Happening at The RESEED Centre 30 King Edward St Penguin
Cost: By donation
This series of discussions is framed by various thought provoking documentaries, videos and podcasts exploring concepts grounded in the emergence of (in the words of http://lifeitself.org/) a radically wiser, weller world.
As thought leaders around the world increasingly align contemporary ontology with the polycrisis we are now facing, global sensemaking is beginning to ask if reshaping our current worldview could instead drive human and non human flourishing.
The series aim to not only open space for the consideration of life affirming thought, but to gauge whether interest and possibility exists for the emergence of our very own thought community in the north west.
Changing the Paradigm Program
2.30 pm 23 Jul 23 Joanna Macey and The Great Turning (30 mins) Frames Discussions
Talks about the fundamental change emerging as we transition from industrial growth society to life sustaining society. Frames it in terms of:
Activism: slows down destruction, saves some of the gene pool
Sustainable Structures: Permaculture, biodynamic farming etc seen in terms of Earth’s immune response to what’s not working and reflective of life’s yearning to grow
Consciousness: the cognitive revolution, we are a living system.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral withNettie Hulme (60 mins)
2.30pm 06 Aug 23 Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, Helena Norberg-Hodge (60 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWMRR6ZCgU
Ancient Futures is much more than a film about Ladakh. The breakdown of Ladakh’s culture and environment forces us to re-examine what we really mean by ‘progress’ – not only in the ‘developing’ parts of the world, but in the industrialized world as well. The story of Ladakh teaches us about the root causes of environmental, social and psychological problems, and provides valuable guidelines for our own future.
Snapshots Joanna Macey’s reflections on industrial growth society
Zooms in on industrial growth society through a comparison of cultures. Juxtaposes dichotomies like globalisation/localisation, hyperindividualims/community, intelligence/wisdom, slow/fast paced life to demonstrate development doesn’t necessarily equate with happiness.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral with Nettie Hulme (60 mins)
2.30pm 20 Aug 23 Interconnection and Shifting Worldviews, Jeremy Lent (1.5hrs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUwp9eRSSBs Centres the Cognitive Revolution as pivotal in change
A compelling discussion on the power of ontology and metaphor, and the central role of worldview in reshaping polycrisis. The new story of recent science.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral withNettie Hulme (60 mins)
2..30pm 03 Sep 23 Embodying Collective Transformation, Karl Steyaert (70 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O6DOI65x3hI
Zooms in on where Jeremy Lent leaves off on the ontology of inner landscape
Looks at how interpersonal work and changing inner landscapes both individually and collectively are changing the narrative, and are inextricably entangled with our shifting paradigm and the emergence of care culture.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral withNettie Hulme (60 mins)
2.30pm 17 Sep 23 The Meaning Crisis and Metamodern Spirituality, Brendan Graham Dempsey (60 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LXSPZe9SbY Takes a deeper look at what’s happening in our contemporary think tanks
The metamodernism shift from post modernism: How theory impacts social circumstance and is rewriting how we do purpose today.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral withNettie Hulme (60 mins)
2.30pm 01 Oct 23 Learning is a Journey of Meandering, Rachel Musson (60 mins) https://open.spotify.com/episode/06t3Hoq8GKLFjswDMhHvwi?si=5a8b845fbd9a4d1b&nd=1 Explores concepts in regenerative education
Picks up threads from all of the above to consider how a culture of wellbeing can seed in the education system.
05.00pm Active Hope Spiral withNettie Hulme (60 mins)
