From the About page on the Emerge website:
Emerge is an independent, non-profit media platform highlighting the initiatives, individuals and ways of thinking that are sowing the seeds of a new civilisation.
We are exploring how to act wisely in a world that seems out of control. We aim to explore the emerging cultural narratives of our time by collecting useful content from across the web, profiling change-makers and thinkers, publishing thought-provoking commentary and producing original videos and podcasts.
Emerge is a hub for people and initiatives searching for solutions to pressing global challenges, asking the question: What new patterns of living, working and existing together are currently emerging?
We are a network and a movement that celebrates people and projects. Our purpose is constantly emerging and taking shape. We offer an invitation to each of us to discover our role in this new story.
Emerge began as a three-day Gathering in Berlin in November 2018 initiated by three non-profit organisations: Perspectiva, London; co-creation.loft, Berlin and Ekskäret Foundation, Stockholm. The gathering brought together pioneers in complexity science, philosophy, spirituality, psychology, sustainability, creativity, and wisdom to explore dynamic solutions to our planet’s greatest challenges and discover new pathways of working, living and creating together.
In 2019, we held the second Emerge Gathering in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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From Daniel’s LinkedIn Profile:
Writing and acting about meaning, responsibility, and human development in the age of automation and climate collapse.
Tomas Björkman is an entrepreneur, investment banker and property developer with great interest in science and philosophy. He has founded several companies and organizations, including Investment Banking Partners AB. He has also served as chairman of EFG Investment Bank. Ten years ago, he founded the Ekskäret Foundation, supporting development for individuals, organizations with the aim of creating a more conscious society.
Tomas is also the co-founder of the research institute Perspectiva in London, of the Co-creation Foundation and the media platform Emerge in Berlin and 29k.com personal development platform. He is the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), The Nordic Secret (together with Lene Rachel Andersen, 2017) and The World We Create (2019). He divides his time between London, Stockholm and Berlin.
Dr. Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva. He was until recently Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA where, over the course of six years, he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events.
Jonathan is an applied philosopher with degrees spanning a range of humanities and social sciences from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Grandmaster and British Champion (2004–6) and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book, The Seven Dimensions of Climate Change: rethinking the world’s toughest problem will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in early 2017.
He lives in Putney, London, with his wife Siva, an academic lawyer from South India and their two sons, Kailash and Vishnu.
His recent work includes Money Talks: Divest Invest and the Battle for Climate Realism and Spiritualise: Revitalising Spirituality to address 21st Century Challenges.
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Recent Content
Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
An Explosion of Social Trust in Ukraine: Networks, media, humour, and psychology in a time of war.
Published on: 12 Aug 22 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
David Sauvage – The Future of Collective Decision-Making
Published on: 6 Aug 22 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Gary Sheng – To Actualize Game B, Empower Gen Z
Published on: 15 Jun 22 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Steve March – An Integrated Ecology of Practice for the Meta-Crisis
Published on: 13 Jun 22 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Sean Wilkinson – Circling, Meditation & Trauma
Published on: 23 May 22 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Circling & Soulmaking with Ellen McSweeney & Daniel Thorson
Published on: 14 Apr 22 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Emerge Web3 – Lovisa Björna in conversation with Gavin Wood
Published on: 27 Feb 22 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Emerge Web3 – Lovisa Björna in conversation with Gavin Wood
Published on: 21 Feb 22 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Emerge documentary 2021
Published on: 13 Dec 21 in Emerge – YouTube
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Mark Feenstra – Renormaling: Fractal Harmony in Action
Published on: 4 Dec 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Emerge Documentary 2021
Published on: 24 Nov 21 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Emerge 2021 Berlin
Published on: 19 Oct 21 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Layman Pascal – Spiritual Practice as Harmonization
Published on: 12 Oct 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Harmonizing to Emerge with John Vervaeke
Published on: 12 Oct 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Regenerar
Published on: 23 Sep 21 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Soryu Forall – Responding to Collapse: Virtue and Possibility at the World's End
Published on: 12 Aug 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Rob McNamara – Adult Development & Ensoulment
Published on: 24 Jul 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
What is Emerging? A conversation with Indra Adnan and Anthea Lawson
Published on: 19 Jul 21 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
How to Move Towards an Ecological Civilisation: A Conversation with Jeremy Lent
Published on: 15 Jul 21 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Emerge Returns: Solo Episode
Published on: 28 Jun 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Zak Stein – The Eros of Ethics
Published on: 28 Jun 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
The Inner Dimensions of Agency: a dialogue with Jamie Bristow and Rosey Bell
Published on: 13 Mar 21 in Emerge – YouTube
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Inviting Canadians to a New Kind of Monastery
Published on: 10 Mar 21 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
What is the social imaginary?
