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“Leaders Of The New Era Are Being Asked To Hold Space In A Completely Different Way.”
Laura Storm is part of a new generation of sustainability professionals calling for a change in how we approach our planet, our work and ourselves.
Business
video
Politics
Cancel Culture and the Limits of Identity Politics with Bayo Akomolafe
In the midst of Black Lives Matter, there is both a renewed urgency to protect marginalised groups and a simultaneous backlash against it. Is this because of ignorance or is there a valid concern?
insight
Society
Contributing Effectively In TImes Of Crisis
Roger Walsh
This is not a time to play small. Our society is in turmoil, our planet plundered, our civilisation at risk. How can we contribute most effectively to help heal these crises?
people
Business
“Knowledge Used To Be Power. Now, Knowledge-Sharing Is Power."
Lucian Tarnowski is the founder of Civana, an ambitious startup that connects the social impact entrepreneurs prototyping new institutions, systems and cultures fit for the 21st century.
insight
Society
How Deep Is The Shift We Are Facing? Transforming Our Collective Imaginary
Tomas Björkman
This article is an edited version of the conversation between David Fuller and Tomas Björkman on the Rebel Wisdom media platform in July 2020.
insight
Society
Cancellation Is The Child Of A Culture That Doesn't Compost
Maria Clara Parente
‘Call-out culture' is a by-product of postmodernity, where ‘post-humans’ can ‘cancel’ and outsource other human and non-human lives on a daily basis.
people
Arts
“When We Talk About Space Activities, We Are Talking About The Future Of Humanity."
As the first artist to launch an interactive artwork in outer space, Nahum founded KOSMICA to bring a socio-political and artistic lens to space exploration.
people
Economics
“Blockchain Better Reflects The Abundant Reality Of The Planet Around Us."
Franz Josef Allmayer is the co-creator of SEEDS, an alternative economic system driving cooperation over profit and creating a financial vehicle for the growing regenerative movement.
people
Technology
“People Have Never Used Technology In This Way Before.”
Erik Fernholm is the CEO of 29k, a Swedish open-source non-profit tech platform making mental health treatment and personal development free and accessible to everyone.
people
Economics
“To Understand The Monetary System, People Need To Grasp The Idea Of Interconnectedness.”
Brett Scott is an author and the creator of ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness', exploring emergent forms of finance, alternative currencies and economic activism.
insight
Society
Defund (And Redesign) Everything
Jordan Hall
Our social institutions are relics of the past. We must redesign and replace all of our institutions, and make this decade the most creative and generative in human history.
insight
Society
Building Bridges Into The Fog
Joe Ross & Tomas Björkman
It feels like we're standing at the edge of our civilisation, looking into the void, and all we can see is mist and fog. No wonder the rise of social anxiety is rampant, expressing itself in violence, conflict and oppression. So what do we do?
insight
Society
Exousiance: What Rivers Teach Us About Power
Minna Salami
The silencing of women and rivers in institutions of power bridges a connection between reality and myth; it is no wonder river goddesses are vengeful.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 15: The Future Arising
Indra Adnan
Only 9% of people want life to ‘return to normal’ after coronavirus. This moment could bring about the convergence of a number of conditions that seemed impossible to orchestrate before.
insight
Society
Cocreation and Community Can Help Us To Build A More Resilient World
Futuro Possivel
The future is something to be built by many hands and not imposed by a few. Cocreation can help turn the collapse of the old story into a catalyst.
people
Environment
“It’s Possible For Human Beings And Our Natural Environment To Co-Evolve."
Felipe Tavares is the founder of the Institute for Regenerative Development in Brazil, designing regenerative agricultural methods based on the the interconnectedness of all living systems.
insight
Spirituality
Exousiance: A Black Feminist Vision of Power and Nature
Minna Salami
Exousiance emerged from a need that I had to ‘speak' with nonhuman nature about power. It is an approach to knowledge production which integrates mind, body and soul.
video
Society
The World We Create: From Big Bang to Homo Sapiens
This is the first episode of fifteen based on Tomas Björkman's book 'The World We Create'. It covers complexity, self organization, emergence of life and of Homo Sapiens.
podcast
Psychology
Thomas Hübl and Matthew Green on collective trauma in times of corona.
Addressing our collective and individual traumas builds our capacity to respond to global crises with maturity and wisdom. This conversation is about the importance of building relationships in the midst of global chaos.
