What is emerging

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Systems Thinking

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.

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Systems Thinking

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.

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Environment

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.

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Economics

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.⁣

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Business

DEEP DIVE: Tomás de Lara

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

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Economics

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

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

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Big Picture

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.

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PHILOSOPHY

Searching For Home in the Unknown

A religious childhood started Bayo Akomolafe on a lifelong journey to navigate between the spiritual and the scientific, exploring what it means to be human today.

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Society

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.

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Psychology

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.

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Big Picture

Understanding Emergence: A Comprehensive Guide

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

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Politics

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.

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Environment

How nature can save us from climate breakdown

When living systems – like forests, peat bogs, saltmarshes and the seabed – are allowed to recover, they draw down carbon from the atmosphere, reducing the chances of climate catastrophe.

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Philosophy

Radical Openness

‘Radical Openness' is an anthem of the power ideas presented at TEDGlobal 2012.

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Philosophy

Jeremy Lent: The Patterning Instinct

How our world is the product of the success of certain cognitive patterns, how we can change reality by changing our metaphors and what it means to become conscious of the meaning we make out of the world.

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Spirituality

Higher Consciousness is The Next Stage Of Human Evolution

Robert Cobbold, founder of Conscious Evolution, makes an evolutionary case for spiritual practice.

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Big picture

Daniel Schmachtenberger on Charles Eisenstein's Podcast

Daniel Schmachtenberger outlines the future of humanity, the nature of the present crisis, and the necessity of a societal transformation.

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politics

Elif Shafak: Overcoming the Epistemic Crisis

Elif Shafak in conversation with Azeem Azhar on the polarisation of culture.

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politics

Politics Decentralized: A new paradigm of governance

Jordan Greenhall does a good job explaining why our sense making ability has broken down.

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Systems Thinking

Into the Heart of Systems Change

Anneloes Smitsman interviews Nora Bateson, the Founder of the International Bateson Institute, to explore the various dimensions of "Into the Heart of Systems Change".

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Society

The Operating System of Our World

We are all creators of this world! Aaron Dignan at The Culture Conference, 2017.

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Big picture

Stretching Edges by Nora Bateson

Nora Bateson talks about sense making in an interdependent and complex world.

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Big picture

'Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachenberger describes why humanity is in a phase shift and what it might look like.

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Philosophy

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Cognitive science, deep history and philosophy at its best. John Vervaeke, PhD is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology.

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ENVIRONMENT

Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration

In this perceptive and radical talk, Daniel Wahl observes that we are standing at the dawn of the planetary era.

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Society

Why Humans Run the World, Yuval Harari

The historian Harari on how storytelling is the main reason for the rise of humanity, and how nations, companies, religions and money are simply made up subjective concepts in fictional reality.

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Society

Tomas Björkman at Sime Consciousness 2017

Tomas, founder of Ekskäret Foundation, on the big picture of societal change, the emerging paradigm, and how we need to focus more on inner growth and consciousness development in order for us to navigate the transition.

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Education

Changing Education Paradigms, Sir Ken Robinson

A critical look at our schooling system and how we need to change the way we think about it, based on new knowledge of humans, creativity and learning.

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Philosophy

21st Century Enlightenment

A challenge of the philosophical and cultural foundation that has been the basis of the industrial age, and a proposition for what constitutes the “enlightenment” of this century and beyond.

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Environment

Do Psychedelics Hold the Key to Social Change?

Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, explains how her psychedelic experiences helped to shape the genesis of the movement.

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BIg Picture

Q&A with Maria Clara Parente and Camilla Cardoso

The Brazilian filmmakers partnered with Emerge and ColaborAmerica, a festival exploring alternative economic models in Latin America, to create a three-part series exploring the question ‘What is Emerging?’

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Business

Lessons From Nature On Personal Growth

As a transformational leadership coach and ecologist Anne Caspari integrates lessons from the world’s best functioning organisation to restore equilibrium and balance to the modern workplace.