Published on: 1 Oct 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
The End of Emerge (For Now)
Published on: 18 Sep 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Zak Stein – American Culture’s Psychotic Break (pt. 2)
Published on: 9 Jul 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Zak Stein – American Culture’s Psychotic Break (pt. 1)
Published on: 1 Jul 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Emerge Brazil | Felipe Tavares and Maria Clara Parente
Published on: 12 May 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Tomas Bjorkman Q&A, Emerge Local Gathering, Stockholm 2020
Published on: 3 Apr 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Tomas Bjorkman, Emerge Local Gathering, Stockholm 2020
Published on: 3 Apr 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Tomas Björkman, Emerge Gathering 2019
Published on: 20 Mar 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Soryu Forall – Manufactured Awakenings
Published on: 13 Mar 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Emerge Brazil | Aline Matulja and Maria Clara Parente
Published on: 12 Mar 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Andrew J. Taggart – Existential Openings & Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation
Published on: 11 Mar 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Jonathan Reams – Waking Up & Growing Up: How Seeing the Virtuality of Self Supports
Published on: 11 Mar 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Robert Kegan – The Five Stages of Adult Development (And Why You Probably Aren’t Stage
Published on: 6 Mar 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Mark Feenstra – The Inner Dimension of the Meta-Crisis
Published on: 1 Mar 20 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Understanding the Meta-Crisis. Julyan Davey @ Emerge London
Published on: 28 Feb 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Understanding the Meta-Crisis. Indra Adnan @ Emerge London
Published on: 28 Feb 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Understanding the Meta-Crisis. Jonathan Rowson @ Emerge London
Published on: 27 Feb 20 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Emerge Brazil | Danilo Oliveira Vaz and Maria Clara Parente
Published on: 18 Dec 19 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
THIS IS NOT a manifesto
Published on: 3 Dec 19 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Rob Burbea – Emptiness, Postmodernism, and Sacred Participation
Published on: 25 Nov 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Jamie Bristow – Mindfulness as Metamodern Psychotechnology
Published on: 18 Nov 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
The Future of the Emerge Podcast
Published on: 4 Nov 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Rebel Wisdom // Future Thinkers // Emerge – Making Sense of the Sensemaking Web
Published on: 14 Oct 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
How can we build a Wellbeing Economy? Katherine Trebeck and Dirk Philipsen @ Emerge Berlin
Published on: 14 Oct 19 in Emerge – YouTube
by Emerge
Ronan Harrington – Extinction Rebellion: Collective Sacrifice and Metamodern Praxis
Published on: 3 Oct 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Guy Sengstock – Circling Towards Meaningfulness & Collective Intelligence
Published on: 23 Sep 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
Zak Stein – Metapsychology, Soul, and Collapse (Pt. 2)
Published on: 17 Sep 19 in Emerge – Podcast
by Daniel Thorson
A conversation about how emergence can be the foundation a new society. We talk about how societies can create containers for healthy decision making. And how sacred containers can allow
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Gary Sheng co-founder of Civics Unplugged and Dream DAO. In this conversation we offer some friendly critiques of the emerging network and discuss how we can empower the next generation
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Steve March is the creator of an integrated ecology of practice and founder of Aletheia Coaching. In this episode we get into the history of coaching, depth and the fourth
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Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson and I explore what it’s like to practice across paradigms, the limits and transformational potential of circling, and the interplay between mediation, circling, and trauma
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In this episode fellow Monastic Academy resident Ellen McSweeney and I explore the relationship between Circling and Soulmaking in an attempt to make sense of the experience we shared co-facilitating
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In this episode Mark Feenstra guides me through his ‘accompanying’ process. This process, which Mark has developed after 25 years of experimentation, is something like a systems collapse aware mixture
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Layman Pascal is an author, speaker, and body-mind-soul at large in the Integral and Metamodern scenes. In this episode we dive into Layman’s ‘integration surplus’ model of spiritual practice. This
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John Vervaeke speaks with Seishin and myself about the ecology of practices we are exploring in the Willow Intensive. This was originally recorded on The Stoa. This episode includes a
