INSIGHTs

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

ENVIRONMENT

Pressure and Possibility: How to Write Fiction on a Changing Planet

Isobel Wohl

Isobel Wohl reflects on the ethical and aesthetic challenges of writing fiction in the age of fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts and extinctions. Place forms fiction, and place has become unstable. Every novel is a climate novel now.

MEDIA

Imagining an Alternative Media System

Pat Kane

How can we create news, media and communications that effectively address our planetary, societal and technological challenges? Join the debate.

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?

Gathering 2021

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

GATHERING 2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.