Cocreating with a living
intelligent Earth
a live online learning community starting May 21st
This is not a course in the usual sense. It is an eleven-week journey into kincentric ways of seeing, sensing and relating, lived through your own life and the more-than-human communities you are part of.
We will explore the principles of Kincentric Leadership not as ideas to understand, but as patterns that inspire and shape how we relate within a world of living, intelligent others.
This is not a series of lectures, but something we do together - through ongoing practice, shared reflection, and engagement with the living world around you.
We hope it will inspire you to not only perceive yourself and the world differently, but to live differently inside it, and to question, nudge, tweak and radically reimagine what's possible.
May 21 - July 30 | 10 live sessions: Thursdays at 15:00 UTC | shared weekly practice | community space
£200 - £900 sliding scale | scholarships available
You may feel at home here if...
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You feel drawn to the possibility that the world is intelligent, sacred, and deeply interconnected, whether that knowing is long-held or brand new.
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You are delighted to know, or suspect, that you are not the only sentient presence here, and want to find your way deeper into the conversations already unfolding all around you.
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You want to strengthen your sense of belonging and contribution within wider web of life.
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You might be curious what this way of seeing the world asks of you in practice. Or you may already be walking this path and want companionship, challenge, and shared exploration.
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You feel the weight of systems that extract, exploit, and erode life, and want to deepen your role in shifting them towards care, kinship, and reciprocity.
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You are willing to stay with grief, uncertainty, and not knowing, without turning away.
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You carry a spark of imagination, a sense that other ways of living and organising are possible, and a calling to deepen the action, creativity and vision that make them real.
How the course unfolds
This course is a series of explorations and experiments in what happens when we take seriously that we live in a sacred, interdependent, and animate world. It runs over 11 weeks, in two blocks of 5 weeks each with a pause in between. It follows several overlapping rhythms.
🌊 A weekly rhythm of live calls and practice
🌕 The cycles of the moon
☀️ The turning point of the solstice
You will be hosted and facilitated by Kincentric Leadership cofounders Anna Kovasna and Justine Huxley. Along the way, we'll be joined by guest speakers - leading voices, practitioners and wisdom keepers from indigenous, scientific and applied backgrounds who hold important pieces of what living kincentrically could mean on a personal and collective level.
The course is also a community. You will be learning alongside people from different places, cultures, and fields who are all exploring what it means to make kinship with all life a central part of how they live and work. As a participant, you will have a private online space with your cohort for sharing what you are noticing, questioning, trying, and discovering together, and for building relationships with others walking similar paths. You will also become part of the wider Kincentric Leadership community, a growing group of practitioners exploring kincentric ways of living, organising, and working.
During the course, we will explore and experiment with:
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Gratitude, reverence, and ceremony as ways of building relationships with more-than-human kin and making worlds together
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Learning from the intelligences, perspectives, and lifeworlds of other Earth beings
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Rethinking identity, leadership, and power in an interdependent and animate world
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Aligning our lives with cyclical time and the rhythms of the living world
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Designing organisations, projects, and decision-making processes that are accountable to the wider community of life
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Living with courage, care, and vision in a time of unravelling, loss, and uncertainty
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Building communities, organisational cultures, and ways of working based on kinship and reciprocity
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What it could mean to live and act from within the places and lineages we are part of
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Justice and governance in a world where many kinds of beings have interests, social lives, agency, and voice
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Imagination and art as ways of thinking, relating, and cocreating with more-than-human kin
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The power of shared vision, the seeds of kincentric futures and the roles we each might play in helping them grow
Each week we will explore one of the eight principles of kincentric leadership through stories, conversations, and practices that you carry into your own life. Much of the learning happens not on the calls, but in your ongoing relationships with the living world around you, and in the systems, organisations, and places you are part of.
We begin with sacredness, interdependence, and animacy, deepening our perception and participation in a world full of reverence, relationship, and intelligence. We then pause to look more directly at the moment we are in: one of unravelling, uncertainty, and grave challenges to the web of life, and to explore what this moment may ask of us. From there, the course opens into pathways and ethics for action through the lenses of kinship, belonging, justice, and cocreation, exploring ways of living, organising, and navigating the times we are in. The final part of the course is about collective imagination, integration, and how this way of seeing and relating might shape what we do next.
