Why?
Today’s interconnected crises stem from the foundations of globalised culture: the deep-seated assumptions, values, and perspectives that shape societies. Evidence is mounting that modern civilisation is breaking down in ways that can’t simply be repaired. Renewal is needed at a foundational level – a profound shift in collective worldview. Ways of being and seeing that we are hardly able to imagine from a modern cultural vantage point.
However, modernity and its materialist culture has treated the inner world as irrelevant. As a result, we lack robust, trusted, well-researched institutions dedicated to large-scale inner growth for the common good. The potential for human flourishing and renewal is vast; but our inherited maps of inner development are fragmented. We need scaleable, integrated approaches to inner transformation - sustained by dedicated communities that can weave new cultural narratives.
What?
Dedicated spaces of community and ecologies of practice that integrate:
- Cognitive development - Towards greater complexity of thought and understanding
- Awakening - Spiritual development; growth in the domain of consciousness
- Healing - Metabolising trauma and integrating unconscious shadows
- Evolving worldview - Expanding perspectives and circles of care towards a world-centric view
- Engaged action - Translating inner shifts into active, ethical engagement with the world
Manifesto
We call for the creation of transformational "developmental spaces". Spaces that cultivate the capacities to respond to the profound challenges we face.Spaces grounded in the revolutionary research of the last half century about our personal and collective potential for growth and transformation.These spaces can take a multitude of forms from courses and programs to physical environments such as new forms of monasteries or universities.