beyond the reward of securing the health of our biosphere for generations to come, we may just rediscover a kind of deep communal satisfaction that most of us in the modern world had forgotten was even possible. A felt sense of connection, belonging and togetherness that so invigorates the human condition that we’re left smiling at days end, eager

the stories we’ve been culturally indoctrinating ourselves with are in urgent need of upgrading.

the stories we’ve been culturally indoctrinating ourselves with are in urgent need of upgrading.

A Sense Of Contribution - First identifying, and then offering up our unique gifts to our community, and feeling valued and appreciated for this. A Sense Of Purpose - Feeling as if the interactions we share with our fellow community members are having a positive impact upon wider society.

an invitation to envision a planet wide network of peaceful, decentralised, ecologically sustainable and socially just communities. An invitation to start working towards the realisation of a Compassionate Global Village, where the health of all living beings inner worlds, relationships and communal bonds are placed at the centre of our political

As Hanzi Freinacht puts it, ‘it is often our highest hopes and dreams, the parts of ourselves that are most universal and most intimately held and cherished, that are not seen, heard, given recognition and successfully integrated into society. Hence, more and more people simply feel alienated. It is not really that the world has become a colder,

At some point in our headlong rush towards ‘progress’, we cut ourselves off from the communal crucible of close human connection that nurtured our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we first settled into agricultural civilisation we’ve engineered a series of socio-economic systems that have incentivised us to consistently exploit one

even as we come closer to discovering our reason for being, we still might find ourselves regularly weighed down by the immense amount of suffering and injustice we see in the world around us. We may become routinely overwhelmed by the fear that can arise when ever we stop to truly consider the epic scope of the many challenges facing our species.

a series of interlinking dominator hierarchies that leave us constantly pitted against one another and always at war.