November 2025 Newsletter
Welcome to our November 2025 Newsletter. This month: become a Founding Subscriber to a Transformative New Magazine, catch up on updates from the Second Renaissance, Praxis Hub and Research group.
Last Chance to Become a Founding Subscriber of the Second Renaissance Magazine
We’re in the final stretch of our crowdfunding journey for the Second Renaissance Magazine. We’ve reached 85% of our £17,500 goal, and with just 3 days left, your support can help bring this vision fully to life. Our dream is not simply to publish a magazine, but to offer an experience — a doorway into another world.
Reaching our target means we can begin fairly compensating artists and writers, building a sustainable foundation, and sharing the transformative power of art with a wider audience.
With £25 receive our first issue on Impermanence (available now as a physical copy), a beautiful gift of reflection and transformation.
With £50 receive the first issue and our second issue on Mythos.
With £100 receive an advance order of the second and third issues, helping place the magazine on a clear path toward sustainability.
We want you to feel the pulse of a living renaissance when you open the pages, and to sense art once again as a sacred, renewing force.
If this speaks to you, we would be honoured to have you join us as a founding subscriber and carry this cultural beacon into a new era of art.
Join the crowdfunding and get your copy now.
🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀
Join Life Itself! We're hiring for 4 part-time roles: Financial Steward, Operations Steward, Communications Steward, and Graphic & Web Designer
Join the Life Itself team! We're hiring for 4 part-time roles at Life Itself. Location: remote, with option to spend some time at our Hubs in France. Contribute to our mission of cultivating a radically wiser, weller world.
🌻Conscious Collectives🌻
In November we presented the Developmental Spaces white paper.
The event included a presentation by the paper co-authors with a plenary discussion and Q&A, and community breakouts. Speakers at the event included Kam Bellamy (Springboard Foundation for Whole Person Learning); Marc Santolini (Learning Planet Institute); and Tomas Björkman (Ekskäret Foundation).
You can watch the webinar here:
Over the Mountains
November also saw the launch of our new podcast hosted by Rufus Pollock and Sylvie Barbier - Over the Mountains. You can listen to the first episode here.
🌅 Second Renaissance 🌅
Oasis Special Edition: Second Renaissance Fair
On 25th November we welcomed the community to the Second Renaissance Fair. With over 100 sign ups and 18 booths — organisations and projects showcasing their offerings to the community — the event proved to be extremely successful and we hope to curate more Fairs at the Oasis in 2026.
If you want to join us throughout December at the Oasis, we have our next call on Tuesday 16th Dec 6pm CET, you can register here.
Metamodern Mission
Rufus Pollock spoke with Brendan Graham Dempsey on a his recent podcast. Together, they discussed a new orientation to value and meaning in this time between worlds. Watch the episode here:
💡Life Itself Research💡
The Life Itself Research collective had an active programme in November, exploring topics from Moloch and Evolutionary Game theory, new research methodologies and the Freudian and Marxist traditions. You can watch the calls below.
🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳
We have entered the final week of our 2025 Autumn Praxis Residency. Keep an eye out for reflections on our time together this season in our post-residency write-up, which will be released later this month on the Bergerac Hub Substack.
As we look towards 2026, we are in the exciting process of planning our events and residencies programme for the new year, and we’re looking for people to come and share the space.
Join us: If you’d like to come and stay with us next year, we invite you to fill out this expression of interest form
Really impressive work here! The idea of Developmental Spaces as cultural incubators feels pretty essential right now, especialy when most institutions are optimizing for efficiency rather than transformation. The Second Renaissance Fair with 18 booths shows there's genuine appetite for this kind of curated gathering. Would be curious how the fair format scales beyond a hundred particpants without losing that intimacy.