Join us for Building Our Regenerative Future!
We have reached a threshold of ecological and social crisis. The wars, growing refugee crisis, extreme climate events and pandemics show us the fragility of our current civilization. What will comes next?
The first volume of Building Our Regenerative Future brought together visionary speakers and over 300 participants to explore this transition. Through online lectures, discussions, and community building, we gained knowledge, tools, and connections to further personal and collective transformation.
Now the journey continues.
Hosted by activist author and futurist Daniel Pinchbeck, and The Liminal Institute, Volume 2 of Building Our Regenerative Future is a 6-week live, online course guiding you to become an empowered agent of change.
With a brand new slate of exciting and inspirational speakers and special guests, we’ll dive into the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to exponential technologies. But instead of problems, we’ll focus on solutions.
What tangible steps can you take to contribute to a thriving, just, and sustainable society?
You'll leave energized by the realization that, together, we can transform the trajectory of humanity's path. The course provides:
Inspiring lectures on regenerative models spanning sectors like food, business, community, and more.
Real-world examples of change-makers creating systemic impact.
Explorations of exponential technologies like Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrencies (DAOs) in service of the new ecological paradigm.
Tools to initiate action in your own life and local community.
Connection with a motivated peer community, facilitating collaboration.
Our six-week intensive webinar has three essential goals:
KNOWLEDGE
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the crucial macro trends impacting your future, your health and your career
ACTION
Access the tools to move from knowledge to direct action, creating projects directly benefiting yourself and your community
CONNECTION
Join a global community network with a shared understanding, focused on accelerating positive personal and planetary transformation
Your course package includes:
The Course
6 x Three Hour Webinar Series / One session per week / Conducted via Zoom
Live lectures and Interviews guided by leading thinkers and doers
All sessions archived and available for replay
Access to all content from the Volume 1 Course, including full video replays and reading materials.
Additional Resources
Exercises, curated reading and watching lists, plus guidelines for future study
Optional Workshops
Optional workshops to complement core curriculum, including embodied practices
Community
Further community engagement through curated meetups, local and online
Directory of regenerative partners and supporters, including Discounts and Special Offers
Your course package details:
Dates & Times
Jan. 7 / Jan. 14 / Jan. 21 / Jan. 28 / Feb. 4 / Feb. 11 - 2024
10am PST | 1pm EST | 6pm BST | 7pm CEST | 10pm GST
Cost
£245 | €280 | $300
Scholarships
We offer reduced price tickets and scholarships for those in need
Email regenerativefuturecourse@gmail.com and tell us about your situation
Become a Regenerator
Transformation requires us to expand our understanding, see things radically differently, learn how to change our minds and shine light on denial.
This can be challenging to face this on your own, independently in our individualistic culture.
You are not alone
By learning with a small group of people, your experience of this course is accelerated and deepened so that you can expand, harmonize, integrate and transform
deeper commitment
deeper understanding
deeper integration
deeper action
Join us as a study group, and we will support your learning with additional resources and discussion guidance
You’ll learn from experienced faculty at the leading edge of these fields. But the course isn’t just about consuming information – it’s about catalyzing action. You’ll leave with a customized blueprint for making an impact in the areas you feel most passionate about.
Together, we’ll envision the world we know is possible. A world of thriving, resilient communities living in harmony with nature. A world where every person has the chance to actualize their potential, diversity is celebrated, and all of life is sacred.
The present moment is pregnant with this potential. Join us as we midwife a new reality.
Be part of the change. Register today!
How do you thrive in today’s fast-changing reality?
By embracing this time as your initiation, you can fulfill your greatest potential and thrive in our new, fast-changing reality.
We have reached a threshold of ecological and social crisis. The Coronavirus pandemic shows us the fragility of our current civilization. What comes next?
Individually, we can follow the call of this time to activate our gifts and super powers, maximizing our ability to succeed and thrive as the world shape-shifts around us. Collectively, we can drive the transition to a regenerative society where local communities develop greater resilience and self-reliance within a holistic, radically self-sufficient new paradigm. In this course, we define what this means while gaining the new skills and tools we all need to make the shift.
