Humans for Abundance

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Ecuador
Cumbayá
Humans for Abundance

Restoring ecosystems & re-storying identities with Indigenous partners in Amazon & Andes in Ecuador. We believe that humans can be the source of abundance.

If we join forces and act in a synchronized, collaborative way, we can fight climate change, reverse biodiversity loss, and improve the quality of life for all beings on the planet. With a mission to create synchronization and urgently restore and conserve our planet’s most vital ecosystems, Humans for Abundance (H4A) created a digital bridge where city-dwellers who want to do more for the environment can join forces with locals who have the knowledge, the land, the access, and the desire to bring back life.

Locals become RESTORERS while city-dwellers become CO-RESTORERS. Together, they run a win-win system that creates an immediate triple impact: social, economic and environmental. On our digital bridge, co-restorers ask restorers to take the actions that they can’t take themselves. They do so by ordering the eco-actions that each restorer has designed according to their abilities and possibilities. It’s beneficial for both sides.

Restorers:

*no longer have to extract natural resources to cover basic needs.

*their knowledge and skills to restore and conserve nature are appreciated and rewarded.

*have access to better quality education, food and medicine.

*feel a sense of agency, opportunity and growth. Co-restorers:

*don’t have to wait for governments to fight climate change and biodiversity loss.

*generate immediate actions that benefit the environment and themselves in the long run.

*receive progress reports with scientific data and social impact metrics.

*feel a sense of relief, contribution and empowerment. Acting as propagation agents, we situate ourselves in the middle of both these worlds to facilitate collaboration. To our restorers, we provide guidance, support, and information, helping them become self-sustainable and skilled owners of their own projects and lands.

To our co-restorers, we provide in-person and satellite verification of eco-actions and detailed reports of social and environmental impact of their orders.

23/01/2026

We’ve become a little obsessed with building the perfect CV, stacking summer internships, polishing skills, and checking boxes.

But here’s what we’ve learned: the internships that truly matter don’t just prepare you for a job. They shape who you are.

At Pachaysana, our interns don’t just gain workplace experience. They learn how to work with people. How to navigate uncertainty. How to listen, reflect, and respond when things are complex and real.

Our interns learn how to live and work in community, and they leave knowing themselves better.

Don’t just add another line to your CV. Add depth to who you are.

Check more at our webpage: https://www.pachaysana.org/summerinternships

21/01/2026

Unlearning reciprocity.

In our Unlearning Retreats, you take a journey that reshapes how you show up in the world.

We practice relationships rooted in care, balance, and shared responsibility. Listening guides our speaking, and we arrive willing to be changed, not only hoping to bring change to the world.

This way of (un)learning helps us become more grounded educators, more ethical leaders, and more attentive human beings.

Come unlearn with us. We loosen control and learn to embrace the complexity that comes from living in relationship—with people, place, and the living world.

15/01/2026

New Year Practice: Rehearsing Change

This year, I commit to practicing the world I want to live in, through dialogue, creativity, and courageous collaboration.

Because change isn’t declared; it’s rehearsed together.

🎭 Rehearsing change with Pachaysana

12/01/2026

New Year Pledge: Carbon Onsetting

In the year ahead, I commit to doing my part so that my workplace takes responsibility for our footprint, through relationship and repair.

I choose to invest in living systems and the people restoring them.

🌍 Practicing responsibility through Carbon Onsetting

09/01/2026

New Year Commitment: Children of the Living Forest School

This year, I commit to nurturing life where it begins:
in children, in forests, in ancestral knowledge passed hand to hand.

I choose education rooted in relationship with land, culture, and community,
and futures where children grow as protectors of their territories and ways of life.

Children of the Living Forest School with Pachaysana
https://www.pachaysana.org/forest-school

07/01/2026

New Year Orientation: Humans for Abundance

This year, I choose to believe in abundance, not scarcity.

I commit to supporting ways of living that regenerate soil, culture, and community, where life can thrive together.

🌱 Growing abundance with Humans for Abundance

06/01/2026

New Year Commitment: Unlearning
This year, I commit to unlearning what no longer serves life: ideas, habits, and systems rooted in extraction and separation.

I choose curiosity over certainty, relationship over control, and learning over knowing.

Unlearning Retreats with Pachaysana:
https://www.pachaysana.org/unlearning-retreats

23/12/2025

✨ From Our Pachaysana Family to Yours ✨

As we close the year, we’re taking a deep breath, a slow stretch, and a moment to smile at all the beautiful mingas, muddy hands, shared meals, and intercultural joy that shaped 2025.

