The Impact of Rehearsing Change

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The Impact of Rehearsing Change

Our semester-long study abroad program, Rehearsing Change is the only program in the world that practices a fair trade/decolonial education model. “Fair Trade” refers to equality, meaning it provides equal educational benefits for local community participants. “Decolonial” refers to equity, meaning that we recognize and integrate diverse ways of knowing and being from our partner communities. Funds are redistributed and result in real community projects.

In today’s newsletter we ask you to reflect on how this experience impacts local participants and international students. Watch a video to get a sense of how we create knowledge and experience the world; then read testimonials to reflect on those experiences. Finally, play your role in this “rehearsal for change” by sharing with others. The early application deadline for our spring 2019 semester is Sept 15!

Image: Remembering our first ever Rehearsing Change cohort back in 2015!

Watch the Rehearsing Change video!!!

In this video see how internationals and locals work together, dream together and play together. This is all part of a new model of studying… it is how we Rehearse Change.

Students, faculty and staff, please share on your Facebook pages, as well as in other social media, or take a couple of minutes to play it in your classes. Remember the impacts produced in Pachaysana start by Rehearsing Change! We depend on our friends to help us attract great students to our programs.

Apply for Rehearsing Change now!!!

Image: Spring 2018 students exploring how to collaborate when unable to see what is in front of us.

From an international student

“This was the most liberating educational experience I have had in my 21 years of learning. Although considered "higher education", I felt I held agency as a student and thinker and felt space and encouragement to grow and share in fullness.”

Bronte Velez
Alum, Graduate of Brandeis University

Image: Bronte sharing a poem while local counterparts tell their story through movement in Quito's Plaza de Teatro.

From a community participant.

"We shared experiences, work and knowledge while working in a team, traveling to many places and exchanging opinions with all. I am able to support my community with the knowledge I gained.”

Andrés Alvarado,
Alum, Kichwa community of Tzawata

Image: Andres designed the project "The jungle is my pharmacy" with international students. A photo from the inauguration of that project in the summer of 2017.

From a Study Abroad Office Director

"The Rehearsing Change program in Ecuador is truly like no other. In its creative use of arts-based methodologies within a rigorous academic structure and based in an immersive living environment with local communities, students are challenged in new ways to use their education to 'be the change they want to see in the world'."

Sara Dumont,
Executive Director
American University Abroad

Image: Three American University students join a student from Brown University in presenting a theatre for social change project as part of a dialogue with the community of Tzawata.

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"One of the best things that ever happened to me. It's changed my entire perception and imagination of what education can be… the classes, excursions, and people, but most of all because of the model of education (that focuses on true learning, exploration, and dialogue instead of memorization / regurgitation), it helped me grow as an activist and as a person."

Alice Markham-Cantor
Alum, Graduate from Wesleyan University

Image: Alice working on her journal at Tiputini Biodiversity Station and presenting a scene exploring women's stories in Pintag (Fall 2016)

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