How it works
1. Find the Others
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1. Find the Others
It starts online. You encounter the ideas through Rich's YouTube channel, Substack, podcast conversations, and social media. Something resonates. You follow your instincts.
2. Learn Together
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1. Find the Others
Organically composed online cohorts bring professionals into facilitated sessions exploring ecological intelligence as relational intelligence.
Advance through the Person, Place, Practice, Prosper methodology.
3. Experience IRL
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Our Origin School gatherings on Nantucket, Cape Cod, and elsewhere move the work from ideas into embodiment. Make a pilgrimage into direct encounter with place, creatures, geological time, and shared meals with others on the same path.
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For those who go deeper, the practitioner pathway develops your capacity to recognize and cultivate ecological intelligence in organizations and communities — and ultimately to certify it through the Oika Star® certification and rating ecosystem.
About Rich Blundell
Rich Blundell is a neurodivergent ecologist who spent thirty years immersed in Earth's wildest habitats—coral reefs, rainforests, deserts, tundra—studying how nature shapes human consciousness. From this research he developed Oika, a living philosophy grounded in science that produces an abiding sense of belonging.
He holds a PhD in Big History from Macquarie University, a USCG 100-Ton Master license, and has received recognition from NSF, PBS, National Geographic, and the Rockefeller Philanthropies. He currently serves as Scientist-in-Residence at Maria Mitchell Association.
But the work starts where he started: Duxbury Bay, where he learned to swim in 1972 and fished commercially before leaving on what became a three-decade apprenticeship. Now he returns with what he learned. Read his full story →