How do we form healthy communities based on ecological principles, cooperation, and good governance?
We foresee a renewal of place-based communities rooted in trust and cooperation. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors lived joyfully, in tight-knit communities. These are our true home. But how do we gain the benefits of these arrangements, restoring trust and community values, while maintaining our individual autonomy and creative initiative? How do we optimize our own, our friends, and our family’s happiness as we build diverse adaptive, and resilient communities?
We provide you with tools to build and empower your community. We review best models and legal structures, from cooperatives to land trusts, which you can use to jumpstart the regenerative community of your dreams.
How do you become a regenerative entrepreneur?
By meshing your desire to thrive and succeed with the needs of the planet, you become a leader in a revolutionary - and evolutionary - vanguard. The regenerative economy of the near-future will create millions of amazing new jobs, in sectors ranging from housing to energy to agriculture. You can move in this direction now, by becoming a regenerative entrepreneur. We present examples of pioneers doing extraordinary work in many fields.
Right now, we can jump-start local as well as global initiatives, from mutual aid networks to cryptocurrencies. We can organize around a ‘step change’ in our economic model. How do we help the transition to circular economies based on regenerative farming, ecological design and ‘closed-loop’ industrial processes, where energy comes from distributed renewable sources?
As a storyteller for our human tribe, can you guide the people toward shared purpose and unified action?
As traditional institutions lose their authority, we are engaged in a process of collective “sense-making.” But it often feels that we lack the tools for this. As a result, some people retreat into conspiracy theories. Such theories provide the comfort of a dualistic, good-versus-evil vision of the world, while avoiding overwhelming complexity and uncertainty.
We show how the new, coherent “story of the people” is emerging now. As we define a new, shared understanding of our world, we construct a solid framework for purposeful, collective action.
Can you unite your quest for self-knowledge with the movement toward a regenerative society?
The consciousness revolution is here! Physics has revealed that consciousness — “mind stuff” rather than matter — is the foundation of reality. While materialism remains the dominant worldview, this is changing fast.
As you deepen your consciousness by engaging in practices like meditation, mindfulness, ritual, psychedelic experience, prayer, and pilgrimage, you magnify your inner power and capacity for joy. The journey inward finds its true value when it joins with the movement toward a regenerative society, protecting the Earth and our human family.
How can you maintain your optimal balance within a sick society?
We introduce revolutionary new approaches to boosting your immune system, healing your micro-biome, and detoxifying from industrial pollutants. We explore the polarizing issue of vaccines and evaluate complementary medicine systems.
To stay healthy, you need a healthy environment. This means removing pollutants from the air, food and water, and protecting yourself from the dangers of EMFs as well as new untested technologies. How do we stay healthy now while working together to bring about systemic change?
Can you truly prepare yourself and your community to endure the greatest challenges?
In these transformative times, the dual challenge of ecological and psychological resilience is paramount. We will explore strategies to fortify the mind against adversity and promote sustainable practices to safeguard our planet. How can you navigate personal setbacks while championing social and environmental well-being. By intertwining mental fortitude with ecological consciousness, you will be empowered to thrive amidst accelerating change and become a catalytic agent of sustainable transformation for the world around you.
How do we unify our human family behind a shared mission and vision?
When we unite with our purpose as catalytic agents of system change, it brings us deep satisfaction and help us find our super powers. As we collaborate with others in our immediate networks, we form activated communities engaged in regenerative projects. How do we collaborate and co-create to build an even greater, global movement? Can such a movement drive the creation of a new regenerative civilisation, regardless of any collapse scenario that may be looming?
We review the movement-building tools and techniques that can help bring about the systemic changes necessary for our future survival, then outline next steps.
Host
Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, and When Plants Dream (with Sophia Rokhlin). In his 2017 book, How Soon Is Now, he explored the systemic changes needed to avert ecological collapse and extinction. His work was featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change, which promoted the value of indigenous knowledge systems He co-founded evolver.net and the web magazine Reality Sandwich. As director of The Center for Planetary Culture, a think tank, he built the Regenerative Societies Wiki, a database of solutions to the technical and social political challenges humanity faces. He hosted the talk show, Mind Shift, for Gaia TV. He speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He recently co-founded the media company and think tank: The Elevator, and publishes a popular Substack newsletter.
