Community & Activism

A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson

A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson

We are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh) – so what tools will help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach us? How do we learn to listen to our heart’s (and hearts’) desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge into a different culture?

The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases – with Cynthia Jurs, author of ‘Summoned by the Earth’

The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases – with Cynthia Jurs, author of ‘Summoned by the Earth’

How do we recover our birthright as awake, aware nodes in the greater Web of Life? How do we find the compassion and courage to be the best of ourselves? Cynthia Jurs is a Buddhist who has spent the past 34 years carrying out sacred pilgrimages all around the world, burying a network of ’Treasure Vases’ to build a web of compassion and care – and more people are joining her all the time. We can all be part of this.

Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig

Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig

Humanity is a storied species – everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to moving house, to getting a new job… arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other. If we’re going to shift to a new way of being, the route will be led by the stories we can build of how it will look and feel, how we’ll be more alive, more connected, have a deeper sense of being, belonging, becoming…

Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham

Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham

Deborah Benham is a trained Biomimicry Educator and with a background in Jon Young’s Deep Nature Connection work. She shares a practical, experiential lived and living toolkit to help us build thriving human societies, cultures, communities and businesses, designing with and as nature, creating mutual benefit for all life, using tech in life affirming ways, and uplifting justice, kindness and cooperation.