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Welcome to our March 2025 Newsletter. Here you will find our community, research, and the Bergerac Praxis Hub updates from the month of March.

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🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀

Human Transformation in a Time of Metacrisis
Harvard University, May 2–3, 2025

Join Zak Stein, Rebecca Henderson, Sylvie Barbier, Daniel Thorson and Bonnitta Roy—key thinkers across the metacrisis, Second Renaissance, integral, and liminal web scenes—for a two-day gathering on education, human development, and systems change.

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On Day 2, Zak Stein and colleagues from the Civilization Research Institute will lead a dedicated deep dive during the Unconference—a rare opportunity to engage with their latest thinking in an open, participatory format.

Day 2, the Unconference is a spacious, collaborative format where participants shape the agenda for emergent inquiry, co-creation, and shared practice. Participants will shortly be invited to propose sessions whether it’s a dialogue, a workshop, a ritual, or a session, and contribute to a day dedicated to peer-to-peer exchange, deep listening, and generative experimentation.

Day 1, the formal Conference day, offers keynotes, panels, and workshops from leading-edge thinkers bridging theory, practice, and inner development. You can view the full speaker list here.

This gathering is a one-of its kind designed for educators, practitioners, and thinkers ready to move into lived response to the metacrisis.

Register now → https://www.sfwhgse.com/ tickets include both days.

🌅 Second Renaissance 🌅

A Second Renaissance Oasis is Emerging

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Apr 1
A Second Renaissance Oasis is Emerging

An update on the Second Renaissance Initiative and the development of our weekly Oasis Community Calls.

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Seeds of a Second Renaissance Issue 2 (Mar 2025) – Integral Theory: the Four Quadrant Model
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💡Life Itself Research💡

The Life Itself Research collective has continued to meet weekly, both engaging in practices around collective sense-making and goal-setting, and good progress on the ‘knowledge commons’ project: dedicated sessions including a half-day Collabothon resulted in a major revamp of the Second Renaissance Wiki as well as progress on the Liminal Lexicon.

Written outputs from the Research Group include an article on The Rise of Scientific Grand Narratives.

March also saw the first in-person Second Renaissance Toronto and London meetups. Here is a photo from the Toronto group and their associated Forum post. The London group blended a mix of ‘connection-call’ vibes with research and sense-making.

The London and Toronto groups are two of a number of in-person groups springing up in cities around the world - we’ll share more details of these in future newsletters and invite you to let us and the community know if you are planning one in your area.

🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳

Learn more about the upcoming summer residency here.

Inner River: A Month-Long Art Residency for Creative Wayfinding 🌊🎨

Catherine Tran
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Apr 8
Inner River: A Month-Long Art Residency for Creative Wayfinding 🌊🎨

In a world of socio-ecological crises, does art even matter? Should I be doing something “more useful” with my time? How would I know if my art is valuable? Come and join us for our summer month long residency.

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From Polycrisis to Metacrisis: a short introduction
Our new white paper provides an accessible introduction to the concepts of polycrisis and metacrisis, clarifying how they are distinct yet related.
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Launch of Art of the Second Renaissance Manifesto & Magazine: Tuesday 28th January
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