The pioneering vision that has been expressed through Schumacher College’s holistic education since its very first course in 1991 here in South Devon  - a five week tour de force on Gaia Theory led by James Lovelock – is now engaged in a deeply transformative journey. We, the recent faculty, staff, volunteers and alumni from Schumacher College, have unexpectedly found ourselves needing to move away from our home of more than thirty years and to set out into the world around us. This uprooting was unplanned and not entered into by choice. It has, therefore, been challenging for all involved to come to the sober recognition that a much-loved chapter of life and learning has now come to an end. 

When viewed through a holistic, ecological, or spiritual lens, however, life herself teaches us that every ending is in fact a new beginning of some kind - and our story is no different.