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Is it still possible to create a more beautiful future for life on earth, or are we now merely stewards for the dying process of our world? How do we
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Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor and consultant with expertise in adult development and human performance. He is a co-founder of the leading consulting firm Delta Developmental, a
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Emerge is back! This is a solo episode where I share a few life updates and thoughts about the evolution of the Emerge podcast. Support me on Patreon — Support
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In this first conversation after a year sabbatical from the Emerge project I’m speaking with Zak Stein. This is a far ranging conversation about ethics, education, trauma, the erotics of
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Emerge invites you to a new kind of monastery for a (meta)modern world… Learn more at: https://growingwillow.org/summer2021 — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support
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I’ve decided to put this project on hold and dedicate myself more fully my work and training at the Monastic Academy. In this episode I share some of the thinking
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In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat I sat down with Zak Stein to speak about the the current cultural moment and how we can respond to
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In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat I sit down with Zak Stein to speak about the the current cultural moment and how we can respond to
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Soryu Forall is the founder and head-teacher of the Monastic Academy. Soryu has a decade of intensive monastic training, a degree in Economics from Williams College, and extensive experience in
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Andrew J Taggart is a practical philosopher, Zen Buddhist, and entrepreneur. Recently Andrew wrote an article called ‘Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation’ that led me to reach out to him and schedule
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Jonathan Reams works at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, and is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and
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Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. His work explores the possibility and necessity of ongoing psychological transformation
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Mark Feenstra. Mark is co-founding a consulting and training ecosystem and incubator, called New Mainstream, which focuses on large scale change that starts with ourselves
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On this episode I’m joined once again by meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea. For this conversation Jamie Bristow and I talk with Rob about his approach to emptiness, and how
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Jamie Bristow joins the show to respond to critiques against the mindfulness revolution and to make the case for mindfulness as a key metamodern cultural technology. Jamie is Director of
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A solo episode where Daniel shares his vision for the next turn in the inquiry of the Emerge podcast. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support
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A request for your help.. Emerge is Gathering online next week on Thursday the 7th in support of Ukraine. See our event website: www.emergeukraine.com Consider helping out by getting a ticket and adding a donation. And a share is greatly appreciated. The event is be an opportunity to learn about what’s going on and what’s needed from journalists, activists, poets,
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A beautiful snapshot of the Emerge Gathering in Berlin by Tommy Gärdh! 🌟Thanks Tommy for this masterpiece 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏿 https://www.visionaryfilmsstockholm.se/ To find out #Whatisemerging, please, visit: www.whatisemerging.com #Emerge #EmergeBerlinEmerge 2021 Berlinyoutu.beA beautiful snapshot of the Emerge 2021 Gathering in Berlin by Tommy Gärdhhttp://www.visionaryfilmsstockholm.se/
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Emerge 2021 Gathering in Berlin. 250 participants from all over Europe (and beyond) gathered over the weekend to explore the ongoing societal shift. How can we get out of the meta-crises? What shifts in our societies, cultures and selves will be necessary? Is modernity and its post-modern critique giving way to a meta-modern shift? How can we support this emergent
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‘Finding Virtue in the Virtual’. An essay by Tom Chatfield, published by PerspectivaFinding Virtue in the Virtual – [ Perspectiva ]systems-souls-society.comWhat does it mean to place the ethics of technology upon firm foundations in the 21st-century?