Depending on the week, you might find yourself offering thanks to the moon, mapping the relationships that sustain your life as a starting point for trandformation, making art with Earth others, walking at night, having unexpected conversations with non-human persons, experimenting with multispecies governance, grieving together, letting the land write a manifesto using you as a spokesperson, or writing a loveletter to the Earth.
We hope you leave the course with...
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A different way of seeing the world and your place within it
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Language, frameworks, and support for bringing kincentric thinking into your work and conversations
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New ways of thinking about leadership, power, responsibility, and decision-making
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Tools for mapping and transforming how you live and work
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Ideas for projects, changes, or initiatives in your life, organisation, or community
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A community of companions and co-conspirators, whether human or not
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A deeper sense of attention, gratitude, and reciprocity with the places and beings that sustain your life
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Greater clarity, courage, and imagination for the role you play in the wider web of life
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A renewed sense of wonder, mystery, and belonging in a living, intelligent world
Pricing
We offer this course on a sliding scale to keep it accessible across different economic contexts while sustaining the work that makes it possible. You also have the choice to pay all at once, or in three monthly installments. Please choose the option that best reflects your circumstances and capacity to contribute.
We recognise that differences in income and currency value mean that the same course fee can represent very different levels of affordability depending on where someone lives and the economic realities they are navigating. Our sliding scale and scholarship places help account for these differences while supporting the sustainability of the programme.
We also acknowledge that many people working with land, community, and cultural knowledge systems do so in contexts where financial resources are limited, or where the financial value assigned to this work does not reflect its wider social, ecological, or cultural importance. We hope this pricing structure will help make it easier for people working in these spaces to take part.
Choosing one of the higher tiers when you are able helps sustain the course and make wider participation possible.
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Scholarships
We offer supported places for participants from Indigenous communities and the Global Majority who may otherwise face financial barriers to participation. These places are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, whether you are able to contribute towards the course fee or not.
Applications are open from 31 March to 21 April. Decisions will be shared by 26 April. The number of supported places will depend on overall sign-ups and contributions, but we will do our best to make participation possible for those who need support.
If you feel this opportunity may be intended for you, we warmly invite you to apply.
What's included?
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10 live online sessions with Kincentric Leadership cofounders Justine Huxley and Anna Kovasna, and guest speakers
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A free copy of the Kincentric Leadership Handbook as an ebook
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Weekly practices and exercises for listening, communicating, and cocreating with other beings to explore in your own life, organisation, or place
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Tools such as systems mapping and the Kincentric Leadership benchmarking tool to help make visible and change the way we live and work
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Real-world examples of communities, organisations, and projects experimenting with kincentric approaches
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A dedicated online space for your course cohort, as well as access to the wider Kincentric Leadership community
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Ongoing access to course materials, recordings, and community spaces for as long as we are able to sustain them
Course Contributors
Anna Kovasna
Lead facilitator
Anna is a systems thinker, creative convenor, and passionate weaver of resilience and kinship with all life. She co-founded Kincentric Leadership with Justine Huxley and works with communities worldwide to catalyse systems change and regenerative practice rooted in animist and relational worldviews. She has a long history in the ecovillage movement and currently serves as Strategic Lead for Community Resilience at the Global Ecovillage Network, and as a trustee of Transition Network and Gaia Education. She lives with her more-than-human kin on a homestead in the Pyrenees and brings a background in social anthropology, along with extensive experience in facilitation, community living, and grassroots organising.
Justine Huxley
Lead facilitator
Justine is a writer, facilitator, and spiritual ecologist whose work focuses on awakening a deeper sense of kinship with all life. She co-founded Kincentric Leadership with Anna Kovasna and works internationally at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, systems change, and peacebuilding. She previously spent 18 years at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, where she served as CEO and developed programmes connecting ecology, spirituality, and peace-making. She is the author of Generation Y, Spirituality and Social Change, holds a PhD in psychology, and has led meditation and dreamwork groups for over two decades. She lives near the River Lea in Hertfordshire and is in love with all things river.
