INSIGHTs

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?