Douglas Rushkoff
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He serves as a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
He is a columnist for Medium, technology and media commentator for CNN, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world.
Kimbra
New Zealand–born musician Kimbra is a force innovating the shape of pop today as a songwriter, musician, producer, and adventurous performer. Her 2011 debut, Vows, No. 14 on the Billboard Top 200, was certified platinum in Australia and New Zealand. Kimbra exploded into the public consciousness that same year with “Somebody That I Used to Know,” a duet with Gotye that earned her two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 2012 and was the bestselling song of that year in the U.S., eventually selling over 13 million copies. In 2014, she released the highly acclaimed album The Golden Echo, recruiting artists as diverse as Thundercat, Omar Rodríguez-López of the Mars Volta, Bilal, and John Legend to highlight her eclectic musical style.
Kimbra has performed on TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Last Call with Carson Daly, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Seth Meyers, as well as performing at festivals such as Coachella, Austin City Limits and more. She hosts a podcast called Playing With Fire and released her fourth studio album in 2023 called A Reckoning which saw her headline the Sydney Opera House and play Corona Capital in Mexico City. She now publishes on Substack and is currently preparing to go on tour with Jacob Collier in April 2024.
Adib Dada
Adib Dada is an award-winning environmental activist and architect. In 2010, Adib founded theOtherDada [tOD] Regenerative Consultancy & Architecture practice, with a mission to activate projects across architecture, living systems, and art. Based on Biomimicry thinking, tOD’s work promotes a symbiotic relationship between nature and the built environment by exploring new ways of creating generous and regenerative habitats for humans and other organisms; in essence working with nature to develop resilient and generous cities.
Firmly committed to the UN Decade of Action, Adib is engaged in rewilding the city and reclaiming public space by planting native Miyawaki forests in urban landfills through his new initiative: theOtherForest, a nature-based tool for ecological and social regeneration. Adib has consulted on and built projects around the world, and along with his team has planted over 11 forests across Lebanon, reclaiming more than 3,700 square meters of degraded land by planting them with over 10,500 trees and shrubs of 28 different native species. Adib’s story has been produced into Growing Back Beirut, a short documentary about his environmental advocacy and forestmaking work.
Adib is a regular lecturer on environmental topics with institutions such as Cambridge University, Goethe Institute, The Slow Factory, World Expo Dubai, and SxSW eco. His work has been published in books, most recently in Hannah Lewis’ Mini-Forest Revolution, Naomi Zurcher’s Connecting Trees with People, and his writings are part of several publications. Adib is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, such as the McNulty Foundation Impact Grant, D&AD Development Grant, D&AD Future Impact Award, iF Social Impact Prize and was listed as one of GOOD Magazine’s GOOD 100 for his project Beirut RiverLESS. He has been profiled in Monocle Magazine, Damn Magazine, The Grist, Vogue Arabia, Vanity Fair France, Society for Ecological Restoration among others.
Adib is a Bio-Leadership Fellow, a community helping transform human systems and the paradigm of leadership by working with nature, as well as an Aspen Middle East Leadership Initiative Fellow.
Jem Bendell
Professor Jem Bendell is a world-renowned scholar on the breakdown of modern societies due to environmental change. Downloaded over a million times, his Deep Adaptation paper is credited with inspiring the growth of the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2018, and generated a global network to reduce harm in the face of societal collapse. He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol and his Geography BA (Hons) at the University of Cambridge. For decades he worked on Sustainable Development as a researcher and NGO manager, as well as a consultant to businesses, political parties and UN agencies. In 2017, he co-led the development of the UK Labour Party’s communications plan for the General Election and co-wrote speeches for their top politicians. Although recognised in 2012 as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Jem has been increasingly critical of the globalist agenda on sustainable development. He was one of the few intellectuals on the green left who criticised many of the policies during the pandemic as being ineffective and harmful. Away from that work, and having stepped back as a Professor, he is now a regenerative farmer in Bali and a singer-songwriter, releasing an EP with the band Sambiloto. Selected free audio chapters of his book are available here.