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Philosophy

Is Life Meaningless? - Nihilism & Nietzsche

Nihilism is a belief that life has no intrinsic value or purpose. This video discusses Nihilism through Friedrich Nietzsche, a Polish/ German philosopher and his Übermensch (Nietzsche’s Superman) vision for humanity.

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Environment

Jane Goodall on Mother Earth

A powerful ode to Planet Earth. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

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Society

How to Use Personal, Inner Development to Build Strong Democracies

Discover the secret of how the Nordic countries became the happiest in the world.

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Art

Why is Millennial Humour So Weird?

What humour found in memes and on YouTube has to say about our postmodern society

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Politics

The New Human at the Heart of New Politics - Indra Adnan

An introduction to the human story at the heart of a new kind of politics.

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Business

How to Create Adaptivity, Meaning And Abundance at Work

A business leader's perspective on how to create news forms of self-organisation, dynamic teaming, and empowerment.

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Media

Why Controlling the Masses Through the Media No Longer Works

How the internet is ushering in a new dynamic when it comes to the dissemination of information, and what the implications are for society.

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Environment

Ego to Eco

Satish Kumar, long-term peace and environmental activist and Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, shares his wisdom on moving from Ego to Eco.

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Society

The Power of Vulnerability

One of the top ten most viewed TED talks in the world, Dr. Brené Brown shares insights from her decade-long journey to understand herself and humanity.

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Economics

Systems Reset Documentary

A documentary by Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) which explores the possibility of a system based on abundance and not scarcity, exploring areas of the new economics movement including the sharing economy, digital economy and urban planning.

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Art

Donna Haraway, “Making Oddkin: Story Telling for Earthly Survival”

A public lecture by Donna J. Haraway demonstrating the power of narratives that bring together biology, activism, and art.

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Environment

Psychedelics, Extinction & Social Change

The Earth is in the grip of a sixth mass extinction, with 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles wiped out since 1970. Could psychedelics hold the key to helping humanity right our relationship with nature?

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Economics

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy

A Vice documentary exploring the intersecting economic, environmental and social crises in the wake of the Third Industrial Revolution.

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Philosophy

The Philosophy of Shia LaBeouf

A definition of the metamodern perspective through the lens of popular culture.

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Big Picture

What is Emerging? Trailer

COMING SOON: ‘What is Emerging?' A short documentary series in three parts from This is Not The Truth and Emerge.

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Systems Thinking

Why We Need To Think And Act More Systematically

In this Insight Daniel Wahl shares an extract from his book “Designing Regenerative Cultures."

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EnvIRONMENT

Exploring The Inner Dimensions Of Sustainability

As one of the founders of Berlin's Circular Economy Hub, Garbologist Alice Grindhammer is blazing the trail for a different approach to the environmental crisis.

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Business

Creating Systems For Self Development

As a systemic consultant it’s Hanno Burmester’s job to think about how today's organisations can facilitate the cultural transformation that is needed for them to adapt to tomorrow's world.

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Philosophy

Figuring Out The Next Move For Society

For chess Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson the game became a gateway to exploring how spirituality can be harnessed to tackle the world’s interlocking environmental, political and social crises.

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POLITICS

Ronan Harrington: The praxis of metamodern political change

An honest conversation on the highs and lows of social change work in the age of the Anthropocene.

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Economics

Satish Kumar: Spiritual Ecology

Wisdom from a former monk and environmental activist on the fallacies of economic growth.

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Economics

Digital Capitalism

Sam Harris speaks with media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff about the state of the digital economy.

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Philosophy

A New Philosophy For The Modern World

Philosopher and author Nick Jankel considers whether merging science and spirituality could be the solution to the species-threatening problems we face.

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.

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

A religious childhood started Bayo Akomolafe on a lifelong journey to navigate between the spiritual and the scientific, exploring what it means to be human today.

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.

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.

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.

How nature can save us from climate breakdown

When living systems – like forests, peat bogs, saltmarshes and the seabed – are allowed to recover, they draw down carbon from the atmosphere, reducing the chances of climate catastrophe.

