Teaching
Michelle is committed to designing and delivering education that enables people to care about life on Earth, and create Earth centred governance systems. Michelle has been creating and hosting community education workshops for AELA since AELA was founded in 2012. In 2015 she taught Earth jurisprudence for a semester at the Center for Earth Jurisprudence, at Barry University, Florida USA.
Michelle has created and taught the following :
- 2022 - "Introduction to Earth Laws" - AELA's 4 week Professional Development Course, September 2022
- 2022 - "Earth Centred Futures" - AELA's 8 week Professional Development Course, July-August 2021. Please visit our AELA Education webpage for more details.
- 2022 - 5 May - "Engaging with communities beyond the Academy", 1 Day Professional Development Workshop for Griffith University's "Flourish" Conference, for Mid Career Researchers
- 2021 - Kids in Action - Michelle ran 3 workshops about environmental governance for primary school students at the'Kids in Action' program sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Council
- 2020, 2021 and 2022 - Michelle created and facilitated the New Economy Network Australia's (NENA) first 8 week Professional Development course on the new economy: "Building a Wellbeing Economy: Foundations for Learning and Practice", in partnership with The Yunus Centre, Griffith University, 28
- 2016, 2017 and 2018 - Michelle created Australia's first university level course on Earth laws, which was taught at Griffith University Law School in Brisbane as a summer school each year from 2016 to 2018.
Michelle been a guest lecturer in a wide range of university courses, including the following:
- UNSW Masters Course on Sustainability– Guest Lecturer 4 June & 13 August 2021
