July 2024 Newsletter
Welcome to our July 2024 Newsletter. Here you will find our community, research, and the Bergerac Praxis Hub updates from the month of July.
🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀
Our Second Renaissance Project has two events taking place in late July and early August. The first is our new Explore Course, starting today (31st July). A two session online course that focuses on supporting your own exploration and discovery of the Second Renaissance using small group discussion and wider group sharing. The second of our events are our recently launched biweekly Connection Calls.
Read more about both below.
Our monthly community calls are kicking off again from September with Jason Sears from Villageco. These calls are an opportunity to learn from and engage with leaders in the Life Itself community on specific topics.
Community Call: Creating Space for Connection with Jason Sears
When: Monday 16th September at 9pm CEST / 12pm PDT / 3pm EST
At a time we are so connected, why do so few people know their neighbors? We're answering this question at VillageCo, and reimagining the idea of a "third space". In this session we'll cover the brief history of Village, our Village Gathering Model, and co-learning project to deploy and study this model in neighborhoods across the country. Click below to register or read more.
🌻 Conscious Collectives 🌻
In July we launched our Second Renaissance Connection Calls. Across the two calls we have welcomed over 50 people into the community and have had open space discussions on a variety of topics. We have covered themes related to how to implement the actions needed to create societal transformation, practices and embodied ways of being, the role of technology and innovation in systems change, inclusive and alternative systems, as well as philosophical and theoretical related discussions.
Our connection calls happen every two weeks and are an open space to build community and connect regularly with like-minded individuals. Click here for our August dates.
A conversation with Rainer von Leoprechting
In July we released the latest episode of our Ordinary People podcast with Sylvie Barbier speaking with Rainer von Leoprechting. Rainer is an inspiring figure who transitioned from a structured career in the European Commission to a fulfilling life as an independent consultant working internationally from his small farm place in Austria.
💡Life Itself Research💡
Christopher Alexander: second renaissance visionary
In July Rufus Pollock presented a "brown bag" talk tentatively entitled: "Christopher Alexander: second renaissance visionary".
The talk centres around the importance of value, reason, and aesthetics in building and architecture with a focus on Christopher Alexander's ideas and how Alexander is a pioneering second renaissance (aka integral, metamodern etc) thinker and practitioner.
🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳
The Bergerac Praxis Hub has two exciting residencies taking place in August and September. There is still time to register and join the August What is Food? Residency, led by the Hub’s Tenzo Valerie Duvauchelle.
In Septemeber the Letting go of the Holocene, letting go of climate illusions led by Liam Kavanagh, with insights from Rupert Read the co- director of the climate majority project and author Stephen Markley takes place.
You can learn more about both below.
