The Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN)
Plexlearning Academies -- An epistemic state of being that frame mindful Research-to-Practice lifestyles ...
Beyond schooling toward lifelong education that cultivates meaningful social ecologies where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts ...
Beyond jobs toward meaningful vocations—cultivating life's purposes through ecological curiosity, continuous learning, and adaptations within the lived realities and politics of being.
Plexlearning: co-learning, co-adopting, & co-creating
The Education for Development and Support Network (EDSN) is an association of Lifestyle Academies and Neighborhood Centers that foster continuous co-learning, co-adopting, and co-creating. We integrate meaningful vocations, entrepreneurial philanthropy, science, and economics to build mindfulness-centered Research-to-Practice (R2P) communities that strengthen individual agency, collective capacity, and sustainable ways of being.
We transform schooling into education. Life-long relationships, experiential learning, living trust funds, sponsored research, and distributed knowledge networks are leveraged to strengthen civic engagement, curiosity, R2P inquiry, accountable governance, and mutual respect within the politics of being. Through collaborative quality assurance, we integrate reflective self-study, peer review, capacity building, asset development, strategic planning, and equity stewardship.
Our overarching mission is to advance inalienable individual and collective freedoms -- together with their corresponding responsibilities -- towards meaningful, equitable, and sustainable ways of being for all, everywhere!
We explore mindful living, accountable governance, and the politics of being among epistemic human and non-human agents.
We are engaged ecologically, fiscally, creatively, and curiously in knowledge creation and sharing ...
We strive to peacefully, respectfully, and sustainably cohabit Earth with all our human and non-human neighbors ...
Co-learning, co-creating, and co-evolving with Gaia -- Earth, currently the only known inhabitable planet.