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Society
Corona: A Tale of Two Systems. Part Two.
Bonnitta Roy
The lock down won’t go on forever. Digital naturalism - using technology to converse with the natural world, and discover a greater intelligence there - offers a life-affirming future.
insight
Society
Corona: A Tale of Two Systems. Part One
Bonnitta Roy
Huddled in our homes, we are experiencing two very different kinds of systems. One at risk of collapse, the other ancient, resilient and based on pro-social values and collective intelligence.
insight
Emerge Gathering
Connecting Online In Times Of Corona
Sanna Rådelius
We planned a Gathering for 100-130 people, then Coronavirus happened. Here’s how we designed an event to facilitate connection vulnerability and deep encounters - over a Zoom call.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 14: Freedom and Independents
Indra Adnan
As Brexit proved, ‘taking back control’ can always be played upon in the collective psyche, but a broader social independence cannot be achieved without collective organisation.
insight
Spirituality
COVID-19: A War Broke Out In Heaven
Zachary Stein
History is unfolding in real time. This is it: we have arrived at the end of the world. Finally. Now we can start to build a new one. This is our chance to reshape ourselves as spiritual, scientific, and ethical beings.
video
Society
COVID-19: A Message of Hope
This crisis is an opportunity to reevaluate systems that have been killing people since before the virus. Phoebe Tickell shares a message of hope in the unprecedented time. We're in this together.
video
Society
Transmodernity - The New Now
Stream now: A documentary about changemakers that challenge and transform the current system by exploring new possibilities for transitioning into a new paradigm with alternative social, economic and cultural approaches.
insight
Spirituality
Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots
Lyla June
Our task is to honour our ancestors, even those who caved from systemic destruction and became conquerors themselves. This is the story of how I connected with my European roots.
insight
Society
We Can No Longer Save The World By Playing By The Rules
Tomas Björkman
Especially in times of crisis, the systems we live in need to learn to organise in new, more complex and deeper ways, or they will break down.
video
Society
Sensemaking the Coronavirus, Rebel Wisdom
We are in the middle of an unprecedented global crisis. How do we make sense of it, and how do we respond? Rebel Wisdom talks to four people trying to make sense of what's happening.
insight
Society
Eight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate Action
Otto Scharmer
Disruption has two sides: the things we need to let go of, and the things that are about to emerge. How can we respond in ways that help this enormous potential for change to manifest?
insight
Psychology
The Collective Psychology of Coronavirus
Alex Evans
Fight-or-flight or tend-and-befriend? How we respond to Coronavirus has big implications for our communities. Now is the right time to be reaching out to our neighbours.
people
environment
“Sustainability is a Process of Self-Knowledge."
Aline Matulja is a Brazilian activist and environmental engineer working to find a more integral and human approach to sustainability, using education as a tool to encourage greener and more regenerative practises.
insight
Technology
Why Digital Entrepreneurs Need Contemplative And Systemic Practices
Kristofer Olsson
In the field of digital innovation, the solution is almost always an app or a platform, regardless of the problem. Contemplative practices can facilitate deeper innovation.
people
Technology
“A Shift in Consciousness is Needed to Decolonise Our Current Systems.”
As a former mayoral candidate for Detroit and founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute, Ingrid LaFleur is using the ‘spiritual technology' of Afrofuturism as a lens for systems change which includes and empowers Black people.
insight
Emergence
Rise of the Emergentsia: The Revolution Will Not Be Boring
Brent Cooper
Increasing numbers of people are suffering because their society has let them down. Indy Johar's solution calls for a “Boring Revolution" — but is it really as boring as it seems?
insight
Politics
The Politics Of Waking Up 13: Real Time, Real Life, Next Politics?
Indra Adnan
In order to invent a new politics we need to bypass the existing system. Denmark's Alternative Party offers an example of new politics in-action.
insight
Society
How To Think About The Meta-Crisis Without Getting Too Excited.