Professor, University of Cumbria & Distinguished Fellow, The Schumacher Institute
Alex Corren
Alex Corren is an impact entrepreneur working on innovative solutions in land tenure, ecological design, and community development. With a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont, concentrating in ecological design and water resources, and a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, Alex combines a solid academic foundation with a decade of hands-on experience.
As the Executive Director and Cofounder of ReCommon, Alex is dedicated to building systems and offering guidance for regenerative community land tenure and acquisition. His expertise spans multiple domains, including natural building, ecovillage design, regenerative crypto economics, and food production. What sets Alex apart is his unique ability to bridge the gap between high-level conceptual thinking and practical implementation. He is guided by first principles and systems thinking, driven by a vision of ecological, holistic living, and a commitment to addressing the converging crises of our time with systemic solutions. Alex's work at ReCommon showcases his commitment to sustainability and community building. He has co-developed a bioregionally-distributed, multi-stakeholder governance system for common land held in trust, as well as a non-extractive land acquisition vehicle that removes land from the speculative market, protecting it for regenerative community development and landscape restoration.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Alex is a passionate advocate for resilient communities, holistic health, spirituality, and human history. When he's not shaping the future of land tenure, he can be found building an ecological home in the mountains of Colorado, embodying his values in every aspect of his life. Alex's work strikes a balance between intellectual systems thinking and lived experience. He's dedicated to providing strength, autonomy, and ecological harmony to the communities he serves. His professional and inspirational approach, combined with a profound commitment to practical solutions, make him a valuable force in the field of regenerative community development.
Margaret Klein Salamon
Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people to face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. As Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund, she raises money for and makes grants to disruptive climate activists. Margaret founded and directed The Climate Mobilization from 2014-2020, advocating an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. She is the Founding Principal of Climate Awakening, a project to unleash the power of climate emotions through scalable small group conversations. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.
Quanita Roberson
I am the promise of forgiveness and reconciliation in the world. I haven’t always known this but I have always been moving toward it. I started my healing journey at a young age. I am a shaman. It has taken me a long time to grow into this...to grow into me. Mostly because I never quite understood why a person would choose this life. Now I understand that it chooses you.
I am a we’ver, a person who invites people into a dance that we’ves them into a them. We’ves them into a beautiful tapestry of love and belonging. Intermingling hearts over and under each other changing both the story and the we’ver. Building the landscape with each new brilliant strand. The rainbow of souls creating the foundation of what is to come.
I believe we are in a time that is calling us to remember. Remember what really matters. Remember the truth of who we really are. Remember that we belong to each other.
I am a facilitator dedicated to addressing embedded trauma. I am a spiritual teacher, speaker, author, life coach, and a storyteller. My work over the past 20 years has been focused in the areas of healing, initiation, grief, leadership, diversity, and inclusion. Recent work has included work with The Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Program and People’s Action’s Heartland Initiative: A Listening Tour of Rural and Small Town America.
I have a background in Organizational Management and Development with a concentration in Integral Theory which has supported me in looking at the world in a more holistic way. I also have had the privilege of studying with some amazing elders including Sobonfu Some and Jojopah Maria Nsoroma, keepers of ancient indigenous wisdom from the Dagara Tribe of Burkina Faso; Fanchon Shur in Embodying Creative Leadership through Growth in Motion; and Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea of The Circle Way.
I live in Cincinnati, OH with my two children. I am inspired by the Ohio River and the stories of freedom that were birthed from here.
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Yael Marantz
Yael is a biomimicry practitioner, community builder and culture hacker with over a decade of experience in communications, design-thinking and innovation. As she awakened to the intelligence and design solutions found in Nature, she founded Mimetika, a biomimetic-led consultancy focused on life-centered design.
Understanding the implications of the meta-crisis, Yael embarked on a journey to research alternative experiments in living while completing her dissertation on how we can reimagine communities through the lens of Nature's genius.
