Regenerative Change Agents

Tourism Harvest: Sonia Teruel on Regenerative Agriculture and Ecovillages

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In our harvest episodes we dive into two or three topics more in depth. On this Tourism Harvest episode we are joined by Sonia Teruel where we explore tourism in combination with regenerative agriculture and ecovillages.Sonia Teruel founded the RegenLAB for Travel through which she is consulting and educating grassroots organisations and entrepreneurs in their transition to regeneration in tourism. She published the first master thesis written on regenerative tourism in 2018 and has been working with rural and indigenous communities for a long time. She firmly believes in collective wisdom and collaboration. Connect: Sonia Teruel | LinkedInWebsite: The RegenLAB for TravelConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block.

Tourism: Elke Dens

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.
In this episode with Elke Dens we dive into the transformative power of tourism experiences to change people’s mindset and practices. Elke brings some great insights and lived experience with world war one as a tourism experience in Flanders and her own journey in regeneration, systems thinking and all the potential of places and communities. We dived into the increasingly important role of companies and marketeers and their needed change in focus towards transparency and responsibility. The capacity building she does with Place Generation is amazing, so make sure to check it out in the show notes! Elke Dens is the founder of Place Generation, which is a global team of senior professionals with deep, strategic, expertise, a regenerative mindset, first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of destination management organisations (DMO's), an understanding of the policies of places and experience with communities. Elke is an advisor for the Travel Foundation, but from a regenerative perspective most well known for her work on Travel to Tomorrow: a vision on the regenerative future of tourism and travel in Flanders. Connect: Elke Dens | LinkedInWebsite: Place GenerationBook: Toerisme is dood, leve de reizigerResourcesThe Travel FoundationTravel to TomorrowGlobal Destination MovementThe Tourism CoLabConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Anna Pollock

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Anna Pollock we dive into networks, connecting the dots, a holistic view of tourism, going through the process of experiences and embodiment, tourism as a contributor to flourishing places and regenerative food systems supported by tourism enterprises, all in all Anna’s life work to make people think differently and see the patterns.Anna Pollock is an independent strategist, change-maker, speaker, committed to help the travel, tourism and hospitality sector become a force for regeneration and healing. A true change agent whose mission is to help clients and colleagues prepare for a very different future. Anna is the founder of Conscious Travel, the visionary first steps of the regenerative tourism movement. She also co-authored the discussion paper called Hosts for Life where she unpacks the nexus between regenerative agriculture and hospitality. Anna is a true inspiration of mine and I’m immensely looking forward having her on this episode.Connect: Anna Pollock | LinkedInWebsite: Conscious TravelWebsite: Regenerative TourismResourcesHosts for Life – a discussion paperConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Sonia Teruel

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe. In this episode we dive into the differences between regeneration in the Spanish speaking world versus the English speaking world and dive into optimism, seeing the potential everywhere, collaboration, learning & unlearning, personal development, forest bathing and regenerative food production. Sonia Teruel founded the RegenLAB for Travel through which she is consulting and educating grassroots organisations and entrepreneurs in their transition to regeneration in tourism. She published the first master thesis written on regenerative tourism in 2018 and has been working with rural and indigenous communities for a long time. She firmly believes in collective wisdom and collaboration. Connect: Sonia Teruel | LinkedInWebsite: The RegenLAB for TravelResourcesTaselotzin MexicoThink like a Tree courseSarah Spencer – Learning from Living SystemsConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Debbie Clarke

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Debbie Clarke we dive into building the potential of, and with, others through storytelling. Putting regenerative development into practices within the tourism industry and first and foremost within ourselves. Diving into education, teaching, systems thinking, contribution of the uniqueness of ourselves and the systems we are part of. As well as cold bathing, growing food and using tourism as a tool to make people think.Debbie Clarke is an entrepreneur, regenerative practitioner, and podcaster who is transforming travel to enable the thriving of people and places. She is dedicated towards a regenerative tourism model that places human and ecological wellbeing at the heart of tourism’s purpose. She puts this new story for tourism in practice and is supporting tourism entrepreneurs through the Centre for GOOD Travel, whilst sharing the regenerative tourism stories of New Zeeland as a co-host of the GOOD awaits podcast.Connect: Debbie Clarke | LinkedInWebsite: The Centre for Good TravelWebsite: Good Awaits PodcastResourcesConscious Travel - Anna PollockCourse: The Stories of Active HopeCourse: Intro to Regenerative StorytellingBraiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall KimmererThe Tourism CoLabThrivable WorldConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Irena Ateljevic

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Dr Irena Ateljevic we touch upon embodiment, care, responsibility and dive into consciousness, connection and human geography to study the relations between people & places. As well as Irena’s curiosity and critical mindset journey with researching and teaching tourism on different continents. I fully support her view on the future of ‘regenerative tourism’: a tasty and alive tourism with a direct connection to locally regeneratively produced healthy food. And how apt that Irena is sharing all of this with us from her own regenerative farm in Croatia!Dr Irena Ateljevic is the founder of Terra Meera and of RegenerateEurope.org. She is a scholar focussing on Human Geography and Critical Tourism studies and activist for the transformative power of tourism. From talking the walk in academia she moved back to Croatia to walk the talk and is an inspiration putting regenerative thinking in practice on her farm, her accommodation, organising the annual Regenerate Europe Conference and in all the local food and community projects she undertakes to regenerate the region.Connect: Irena Ateljevic | LinkedInWebsite: Terra MeeraWebsite: Regenerate EuropeResourcesWageningen University MSc in Tourism, Society and EnvironmentConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Loretta Bellato

