Connecticut Land Conservation Conference

March 22, 2025

Frank Center for Public Affairs,
238 Church Street, Wesleyan University, Middletown

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Maggie Favretti

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Maggie Favretti

Co-Director
Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed

Maggie Favretti conspires with younger learners, community leaders, and colleagues from around the world to democratize and deepen learning and to build agency for caring and transformative resilience.

In her new book Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters: Empowering Teachers and Students Beyond Futurephobia, author and award-winning educator Maggie Favretti outlines the contexts and causes of “futurephobia” and then offers Regenerative Learning strategies rooted in nature’s principles for repair and redesign.  She also explores methods for co-empowering youth creativity, agency, and hope. Her guiding question?  What kind of ancestor will I be?

Answering that question will take a lifetime, but for now Maggie is focused on launching the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, a collaboration of four towns and two Tribal Nations to care for life and thrive together during these challenging times. It’s free to join, and you get to find and share purpose with others looking to Do Something to make a difference. www.alliancemrw.org Someone recently asked Maggie what her Spirit Animal was…she said with the usual twinkle in her eye, “Mycelium!” Nothing does more to nourish well-being and relationships.  We are only as resilient as our relationships are strong.

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