Luna
Guest facilitator
The Moon is a timekeeper, tide-maker, and long-time companion to Earth, born around 4.5 billion years ago after a collision between the early Earth and another planetary body. Since then, she has played an important role in shaping the conditions for life by creating the tides, stabilising Earth’s axial tilt and climate, and influencing the behaviour, reproduction, and migration patterns of many other Earth kin. Her cycles have shaped calendars, ceremonies, agricultural practices, and ways of measuring time in many cultures. She specialises in beginnings, endings, thresholds, and transformations, and in reminding humans that life moves in cycles and phases rather than straight lines. She lives in orbit around Earth and likes to play catch with the sun
Pat McCabe
Guest speaker - intro session
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
Rutendo Ngara
Guest speaker - kinship
Rutendo Lerato Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner, transdisciplinary researcher, and speaker from Southern Africa whose work explores the interface between science, culture, cosmology, and paradigms of healing. She is Founder of Rooted In Soul, Co-Founder of Ancient Wisdom Africa and Ancient Wisdom Foundation, and a member of several interdisciplinary organisations dedicated to Indigenous knowledge and the protection of sacred sites and biocultural regions, including the Earth Elders and Earthrise Collective. Holding an MSc in Medicine (Biomedical Engineering), Rutendo’s transdisciplinary focus centres on bridging Western and Indigenous paradigms.
Coming soon
Guest speaker - cocreation
Much of life unfolds without us knowing who or what will shape us next - this is one of those moments.
Supriya Mahabaleshwar
Community weaver
Supriya is a mother, poet, and naturalist who explores the relationship between nature and culture. She designs and leads nature and heritage awareness programmes and is currently learning from sacred groves and their cultural and ecological heritage in the Western Ghats, India. She is co-convenor of the Pune Chapter of INTACH and has co-authored research on the ecology and community stewardship of sacred landscapes, bringing together scientific insight and local knowledge to support conservation and cultural continuity. She is also a graduate of the first Kincentric Leadership cohort.
Malaury Kuhorn
Course steward
Malaury (she/they) is a storyteller working at the intersections of multispecies solidarity, queer ecology, and collective imagination. With a background in Environmental Geography and a Master’s in Engaged Ecology from Schumacher College, their research has explored how neurodivergent ways of sensing and relating can open pathways to deeper connection with the more-than-human world. Their work is meant to bridge stories and imaginative landscapes in a way that feels authentic, weird, alive and free from all labels. Her intention is to uplift often-overlooked voices and nurture spaces of reciprocity across species boundaries.
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Sol Akinsowon
Course assistant
Sol is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative journey moves through photography, film, poetry, and sound. Their practice centres the power of intimacy and connection with and between all beings, weaving the visual language of intuition with poetry and prose. Drawing inspiration from their surroundings, heritage, and community, they explore the richness of traditions while also documenting change and its effects on communities. Through their work they seek to capture the essence of connectivity, creating meaningful narratives that resonate with deep emotion and authenticity.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel your place on the course, please let us know as soon as possible.
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Cancellations made within 14 days of booking are eligible for a full refund, provided the course has not yet begun.
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Cancellations made more than 30 days before the course start date will receive a full refund minus a £50 administrative fee.
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Cancellations made between 14 and 30 days before the course start date will receive a 50% refund.
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Unfortunately, cancellations made less than 14 days before the course begins cannot be refunded, as preparation for the programme will already be underway.
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Once the course has begun, we are not able to offer refunds for cancellations or missed sessions. In some cases it may be possible to transfer your place to a future cohort, if one is offered. Please contact us to discuss.
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If you are paying in instalments, the same cancellation terms apply to the total course fee. Any refunds will be calculated based on the full fee, not only the amount paid to date. If you cancel, any remaining instalments will not be charged.
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If the course is cancelled by the organisers, participants will receive a full refund or the option to transfer their place to a future cohort.
