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 completely reimagine how she teaches - and biomimicry became the key. "When I started looking at entrepreneurial learning through the lens of nature, it really changed how I saw myself as an educator," she explains. Now her classroom is a living lab for regenerative thinking, where students use natural materials for prototypes, walk through parks for ecological awareness, and sometimes even write poetry after being among trees. As a fellow traveler on a forest path that changes with every season, Trudie emphasizes that teaching regeneration must begin with care - care for the planet, for learners, for ourselves, and for all the systems we're trying to change.Key themes: Biomimicry, nature-based learning, sensory pedagogy, care as foundation, living lab classroom