REGENERATION AND THE POWER OF PLACE: by Thais Corral, Environmental Pioneer (Brazil)

Home for Humanity’s Living Curriculum:

“Our culture is global, our vision is global, we are one humanity. But today, our action, our care, our cultivation is, and needs to be, local…Now our actions and our commitments have to be local even if we think globally.’

“Home is the place that we care for, in which we implement the values, the perspectives, the visions that we believe the world needs today.” 

In this authentic conversation, pioneering environmentalist Thais Corral, speaks to us from the community home she founded of the transformative power of place, and the urgent need for ‘relocalisation’ that COVID has intensified, after the footloose period of globalization and frenetic world travel. Thais shares the remarkable experiment in regeneration she founded at Sinal do Vale for young transformation agents, in the Mata Atlantica forest near Rio de Janeiro which led her to discover the power of place and community.…