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Since many years, Dougald Hine is engaged in thinking about ways to address climate change and the multiple crisis we are in. But some years ago, he realized that we might not find the answers in the place we are looking at, like science and politics as we know it. In his book “At Work in the Ruins” he explores how we can maneuver meaningfully in this challenging time without becoming hopeless. He...

Being carried by something Greater than Ourselves Elizabeth Oldfield holds a master’s degree in theology and the arts and spent the early part of her career at the BBC in television and radio. She is an experienced communicator who appears on various platforms, including in The New York Times and BBC One. She is host of the podcast “The Sacred.” Elizabeth Oldfield lives a Christian spirituality th...

“Peace building has been crafted by those who believed in a liberal way of putting a broken society together. That means that the outsider comes to analyze what's wrong with the country and propose short term solutions to build peace. Sustaining peace, on the other hand, posits that peace should be the starting point and the end goal. Every society, however broken it may appear, has still threads...

Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Rob Hopkins In the midst of our many crises, the future can look like something to avoid or to fear. But Rob Hopkins sees the future as a field of possibility. The co-founder of the Transition Town Movement, which brings change to the concrete, local human level, sees his work for change rooted in our power of imagination. When we can imagine a new future and long fo...

“Confucianism is a learning civilization rather than a missionary one. The Analects by Confucius opens not with commandments or conversion, but with the delight of learning: ‘To learn and practice constantly—is this not a pleasure?’ Learning is seen as an inner fulfillment rather than a rule imposed on others. Moral influence arises from ongoing self-cultivation, allowing character itself to becom...

Ecovillages have been around for some decades, giving rise to many different communities around the world and in Europe. In many ways they provided fertile ground for new experiments in ecological farming, in living together, in decision making and dialogue and how to deal with human diversity. But many of the hopes for ecological and social change that fueled the founding of Ecovillages have not...

A Practical Vision of a Regenerative Cooperative Future Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. In his new book Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, he...

Being brave together to meet the surges of ICE Reverend Jane Field is Executive Director of the Maine Council of Churches and an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister who has served Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, and Lutheran churches in New York City, Connecticut, and Maine. She is part of the resistance movement against the surges of the ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Like i...

How can we confront collapse with care and compassion? Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to globa...

evolve World recently opened the Interbeing Monastery, an online space for spiritual and cultural practice. At a time with so many crises, it is particularly important to meet in a shared intention and longing to connect to the sacred depth of existence in order to be able to respond in conscious and loving ways to what is happening in the world. Inner and outer transformation go hand in hand. The...

Kitt Johnson is a dancer and choreographer from Denmark who works worldwide with solo performances and site-specific projects. Her repertoire also includes ensemble works, New Circus, and productions designed for children. In her solo performances she addresses existential themes of the human condition, and in her site-specific works as the artistic director of the company X-act she explores the h...

Arawana Hayashi in dialogue with Elizabeth Debold   „The dance is more than the dancers,“ says Arawana Hayashi, creator of Social Presencing Theater at the Presencing Institute. Hayashi has worked with systems change catalyst Otto Scharmer to bring together her experience as a dancer with his work with organizations. What does it mean that the dance is more than the dancers? The dance has its own...

How may we practice hosting for the unfolding of Life?   Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Toke Moeller Thursday, January 15 th , 8 pm CET   For thirty years, Toke Moeller has been hosting conversations that matter in a world of complexity, conflict, crisis, and division. These are the conversations that feel so necessary and yet so often are avoided. Inspired to bring people together to respond t...

What can we learn from the past to create the future? Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Roman Krznaric   Political Scientist and bestselling author Roman Krznaric is challenging our relationship to time. Inn his view we are stuck in a “Tyranny of the Now”, a “chronic short termism, an inability to see beyond the immediate here and now”. In his books “The Good Ancestor” and recently “History for Tomor...

Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Rama Mani & Alexander Schieffer Thursday, 4. December, 8 pm CET   More than 20 years ago, social activist and artist Dr. Rama Mani and leadership development expert Prof. Alexander Schieffer, founded the organization “Home for Humanity”. They brought students and change-makers from all over the world to their home in France to facilitate transformational learning...

Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Nadia Rosmann Thursday, 20. November, 8 pm CET   The Interbeing Tea Dialogues, a new form of collective ritual, have grown out of the Emergent Dialogue practice that the late Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold developed with the evolve World team over the course of many years. It is a practice that gives us an experiential access to the truth of Interbeing, wh...

Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Ilia Delio   We live in an evolving universe, in which also God is becoming. This idea of a “Not-Yet God” leads Ilia Delio to investigate our role as humans in the cosmos in a breathtaking and heart-opening way as participants in the unfolding of the forces of love and unification. Drawing from the insights of evolutionary mystic Teilhard de Chardin, depth psychologi...

Mike Kauschke in dialogue with Mary Adams, Steve Brett and François Demange Thomas Steininger, our friend and companion, editor of evolve , founder and host of Radio evolve , passed away on October 9. He succumbed to the effects of a brain tumor that was diagnosed two and a half years ago. Like his life, he completed this transition of dying with an unshakeable trust in the eternity of life. Thoma...

Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Brendan Graham Dempsey Metamodernity is a new cultural trend, worldview or quality that aims to bring together the values and learning from modernity and postmodernity. Brendan Graham Dempsey is one of the vivid explorers, thinkers, and critics of this new movement. His special interest lies in the relevance of these ideas for our understanding and practice of spi...

Mike Kauschke in Dialogue with Elizabeth Debold “Interbeing, like life itself, is given. Life is nothing that any one of us made happen. The tree with leaves that dance gold and green in the sunlight were not made by human hand. The pleasant warmth of the sun on your face just is. These are given to us. We are made to seek beauty; to see and smell and taste it in the life world we are in the midst...

Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Joanna Macy   “You cannot work for the Earth without joy – you know why? Because we are leaving the linear, top-down view of reality that has gripped us through most of the patriarchal era, and we are moving by necessity to an understanding of the reciprocity at the heart of the Universe: If you act, you are met. If you act for Earth, you feel her strength right u...

In this new Series, Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger, the founders of Emergent Interbeing practice, discuss important aspects of this work. From the perspective of the individual, Emergent Interbeing brings us to a new point in human development that begins to re-integrate the individual in the wholeness of Life. This is Transindividuation, where the individual begins to be able to access th...

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Cynthia Bourgeault There is a subtle symbolic reality that has the power to transform us. This dimension of reality speaks to something that our culture is forgotten to be in relationship with. It is something that Cynthia Bourgeault is deeply acquainted with. As a globally renowned teacher of Christian mysticism, her teaching and her practice are very much conne...

Thomas Steininger speaks at the Breakwater Festival ‍ Some months ago, Dr. Thomas Steininger spoke at Breakwater Festival in Mannheim, Germany led by Rev. Paul Vanderklay. For this Christian conference, Thomas opened up the question of sacrament. How do different Christian churches celebrate the sacred? Are there new forms of sacred practice emerging in our secular culture? Thomas explored the dif...

Thomas Steininger in dialogue with Jeremy Johnson One of the original integral thinkers was Jean Gebser. In the 1950s, he wrote about integral consciousness, particularly focusing on how such a consciousness would relate to time. He saw that our modernist relationship with reality mainly focused on space and the perspective of a separate, individual self. This modern worldview, with its linear und...