: Ashley Nielsen, PhD

Ashley has been teaching for almost ten years, working with diverse cultural populations and educational settings, and age levels ranging from preschool to college. Through these experiences, and her research abroad, she became deeply concerned about the fragmentation and mechanization of the educational process and the disconnect with the current world situation. She also found that many times educational organizations have a philosophy that is not often congruent throughout the structures and processes of the organization. She therefore founded Living Education, LLC to raise awareness and enable educational organizations to be in harmony with what it teaches. Living Education, LLC (LE) is a consulting firm that enables organizations, such as schools and non-profits, to envision education holistically and regeneratively. LE works with them in a way that the organizational structures and processes, the students, families, culture, and the learning process is in harmony with itself and the land. Other terms that could be tagged onto the processes LE enables are place-based education, sustainable education, green schools, service-learning, value-adding processes, living systems design, and holistic education. LE has been involved in such projects including strategic planning to curriculum design.

Her educational experiences include a BA in psychology and eastern religions. She received a MA in transpersonal psychology, an extension of humanistic psychology that focuses on the spiritual aspects of life. Her PhD is in humanistic psychology. Her dissertation was on a new holistic philosophy of education she called Regenerative Education and what’s required to manifest such a philosophy as a living education system. Through her formal educational experience she has studied cross-cultural education, alternative educational practices, living systems thinking, alternative health practices, social transformation theory, and ecopsychology (the bridge between psyche and ecology of place). In addition to these formal degree programs, Ashley also has had extensive organizational systems training and work experience through the Institute for Developmental Processes. These experiences include the design of leadership development processes, the facilitation of place-based visioning processes, the coalescing and evolving of group critical thinking processes, and the development and use of systemic frameworks.





	: Ashley Nielsen, PhD Ashley has been teaching for almost ten years, working with diverse cultural populations and educational settings, and age levels ranging from preschool to college. Through these experiences, and her research abroad, she became deeply concerned about the fragmentation and mechanization of the educational process and the disconnect with the current world situation. She also found that many times educational organizations have a philosophy that is not often congruent throughout the structures and processes of the organization. She therefore founded Living Education, LLC to raise awareness and enable educational organizations to be in harmony with what it teaches. Living Education, LLC (LE) is a consulting firm that enables organizations, such as schools and non-profits, to envision education holistically and regeneratively. LE works with them in a way that the organizational structures and processes, the students, families, culture, and the learning process is in harmony with itself and the land. Other terms that could be tagged onto the processes LE enables are place-based education, sustainable education, green schools, service-learning, value-adding processes, living systems design, and holistic education. LE has been involved in such projects including strategic planning to curriculum design. Her educational experiences include a BA in psychology and eastern religions. She received a MA in transpersonal psychology, an extension of humanistic psychology that focuses on the spiritual aspects of life. Her PhD is in humanistic psychology. Her dissertation was on a new holistic philosophy of education she called Regenerative Education and what’s required to manifest such a philosophy as a living education system. Through her formal educational experience she has studied cross-cultural education, alternative educational practices, living systems thinking, alternative health practices, social transformation theory, and ecopsychology (the bridge between psyche and ecology of place). In addition to these formal degree programs, Ashley also has had extensive organizational systems training and work experience through the Institute for Developmental Processes. These experiences include the design of leadership development processes, the facilitation of place-based visioning processes, the coalescing and evolving of group critical thinking processes, and the development and use of systemic frameworks.