Living Earth Co-Creative: A New Eco-Education Project from the Center for Process Studies

Lauren Elizabeth Clare, Mingyang Che, Xinlin (Vivian) Song
| February 14, 2025

The Center for Process Studies is growing a new branch of eco-education programs dedicated to cultivating the vision of ecological civilization through process-relational culture in youth education. With aims to build a global eco-education community, this project brings together collective wisdom from many cultures for eco-literacy and project-based learning programs. As well, this project has a special focus on creating hope amidst the meta-crisis by empowering youth to become co-creators of a bright future.

This eco-education initiative began at the 2024 EcoForum when Youth Forum director Vivian Xinlin Song and fellow Mingyang Che from China met with visitor Lauren Elizabeth Clare to explore the possibilities of furthering process-relational thought in the education field. They found common interest in holistic learning, as well as intergenerational and cross-cultural collaboration for peace-building and cultivating interest in ecological civilization. They soon formed the Living Earth Co-Creative project within CPS, have launched their initial program, and are growing towards an international eco-education exchange program.

Living Earth Co-Creative

Living Earth Co-creative is an eco-education community supporting students and educators to envision an ecological civilization and bring it into reality through lived learning. Our programs connect young visionaries with the wise elders, scholars, and innovators from the global process community, fostering collaborative, intergenerational learning.

Bio-intelligent design and eco-entrepreneurialism is a rapidly growing field around the world as science, business, and culture face the impacts of climate change. Now more than ever, eco-philosophy is a guiding light, uniting all peoples and the more-than-human world in eco-innovation for a bright future.

Join the eco-education community here.

The Living Earth Eco-Innovation Challenge

Members of the Process Community are invited to learn more about this initial eco-education program that just launched: The Living Earth Eco-Innovation Challenge.

This project-based learning program is for students ages 14-25, supporting young visionaries to engage complex challenges of the meta-crisis with resilience and compassion. Encouraged to illuminate a path to the future, students develop eco-innovation projects based on the principles of ecological civilization and living earth philosophy. Culminating with presentations at the Claremont EcoForum, this program features an intergenerational design that brings together participants with global eco-philosophers.

Members of the Process Community interested in sharing their talents with the next generation of eco-innovators are encouraged to participate. Attend an online project-development meeting to dialogue with students, share an interview about your hopes for the future of eco-innovation here, or further the vision of ecological civilization by coaching student projects! Learn more here.

Co-creators of our Future World

In addition, the Living Earth Co-Creative team is designing an international eco-education exchange program. Higher education students and eco-educators will have the opportunity to engage with leaders in eco-philosophy and regenerative design, participate in an eco-innovation incubator program, and grow a global eco-community with immersion learning at revitalized eco-villages in China, regenerative agriculture farms in the Americas, and eco-cities in Europe.

You can also become co-creators of a bright future by supporting these eco-education programs:

Share the Living Earth Eco-Innovation Challenge to teachers and students worldwide
Join the Living Earth Co-Creative community as an eco-mentor
Attend the Claremont EcoForum
Donate to this project at CPS here.

Xinlin Song is an educator, writer, and community activator. Her work focuses on forming cross-sector Glocal collaborations to create meaningful dialogues that ignite paradigm shifts toward an ecological civilization between China and the world. Xinlin serves as a board member of The Cobb Institute, and the youth program director for The Institute of Post-Modern Development of China, and the education director at Yunhe Centre, a community-based environment learning center. Her current interests involve storytelling and education with emerging China’s eco-communities, uncovering the potential for a new story that promotes mutually beneficial relationships between and beyond the human world.

Lauren Elizabeth Clare is a poet, educator, and Theory U practitioner. She is the co-founder and lead facilitator of Regen Collective and participated in the Presencing Institute for over 5 years as a u.lab hub host and content generator. Lauren studied holistic education, holistic land management, and lived in an old growth forest for many years. She has a deep interest in eco-wisdom for articulating and cultivating the shift towards the participatory paradigm. With a foundation in the performing arts, Lauren enjoys cultivating dynamic teams and participatory learning experiences. You can read Lauren’s thesis on Participatory Learning and many other writings about artisans of education at laurenelizabethclare.medium.com. Lauren is based in Ashland, Oregon, USA

Mingyang Che is one of the founding members of Eco-Innovation Lab. During her time working in one of the top management consulting companies, Mingyang was the core member of a strategy design project for the first social innovation fund focused on san nong problems in China. She graduated with the highest honor from the University of Hong Kong and won a global championship in Global Business Case Competition. She got a full scholarship from Stanford University for her achievement in social innovation and studied design thinking at Stanford school. Mingyang is an advocate for design thinking, social innovation and business innovation, she established a social innovation incubator—Yes Network in Hong Kong and delivers trainings on social innovation and design thinking for institutions like Hong Kong Government, University of Hong Kong, Zhejiang University, Beijing Normal University, Ford, NPI etc. She is the columnist for 21st Century Business Herald and the author of Bee Style Innovation. She’s a violinist and flower artist.