The Regeneration Lab
Welcome to The Regeneration Lab. The podcast of the Regenerative Thinking research group at the the Mission Zero centre of expertise at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where we conduct integrated research to come up with regenerative solutions for a more sustainable future. Each episode features a leading educator, activist, professor, or researcher who is already engaging in more regenerative forms of higher education. Join us on this journey as we discover how these educational innovations emerged, how they are practiced, and the beautiful futures that are envisioned for more regenerative higher education. Along the way we will explore the systemic and personal challenges, barriers and opportunities that our awesome guests are facing to do this. You can reach out through mission-zero@hhs.nl to respond or connect to any of the episodes!
Episodes
75 episodes
What if it is the student's mountain to climb, not ours? A Conversation with Yolan van Gielen
Yolan uses the metaphor of a mountain climbing expedition to describe teaching: students must learn to be responsible for themselves first, then work interdependently, and ultimately collaborate with non-humans—the circular economy, energy syst...
What if we taught like gardeners, not mechanics? - A conversation with Lucia Walsh
"We are not mechanics, we are more like gardeners or stewards who plant seeds," Lucia tells us, describing her teaching philosophy organized around the four seasons. From winter's inner work to autumn's harvest, she guides students through natu...
What If Love for People and Planet Guided Teaching? A Conversation with Eddy van Hemelrijk
The role of business should be to do good for society and the planet," Eddy declares. "Business and being a business person is not about individual wealth and fame." Having transformed from what he calls "a regular businessman trained in a very...
How Do We Equip Students With Empathy for Non-Humans? A Conversation with Kristin Krebs
For Kristin, regeneration isn't just an add-on to entrepreneurship education—it's an invitation to fundamentally rethink what entrepreneurship even is. "I hope entrepreneurship education is opening up to rethink what entrepreneurship is, and it...
Can we make the planet a stakeholder? A Conversation with Mirjam Pfenninger
Mirjam sees herself as an incubator preparing caterpillars to become butterflies—holding a safe space where transformation can happen before students are ready to fly. Having grown up close to nature, she's evolved from human-centered design to...
What If Nature Was Our Teacher? A Conversation with Trudie Murray
Trudie's journey from humanitarian aid to entrepreneurship education was shaped by witnessing the limits of well-meaning interventions and the dangerous lack of systems thinking in development work. Fear for her children's future drove her to c...
Can Unlearning Be the First Step to Regeneration? A Conversation with Ilona Klama
"It is important not to jump straight into solutions but staying in the uncomfortable, not knowing, having to listen, understanding better, do it all over again - staying in the zone of discomfort," Ilona explains. As the guardian of winds who ...
How Do We Shift From Extraction to Contribution? A Conversation with Rob Lubberink
Rob's research in Malawi on material arrangements and entrepreneurial behavior led to a profound insight: it's not just entrepreneurs who have agency—the everyday materials and systems around us shape what's possible. Using the metaphor of a fo...
How Do We Move From Profit-First to Values-First? A Conversation with Bruno Delepierre
Bruno's metaphor of the chef supporting apprentices to find their unique expression captures his belief that education is fundamentally about connection and craft. But what makes Bruno's approach distinctive is his willingness to be vulnerable....
What If We Started With Potential, Not Problems? A Conversation with Charles van de Kerkhof
Charles uses the metaphor of animal tracking—where many different paths lead to the same animal, and complexity increases the more you zoom out—to describe the intricate work of regenerative entrepreneurship education. Inspired by witnessing va...
How Do We Weave Academic Networks of Care? A Conversation with Sergia Lage Arias
While mainstream entrepreneurship is about acceleration, innovation, and speed, Sergia offers a radically different metaphor: compost—slow, natural growth through decomposition and regeneration. Growing up connected to the land and sea in Galic...
What if we viewed uncertainty as possibility? A Conversation with Yvette Baggen
"We don't start-up businesses, we start-up people," Yvette declares, capturing her fundamental reframing of entrepreneurship education. For her, uncertainty isn't something to fear—it's a source of hope and inspiration. Yvette's teaching is cen...
What If the Classroom Was a Relational Field? - A Conversation with Catherine Brentnall
Catherine doesn't see the classroom as a space for delivering content - she sees it as a relational field where she's deeply interested in what's happening between people. Driven by a strong sense of justice and what she describes as an "obsess...
What If We Designed Futures We Can't Yet Imagine? - A Conversation with Sebastian Planck
Sebastian opens with a bold pedagogical move: meditation on the floor, shoes off, in the middle of an entrepreneurship class. As someone who deliberately challenges himself to push students out of their comfort zones -even when it makes him fee...
What If We Created New Maps for Entrepreneurship? - A Conversation with Juliane Schuster
"We need to let go of some of the old maps," Juliane tells us, describing herself as a mapmaker who sends learners out to explore their own paths. But this isn't about abandoning students—it's about recognizing that in the current system, the o...
What if students already have wings? A Conversation with Robin van Oorschot
Robin's metaphor says it all: students come to class with wings—some bigger, some smaller—and as the "guardian of the winds," Robin's role is simply to provide the conditions they need to fly. This episode explores Robin's emergent teaching phi...
Can Entrepreneurship Education Be An Adventure? A Conversation with Marina Schmitz
Marina sees teaching as navigating a ship through uncertain waters—but uncertainty doesn't mean danger, it means adventure. As an activist-educator, she's moved away from cognitive-only teaching toward fostering curiosity, futures literacy, and...
What If Entrepreneurship Was for All Disciplines? - A Conversation with Ingrid Wakkee
"Towards the end of my teaching and educational career, I think 95% of everything that had to do with education for me was about impact and sustainability, diversity, inclusion," Ingrid reflects. Her journey wasn't sudden - sustainability, tran...
Regeneratieve Pedagogiek - Aflevering 5: Pedagogiek van het Ongemak
In deze aflevering gaat senior-onderzoeker en gespreksleider Wâtte Zijlstra in gesprek met Naomi van Stapele, lector Inclusive Education aan De Haagse Hogeschool. Samen verkennen zij hoe je als docent, student en opleidingsinstituut kunt omgaan...
Studentbegeleiding | 10. Bram Hoonhout (wo)
Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld? Aflevering 10: Raken, Reflectie en Regeneratie...
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Studentbegeleiding | 9. Saskia Weijzen (hbo)
Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld? Aflevering 9: Maatwerk, Mogelijkheden en Mens-zijn (met S...
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Regeneratieve Pedagogiek - Aflevering 4: Regenerative Leadership
Welkom bij de vierde podcast over Regeneratieve Pedagogiek. Deze podcast is onderdeel van een onderzoeksproject om antwoorden te vinden op de vraag hoe we studenten en docenten in staat kunnen stellen om een positieve bijdrage te leveren aan gr...
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Studentbegeleiding | 8. Thomas Noordeloos (mbo)
Studentbegeleiding voor regeneratie Hoe helpen we studenten zichzelf te ontwikkelen, terwijl ze samen bouwen aan een rechtvaardige wereld? Aflevering 8: Gonzen, Gelijkwaardigheid en Gro...
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