: Ashley Nielsen

Ashley has been teaching for almost ten years, working with diverse cultural populations and educational settings, and age levels ranging from preschool to college. Through these experiences, and her research abroad, she became deeply concerned about the fragmentation and mechanization of the educational process and the disconnect with the current world situation. She also found that many times educational organizations have a philosophy that is not often congruent throughout the structures and processes of the organization. She therefore founded Living Education, LLC to raise awareness and enable educational organizations to be in harmony with what it teaches. Living Education, LLC (LE) is a consulting firm that enables organizations, such as schools and non-profits, to envision education holistically and regeneratively. LE works with them in a way that the organizational structures and processes, the students, families, culture, and the learning process is in harmony with itself and the land. Other terms that could be tagged onto the processes LE enables are place-based education, sustainable education, green schools, service-learning, value-adding processes, living systems design, and holistic education. LE has been involved in such projects including strategic planning to curriculum design.

Educational experiences include a BA in psychology and eastern religions and a masters in transpersonal psychology, an extension of humanistic psychology that focuses on the spiritual aspects of life. Through her formal educational experience she has studied cross-cultural education, alternative educational practices, living systems thinking, alternative health practices, social transformation theory, and ecopsychology (the bridge between psyche and ecology of place). She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at Saybrook Graduate School, focusing on what’s required to manifest a holistic educational philosophy as a living and holistic educational system. Through this work she is proposing a new philosophy of education called regenerative education, which is an extension of the holistic educational movement ideals. In addition to these formal degree programs, Ashley also has had extensive organizational systems training and work experience through the Institute for Developmental Processes. Training experience includes the design of leadership development processes, the facilitation of place-based visioning processes, the coalescing and evolving of group critical thinking processes, and the development and use of systemic frameworks.





	: Ashley Nielsen Ashley has been teaching for almost ten years, working with diverse cultural populations and educational settings, and age levels ranging from preschool to college. Through these experiences, and her research abroad, she became deeply concerned about the fragmentation and mechanization of the educational process and the disconnect with the current world situation. She also found that many times educational organizations have a philosophy that is not often congruent throughout the structures and processes of the organization. She therefore founded Living Education, LLC to raise awareness and enable educational organizations to be in harmony with what it teaches. Living Education, LLC (LE) is a consulting firm that enables organizations, such as schools and non-profits, to envision education holistically and regeneratively. LE works with them in a way that the organizational structures and processes, the students, families, culture, and the learning process is in harmony with itself and the land. Other terms that could be tagged onto the processes LE enables are place-based education, sustainable education, green schools, service-learning, value-adding processes, living systems design, and holistic education. LE has been involved in such projects including strategic planning to curriculum design. Educational experiences include a BA in psychology and eastern religions and a masters in transpersonal psychology, an extension of humanistic psychology that focuses on the spiritual aspects of life. Through her formal educational experience she has studied cross-cultural education, alternative educational practices, living systems thinking, alternative health practices, social transformation theory, and ecopsychology (the bridge between psyche and ecology of place). She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at Saybrook Graduate School, focusing on what’s required to manifest a holistic educational philosophy as a living and holistic educational system. Through this work she is proposing a new philosophy of education called regenerative education, which is an extension of the holistic educational movement ideals. In addition to these formal degree programs, Ashley also has had extensive organizational systems training and work experience through the Institute for Developmental Processes. Training experience includes the design of leadership development processes, the facilitation of place-based visioning processes, the coalescing and evolving of group critical thinking processes, and the development and use of systemic frameworks.