Jonathan Rowson
It has become fashionable to declare a climate emergency, but the very idea of emergency only gets us so far. We cannot disentangle climate collapse from the broader crisis of civilisation.
insight
Politics
The Politics Of Waking Up 11: Scaffolding, Skeletons and Fractals
Indra Adnan
Our political systems are slowly self-destructing in the face of huge global problems. Quality of relationships between communities is the key to creating new and better systems.
video
Environment
THIS IS NOT A Manifesto
Our global institutions are based on outdated ideas that excluded the wisdom of women, non-western and non-white people, and led us to see our planet as a machine. We need global systems change that takes into account indigenous and ancestral knowledge, feeling and intuition.
insight
Society
Christmas, Consumerism and Confusion
Jonathan Rowson
Despite it's bad ecological rap, consumerism meets a range of emotional and social needs. This is never more obvious than at Christmas. What can we do to fill the gap?
people
Media
“Understanding Complexity Is As Important As Knowing How To Read And Write.”
Danilo Oliveira Vaz is the initiator of Emergir, a Brazilian media platform taking a decentralised, natural systems approach to media creation.
insight
Emerge Gathering
We Need To Feel The Change We Want To See In The World
Kathrine Lauritzen
Kathrine Lauritzen shares her transformative experience in a Collective Sensemaking workshop at the Emerge Gathering 2019.
insight
Politics
The Politics Of Waking Up 10: What Is World?
Indra Adnan
The internet has dramatically shifted the relationship between people and the world they inhabit. We need a better understanding of the psychological impacts of this shift.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 9: Feminising the Future
Indra Adnan
The F word is becoming much more difficult to define. Is the suppression of the feminine why we have the multiple crises of depression, addiction and suicide in our society?
insight
Emergence
Rise Of The Emergentsia: A Great Mindshift in the Making
Brent Cooper
Technology itself is not the game changer everyone thinks it is, people are. Dr. Maja Göpel anchors her perspective on global change to sociocultural factors.
video
Environment
Middle Earth: the fight to save the Amazon's soul
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, an alternative climate conference is taking place that brings together youth activists, indigenous leaders, scientists and forest dwellers.
people
Business
“In Order to Live the Potential of the Digital Age We Need to Grow Personally.”
Social entrepreneur Joana Breidenbach is pioneering self-organised work structure in the digital transition era.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 8: Relationship As The Rebel Act
Indra Adnan
Personal and social disconnection is at the heart of the system destroying our planet.
insight
Psychology
This is What Recovery Looks Like: The Healing Potential of Trauma.
Zhiwa Woodbury
Respiritualising our planet is the next step to healing collective trauma. An ecopsychologist shares thoughts from the world's first ever Collective Trauma & Healing Summit.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 7: Everyone Has a Story
Indra Adnan
We need a new story. How many times have you heard that recently? Too often this call to action ignores what people's hearts are really yearning for.
insight
Society
Dear White People
Bayo Akomolafe
The notion of indigeneity is a product of white frames of knowing. You don’t have to travel far in order to be indigenous. To avoid reproducing exclusionary whiteness, you must recognise that where you are is already sacred.
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Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 6: Where Is We?
Indra Adnan
Our current political system means that we give away our power to tiny numbers of people who decide how to run our world. Are we now seeing the conditions for more collective action?
people
Society
“Architects Often Get Lost In Creating The Image, Not The Conditions For Human Development."
Architect Indy Johar is taking inspiration from Quantum Physics and ancient Sikh philosophy to design a post-ownership society with his organisation, Dark Matter Labs.
people
Science
“It Was the Opportunity to Revitalise, Reimagine and Reshape Psychedelic Culture.”
Social activist Stephen Reid is exploring solutions to the meaning crisis with his organisation, the Psychedelic Society.
video
Society
A Small World Future: From Start-Ups to System Change | Indy Johar
Our societal challenges need a new approach. Indy Johar argues that the biggest revolution of the 21st century will not be our technology, but how we organise ourselves.
video
Society
Indy Johar – The Need for a Boring Revolution
In order to build, create and maintain a sustainable future, we need to reinvent things like bureaucracy, governance and the principles of democracy.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 5: What Counts as Spiritual?
Indra Adnan
From Extinction Rebellion to the Headspace app, a yearning for spiritual growth seems to be reentering our public discourse. How can we feed this awareness into a new politics?
video
Psychology
Facing the Shadow, Zen master Doshin Roshi
In Jungian psychology, the 'shadow' is all of the things about ourselves that we deny or reject, and integrating those is key to psychological growth. So how do we face and integrate our shadow elements?
insight
Environment
Could Psychedelics Help to Heal the Crisis of Disconnection?
