June 2024 Newsletter
Welcome to our June 2024 Newsletter. Here you will find our community, research, and the Bergerac Praxis Hub updates from the month of June.
🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀
Our Second Renaissance Project is launching it’s monthly connection calls. Come join us on July 9th to connect, network, and understand how you can directly contribute to the Second Renaissance movement. Read more at our dedicated Second Renaissance Substack.
🌻 Conscious Collectives 🌻
The Life Itself 2024 Gathering and the Second Renaissance
Read the introspective piece and see photos from this year's Gathering here.
From the 12th to 16th June we were very happy to welcome old and new friends to the Petit Bois Martin Farmhouse after years of renovation. A few months before hosting the Gathering we had the joy of ...
The Stoa
On Wednesday 5th June Rufus Pollock was in Conversation with The Stoa, as part of their fifth season to speak about the Second Renaissance Project.
🎙️New Ordinary People Episodes🎙️
💡Life Itself Research💡
Map of Second Renaissance Changemaking Ecosystem
What does the “Second Renaissance” ecosystem of change agents look like? Who are some of the leading individuals and organisations? What clusters or communities are there?
For several years, we’ve been mapping the emerging ecosystem of actors who are recognising the need for both inner change (of worldviews, values, etc.) and outer change (of institutions, policies, technology, etc.) in order to catalyse a social paradigm shift.
Drawing on our knowledge from this research, we’ve created a first-pass impressionistic map of the ecosystem. It’s by no means perfect — and one possible representation of many. However, we hope that this helps to make the field more visible and accessible and serves as a stimulus for fruitful conversation. Read more here:
Crowdsourcing Suggestions of Transformative Social Change Organisations
We're expanding a database of organisations and initiatives who are working for social change that is:
paradigmatic (or metacrisis-aware), i.e. seeking a transformation of social paradigm, not just incremental reform of existing systems, and
inner-led, i.e. integrating the need for "inner" change of (individual and collective) worldviews, values, belief systems, and consciousness – as well as “outer” change of economic, political, and technological infrastructures and policies etc.
We'll use the database to create a user-friendly directory and visual maps.
Please fill in this form to suggest organisations you think we should consider including 🙏
🔥 Featured 🔥
Join the Emerge Ukraine Pilgrimage, Sept 25-29
In September 2019, the Emerge network gathered for the first time in Kyiv, uniting luminaries from diverse fields such as the arts, media, technology, inner development, politics, and spirituality. This gathering celebrated the emergence of Ukraine's open society. Now, exactly five years later, Emerge returns to collaborate with The New Thinking School, a global hub of the Inner Development Goals, and members of the Ukrainian Integral community. Together, they aim to sense what is emerging in this pivotal moment.
Ukraine has become the frontline for the future of open societies, both literally and metaphorically. Emerge returns because of the urgent need to imagine the world that's emerging, both within Ukraine and beyond its borders. The strength of free and open societies worldwide is crucial for a desirable future. Ukrainian society has valuable lessons to share on resilience, adaptation, building trust networks, and defending what truly matters.
This gathering is called a pilgrimage because it is a transformative journey, not a mere tourist experience. Over the course of five days, participants will visit sites of historical significance and witness the recent scars left by the current war.
The not-for-profit event aims to bring together 120 international participants and local members of the Ukrainian integral community.
More information and tickets can be found here. For a personal reply to any questions get in touch with Emerge at hello@whatisemerging.com.
On July 10th at 5PM CET the organizing team will host a Q&A / meet and greet on Zoom. You can join using this Link.
The New Sloww Synthesizer Course
The Sloww Synthesizer course is the flagship course for synthesizing minds—the most important mind of the future. Join Kyle in his 8 module course and build a world-class mind, and become the best thinker you know. Learn more and sign up here.
🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳
Valerie Duvauchelle, the Praxis Hub’s Tenzo and Guardian shares a reflective piece on how food can give us insight into ourselves, and invites you to attend an exciting Food Residency taking place in August.
