WHAT WE DO

We  are creating a dynamic learning organisation committed to exploring the underlying question:

How can we embrace the full spectrum of human experience to improve our relationship with earth?

We are therefore exploring the theory and practice of ‘noetic ecology’  as a field for opening up to other ways of experiencing, understanding and deepening relationship with all ‘nature’.

In adapting the four pillars adopted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), we equally believe that worldview transformation can be done be best achieved by:

1. Creating meaningful experiences
2. Inviting rigorous and reflective inquiry
3. Facilitating deep learning and
4. Cultivating regenerative community

…that together open up opportunities for us to directly explore ‘different ways of knowing’ the depth of relationship with all life.

WHY WE DO IT

Humanity is increasingly suffering from a ‘separation sickness’ – a disconnect in consciousness – that underlies almost all of our most pertinent challenges worldwide – from local to global scales.

Solving this seemingly requires systemic and cultural transformations of epic proportions. Yet nature shows us that ‘discontinuous change’ – non-linear transformations – are always possible. Think of water in a glass: at some point, when the conditions are right, that seemingly innocuous water can freeze, expand and shatter the glass vessel within which it was contained.

We aim to create those conditions for consciousness. We believe that is our best alternative. This is why we are directing our focus toward education and learning processes that prepare the ground for seeding the profound change required. In contrast to a competitive, materialist and reductionist system of learning, we support connective and collaborative learning that deepens relationships with nature, people, self and source for the greater good of the whole.

We therefore believe in learning that invites open rigorous inquiry (thinking), direct immersive experience (feeling) and committed responsible action (doing) embodied within a meaningful sense of self and purpose (being). Such deep learning also inspires ‘active hope’ for the future.

Our education philosophy is rooted in the conviction that any approach to learning and, specifically ecology, must support fuller understandings of the interconnected nature of reality.

We therefore embrace approaches that nourish our primal blueprint and innate affiliation with the more-than-human world by exploring the conditions that allowed our ancestors to be fully human and cultivate a relationship with nature that is connective, harmonious and regenerative.

We believe it is our birth right to experience the sense of purpose and aliveness that comes with knowing our true self as an integral part of an underlying bond that connects and unites us all.

HOW WE DO IT

As a core philosophy and application of consciousness we seek to generate:

…expanded influence through shared intention;
…enhanced awareness through quality attention;
…enduring gratitude through authentic appreciation, and to collectively achieve:
…enlivened wellbeing through deep connection with one’s self, place and community (human and non-human).

As a field (of deep learning and transformative inquiry and practice), we are:

…designing a style of connective learning that nurtures the diversity of human experience and provides a ‘place to land’ for persons wishing to ground and reflect on other ‘ways of knowing’  and embodying the depth of human-nature relations.

…customising learning to participants’ needs by drawing on, applying and integrating modalities such as: