INSIGHTs

Expert analysis and commentary to help you to make sense of what’s emerging.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.