Spaces

Retreat Centre

Esalen

California, USA

Esalen a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community that focuses on humanistic alternative education....

Co-working

cocreation.loft

Berlin, Germany

The cocreation.loft is a co-working, event space and community of people who are open to exploring new ways of doing things and working togeth...

Co-working

CRCLR House

Berlin, Germany

The CRCLR House is a Berlin based center for circular economy practices. ...

Co-working

Ekskäret Klustret

Stockholm, Sweden

Ekskäret Klustret is a co-working space and a hub in central Stockholm for entrepreneurs, thinkers and change-makers....

Alternative University

Schumacher College

Devon, UK

For 20 years Schumacher College has been pioneering a different model of education. Based on an Indian ashram model, ...

Community

The Monastic Academy

Vermont, USA

The Monastic Academy brings the power of education and business skills together with the wisdom and compassion of a monastery. It...

Charity

Centre for Alternative Technology

Wales, UK

CAT is an educational charity dedicated to researching and communicating positive solutions for environmental change....

Charity

Queer Nature

Colorado, USA

Queer Nature is a queer-run nature education and ancestral skills program serving the local LGBTQ2+ community. We recognize that many people, ...

Landscape

Platbos Forest Reserve

Gansbaai, South Africa

Platbos is an ancient indigenous forest reserve situated at the foot of Africa, offering off-grid accommodation and camp spots.Like na...

Kibbutz

The Center for Creative Ecology - Kibbutz Lotan

Tel Aviv District, Israel

Kibbutz Lotan’s Center for Creative Ecology is rooted in Tikkun Olam – the Jewish concept for repairing and transforming the world....

Co-working

42 Acres Shoreditch

London, UK

42 Acres was founded with the intention of creating a conscious space for connection. Today it is a coworking community and events space that ...

Spiritual Centre

Pa-Auk Tawya Meditation Centre

Pa Auk Tawya, Myanmar

Pa-Auk Forest Monastery (Pa-Auk Tawya in Burmese) is a Buddhist monastery in the Theravāda tradition, with emphasis on the teaching a...

Retreat Centre

Eksäret Island

Stockholm, Sweden

The island of Ekskäret (where the oak trees grow), located in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden, is the actual place where the ...

Community Hub

The Experimental Thought Co.

London, UK

The Experimental Thought Co. is a hub that hosts live events and an online community of exploratory thinkers. Set within the eminent Truman Br...

Community

InanItah

Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua

InanItah is an consciously created, earth-based spiritual community and transformational living and learning center inspired by the path of fr...

Alternative University

Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Cairo, Egypt

The Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CILAS invites students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to engage with th...

Community

Kufunda Village

Harare, Zimbabwe

Kufunda is a learning centre in Zimbabwe, dedicated to learning what it takes to build healthy and vibrant community and creating a space wher...

Alternative University

Social Innovation Academy

Kampala, Uganda

The Social Innovation Academy (SINA) is an alternative university empowering marginalized youth and refugee communities to create their own so...

Community

Youth Link

Tamil Nadu, India

YouthLink was founded in early 2015 as a service & educational unit in Auroville, led by the youth, and for the youth. In order to pave a ...

Alternative University

Unitierra-Oaxaca

Oaxaca, Mexico

Universidad de la Tierra, or Unitierra, is an alternative university serving as a learning center for young people who wish to engage in an ed...

Alternative University

Knowmads Business School

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Knowmads Alternative Business School offers a 6-month program for creative, entrepreneurial students who are challenged to design their own cu...

Co-operative

CACAO

Oaxaca, Mexico

CACAO, Autonomous Cooperative of Sharing and Learning in Oaxaca, is a cooperative that seeks food autonomy through the production of artisan c...

Alternative University

Deer Park Institute “Center for Indian Wisdom Traditions”

Himachal Pradesh, India

Deer Park creates an atmosphere for contemplation, compassion and courage to be nurtured through the encounters with the Himalayas, the sublim...

Alternative University

Swaraj University

Rajasthan, India

Swaraj University is an alternative university offering a two-year learning programme for youth focused on self-designed learning, community l...

Alternative University

Findhorn College

Findhorn, Scotland

Findhorn College is an alternative university providing transformative education in personal and professional development and delivering cours...

Ashram

Swagyan Mandir

Ahmedabad, India

Swagman Mandir is a space devoted to working for the values of truth, integrity, nonviolence and compassion, raising collective consciousness ...

Alternative University

Naropa University

Colorado, USA

Naropa University is a private liberal arts university associated with Buddhism and located in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan B...

Alternative University

Habib University

Karachi City, Pakistan

Habib University is an alternative university dedicated to enriching the lives of its students and engaging society through teaching, research...

Charity

The Mulka Project

Nhulunbuy, Australia

The Mulka Project is a group dedicated to sustaining and protecting Yolŋu cultural knowledge through the Mulka production house and archive, m...

Community

Sadhana Forest

Tamil Nadu, India

Sadhana Forest is a reforestation project and a volunteer community designed around compassion. It is a place where compassion is embedded int...

Alternative University

Chto Delat (The School of Engaged Art)

St Petersburg, Russia

The School of Engaged Art is an educational platform initiated by Chto Delat (meaning “What is to be done?”) focused on exploring the urgent i...

Alternative University

Gaia U Latina

Cabrero, Chile

Gaia U Latina is a learning community, a network of students (world changers), mentors (teachers & elders) and Training Centers (living ca...

Alternative University

Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration

Lamas, Peru

Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration (SCBR) is a non-profit organization in the Peruvian High Amazon with a field station in the town...

Alternative University

Universitatea Alternativa

Bucharest, Romania

The Alternative University is a platform for seeding freedom-centred learning and work in Romania, focusing on developing autonomy in learning...

