How Fellows Make Sense of EB

Over the course of the first module of the Ecological Belonging Innovation Fellowship, students shared stories, rituals, and knowledge from their own local contexts. They explored questions that reflected on their experiences as students, as individuals, and as members of their local and institutional community. Together, over the three months, the students made sense of their experiences within this larger question: how do we live? / how should we live ?  And what are the locally rooted but universally human aspects of ecological belonging and? 

Below are eight potential pillars of Ecological Belonging derived from students’ responses to Ecological Belonging driving questions and reflections from communal storytelling.

(Note: These are not the only qualities of Ecological Belonging. Each track of work, individual, community, context, locale, and/or individual will define Ecological Belonging in their own unique way. This is just based on the collective similarities of this particular group of students.)

In the coming months, students will engage in further reflection and webinar opportunities.

Graphics created by Solvable design team.