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Last winter marked our fourth now-annual Surviving the Future live online gathering, in collaboration with Vermont's Sterling College.
As you can read in the words of participants at the above link, it proved the most potent yet, and has left me eagerly anticipating the forthcoming co-created exploration.
Since the above graphic was crafted, Mark Boyle and Eve Annecke have completed our lineup of guests - alongside the above-mentioned Iain McGilchrist, Isabelle Frémeaux, Rob Hopkins, Lyla June, Nate Hagens and Vandana Shiva - and we'll take the time to explore in depth whatever burns within our fifty participants.
At time of writing just a dozen places remain - which I'd anticipate going in the next week or two - so if you're interested, do click through for more details (by all means leave a comment there with any questions for me). As ever, it's all offered on a trust-based inclusive pricing basis.
Ensuring that remains so is all part of the work in setting these up, mind, so while I hope they go on for many years to come, it's certainly not a given! The future never is, as our alumni know well.
For more on the Deeper Dive
(including joining us!)
Or if a nine-week intensive just isn't practical for you this winter, there's also the self-paced A Path Through Tumultuous Times!
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Keen to tell a friend about David Fleming's work?
Here's the link to share, for our regularly updated page:
tinyurl.com/SurvivingTheFuture
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EXPECTATIONS
"The experience of the approaching civilisational convergence of crises will affect our expectations in three ways.
First, options which were formerly dismissed will now be grasped with both hands, and we may wonder how we could have been so stupid as to turn them down when they were still available.
Secondly, opinions and fundamental values, hitherto seen to be sacrosanct and self-evident, will be challenged and may break down rapidly.
Thirdly, there is likely to be expectations-creep, as the (bad) new conditions are seen to be as acceptable as the (good) old ones used to be, without people being explicitly conscious of having changed their opinion. Events will change the frame of reference in which we make judgments...
History forms our expectations; it is our data.
Without a sense of history, our expectations are the product of how we live now."
~ from the 'Expectations' entry
of David Fleming's
Dictionary for the Future
and How to Survive It
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On a personal note, I was shocked last month by the sudden death of the wondrous Rev. Michael Dowd, founder of the invaluable PostDoom.com
It is an enduring and growing honour that my first ever conversation with Michael opened that site four years ago; to this day I still hear from people it's touched.
Michael was the very embodiment of dark optimism, and his infectious joy and reverence for life means that I know he died with deep satisfaction at his life's work.
A real example for us all, with eyes open to both life and death.
Rest well, my friend.
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