Alternative University

Free Home University

Apulia, Italy

Free Home University is an alternative university facilitating pedagogical and artistic exploration for participants, specifically engag...

Retreat Centre

We Have to Win on the Inside First

Inspired by social movements sweeping Europe, Indra Adnan says a divided UK is ripe for a new form of grassroots politics.

Does Extinction Rebellion have a hippy problem?

How does the public persona of Extinction Rebellion as a ‘bunch of hippies' help or hinder the cause? Who might it need to recruit to win over a wider majority? Ronan Harrington gives some analysis on how public perception can shift.

Inside the Intellectual Dark Web, Eric Weinstein

What is the Intellectual Dark Web, and why does it exist? In this video interview, Eric Weinstein explains the genesis of the IDW and why he believes it to be necessary.

What is Emerging? DEEP DIVE: Marz Saffore

This is not the truth speak with Marz Saffore about how a colonial mindset shapes our social structures, why decolonisation is a systemic process and the power of art and culture for imagining decolonial futures.

Solve Everything at Once: Nora Bateson on systems thinking, warm data & singing out loud

What does systems thinking offer us with regards to changing our lives and institutions in a transformative way? And how do we do it?

What is Emerging? Episode 3 | IMAGINING: TOUCHING THE UNKNOWN

The separation of man from nature is the root cause of the global problems we face. How do we change the story, especially when our imagination is stuck in the logic of the old paradigms?

Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints

YouTuber and philosopher Natalie Wynn unpicks Jordan Peterson's notion of postmodern neo-Marxism from a left-wing perspective.

Ecopsychology, and its Critical Relevance to our Climate Crisis

Why embracing the empathic worldview promoted by ecopsychology can help us to become more effective climate activists.

What is Emerging? Episode 2 | BEING: SEARCHING FOR ENTANGLEMENTS

In this episode Camilla and Maria Clara go searching for inspiring new ways to understand the global crises.

DEEP DIVE: Danilo Vaz and Philip Franses

This Deep Dive with two great thinkers in the field of Complexity Science considers the micro and macro changes we must undergo in the face of ecological crises.

Complexity Isn't Complicated, We're Already Living It

Our institutions and the laws that govern them don't reflect the reality of life on Earth. Nora Bateson explains how understanding and embracing a more complex approach could be the key to overcoming world crises.

Grieve Play Love

Best Short Climate Film of 2019 by Jem Bendell, author of the Deep Adaptation paper, about the deep perspective change he experienced as a result of climate anxiety.

DEEP DIVE: Katherine Trebeck

This is not the Truth spoke to Katherine Trebeck, co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, about a post-growth vision of economics.⁣

DEEP DIVE: Tomás de Lara

This is not the Truth speak to Tomás de Lara about the role of businesses for transforming society.⁣

What is Emerging? Episode 1 | DOING: WE CREATE REALITY

Emerge presents: What is Emerging? A documentary series in three parts.

We Need a New Story of What It Means to be Human

Phoebe Tickell, scientist and systems thinker, explains the importance of stories for moving us into the next stage of human development.

Searching For Home in the Unknown

Bayo Akomolafe shares his experience of using art, research and ritual to reframe some of the world's interlocking social and environmental problems.

Awakening the Twelve Tribes of Transformation

Jonathan Rowson outlines a way to think about tribalism which will bring about a society focused on the right kind of unity, rather than the wrong kind of division.

Time for an Upgrade: A New Operating System for the Global Economy

The endless pursuit of growth is pushing societies and ecosystems to breaking point. Katherine Trebeck is building a network of maverick economists, entrepreneurs and activists with a radically different vision for the future.

Why It’s Time For Psychology To Go Collective

Alex Evans, founder of the Collective Psychology Project, considers whether it’s time to start thinking about political polarisation as a psychology and public health issue.

Understanding Emergence: A Comprehensive Guide

Stefan Ekwall shares some resources for getting to grips with the changes currently being experienced in the world.

Events

Global Soil Week 2019

27.5.2019 - 30.5.2019

Nairobi, Kenya

The Global Soil Week (GSW) brings together a diverse range of actors to initiate and strengthen policies and actions on sustainable soil manag...

SingularityU South Africa Summit

16.10.2019 - 17.10.2019

Sandton, South Africa

Singularity University's mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity's grand chal...

Nowhere

9.7.2019 - 14.7.2019

Zaragoza and Barcelona, Spain

Nowhere is a festival and gathering based on the principles of radical self-expression, radical self-reliance, no commerce, participation and ...

Emerge Gathering, Kiev

26.9.2019 - 26.9.2019

Kiev, Ukraine

Please save the date Friday September 26th for next Emerge Gathering. This time in Kiev, Ukraine. Detailed invitation will be out...

Metamodern Arts Festival

27.9.2019 - 29.9.2019

Kiev, Ukraine

We stand in the midst of a meaning crisis. Old utopias have not served us. Dystopias still choke us. Yet we still dream of eutopia, the good p...

Next Stage Facilitation

7.10.2019 - 9.10.2019

Nova Scotia, Canada

Next Stage Facilitation develops leaders and facilitators capable of working in fluid and creative ways with a wide range of complex group dyn...

Contemplative Pedagogy in higher education: building confidence and community

9.9.2019 - 12.9.2019

Sussex, UK

A four-day symposium for educators...

Q & A with Joanna Macy

4.6.2019 - 4.6.2019

Online

Webinar hosted by Jem Bendell with guest Joanna Macy. Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and ...

Without Growth or Progress: Adapting our Culture to the New Climate Reality

22.6.2019 - 22.6.2019

Bristol, UK

As Bill Mckibben recently said, it’s a long escalator down to hell. It has many stops on the way down and we must do all that we ...

Climate Change and the Humanities