Education that centers the Earth and sees humans as a regenerative species.
At Grounded in Motion, we reshape education to nurture interconnectedness with the living Earth. Working with a diverse spectrum of educational facilities from International Baccalaureate Schools, United World Colleges, Lycee Français courses and interdisciplinary University programs, we embed ecological literacy, creative activism, relational practices, climate science, and emotional resilience into the heart of learning.
Merging the Scientific and the Poetic to cultivate the next generation of ecological stewards, educators, and leaders.
Learning Journeys, Curriculum Co-Creation & Embodied Experiences
Interdisciplinary modules that merge ecology, climate science, environmental advocacy, and art
School Vision and Culture workshops with leadership teams
Experiential workshops on eco-grief, biodiversity loss, and planetary boundaries
Deep ecology installations and nature-based storytelling sessions
Educator training and faculty development in transformative ecological learning
What we offer
Our Featured Projects
Our ecological consciousness course merges the scientific and contemplative to create spaces of embodied learning while emphasising that we are in relational existence with Earth. Our work within academic institutions shifts the focus from sustainability to imagining biodiverse futures, featuring contemplative practices, writing exercises and curricula that accompanies courses such as the IB Environmental Societies and Systems course.
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.
In collaboration with Terra.Do and the Oxford University Climate Alumni Network. A series of sessions focused on the intersection of art, learning design, and climate activism. The arts allow us to envision new narratives of ecological flourishing, embody the content in deeper ways, process eco-grief, and build awareness of our relational existence with the natural world. Turning abstract concepts into palpable experiences that our imagination cannot summon up otherwise, combining creative practice and climate advocacy.
In residency at Harvard Olin Engineering School. “Contemplating Science” is a course that presents engineering students with a unique learning environment based in meditation and ecology.
The course paves the path for conscious and ethical engineers that will design in symbiosis with the world around them. As they reflect on the impact of their work in the light of ecological frameworks, they bring more nuanced and clarified awareness to the ethical, social and environmental considerations in their industry and field of design.
“Imagining Biodiverse Futures & Weaving Living Stories” is a facilitation guide and coursebook designed to ignite imagination, foster ecological consciousness, and reconnect humans with the more-than-human world. Grounded in Sabahan realities, it blends counter-mapping, ancestral storytelling, ritual, speculative fiction, and embodied practice to co-create radically hopeful, biodiverse futures.
Carine has been teaching at the Lycee Francais de New York for 15 years. She co-created the sustainability course which follows aspects of the French Ministry of Education program while simultaneously challenging it and embedding ecological consciousness and deep ecology principles. In this program participants explore human-land relationships, local indigenous ceremonial ecology and community engagement. The methodology integrates planetary boundaries, Gaia Theory principles, sensory ways of knowing, and biodiversity metrics and systems thinking, among others.
The course paves the path for perspective shifts that highlight an ecocentric model while introducing students to Rights of Nature and Youth Voice in Climate Activism.