Yael is a founding steward of Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth), a living lab creating transition pathways to post-capital realities, and Fuerza De Amor, a mutual-aid network cultivating bio-regional resiliency, in Costa Rica.
She is the Managing Director of Culture Hack Labs where she works to shift dominant cultural narratives to create systems change.
Jenny Stefanotti
Jenny Stefanotti is the Founder and Steward of Denizen, a podcast and community dedicated to systemic change. Denizen creates content exploring topics across economics, democracy, culture, technology, consciousness, and justice. Denizen also produces events and organizes experimental programming for its audience and community.
Additionally Jenny has 20 years of experience driving strategic initiatives for major technology companies, startups, high net worth individuals, nonprofits, and governments.
Jenny was a fellow at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (also known as the d.school). She also has a Master's Degree in international development and economics from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Jenny also publishes a popular Medium newsletter.
Scarlett de la Torre
Musician, Sound Meditation Facilitator, DJ, Vocal Alchemist, International Multimedia Artist, and Humanitarian Philanthropic Activist, her name is Scarlett de la Torre. Scarlett’s alchemical journey has been to utilize her evolutionary and intuitive gifts to empower her fellow people to step into their sovereignty through the divine inner workings of music, sound healing, meditation, and self-love.
Partnered with Beauty For Freedom, Scarlett has been an ambassador and activist for this anti-human trafficking organization for 7 years. Their mission is to donate instruments and volunteer to teach educational music and creative workshops in order to empower survivors of human trafficking. It was during her work with survivors in New Light Kolkata that she discovered the healing power of sound.
It is her greatest joy to share the gift of music, healing arts and meditation with those who seek to be initiated into the realm of musical activation which is why she has opened the AHA Sound Sanctuary in 2018.
“The best part of my life’s work is the potent results it brings to the people who have had little to no experience in music, sound, or using their voice. I welcome everyone to open their hearts to the power of sound into our global community of alchemical sound source-ry, where you WILL find the flow and the freedom in music!“ - Scarlett de la Torre
Jamie Wheal
Jamie Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind and the global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance. His work and ideas have been covered in The New York Times, Financial Times, Wired, Entrepreneur, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Inc., and TED. He has spoken at Stanford University, MIT, the Harvard Club, Imperial College, Singularity University, the U.S. Naval War College and Special Operations Command, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, the Bohemian Club, and the United Nations. He lives high in the Rocky Mountains in an off-grid cabin with his partner, Julie; two children, Lucas and Emma; and their golden retrievers, Aslan and Calliope. When not writing, he can be found mountain biking, kitesurfing, and backcountry skiing.
Alex Ebert
Known for his highly melodic, folk and psychedelia-inflected indie pop, Alex Ebert kept himself busy from the early days of his career, fronting the punkier Ima Robot for several years before adding his more famous second group, the nearly dozen-member Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, to his schedule in 2007. With both bands still active, Ebert released his first solo album, the self-recorded Alexander, in 2011. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros followed up their debut in 2012 with the full-length album Here. It climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard 200, also charted in France & Australia. The group’s self-titled third album followed in mid-2013 and his the U.S. Top 15. He went on to find work in film & TV scoring, composing a blend of instrumental chamber pop and symphonic music for projects including the 2013 film All Is Lost. In 2018, Ebert released a series of trippy, DIY indie electronica EPs under the project heading In Support Of The 5ame Dude. That year he also launched an app called TUNERS, with a goal to create a thread-based music sharing space the compared to an audio version of Reddit. Releasing music again under his own name, I vs. I was an eclectic, sprawling second solo LP that Ebert described as a borderline concept album. Ebert continues to be a prolific performer and publishes a very popular Substack newsletter: @BadGuru.
Phoebe Tickell
Phoebe Tickell is a renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur. She has a radical proposition: that all the problems of the world are solvable today. The issue is not a lack of resources or tools or technology, but actually a misuse of imagination. She is the creator of an approach called Imagination Activism – a new kind of activism powered by imagination to create new possibilities and new forms of action. She believes that the vast majority of our challenges are not resource problems, but imagination problems, and that imagination is a muscle that can be flexed to change the way we see – and act.
