September 2025 Newsletter

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

🚀 Upcoming Explorations 🚀

Second Renaissance Online Conference: 5-7 Dec 2025 - Transformation in a Time of Metacrisis

Just announced - Thomas Hübl to join Prof Rebecca Henderson, as two of the keynote speakers at the Second Renaissance Online Conference: Transformation in a Time of Metacrisis.

Taking place December 5–7, 2025, online, we invite you to join us — along with thinkers and changemakers including Kam Bellamy, Peter Limberg, Rufus Pollock, and Liam Kavanagh — for three days of deep inquiry and dialogue exploring transformation, wisdom, resilience, and renewal in a time of metacrisis, and the role of community within it all.

There are currently discounted Earlybird tickets available to support community accessibility.

👉 Learn more and get your tickets at www.2rcon.org

Read the full announce post here.

From Metacrisis to Second Renaissance: A 4-Week Exploratory Journey – Live Sessions Starting 12th Nov

Rufus Pollock and Sylvie Barbier will be hosting the next live From Metacrisis to Second Renaissance: A 4-Week Exploratory Journey. The 4-week course starts on Wednesday, 12th November, and runs every Wednesday from 5pm-630pm CEST until 3rd December inclusive. It’s a chance to gather online for interactive learning, dialogue, and deeper exploration of the Second Renaissance framework.

🔗 Register here: https://luma.com/dnlu160o

Here’s what our latest participants said about the course:

I deeply appreciated the course’s embodied approach to navigating pathways toward a paradigm shift.

A wonderful connection space which inspires to keep seeking and building towards the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

🌻Conscious Collectives🌻

Join us for the new Developmental Spaces White Paper Webinar - Wednesday 5th Nov, 6pm

Sign up for the webinar here - https://luma.com/rj11xedf

🌅 Second Renaissance 🌅

Second Renaissance Magazine

Today marks the official launch of our crowdfunding campaign for the Second Renaissance Magazine.

This is more than a magazine — it’s a cultural movement. Each issue gathers artists, writers, and performers who embody the spirit of the Second Renaissance: art as oracle, as ritual, as a guide toward new meaning.

We are raising £17,500 to bring the next two issues to life. Your support covers curation, editing, design, and printing — but most importantly, it ensures that the artists who share their vision and labour are fairly compensated.

🌟 Every pledge is doubled (up to £200) thanks to our generous private match funders — meaning your impact goes twice as far.

👉 Join the campaign here

With your support, the Second Renaissance becomes not only visible, but sustainable. Together, we can midwife this cultural shift.

Oasis Special Edition: Second Renaissance Fair

Step into the Second Renaissance Fair, a one-of-a-kind virtual showcase where changemakers and visionary organizations share their projects in a lively, interactive format. Explore “faire market” meets “science project” style booths, connect with new and familiar organizations, ask questions directly, and discover fresh ideas shaping the Second Renaissance. Whether attending to learn or presenting to share your work, this is your chance to engage, connect, and be inspired. Reserve your spot and join the fair here: https://luma.com/7b1k9412

Second Renaissance Forum

Some of our top forum posts over the past month have included:

• The Intellectual Genealogy of Second Renaissance Thought

• Converging Futures: A New Technique for Arriving at a Shared Vision

• Multiplicity and Unity

We also have a new category - Embodied Knowing - a space to explore the ways knowledge lives beyond words. Embodied Knowing is where dreams, art, movement, myth, and symbolic sense-making find a home.

This category invites us to welcome the full spectrum of human expression’, rational and intuitive, personal and collective, so we can co-create a culture that feels alive.

You can read more and contribute here.

Shaping Wiser Futures - London Event - November 9th

Co-hosted by Second Renaissance London and Long Now London, this participant-led gathering will bring together aligned London-based communities — and newcomers alike — to share projects, exchange ideas, and practice together.

Learn more and register here: https://luma.com/wb8c77i0

💡Life Itself Research💡

September saw an exciting new strand of activity in the Research group on the topic of how generative AI can be used to enhance wisdom, sense-making and collaboration. This including a dialogue and sharing circle around individual projects with AI, as well as a discussion to the Synergy Engine project, hosted by Bob Bunge, that included members of the World Systems Solutions team behind the project.

There was also a presentation and discussion on the results of the Cohere+ project (link below), and more recently, a presentation on ‘digital vigilantism’ by Momcilo Mijovic.

It is also great to be able to share the recording, in line with launch of his new book, of Brendan Graham Dempsey’s presentation on ‘Measuring Worldviews’, using the Lectica approach. As with other recordings, this is available on the dedicated Life Itself Research Substack.

🌳The Bergerac Praxis Hub🌳

The Bergerac Praxis Hub is kicking off Autumn with a full house for this year’s Autumn Residency, and Life Itself Practicuum. Follow all the latest developments from the residency here:

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