Principles & Practices of Deep Transformation – With Jeremy Lent and Silvia Di Blasio

Event Overview

Our civilisation is careening at an accelerating pace toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality. Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require a fundamental transformation of society encompassing virtually every aspect of the human experience: our values, our goals and our collective behaviour.

The depiction of humans as selfish individuals, the view of nature as a resource to be exploited, and the idea that technology alone can fix our biggest problems, are all profound misconceptions that have collectively led our civilisation down a path to disaster.

We need to transform our core human identity, our relationships with others, and with the nonhuman world.

The only way we can truly change our trajectory is by approaching society’s problems from the foundation of an alternative worldview—one that affirms life, rather than the accumulation of wealth above all else.

This worldview already exists: it is one of deep interconnectedness, which integrates the findings of modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous knowledge.

Ultimately, this worldview could serve as the basis for a fundamentally different type of society: an ecological civilization.

This course, based largely on the work of Jeremy Lent’s recent book The Web of Meaning, but also drawing on many other diverse sources, lays out principles and practices of deep transformation for the individual, for community, and for society at large.

It offers participants a deep but accessible guided exploration of an alternative life-affirming worldview based on the intersection of modern science and the world’s great wisdom traditions, along with an inspiring and practical vision of pathways that could lead to an ecological civilization.

Dive into your own experience of Deep Transformation

• Understand the flaws of our dominant worldview
• Explore an alternative, life-affirming worldview of deep interconnectedness
• Learn how modern science validates the great wisdom traditions of earlier cultures
• Discover the exciting and practical pathways that lead to a regenerative future: an Ecological Civilization

Weekly discussions and practices inspired by the Work That Reconnects guided by Silvia Di Blasio (WTR facilitator)