Her organisation, Moral Imaginations, works with the public, private and community sector to shift mindsets, solve big place-based problems, unleash energy and systemic change. They centre imagination and create the following mindset shifts: short term to long term, human-centric to nature-as-stakeholder, current-day to ancestors and future generations, hierarchical to horizontal, shareholders to shared ownership, extraction to regeneration, taking to giving, linear to holistic, rational to more-than-rational, financial to other forms of value, budget-first to budget-second, ‘we can’t’ to ‘how can we not’, risk modelling to radical ambition. Their flagship project in the London Borough of Camden trained 32 council officers to become ‘ambassadors of imagination activism’ and spread these ways of thinking across the organisation and Borough.
She founded Moral Imaginations in 2020 after leaving her role at Imperial College London as a research scientist, designing transformational programmes for international students with 225 Academy and for adults at Schumacher College, leading on the design of the Going Horizontal training with Samantha Slade, running programmes at Fritjof Capra's Capra Course and helping build the Warm Data community with Nora Bateson. She was a Newspeak House residential fellow in 2019 and led grantmaking at the Digital Fund at The National Lottery Community Fund. She is the Existential Hope Fellow at the Foresight Institute for 2021 and an Edmund Hillary Fellow. She holds a first class degree in Biological Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Alnoor Ladha
Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules, a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play, and make trouble together.
Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. He is the Council Chair of Culture Hack Labs, a co-operatively run advisory for social movements and progressive organizations. He is also the co-director of Transition Resource Circle and the co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: The healing of wealth in the time of collapse.
Sarah Wu
Sarah Wu is a passionate educational curator, facilitator and mentor dedicated to adult learners of all backgrounds. A representative for Mother Nature as a writer and teacher of Deep Ecology, Therapeutic Ecology and Whole Systems Design shared through the lens of Herbalism and Permaculture. Sarah Wu has 23 years studying and practicing the science, art and craft of Regenerative Herbal Medicine. Her foundation is in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Wise Woman Traditions, actively practicing clinical herbalism in the Neo-Tropics for 14 years. With over 30 75+hour Permaculture Design Courses (PDC) in her portfolio, which encompass the earth sciences, regenerative strategies for human settlement design, community development and alternative social structuring. She can teach all aspects of herbal medicine from Materia Medica, ethnobotany, medicine making, formulation and anatomy/physiology. She is well versed, teaching archetypal symbolism and storytelling for personal reflection via Tarot and Evolutionary Astrology. An international facilitator, Sarah has brought her teachings to the United States, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Italy, Portugal, France and Germany.
A producer at heart, Sarah loves curating courses, workshops and events tailored to community, deep ecology, regenerative design and holistic health that highlight diverse and dynamic facilitators. Sarah is the friendly Village Witch, co-founder and producer of Envision Festival, a 10,000 person arts and culture event in Costa Rica (2011-present), where she curates the educational offerings spanning six stages and 300 hours.
Arthur Brock
Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies which shape the social dynamics of our emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
Initially, Arthur put his experience Artificial Intelligence to use at GM, Chrysler & Hughes, but shifted his focus to building intelligence into social architectures rather than to computers. He started student-run schools and award-winning, employee-run businesses and discovered the engine that runs these types of organizations involve specific patterns of incentives and feedback. He began to unlock secrets of the Social DNA by which people operate and the critical role of currencies for programming these patterns.
Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.
Based in New York City, Arthur consults worldwide with organizations which are actively restructuring themselves for the new economy.
Alistair Langer
Agent & Companion: catalyzing radical systemic change
Alistair serves as an agent for a portfolio of organizations catalyzing radical systemic change since 2007. He senses the future, open doors and proactively catalyzes ideas into projects.
As a broker for virtuous relationships he weaves complex multi-stakeholder surroundings together for big causes.
The ecosystems he is weaving are by nature spanning non-profit, for-profit and hybrid business models. They include key players from science, civil society and the economy with a broad variety of values and concepts for a planetary civilization ahead.