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Dr Loretta Bellato we explore regenerative development in general and specifically applied in the tourism phenomena. We dive into Loretta’s journey through tourism, regenerative development and academia, focussing on learning and co-evolving through the patterns of being, knowing and doing. Loretta provided us with a whole list of extra resources, but for me the resource number one is still her work on regenerative development within tourism, so if you haven’t read her work yet, enjoy her insights and explanations in this episode and make sure to check out the show notes and dive into all her writings!Dr Loretta Bellato is a regenerative development & tourism researcher and a community practitioner committed to contributing to transformations that promote health and wellbeing of places and communities. She is the first to have conducted a PhD on regenerative tourism, where she investigated tourism's contributions towards regenerating urban places and communities. Loretta has an ongoing interest and active commitment to regenerative development approaches involving tourism and delivering outstanding community programs.Connect: Loretta Bellato | LinkedInWebsite: Google ScholarResourcesRegenesis videos on Regenerative DevelopmentRegenesis video on Working With Potential (part 3)Loretta Bellato short article: Is ‘regenerative tourism’ just a rebranding of ‘sustainable tourism’?Regenerative Practitioner seriesRegenesis GroupCarol SandfordCamina SostenibleConscious Travel - Anna PollockRegeneration Projects – Matt SykesConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Dianne Dredge

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Dr Dianne Dredge we dive into regenerative development and regenerative tourism both in theory as in practice. We explore belonging in place, letting go of the ego and Dianne’s lived experience with ecology, tourism, higher education, entrepreneurship, destinations, regeneration, working in systems and breathing!Dr Dianne Dredge is the founder and director of the Tourism CoLab and actively changing the system. Dianne has two decades of experience with consulting and with higher education as a professor in tourism, regional development and policy. She published 8 books and over 250 papers and is the change agent together with Sarah Lebski behind the regenerative living lab on Flinders Island, in Tasmania. She educates and coaches the next generation of innovative thought leaders and change makers in the Tourism CoLab. Dianne is actively bringing together the potential of regenerative tourism and building the needed bridges!Connect: Dianne Dredge | LinkedInWebsite: The Tourism CoLabWebsite: The Islander WayResourcesThe Songlines - Bruce ChatwinJohn J. Prendergast BooksAmanda Blake – Your Body is your BrainConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

Tourism: Michelle Holliday

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving the world.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.In this episode with Michelle Holliday we dive into learning, timing, stewardship, practices, transformation, hosting and visiting in Practice Grounds for a more Thrivable World! Two of those practice grounds are Agriculture with its connection to soil and the Tourism sector with its unique qualities and activities.Michelle Holliday is the author of The Age of Thrivability, a book on Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World. She facilitates, speaks and researches the ways we can feel more alive, connect more meaningfully with each other, and serve life more powerfully through our work. Michelle works with pioneering organizations to craft bold manifestos and designs the ways they will live into them.Connect: Michelle Holliday | LinkedInWebsite: Thrivable WorldWebsite: The Age of ThrivabilityWebsite: Michelle HollidayResourcesDestination Stratford  Connect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!
Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedInWebsite: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block. 

The Regenerative Change Agents Podcast Introduction

Regenerative Change Agents - a podcast about people improving our worldIn this podcast we explore a regenerative future, which is a future with healthy soils, healthy biodiversity and a healthy community. Each episode features a leading regenerative change agent: an entrepreneur, researcher, consultant, author, activist or educator. All amazing people who are engaging in regenerative thinking and practices. Join me on this journey as we discover: how to connect with nature; how to develop yourself, and how to challenge your worldviews. All through the beautiful stories of our co-hosts. Along the way we explore systemic and personal challenges, barriers and opportunities. Whilst unpacking those in the topics of Nature, Food, Agriculture, Tourism, Education and Entrepreneurship.In the first season we hear from amazing women, regenerative change agents, who are paving the way towards a new way of living in the world by using tourism as a catalyst to spread the regenerative mindset and practices around our globe.Introduction episodeI could not think of a better person to introduce this podcast than with the help of Inés Oort Alonso. Inés is a sustainability consultant and creative communicator focussing on planetary and human health. She has a Master’s of science degree in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management for which she attended three different universities in a two year programme, namely the Central European University in Austria, the University of Aegean in Greece and Lund University in Sweden. She works as the Spanish editor for EIT food’s FoodUnfolded. I have been following Inés’s work for the last year and a half and it has informed, inspired and motivated me, not just on the topics she addresses about the food systems transformation we need. But she has also inspired and challenged my own thinking about storytelling. And as such, I believe Inés is the perfect person to introduce and get to the essence of this podcast.I highly recommend following Inés and her work on climate and the food systems transformation!Inés Oort Alonso | LinkedIn ResourcesBuilding the Future of Innovation on millions of years of Natural Intelligence – Leen GorissenRegenerative Development and Design – Pamela Mang, Ben Haggard and RegenesisRegenerative Leadership – Giles Hutchins and Laura StormBetter Business Better Future – Elisabet LagerstedtThinking in Systems – Donella H. MeadowsGrowing a revolution – David MontgomeryA life on our planet – David AttenboroughWe are nature – Ray MearsSitopia – Carolyn SteeleWilding – Isabella TreeConnect and reach out so we can co-create a regenerative future together!Feedback, ideas and suggestions are always welcome!Connect: Charles van de Kerkhof | LinkedIn Website: Fjällgås.AgencyThis podcast is created by Charles van de Kerkhof with technical support and jingle by Joran de Block.