Elevating Ecological Consciousness
Grounded In Motion bridges deep ecology practices, environmental education, artistic advocacy, and the Rights of Nature to curate transformative learning experiences rooted in reverence for our sentient Earth.
Envisioning a flourishing ecological future begins with feeling our place within a living, sentient Earth. Grounded In Motion is an educational practice where deep ecology, the Rights of Nature, and the arts build ecological consciousness and awaken our regenerative potential as planetary citizens. Our cerebral ways of knowing about ecological degradation and biodiversity loss are not enough. In order to transform, we must not only know - but feel. Honoring our roles and responsibilities toward the ecosystems that sustain us.
Grounded In Motion is part of a growing movement of activists, policy makers, scientists, academics, and artists merging the poetic and scientific to offer spaces to process ecological degradation, and co-create pathways toward ecological regeneration. We are not separate from the natural world, we work to honor the Earth not as a resource, but as living kin to whom we already belong, practicing hope in a world fed a story of scarcity.
Gibert’s spoken word album Honoring Holocene has been featured in international installations as an example of artistic storytelling for biodiversity protection. Carine has performed as a contemplative poet for Courage of Care, Forever Sabah Institute, Contemplative Practices for Higher Education, and Earthy Storytellers at Surya for Georgetown's Earth Commons and Lab for Performance and Politics. She holds a Master's in Sustainability Education from Columbia University and a Bachelor's from Bocconi University in Milan, with a double major in Economics and Cultural Heritage Studies.
“Our planet is a pulsing body of life. This is an EP of sonic poems that only very minimally begin to express my deep recognition of this animate Earth; my awe and astonishment for all its magic and wisdom of ecological connectivity.”
Writing these pieces is also part of processing grief for that which is being lost or unattended, and the fragile relational tissue we must remember to continue weaving.
Grounded In Motion, led by interdisciplinary educator, activist, and artist Carine Gibert, weaves this work into embodied ecological education and curated experiences that awaken reverence for the living world.
She designs installations and educational programs, leads an interdisciplinary education and artistic collective that advances Rights of Nature and planetary stewardship across international school networks, and creates immersive spoken word compositions that shift how climate change is taught while centering biodiversity as the foundation of caring for the Earth. Carine serves as Education Ambassador and Arts Curator at the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, a leading global resource on ecocentric law. She is a mentor at Terra.do and a member of the Bio-Leadership Project. Her work bridges creative expression with systemic ecological awareness and invites communities to reimagine their relationship with the living world.
Gibert’s collaborations span international schools, universities, and climate organizations, including United World Colleges, International Baccalaureate schools, Lycée Français de New York, the Olin School of Engineering at Harvard, the Earth Law Center, the Mind and Life Institute, and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. For two decades she has taught within a wide range of academic systems and developed interdisciplinary ecological education programs. She has joined collectives working toward the adoption of a Rights of Nature declaration by the United Nations, the High Seas Treaty, and the Great Lakes and NY Water Bill of Rights.
Deepening our awareness of our beautiful yet fragile interdependence with the natural world drives her vision. The learning journeys she designs show how art, ecocentric law, and climate science can awaken reverence for the living world and a greater awareness of how Earth's living systems connect. Her courses, installations, and curated exhibits feature ecological consciousness frameworks, contemplative practices, writing exercises, and composed soundscapes, giving space for both eco grief and joyful reimaginings.
The idea of putting nature’s patterns and principles at the heart of what we do as we take our next steps along the path of the human story may seem radical to some. That’s because so many have forgotten our close kinship with nature - ours is a coexistence that goes hand in hand with an interdependence essential to our very survival. We believe that nature oriented solutions should be centered as we address climate change. Read more about Who We Work With and the kinds of Projects that are possible.
We coexist biologically with the soil, with carbon cycles, with water cycles, and with all the trees and wetlands that hold an ingenious network of systems that have sustained sentient beings since the dawn of time. Shifting our ecological consciousness means looking deeply at the narratives that are all around us, spike our nervous systems, and result in ever more human-centric approaches to solving for climate change. To achieve real sustainability means explicitly emphasizing the role nature plays in our lives and existence, raising the ecological consciousness by advocating on behalf of nature itself as the holder of wisdom and the nuanced mechanisms to maintain the abundance of biodiversity as well as the balance of the magical Gaia.
Partners and Clients
Educating for Ecological Consciousness - United World Colleges
This collaboration between Grounded in Motion and the international school network United World Colleges centres on designing and articulating the school’s mission and framework, aiming to develop UWC into a strong and innovative force in the Sustainability Education space. The framework emphasizes a strong sense of place, a deep understanding of landscape, and the connection between education and its local geography, thus allowing students to become stewards of the Earth.
Mycelium Installation
Created to evoke wonder and appreciation for our planet’s biodiversity and our humble place within it. In collaboration with Berlin based artist Clare Celeste and Argentinian guitarist Federico Diaz it aims to enmesh visitors in thousands of hand cut images of flora and fauna, a reminder that we are all inextricably connected to the larger web of life. The artworks serve as gathering spaces for reconnection and healing so we may find our place as stewards of life. “As we forge plans for expensive carbon capture technologies, we destroy soil ecosystems that do this work more effectively.” This collaboration is a celebration of the wisdom of the soil and its underground networks. The soundscape and pedagogical workshop were designed to strengthen the relational tissues of our movements for justice and ecological healing, involving contemplative practices, writing exercises and moments of silent walking to give space for eco grief and joy.
“Grounded In Motion creates spaces to help us reconnect with natural world, process grief and advocate for the waters that surround us. The learning journey emphasizes how we can encourage our more than human relatives to flourish rather than moving us towards climate anxiety and fear.”
— Pooja Sahni - Indian Institute of Technology