The

Nature Culture

Fellowship Program

The Nature Culture Fellowship brings together global intergenerational change-makers. Together, we explore how story, art, ancestral knowledge, and spiritual connection drive transformative change through culture.

Throughout the Learning Journey, participants engage in storytelling, embodiment practices, ceremony, values-based reflection, and dialogue to address systemic challenges and heal our separation from nature and each other.

Fellows receive financial support and access to mentors to design and implement community-based projects.

Nature Culture Fellowship Program?

What is the

A Three Phase Learning Journey

The Intergenerational Cultural Fellowship unfolds across three transformative phases, guiding Fellows from inner reflection to community-rooted action.

Fellows begin by grounding in the power story and culture. We explore systems of oppression and reconnect with living systems. Through remembrance, collective grief work, and rituals of reckoning and renewal, they reflect on the relationship dynamics between humans and the more-than-human, and consider what must be released to move forward.

Phase 1: Tending the Soil

Phase 2: World of Possibilities

Fellows enter a space of emergence through reciprocal listening with nature and each other. Imagination and creativity are sparked as project ideas begin to take shape with peer feedback, collaboration, and co-creation.

Phase 3: Seeding Regenerative Futures

With mentorship and ongoing support, Fellows bring their projects to life—experimenting, adapting, and documenting cultural actions within their communities. The journey culminates in a collective celebration, where Fellows share their offerings, reflections, and visions for regenerative futures.

Facets of the Fellowship

  • Culture & Creativity: This program explores how cultural and creative tools — from music and movement to ceremony and visual storytelling —  shift mindsets, spark collective change, and inform policy shifts.

  • Mystery & Experimentation: This journey is for those willing to sit with uncertainty, lead with curiosity, unlearn old patterns, and embrace experimentation. Together, we’ll break out of our silos and open ourselves to expansive ways of knowing and being.

  • Learning from Traditional Wisdom and Social Science:  This Fellowship centers traditional wisdom, Indigenous knowledge, social science, and creative expression as vital paths to understanding and action.

What we’re hearing…

  • Thank you for curating such a sacred space. This is not just a fellowship, it an answer to the questions I could not answer for long time. I carry it in my spirit and work forward with renewed clarity.

    Macdonald Khozomba (Malawi)

  • I’m truly grateful for the care, intention, and thoughtfulness behind this Fellowship. It’s more than a learning space—it’s a community that inspires growth, empathy, and courage. Your work is planting seeds of change that will continue to grow beyond these sessions.

    Zabihullah Rahmani (Afghanistan)

  • I was deeply moved by the radical tenderness and vulnerability shared in the sessions. It surprised me how quickly a sense of trust and connection emerged across distances, and how much strength there is in pausing together to grieve, imagine, and dream beyond our current realities.

    Laura Zarta (Colombia)

  • Deep awe for the wisdom shared, grief for what’s been lost, and moments of peace in feeling seen and connected. At times, discomfort arises when touching painful truths, but it is softened by hope and the collective strength of this healing journey.

    Kwabena Gyapong (Ghana)

Who is this program for?

Are you curious about the deeper cultural and systemic roots of today’s socio-ecological crises?

Are you excited to learn about the power of art, story and cultural narrative in shaping our behaviors?

Do you believe that change begins not just with policies, but with people — in sharing stories, emotions, identities, values and world-views?

This Fellowship is for those who want to explore art and narrative change in culture as a lever for transformation.

We’re looking for individuals who are:

  • You have a network or circle you can engage, inspire and influence locally.

  • You take initiative, follow through, and can dedicate time to this 5-month journey, including creating and implementing a community project.

  • You’re curious, reflective, and willing to sit with discomfort, mystery, and not knowing.

  • You can connect across cultures, generations, and disciplines, and are committed to dismantling systemic barriers.

  • You value culture, art, traditional wisdom, and embodied learning as tools for transformation.

  • You see yourself as part of a larger web, willing to share, support, and learn with others.

  • You believe in the power of stories and embodied curiosity to shift worldviews and inspire collective action. 

  • You are committed to ongoing community engagement and cultivating partnerships beyond the program.

Yes this program is right for me!

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Fellowship Projects Around the Globe

  • Green Memory Project connects youth and communities through storytelling, art, and culture to strengthen their bond with nature.

    Zabihullah (Afghanistan)

  • Manguo Wetlands project helps reconnect with nature by acknowledging ancestral. We offer our service through restoration and revitalization in the form of clean-ups and planting native species.

    Tex (Kenya)

  • Diwa’t Dalamhati rekindles the kinship between nature and people by bringing together outdoor education, wellbeing practices, and creative expression. Participants will be guided from direct encounters with local biodiversity, to personal and collective reflection, to public sharing and dialogue.

    Bricx (Philippines)

  • 'চর ও প্রকৃতি' (Char and Nature) helps children in the deltaic communities of Subarnachar fall back in love with their local ecosystem by listening to the land, learning from elders' wisdom, and sharing their own nature tales.

    Shanjida (Bangladesh)

  • Seeds of Connection is a collaborative board game where the cards and roles reflect Tolteca’s cosmovision, endangered species and the dynamics of urban development and colonization. The game invites resistance, collective care and transformative change.

    Aurora (Mexico)

  • Listening to the Mountain and the Sea are sonic and visual fabulations between Humans and More-than-Humans in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

    Laura (Brazil)