Your donation will directly help IRB achieve its mission.
We will be able to expand and continue our efforts to:
- Support bioregions and the humans within them in ways that will bring more eco-cosmic perspectives to the fore. One of the core ways your donation supports this is through the development of the ReBe App.
- Bring representation, respect, reverence, and awe to our multi-species companions, through art, education, storytelling, community engagement and beyond. We currently publish On Relational Being on Substack and offer it for free. Your donation will support the continuation of this publication.
- Support IRB fellows who are actively engaged in ecological projects internationally.
- Help shift the damaging dominant worldview that elected humans as the central characters of our shared story, transforming this in a way that places humans into a more humble, realistic, and ultimately more life-affirming position among the web of life.
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What is the Institute of Relational Being?
The Institute of Relational Being (IRB) offers platforms, frameworks, and experiences that empower us to cultivate more enlivened relationships with the living world. IRB welcomes you to join us in exploratory practices of attention, reverence, and kinship with the multilayered ecological communities we inhabit.
The Institute’s genesis was sparked during a transformative learning journey at Schumacher College in the UK. Schumacher’s ecological curriculum is rooted in holistic science, engaged ecology, and regenerative practices.
The Institute of Relational Being forms one star in a growing constellation of Schumacher alumni legacy projects worldwide, including Escola Schumacher Brasil, Siendo Naturaleza, and Schumacher Sprouts Belgium.
Eco-Imagination Collage co-created by humans and more-than-humans of EDT Schumacher College 2023Our Mission
Our goal is to celebrate the entanglement that binds us all. Grounded in relationships, our mission is to embark on an exploratory process of reorientation and remembrance involving practices rooted in being present to the living world we inhabit. This is a journey we must take together with our more-than-human companions.
Projects & Process
Relational Being is a practice, a process, and an ongoing project of becoming with the rest of nature and the wider cosmos.
The Institute of Relational Being is engaged in several ongoing projects aimed at helping us become more consciously and compassionately relational.