Following the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit in Bhutan, this session led by Dan McTiernan continues an emerging global conversation about the deeper human dimensions of ecological and systems transformation. Food systems, climate instability, and human wellbeing are profoundly entangled, and many of us are recognising that technological innovation and policy change alone are not […]
Institutional cultures, inherited narratives, economic pressures, social norms, trauma histories, and emotional climates all shape what we feel able to perceive, say, or do. In times of instability these forces often intensify, narrowing imagination, suppressing dissent, and rewarding adaptation over genuine transformation. But over time, difficult systems do more than constrain action externally. They begin […]
We are living in a profound threshold moment. Old certainties are fraying. Ecological, political, technological, and cultural systems are destabilising. Familiar identities, institutions, and narratives no longer provide the orientation they once did, yet what comes next remains unclear. In such times, there is clearly pressure to rush towards answers, strategies, or optimism. But throughout […]
As the year draws to a close, this final gathering invites us into a shared space of reflection, imagination, and collective sense-making. Across the year we will have explored the invisible dynamics shaping transformation efforts, the pressures facing human and ecological systems, embodiment and ecological belonging, and the thresholds we are now crossing individually and […]
