Seanna Ashburn has spent over 30 years in a variety of education contexts – in teaching, curriculum design, research management, and project administration – at both local and national levels. With a Ph.D. in educational psychology, her experience includes coordinating and supporting multiple collaborative work teams in education and community contexts. Beginning in 1993, her study at Genesis Farm of the New Story of the Universe, as told by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry and mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme, led her to focus on facilitating collaboration for innovation within the framework of David Bohm’s work on dialogue. She sees developing skills in communication through dialogue – a shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, and possibility – as key to building and sustaining community, and to moving us collectively beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and behavior, toward reinventing the human to live in alignment with all of life.

Seanna is currently on the staff of Genesis Farm, an ecological learning center in NJ focused on the new cosmology, bioregionalism, and sustainability (www.genesisfarm.org). Genesis Farm was an early innovator in the community-supported agriculture movement, renewable energy, strawbale building construction, and in exploring the New Cosmology.