need to fly. This episode explores Robin's emergent teaching philosophy, shaped by student-driven inquiry and a commitment to designing for neurodiversity. Robin shares innovative approaches like...

Marina sees teaching as navigating a ship through uncertain waters—but uncertainty doesn't mean danger, it means adventure. As an activist-educator, she's moved away from cognitive-only teaching toward fostering curiosity, futures literacy, and imagination in her students. In this episode, Marina shares how she uses theater-based methods and arts-based approaches to help students questio...

"Towards the end of my teaching and educational career, I think 95% of everything that had to do with education for me was about impact and sustainability, diversity, inclusion," Ingrid reflects. Her journey wasn't sudden - sustainability, transformation, and regeneration "grew into my education over time" - but she was always drawn to impact examples, even when teaching m...

In deze aflevering gaat senior-onderzoeker en gespreksleider Wâtte Zijlstra in gesprek met Naomi van Stapele, lector Inclusive Education aan De Haagse Hogeschool. Samen verkennen zij hoe je als docent, student en opleidingsinstituut kunt omgaan met het ongemak dat vaak naar boven komt in onderwijs over duurzaamheid en regeneratie: over het gezonder maken, voeden, herstellen en vernieuwen van onze...

Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie   Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld?   Aflevering 10: Raken, Reflectie en Regeneratie (met Bram Hoonhout, Universiteit Leiden)  Intro: Welkom bij Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie. In deze reeks leren we van begeleiders uit het Nederlandse vervolgonderwijs (mbo, hbo en wo) hoe zij studenten he...

Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie   Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld?   Aflevering 9: Maatwerk, Mogelijkheden en Mens-zijn (met Saskia Weijzen, Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen)  Intro: Welkom bij Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie. In deze reeks leren we van begeleiders uit het Nederlandse vervolgonderwijs (mbo, hbo en wo) h...

Welkom bij de vierde podcast over Regeneratieve Pedagogiek. Deze podcast is onderdeel van een onderzoeksproject om antwoorden te vinden op de vraag hoe we studenten en docenten in staat kunnen stellen om een positieve bijdrage te leveren aan grote globale uitdagingen in relatie tot duurzaamheid. Hoe kunnen we systemen (ecologisch, sociaal, voedsel, gezondheid, energie, etc.) gezonder maken? En wat...

Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie   Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld?   Aflevering 8: Gonzen, Gelijkwaardigheid en Groei (met Thomas Noordeloos, Yuverta)  Intro: Welkom bij Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie. In deze reeks leren we van begeleiders uit het Nederlandse vervolgonderwijs (mbo, hbo en wo) hoe zij studenten helpen h...

Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie   Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld?   Aflevering 7: Waarden, Werkvormen en Willen motiveren (met Esli Verheggen, University College Leiden)  Intro: Welkom bij Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie. In deze reeks leren we van begeleiders uit het Nederlandse vervolgonderwijs (mbo, hbo en wo) hoe zi...

Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie   Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld?   Aflevering 6: Aanwezig zijn, Aandacht en Ambiguïteit (met Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Universiteit van Amsterdam)  Intro: Welkom bij Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie. In deze reeks leren we van begeleiders uit het Nederlandse vervolgonderwijs (mbo, hbo en wo) h...