Communities
where people
grow.
the home of developmental spaces
Some communities exist so that the people in them can grow: co-living houses, retreat centres, schools, new kinds of monastery. We call them developmental spaces. This is the place to learn about them, build one, or help fund one.
Three ways in
Is a conscious community for you? Three free courses, honest guides on what it is really like, and where to begin.
For founders and designers: the whitepaper, the manifesto, the network of organisations, and the craft of designing places where people grow.
The thinking behind a real-estate fund for conscious community, published in full, and the projects raising money now.
The crises of our time are, at root, crises of inner development.
Modern civilisation is breaking down in ways that cannot simply be repaired. The trouble stems from the deep assumptions, values and perspectives that shape our culture, and modernity has treated the inner world as irrelevant. We lack trusted institutions dedicated to inner growth for the common good, even as half a century of research shows how far people can develop given the right conditions.
- iCognitive development · greater complexity of thought and understanding
- iiAwakening · spiritual growth in the domain of consciousness
- iiiHealing · metabolising trauma; integrating unconscious shadows
- ivEvolving worldview · circles of care widen toward a world-centric view
- vEngaged action · inner shifts become ethical engagement with the world
The whitepaper
Developmental Spaces: cultural incubators for a time of transformation
Rosie Bell, Boaz Feldman and Rufus Pollock · September 2025
The case for dedicated, growth-oriented spaces where communities engage in sustained, multi-domain inner development: what they are, why now, what characterises them, and how to build the field.