Oct 08 2024 54 mins
In this episode of Microcollege, we speak with Felipe Medina and Jakob Seidler, two of the co-founders of Suna Barichara, an aspiring microcollege and educational center located in a remarkable rural community and dry tropical forest biome in the mountains of Colombia.
According to their website, Suna Barichara is "a living education platform created to support people become the authors of their lives and weave futures of connection and reciprocal flourishing of life. This is what we mean by growing whole... Suna offers an open registry and series of learning routes, that grant locals and visitors the possibility of meeting meaningfully to learn how to live better on earth in connection. Suna is a Muysca word that means the meeting of important or sacred paths."
Join us for an inspiring conversation about the influences and life experiences that have led Felipe and Jakob to this project and about how thoughtfully enacted place based education might serve as an alternative to the extractive industries that have done so much damage in rural areas of Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
Suna Barichara: https://sunabarichara.com/
Thoreau College: https://thoreaucollege.org/