Spaces

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...

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...

Retreat Centre

Convento de Mértola

Mèrtola, Portugal

The Convento de Mértola, Portugal, promotes experimental research between art, science and education on integrative technologies and practices...

Alternative University

Free Home University

Apulia, Italy

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

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...

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

Findhorn College

Findhorn, Scotland

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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, ...

Co-working

CRCLR House

Berlin, Germany

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

Retreat Centre

Esalen

California, USA

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

Co-working

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.

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.

The Rise of the ‘Emergentsia': Meaning Making in a Time Between Worlds.

Brent Cooper

A new class of intellectuals is emerging to grapple with the meta-crisis and help manage the transition, and it is time to coin a new term to help us recognize them: The Emergentsia.

What is Emerging? DEEP DIVE: Vanessa Adreotti & Bayo Akomolafe

A conversation about how our obsession with using words to make sense of the world is numbing our other senses. How can we allow the others layers of our human experience to emerge to the surface?

Reimagining the 21st-Century University.

Otto Scharmer

Fridays for Future invites us to reconsider the role of educational institutions in catalysing social change. Vertical literacy - i.e the evolution of consciousness - is an essential skill needed to rise to today's challenges.

What can Extinction Rebellion learn from Nigel Farage?

Farage's recent success exposes three blind spots and one fundamental weakness in XR that we need to reflect on.

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.

Zhiwa Woodbury

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.

Nora Bateson

Our institutions and laws don't reflect the reality of life on Earth. 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

Human culture is built on a foundation of stories. As some of the old stories break down, we need to create new, more nuanced stories.

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

How the human tendency towards tribalism can be harnessed to 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

Why it’s time to start thinking about political polarisation as a collective psychology and public health issue.

Understanding What's Emerging: A Comprehensive Guide.

Stefan Ekwall

Resources for getting to grips with the changes currently being experienced in the world. How we handle this transition will define our future. What will emerge?

Events

Emerge Gathering 2019

27.8.2019 - 29.9.2019

IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives.

We are happy to announce that we will be holding the second Emerge gathering in the beautiful city of Kiev on the 27th-29th September.

Systemic constellations and nature connection for projects

20.7.2019 - 20.7.2019

Berlin, Germany

An event for start-ups, NGOs, businesses or activists from the sustainability sector wanting to explore new ways of dealing with their complex...

Climate Change and the Humanities

29.5.2019 - 31.7.2019

Tokyo, Japan

Climate science can tell us what the probable effects of a certain amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere are, but predicting how much CO₂ we are goi...

Contemplative Pedagogy in higher education: building confidence and community

9.9.2019 - 12.9.2019

Sussex, UK

A four-day symposium for educators...

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...

Spaces

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...

Social Innovation Academy