Pavel Cenkl, PhD | Transformational Education

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Science, Self-improvement, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Education

5.0 • 22 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Due to funding cuts, accessibility issues, and misguided priorities, many educational institutions and universities are failing to serve their own communities. This is why adopting transformational education and putting regeneration at the center of their curricula is a must. Joining Corinna Bellizzi is Pavel Cenkl, PhD, dean of Academic Affairs at Prescott College. Together, they discuss what it takes to reimagine education to make it more reciprocal and less transactional, and why networked global learning matters now more than ever. Dr. Cenkl also explains how we should nourish and deepen our relationship with the world, the people around us, and even the more-than-human aspects of our planet to build innovative, regenerative, and sustainable communities.About Guest:Pavel Cenkl is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Prescott College. His work focuses on the intersection of transformative learning, community and ecology and building a more regenerative and resilient educational future. Pavel works internationally and writes and speaks widely about curriculum design and pedagogy, global learning networks, environmental humanities and philosophy, and has developed programs in ecology, humanities, outdoor skills and recreation, regenerative food and farming, and more. Pavel’s books include Transformative Learning: Reflections on 30 Years of Head, Heart, and Hands at Schumacher College (with Satish Kumar, 2021); Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast (2010); and This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784–1911 (2006). His current work is focused on regenerative democracy and education.Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavelcenkl/Guest Website: https://prescott.eduhttps://regenlearning.orgDue to funding cuts, accessibility issues, and misguided priorities, many educational institutions and universities are failing to serve their own communities. This is why adopting transformational education and putting regeneration at the center of their curricula is a must. Joining Corinna Bellizzi is Pavel Cenkl, PhD, dean of Academic Affairs at Prescott College. Together, they discuss what it takes to reimagine education to make it more reciprocal and less transactional, and why networked global learning matters now more than ever. Dr. Cenkl also explains how we should nourish and deepen our relationship with the world, the people around us, and even the more-than-human aspects of our planet to build innovative, regenerative, and sustainable communities.JOIN OUR CIRCLE. BUILD A GREENER FUTURE:🌴 Subscribe to our newsletter, and we'll plant a tree in your honor! https://caremorebebetter.com🌲 Subscribe and rate us wherever you listen, and we'll plant another tree Follow us on social media:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@caremorebebetter TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@caremorebebetterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMoreBeBetter/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/caremorebebetter

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0:00.0	What's the sort of deep relationality that you can have with absolutely any element that's not you, right?
0:05.3	Whether it's the tree I can look at outside my office or whether it's being out in the wilds of Arizona or Utah or somewhere else or the Arctic, right?
0:12.8	How can you cultivate and create space for and then actually reflect on what the meaning of that relationship becomes for you?
0:22.6	And my hope is by doing that, even in the smallest way, that helps to shift slightly people's perspective. And it might shift the way that they,
0:29.6	you know, engage in broader daily practices, or the way that they vote, or the way that they
0:34.6	choose to conduct themselves in community. But I think it all starts with that relationality.
0:40.1	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact
0:46.2	of conscious companies and everyday heroes.
0:49.5	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.
0:54.8	You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today.
0:59.6	Here's your host, Karina Belizey.
1:03.5	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the future that we're building together.
1:10.5	As of this episode, we've planted
1:12.3	more than 22,000 trees through our partnership with forestplanet.org. This is one for every new
1:19.3	subscriber and follower, whether you be on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and even our newsletter
1:25.6	on Caremore Be Better.com. So I invite all of you to follow us and join
1:30.9	this journey. We are going to help reforest our future one tree at a time. Now today, I'm
1:37.4	honored to welcome a deeply thoughtful and visionary guest, Dr. Pavel Sankle. Pavel is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Prescott College, where he leads innovative programs
1:49.0	that blend ecology, philosophy, community engagement, and global learning.
1:54.2	It also happens to be where I'm pursuing my PhD.
1:57.8	His work is grounded in regenerative education, learning that restores both human and ecological
2:03.7	systems. He's authored multiple books on landscape, culture, and pedagogy. Plus, he's the founder
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