Sam Gandy, Rosalind Watts & Alex Evans
We urgently need tools that can facilitate connection and foster a common sense of purpose for protecting and restoring our world.
video
The Individual and The Guru: How Things Go Wrong
The psychology behind the guru. Part of Eddie Vero's Ante-Spiritual series at the cocreation loft in Berlin.
video
Emergence
What is Emerging? Dialogue with Future Thinkers & Emerge
Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Mike Gilliland of the Future Thinkers and Daniel Thorson of Emerge sat down at the Emerge Gathering for a three-way discussion about where where the conversation might be going next.
insight
LEadership
How to Lead in Uncertain Times
Sahana Chattopadhyay
Uncertainty is not a threat: It is creative and powerful. When leaders can learn to lean into and embrace unpredictability then they will infuse the same throughout their organisation.
video
Economics
Emerge Talks: How can we build a well-being economy?
Katherine Trebeck and Dirk Philipsen from the Wellbeing Economy Alliance introduce some of the fundamentals behind a growing movement to question our current economic model.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 4: The Russian Doll Effect
Indra Adnan
Part four of the Politics of Waking Up Series explores several theories of human development - what significance does Wilber or Maslow's model have for contemporary politics today?
video
Leadership
COMPASS TALKS: Nadjeschda Taranczewski (presented by Infinity Institute)
At this Compass Salon Nadjeschda explained how we can understand (and use) what is driving our behaviour from underneath the waterline.
insight
Politics
What Our Politics Needs Now: Anti-Debates
Peter Limberg & Conor Barnes
In the US and elsewhere, political debate has become a spectacle. We need a debate model based on the ability to respond to evidence. But what would this look like?
insight
Leadership
What Does it Mean to be a Feminine Leader?
Sanna Rådelius
Feminine Leadership can lay the foundation for a better organisational culture, but it's not achieved by simply having more women in positions of power.
insight
Emerge Gathering
Reports from the Kyiv Emerge Gathering
Andrew Sweeny
“The future belongs not to Paris, London, and Berlin but to the wild east, frontier places like Kyiv." Writer Andrew Sweeny shares his reflections from the Emerge Gathering 2019.
insight
Psychology
Healing Our Collective Traumas, Healing Our World
Zhiwa Woodbury
As we have learned from traumatology, the cure is found close to the wound. Acknowledging collective trauma is the first step on the path of climate recovery.
video
Society
Joshua Fields - The Wisdom Race
In this talk Joshua Fields, the Executive Director of Consciousness Hacking, explores the connection between consciousness and collapse, what we can learn from failed civilisations of the past and how we might harness modern tools, systems and narratives to transform human behaviour.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 3: Why We're Hooked on Our Own Self Destruction
Indra Adnan
We like to believe that we are autonomous, but advertising has hijacked our human needs so totally that we are destroying our planet.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 2: What is ‘I’? Power and Agency in Politics
Indra Adnan
As the failures in our political systems become more and more obvious, we need to focus on creating a new internal ‘operating system’ for how we perceive ourselves and our role in the world.
people
Science
“What Are Governments For If Not To Preserve Human Life?”
Scientist and social entrepreneur Phoebe Tickell is part of a new wave of climate activists applying a natural systems perspective to social change work.
insight
Politics
The Politics of Waking Up 1: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age
Indra Adnan
In this series for Emerge Indra Adnan, founder of the Alternative UK, will be exploring what is emerging in politics at this crucial moment in human history.
insight
Emergence
Rise of the Emergentsia: Sensing the ‘Source Code'
Brent Cooper
How to navigate polarisation and culture wars? Understanding the ‘source code' - combining knowledge with the lived, embodied experience of others - is vital for constructive conversation.
podcast
Society
A Mind-Bending, Reality-Warping Conversation With John Higgs
How do we understand the world around us even as advances in physics, psychology, art, pharmacology, and philosophy shatter our frames of reference?
insight
Society
A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Meta-Narrative
Alexander Beiner
In uncertain times popular culture can reveal something about the dynamics we’re experiencing. Could it be that we're looking for the wrong answers in the wrong places?
insight
Society
Tribalism in the 21st Century: Why It's So Hard For Us to ‘Love the Stranger'
Andrew Sweeny
Despite liberal ideologies, loving the stranger has never been easy for human beings. Keeping a world of 8 billion people from each other’s throats calls for great innovation.
