Key Themes
A number of key themes and questions underpin our work. The list is not closed or complete, but gives some idea of important concerns and explorations.
Every Human Being is an Artist
New Organs of Perception
Imagination and Transformation
Eco-citizenship
Inner technologies
The relationship between Individual and Collective
Autonomous Zones
Freedom and Responsibility
Direct Democracy
The Connection between Inner and Outer Work
Imagination, Intuition, Inspiration as Forms of Thought
Self-determination/Self-organisation
Associative Economics
Basic Income
Transformative Process
The Death Point
Difficulties as Resources
Phenomenological Practice
The ‘Permanent Conference’
The Wound
Renewable Energies, Renewable Culture
Working with the ‘invisible materials’
Parallel Process
Different Forms of Knowing
Experiential Knowing
Reflexivity
Dialogue with Oneself/Dialogue with the World
‘Instruments of Consciousness’
Overcoming Denial
Connective Practice
Enabling Empathy
Facilitating Active Engagement
Rethinking Progress
Post Growth Consciousness
Aesthetics and Responsibility
Methods of Enlivenment
An Expanded Understanding of the Senses
The ‘I’ Sense
Coming to our Senses
Emergence
An alternative, mobile university
Recognising our relationship to the ‘world out there’
Internal mobilisation
Different modes of thinking
Overcoming the polarisation of thinking and feeling
Re-thinking thinking
Anti-capitalist practice
Capacity Building
Shaping a Viable Future
Learning how to think together
Resilience
Commoning and the Commons
Becoming Agents of Change