His headquarters is in Berlin but his networks spans all continents, focusing on the crucial leverage points for a planetary civilization ahead.
Stephen Reid
Stephen is a transdisciplinary technologist and mystical mentor devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching, meditation and plant medicine. Current projects include:
teaching the Introduction to AI online course in September/October
co-facilitating the Futurecraft Residency at Brave Earth in Costa Rica in December
leading the development of the Dandelion platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings as part of not-for-profit worker co-op Symbiota
Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, taught the Life as Practice, How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Introduction to web3 courses, served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK, and consulted for organisations including Supermodular, the New Economics Foundation, the Living Wage Foundation and 350.org. Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.
James Ehrlich
James Ehrlich is Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute (Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education, under Dr. James R. Doty). Additionally, James is appointed Faculty at Singularity University, Senior Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center, and a White House / OSTP Appointee to a joint taskforce on Regenerative Infrastructure.
Mr. Ehrlich is also the Founder of ReGen Villages Holding, B.V. a Stanford University spin-off formed in the EU as a Netherlands impact-for-profit company, using machine learning software to address the U.N. 17 Sustainable Development Goals, specifically to provide solutions for affordable housing, climate change adaptability, and regenerative resiliency.
Mr. Ehrlich founded ReGen Villages in 2016, with its patent-pending VillageOS™ operating system software, using machine learning to design and operate bio-regenerative and resilient (self-reliant) neighborhood infrastructure and retrofits - integrating clean water, renewable energy micro-grids, high-yield organic food, and circular nutritional flows at the neighborhood scale. To promote healthy long-term outcomes for residents and flourishing communities.
A serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over 25-years, James successfully founded and managed technology and media companies with successful exits. For nearly a decade, Mr. Ehrlich executive produced an award-winning national public broadcasting series based on his case study research of organic and bio-dynamic family farms, that at its apex reached over 35-million homes each week and is also the co-author of a best-selling companion book on Hachette, Organic Living THG (2007).
James is a graduate from New York University Gallatin, and MSc studies in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has won several awards for sustainable design and is a researcher and global lecturer on the topic of regenerative neighborhood development. He has co-authored two (2) U.N. Sustainable Development Goal Platform Briefs (2015/2018) with Prof. Larry Leifer and Chris Ford (AIA) from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University.
ReGen Villages is an active member of the EU Commission on Smart Rural Villages, the EU Network for Rural Development, the New EU Bauhaus Roundtable, and appointed to the U.N. Climate Resiliency Lab, participating and presenting at both COP26 and COP27, and upcoming at COP28.
Alessa Berg
Alessa is the founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact (TTI), the global ecosystem of impact & climate investors, LPs, entrepreneurs, professionals and public figures across more than 50 countries. TTI runs weekly impact investment events across its 30+ city chapters and during gatherings such as the World Economic Forum and COP. TTI’s investment unit facilitates investments into growth-stage impact tech companies across emerging markets, such as the $100m debt investment into Wave Mobile Money.
Alessa was born in Switzerland and is fluent in 6 languages. She created her first business at 11 years old and started focusing on neuroscience in high school. During her studies at Oxford University, she also immersed herself in technology and entrepreneurship. Early in her career, Alessa worked in M&A at Goldman Sachs and private equity at Blackstone.
As a public voice of the global impact movement, Alessa was approached to host the first docuseries about impact entrepreneurship. It will air globally in early 2024 on Gaia TV, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
Charlie Stuart Gay & Daniella Hunter
Co-Founders of Sanara Way & Influence Foundation.
We seek the salvation of Peace; the silent breath of divine Truth, rediscovered, weaving its golden thread of stillness, through lifetimes and realms, abiding immutable within our resolute hearts, that we may never be lost again.
‘In between the mountains, the valleys take a dip among the shadows, where the echoes of our dreams leave a trail of light to guide us through our darkest night.’
As we walk our path, the foundational principles of the Sanará Way, and our Influence Foundation, nurture our souls and serve as the guiding compass of our Being.
Reverence
Compassion & Love Unconditional
Humility & Respect
Trust in the Divine Unknown
Learn more about Charlie & Daniella here.
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