Wherever you are, may the coming weeks bring rest, laughter, reconnection, and a spark of inspiration for the year ahead.

Thank you for learning, building, unlearning, and imagining with us.
See you in 2026. We are ready for more co-creation, more community, and more abundance. 🌱💛

19/12/2025

As the year winds down, and we (hopefully) find moments for rest and reflection, we invite you to visit our blog and read the newest piece by our wonderful Rehearsing Change alum (Spring 2024), Hannah Podol ’25.

Her writing is a call to action and a call to pause; a celebration, a reminder, a meditation, and a playful invitation to reimagine the world with others.

Here is a glimpse: “Pachaysana’s pedagogy invites every participant—local and international—to enter a rehearsal space. We co-create the learning. We unlearn colonial and modern assumptions together. And we begin to discover what it means to make change rooted in relationships, in small daily actions, shared meals, embodied learning, and art that welcomes contradiction.”

Follow the link to read the blog: https://www.humansforabundance.com/post/rehearsing-new-worlds-reflections-on-community-learning-and-hope-from-p%C3%ADntag-and-mushullakta

Thank you, Hannah, for sharing your heart and wisdom.
Happy holidays to our entire Pachaysana community.

16/12/2025

Looking Back at 2025: Children of the Living Forest School

As we close the year, we return to one of our brightest community-led efforts: the Children of the Living Forest School in Mushullakta. Co-created with mothers, elders, and local leaders, the school has become a powerful example of what intercultural, land-based education can be.

In 2025, learning flowed between classrooms, gardens, kitchens, rivers, and towering native trees. Children grew not only in knowledge, but in confidence, wellbeing, and belonging. This year, the impact was clearer than ever.

🌱 Highlights From This Year’s Impact

Forest health: students practiced seed collection, native tree propagation, and water protection.

Student wellbeing: joyful learning rooted in movement, arts, gardening, forest walks, and nourishing meals.

Family unity: children study at home rather than leaving for distant cities.

Intercultural exchange: reciprocal learning with international students and visiting educators.

Cultural revitalization: students learn how to learn, collaborate, care for their territory, and sustain their ancestral community.

In Mushullakta, education is not separate from life; it grows from the land, from family, and from the forest itself. As we look back on 2025, we’re filled with gratitude for the teachers, families, co-restorers, and partners who make this possible.

When children learn with the forest and for their future, they become the protectors the forest has been waiting for. 🌱💚

12/12/2025

Looking Back at 2025: Unlearning as Everyday Practice

This year, unlearning moved from a concept to a lived, grounded practice across our communities and partner institutions. Through retreats, workshops, storytelling sessions, and embodied dialogue, we saw something clearly: unlearning is not abstract or confusing. It is concrete, doable, and deeply practical.

Unlearning helps us recognize the patterns we’ve inherited, ways of thinking, teaching, relating, and deciding that no longer serve justice or wellbeing, and gently replace them with practices that do. It is not dramatic or disorienting; it is steady, reflective work that opens space for clearer action, healthier relationships, and more intentional leadership.

✨ Unlearning Retreats 2026

In 2026, we invite educators, students, activists, administrators, and anyone seeking grounded transformation to join our Unlearning Retreats in Ecuador.

These retreats are:
Deep but not overwhelming
Practical and applicable
Intercultural and relational
Restorative and grounding

Unlearning isn’t about discarding everything we know. It’s about clearing space for what we truly want to practice, individually and collectively.

🌎 Join Us in 2026 - https://www.pachaysana.org/unlearning-retreats

If you’re seeking tools to transform your work, your relationships, or your approach to education and social change, this is your invitation. Come unlearn with us, and with the communities who have shaped this work from the beginning.

09/12/2025

Celebrating 7 Years with Northwestern GESI

This December, we’re looking back with deep gratitude at the year's activities and celebrating our partnerships, beginning by recognizing our seven-year partnership with Northwestern University’s Global Engagement Studies Institue.

This summer, interns Alyssa and Talia joined our longtime partners in Pintag Amaru, where they engaged in bioconstruction, community design projects, and local cultural initiatives. Their dedication and the relationships they built with community members and host families helped move key EcoVillage projects forward in powerful ways.

We’re grateful for their leadership, humility, and presence, and for GESI’s ongoing commitment to community-centered global learning.

Here’s to continued collaboration rooted in reciprocity and shared growth.

Dirección

Cumbayá

Teléfono

0984470084

Página web

http://www.pachaysana.org/, http://www.rehearsingchange.org/, http://www.humansforabundance.com/

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