Web3 is becoming a huge phenomenon, but represents a crisis of sensemaking with a welter of terminology and conflicting claims. Today, Life Itself Labs is launching a new collaborative initiative “Making Sense of Web3” to address this. It provides introductions to key concepts and ideas along with in-depth exploration of the claims for its social […]
Author: Rufus Pollock
By Tomas Björkman and Rufus Pollock. Tomas Björkman is a social entrepreneur, philosopher and co-initiator of Emerge. Rufus Pollock is co-founder of Life Itself. This piece was cross-posted in Emerge, 27.1.2022. Introduction This piece is a result of a collaborative dialogue between Tomas Björkman (Ekskäret Foundation) and Rufus Pollock (Life Itself). We’d like to thank […]
This month we have special guest Esther Montmany who has spent more than 20 years developing a unique approach to conscious parenting and education. She has worked with Mauricio and Rebecca Wild at their legendary school in Ecuador and led the children’s program at Plum Village summer retreats as well as starting several initiatives of […]
True inner growth for a truly happy child Led by Esther Montmany We are delighted to be organizing a special two hour workshop on conscious parenting and education. Led by Esther Montmany who has more than twenty years experience and training, having led workshops all over the world as well as running the children’s program […]
This month we have special guest Karl Steyaert, a visionary cultural catalyser who has worked with dozens of intentional communities such as Findhorn and Auroville as well universities and tech companies such as Netflix. More about Karl below. When: Sunday 7th November, 2021 at 6-7pm European / 12-1pm eastern US. Where: Online (zoom). Register with your […]
We’re excited to announce the alpha version of our ecosystem mapping directory entitled the “State of Sensemaking”: https://ecosystem.lifeitself.us/ The site is one output from our ongoing efforts to map an emerging ecosystem. It provides a growing directory of organizations, communities and individuals organized by theme and activity. It also includes background content and interviews as […]
As part of our project to map the space that organisations like ours operate within, we had a great conversation with Adam Brock from Regenerate Change, about social design and deepening relationships. Read below to find out more. Adam’s Journey Adam first got interested in regenerative design in college. He realised that we have the […]
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What is Conscious Coliving?
There’s not really an established term yet for the kind of way of living that we imagine and seek to pioneer. We’ve come to call it “conscious coliving” reflecting the fusion of two related practices: conscious living and coliving. Here we want to say a bit more about what we mean by conscious co-living as […]
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Life Itself Newsletter – June
Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter! We’re halfway through the year now, and there’s so much to update you on. The team at Life Itself have been working hard on many exciting projects, so read below to find out more. Compassionate Mental Health Liam Kavanagh, head of the Life Itself Insitute, co-curated a three-day […]
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Richard D. Bartlett
Recently, we spoke to Richard D. Bartlett as part of our ecosystem mapping project. Read below to find out about all of the amazing things he is doing within the space. Richard’s background story For Rich, the central guiding question has always been: how can there be belonging without conformity? Rich was part of the […]