Radical Openness

‘Radical Openness' is an anthem of the power ideas presented at TEDGlobal 2012.

Jeremy Lent: The Patterning Instinct

How our world is the product of the success of certain cognitive patterns, how we can change reality by changing our metaphors and what it means to become conscious of the meaning we make out of the world.

Higher Consciousness is The Next Stage Of Human Evolution

Robert Cobbold, founder of Conscious Evolution, makes an evolutionary case for spiritual practice.

Daniel Schmachtenberger on Charles Eisenstein's Podcast

Daniel Schmachtenberger outlines the future of humanity, the nature of the present crisis, and the necessity of a societal transformation.

Elif Shafak: Overcoming the Epistemic Crisis

Elif Shafak in conversation with Azeem Azhar on the polarisation of culture.

Politics Decentralized: A new paradigm of governance

Jordan Greenhall does a good job explaining why our sense making ability has broken down.

Into the Heart of Systems Change

Anneloes Smitsman interviews Nora Bateson, the Founder of the International Bateson Institute, to explore the various dimensions of "Into the Heart of Systems Change".

The Operating System of Our World

We are all creators of this world! Aaron Dignan at The Culture Conference, 2017.

Stretching Edges by Nora Bateson

Nora Bateson talks about sense making in an interdependent and complex world.

'Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachenberger describes why humanity is in a phase shift and what it might look like.

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Cognitive science, deep history and philosophy at its best. John Vervaeke, PhD is an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in the departments of psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology.

Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration

In this perceptive and radical talk, Daniel Wahl observes that we are standing at the dawn of the planetary era.

Why Humans Run the World, Yuval Harari

The historian Harari on how storytelling is the main reason for the rise of humanity, and how nations, companies, religions and money are simply made up subjective concepts in fictional reality.

Tomas Björkman at Sime Consciousness 2017

Tomas, founder of Ekskäret Foundation, on the big picture of societal change, the emerging paradigm, and how we need to focus more on inner growth and consciousness development in order for us to navigate the transition.

Changing Education Paradigms, Sir Ken Robinson

A critical look at our schooling system and how we need to change the way we think about it, based on new knowledge of humans, creativity and learning.

21st Century Enlightenment

A challenge of the philosophical and cultural foundation that has been the basis of the industrial age, and a proposition for what constitutes the “enlightenment” of this century and beyond.

Do Psychedelics Hold the Key to Social Change?

Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, explains how her psychedelic experiences helped to shape the genesis of the movement.

Q&A with Maria Clara Parente and Camilla Cardoso

The Brazilian filmmakers partnered with Emerge and ColaborAmerica, a festival exploring alternative economic models in Latin America, to create a three-part series exploring the question ‘What is Emerging?’

Lessons From Nature On Personal Growth

As a transformational leadership coach and ecologist Anne Caspari integrates lessons from the world’s best functioning organisation to restore equilibrium and balance to the modern workplace.

Is Life Meaningless? - Nihilism & Nietzsche

Nihilism is a belief that life has no intrinsic value or purpose. This video discusses Nihilism through Friedrich Nietzsche, a Polish/ German philosopher and his Übermensch (Nietzsche’s Superman) vision for humanity.

Jane Goodall on Mother Earth

A powerful ode to Planet Earth. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall

How to Use Personal, Inner Development to Build Strong Democracies

Discover the secret of how the Nordic countries became the happiest in the world.

Why is Millennial Humour So Weird?

What humour found in memes and on YouTube has to say about our postmodern society

The New Human at the Heart of New Politics - Indra Adnan

An introduction to the human story at the heart of a new kind of politics.

How to Create Adaptivity, Meaning And Abundance at Work

A business leader's perspective on how to create news forms of self-organisation, dynamic teaming, and empowerment.

Why Controlling the Masses Through the Media No Longer Works

How the internet is ushering in a new dynamic when it comes to the dissemination of information, and what the implications are for society.