Praxis Ecology Design Course
Join the free webinar on September 15th!
Join us to get inspired and motivated to move toward integrative community building, both spiritual and pragmatic, engaged and silly, in a structure that can hold it.
The Paxis Ecology Design Course welcomes conscious community builders, secular monks, and spiritual cooks who seek to create dynamic, supportive spaces for civilisational renewal. This course proposes a way of living together inspired by the Zen temples’ life, offering a suggestion for a new model of community, following the collapses we regularly see in community building.
Join us next Tuesday at 5pm CEST to discover the secular monastic approach to conscious community and the Five Minimum Viable Practices at the core of the Praxis Ecology Framework.
Art of the Second Renaissance
I am sad. I am sorry. I am sorry. I am sorry.
There is so much pain in my body, because I am pain itself, made manifest.
Hear my scream. You cannot ignore me.
Offering of the Blood
The Art of the Second Renaissance Collective gathered for 6 days to sense what wanted to emerge. Rituals, reflections, and collective presencing enquired into the themes of Source, Money, Power, Eros, and Shadows.
Read about the 8-day gathering and the artefacts that emerged from it, such as the Offering Of The Blood written above, in our recent publication:
Over The Mountains
The Art of the Second Renaissance Collective gathering inspired an interview with Sylvie by fellow collective member Amanda Zamparo, exploring Sylvie’s earliest inspirations and what led her to found Life Itself and the Art Collective. Listen below:
Ivan Illich Centenary
Discussion with Dougald Hine
Rufus spoke with Dougald Hine about Ivan Illich’s reflections on the creation of helplessness in our societies and how inherent human practices, like caring for the sick or building a home, have become impossible for individuals and communities to carry out by themselves. One hundred years after Illich’s birth, his ideas are just as relevant and radical. Listen to the full conversation on YouTube and help us continue to keep these ideas alive!
Christopher Alexander
A new perspective on a pioneering thinker
Most people know Christopher Alexander as an architect, the author of A Pattern Language, and a designer of buildings and campuses. But there’s a broader perspective to be taken: Christopher Alexander and his collaborators spent decades building a rigorous case that beauty, wholeness, and value are real and can be sensed, reasoned about, and built toward, not simply matters of taste or power.
Watch the full presentation on YouTube to discover his philosophy beyond architecture alone.
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