January 2025 Newsletter
Welcome to our January 2025 Newsletter. Here you will find our community, research, and the Bergerac Praxis Hub updates from the month of January.
🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀
Invitation to the Life Itself Spring Gathering, 27th March-6th April 2025
We’re excited to open up bookings for the Life Itself Spring Gathering 2025! Join us to connect and collaborate with others who are longing for a radically wiser world.
📆 Our Second Renaissance Connection Calls and Workspace Calls are back throughout February! Register here via our dedicated Second Renaissance Events Calendar: https://lu.ma/second-renaissance
🌻Conscious Collectives🌻
Second Renaissance Forum is live!
We’re excited to announce that the Second Renaissance Forum is now live and open for contributions! Forums provide a space for sharing ideas, discussing topics, and connecting with like-minded people—making them ideal for deep conversations and collaborative learning. We invite you to contribute and help us to build an interactive platform to create a weller, wiser world.
💡Life Itself Research💡
Second Renaissance Ecosystem Map is now interactive!
Our updated map now allows you to click on the names of individuals and organisations to learn more about them.
🧐 Explore the map here: https://secondrenaissance.net/map
And let us know: What does the map spark for you? What would you add or change on the map? (add a note to the forum discussion or tweet us @forlifeitself) 😄
🌅 Second Renaissance 🌅
On Tuesday 28th January, Sylvie Barbier - Life Itself co-founder, along with Peter Limberg from The Stoa and Schuyler Brown - futurist, facilitator, writer and healer, co-hosted the Second Renaissance Manifesto and Magazine launch. You can learn more and watch the launch event, attended by over 70 participants, below.
Launch of Art of the Second Renaissance Manifesto & Magazine: Tuesday 28th January
Watch the launch video here.
A celebration of this new artistic movement; discover the vision behind it, and hear from members of this new art collective Sylvie Barbier, Schuyler Brown, Cheryl Hsu, Amanda Zamparo.
Art of the Second Renaissance is a new art movement aiming to redefine how art is made and to contribute to the emergence of a Second Renaissance.
Our Second Renaissance substack has changed and will now be the sole place for our Seeds of a Second Renaissance Newsletter. To learn more, sign up and understand how it is different from this newsletter, click below ⬇️.
Watch and share our short Second Renaissance Introduction video here:
🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳
Last autumn/winter, the Life Itself Bergerac Hub hosted a Praxis Open Residency, where over 30 residents explored conscious community living through shared practices like meditation, movement, and creative gatherings. Highlights included visits to Plum Village, local cultural events, and a special storytelling circle with Ria the Storyteller. Read below for more information and two residents reflections on their time at the Hub.
The Hub is currently closed for a winter rest period, and updates regarding 2025 residencies will be shared soon. Our next event is the Life Itself Spring Gathering in March.
