July 2026 Newsletter
Lover Earth, calling conscious community builders for the Praxis Ecology course, foundational thinkers on Over The Mountains, and the Intro to the Metacrisis course coming soon.
Come, draw your long, tangled roots around me.
Draw me closer to the deep, warm pulse
That makes your mountains rise
Oh, if I could only have you
Feel my yearning desire
to dissolve into oneness
Every breath I take is a silent cry
for our sacred connection
By Sophie Charrois
Do you feel the yearning for Lover Earth?
Sophie Charrois’ poem in the Second Renaissance Magazine offers a connection to Earth that’s different to what we’re used to seeing, something deeper, embodied.
MYTHOS: Issue #2 of the Second Renaissance Magazine is an exploration beyond time, shining a light on the narratives and beliefs that shape us. Visual artists, poets, and thinkers guide us into ancient myths to find the wisdom needed for a new paradigm and invite us to release the stories that no longer serve, through ritual and embodiment.
Praxis Ecology Design Course
An ecology of conscious community living
We’re doing it. After years of running conscious co-living hubs and adapting Zen monastery frameworks to a secular environment, we’re sharing our learnings with you.
The Praxis Ecology Design course, starting in September 2026, will bring together community builders from all over. In sharing the secular monastic framework developed by Valérie Duvauchelle, we aim to open a discussion about our inability to live together under the current cultural paradigm, and the collective practices that allow us to recognise that and move together towards a Second Renaissance.
This course is not about telling you how to live, how to resolve conflict, how to share governance. It’s a framework that allows you to reflect on and develop your own collective practices to live — move, eat, regulate — together, while sitting in the discomfort and allowing for private time.
Register your interest today and get access to the free webinar on September 15th for an introduction to the Praxis Ecology framework. You won’t want to miss it!
Over The Mountains
Don’t miss out on these insightful discussions with two essential figures at the core of Second Renaissance thinking in the episodes below:
Neuroscientist Dr Iain McGilchrist, whose work on the dominance of left brain thinking in Western civilisation has been foundational to our understanding of the metacrisis, joined Rufus for a discussion about the sacred, neuroscience, and AI.
Rufus spoke with the founder of Commonweal, Michael Lerner, about the 50 years of big bets that were taken at Commonweal — integrative cancer care, community-based alternatives to youth prisons, ocean policy reform — and Michael’s spiritual journey throughout these contributions.
Introduction to the metacrisis and the Second Renaissance
Understanding the breakdown. Discovering the renewal.
The Second Renaissance course is coming back! Coming together to acknowledge the crisis we’re in, recognise the grief and overwhelm, and build collective understanding of the crisis’ roots and the possibility of civilisational renewal, this is what makes the course so impactful.
Following the success of the last course, we’re excited to form a new cohort and build clarity out of chaos, together. Stay tuned to find out when the next course starts.
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