insight
Environment
A Statement to the Court by a First-Time Lawbreaker
Anthea Lawson
Anthea Lawson was arrested for protesting in London with Extinction Rebellion against Government action on climate change. Here she shares the statement that she read in court.
video
Arts
Transmodernity - An Introduction
What is transmodernity, and what is the socio-political context in which it arises? This art video by director Halea Isabelle Kala focuses around an interview with Dr. Irena Ateljevic, Professor for Cultural Geography.
people
Society
“If Human Consciousness Doesn’t Catch Up Then Computers Will Just Leave Us Behind.”
Jerónimo Calderón blends ancient wisdom traditions with the visionary spirit of Silicon Valley to help burned-out social entrepreneurs pioneer ‘magical’ new forms of collaboration.
video
Society
Deep Code: Jordan (Green)Hall Documentary
In this Rebel Wisdom film, Jordan Hall explains how the structures of civilisation are breaking down at an increasing rate, and what we can do about it - and the necessary evolution we need to make to survive.
insight
Emergence
Rise of the Emergentsia: Feeling ‘Gobschmacht’ Yet?
Brent Cooper
All empires collapse but today we are living the first global civilisation and witnessing its collapse in real-time. Daniel Schmachtenberger helps us to understand this ‘phase shift'.
insight
Environment
What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?
Jeremy Lent
The concept of ‘Deep Adaptation' threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change. What we really need right now is Deep Transformation.
video
Arts
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.
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EMERGENCE
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.
video
Big Picture
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?
insight
Education
Reimagining the 21st-Century University.
Otto Scharmer
What is 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.
video
Politics
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.
podcast
Systems Thinking
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?
video
Environment
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?
video
Society
Jordan Peterson | ContraPoints
YouTuber and philosopher Natalie Wynn unpicks Jordan Peterson's notion of postmodern neo-Marxism from a left-wing perspective.
insight
Environment
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.
video
Environment
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.
video
Society
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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Society
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.
video
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.
video
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.
video
Business
DEEP DIVE: Tomás de Lara
This is not the Truth speak to Tomás de Lara about the role of businesses for transforming society.
video
Economics
What is Emerging? Episode 1 | DOING: WE CREATE REALITY
Emerge presents: What is Emerging? A documentary series in three parts.
insight
Society
We Need a New Story of What It Means to be Human.
Phoebe Tickell
It’s time to accept that an increasingly complex world, we need to adapt to more nuanced stories and resist the urge to hone in on the one that is the most black-or-white.
people
Philosophy
“Emergence Disturbs The Concept Of Linearity."
After a spiritual upbringing in Nigeria's capital city of Lagos, Bayo Akomolafe founded a network of artists, activists and academics dedicated to using art and ritual to reframe the world's interlocking social and environmental crises.
insight
Society
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.
people
Economics
“It’s About An Economy That Works For People And Planet, Rather Than The Other Way Around."
Katherine Trebeck is building a network of maverick economists, entrepreneurs and activists with a radically different vision for the future.
insight
Politics
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.
insight
Society
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?
people
Politics
“The Human Revolution Has To Occur On The Inside First.”
Inspired by social movements sweeping Europe Indra Adnan, founder of the Alternative UK, says a divided Britain is ripe for a new form of grassroots politics.
Spaces
Co-working
bUm Berlin
Berlin, Germany
bUm is a joint project of betterplace and KARUNA, which offers non-profit organisations and socially committed actors* in a central Berlin loc...
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...
Retreat
Broughton Hall Estate
Yorkshire, UK
The outlines of this new humanity are becoming clear. We are being invited into a world beyond dogma of all kinds and beyond the religious, po...
Co-working
The Psychedelic Society
London, UK
The Psychedelic Society believes the conscious use of psychedelics can help create a more compassionate and joyful world.
Alternative Universty
The Presencing Institute
Massachusetts, USA
The Presencing Institute was founded in 2006 by MIT Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer and colleagues in order to create...
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 an emerging thought community that seeks to develop coherence in a time between worlds....
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
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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.
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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, ...
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
Ekskäret Klustret
Stockholm, Sweden
Ekskäret Klustret is a co-working space and a hub in central Stockholm for entrepreneurs, thinkers and change-makers....