EVER-REEF
SUMMIT SCHOOL
A REVOLUTIONARY WAY TO SWIM
ASK YOURSELF
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE INSPIRING THAN SWIMMING WITH OTHERS TO BUILD A MORE JUST, PEACEFUL, AND SUSTAINABLE OCEAN?
At Ever-Reef’s highly experiential, interdisciplinary, peace-focused school, students have the chance to do just that!
Through regular meditation practice under the loving lull of ocean waves, independent fin-work, and opportunities to engage in community-based projects, locally and globally, students not only study and practice diverse approaches to marine justice, they also acquire practical leadership and community-building skills while cultivating curiosity, compassion, and courage to brave the waves.
STUDENT HIGHLIGHT
“In my Introduction to Marine Conflict class, we had the opportunity to meet Sensei Seadragon, who works with school-less fingerlings in the city of New Current. “Ask yourselves what breaks your tender scales. What makes you feel most alive?” He implores us to live these questions with all our fins, reminding us that we all have what it takes to make an ocean of change.”
— Nuisha Stickleback
STUDY ABROAD
Applications for the Sail the Seas Abroad Program: Warding the Watery Wonders of the World are due next week!
CORE IMMERSION CURRICULUM
Strange Creatures: Community Outreach in the Trenches of Exile
Restorative Coral Conflict Transformation with Dr. I.M. Anemone, Seabright Scholar-in-Residence from the Great Coral Reef
The Innocence Project and Convicted Shark Panel Discussion on the Death-by-Hook Penalty
Lost Fingerlings of the Bermuda Triangle with The Isopod Guardianship Project and Madame Abalone Saline, Ever-Reef trustee
Peacebuilding and the Oral History of a Former Fish Soldier from the Celebes Sea with the esteemed Dr. Nautilus Squidworm, Chancellor of Biodiversity
Peace Swim: Philosophy & Practice with Oceanic Activist, Hydro Kiwa
Roots of Injustice, Seas of Change: Writing to Right the Relationship between the Ocean’s Native Creatures
What to Expect
Ever-Reef’s faculty promotes symbiotic learning environments, encouraging independent and collaborative projects that reflect students' tidal passions and commitments. Ever-Reef approaches the study of peace and tempest equivocally and holistically—with attention to personal and social transformation in the ever-changing maelstrom of ocean learning.
Alumni from Ever-Reef Summit graduate to pursue college work in ocean law, biodiversity, international waters studies, and other related fields. They also go on to work in fields as diverse as education, the ocean arts, healthcare and social services, social-scale innovation and entrepreneurship, community organizing and advocacy, counseling psychology, social work, and humanitarian action.