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The recording of this week’s event on the unrealised collective potential of mindfulness practice with @JamieBristow and @bellrosie is live:http://www.whatisemerging.com/videos/event-recording-of-agency-what-are-the-inner-conditions-for-intentional-actionAgency: What Are the Inner Conditions for Intentional Action? – Emergewww.whatisemerging.comJamie Bristow and Rosie Bell from The Mindfulness Initiative, Ronan Harrington and Anna Katharina Schaffner discuss the social significance of mindfulness.
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The Matthew Green Podcast: exploring new, and very old, paradigms for the healing of personal, cultural and collective trauma. Journalist Matthew Green has spent years experimenting with alternative approaches to mental health to help with his own periods of depression. In this podcast, Matthew speaks with the pioneering healers, visionaries, thinkers and activists he encountered on his journey. Featuring conversations
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“This is not a time to play small. Our society is in turmoil, our planet plundered, our civilisation at risk. Why would we want to do anything less than heal the deepest roots of our multiple crises?” A Western Lama’s 10 principles for Sacred Service. http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/contributing-effectively-in-times-of-crisis
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JOB ALERT – We’re looking for a Director of Emergence who understands that emergence cannot be directed. The job entails being a senior editor for the website, a leading force within an international network, and a primary fundraiser for the Emerge project, which is a distinctive movement-in-the-making as a response to a historical moment of a civilisation in crisis. Click
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Emerge is happy to support the Mighty Heart Online Course 2020 led by nobel prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy. Learn from Scilla and some of the world’s best teachers on heart intelligence how to become an effective changemaker by transforming conflicts that may be internal, at family, organisation or even at national level, using the skills and insights drawn from
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Is call-out culture really helping us to create more equal societies, or is it the product of a culture which has never learnt to value other human and non-human lives? In this Insight Maria Clara Parente explains why canceling people who have racist, xenophobic and patriarchal behaviours may not be the best option for creating societies that are capable of
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Author and entrepreneur Laura Storm is part of a new generation of sustainability professionals advocating for a more regenerative approach to business and leadership. Drawing from deep ecology, adult developmental psychology and shamanic and indigenous perspectives, the regenerative movement recognises that the ability to create sustainable, regenerative societies starts with how well we use or abuse our own internal
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When it comes to space activities are we learning from our mistakes on Earth, or simply transferring our culture of extraction to new territories? As an academic and the first artist to launch an interactive artwork in outer space, Nahum is one of the few figures bringing controversial questions around colonisation, ownership and capitalism to the field of space science.
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What would a financial system based on abundance look like? Franz Josef Allmayer is is the co-creator of SEEDS – Regenerate Money, a decentralised economic vehicle for the growing regenerative movement. In this interview, Franz speaks with technology writer Lauren Razavi about the way global living has shaped his mission, how peer-to-peer transactions can disrupt power dynamics in finance, and
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The pressure inherent to the system of committed-relationship compels us to become both more separate and more intimate with the other than we thought possible. To get there, we have to let go of the false-self connection. In this article, Clare Rousseau explores what we can learn from this insight about humanity’s longest running committed relationship: the global economy.Sex, Intimacy,
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VIDEO: Cancel culture and the limits of identity politics with Bayo Akomolafe. Our intuition is that these polarising tendencies have psychological roots that need to be understood and integrated. The promise is a mature form of activism that can vigorously stand with those who are oppressed, whilst finding a language and form that inspires the majority to stand with us.
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André Carvalhal is an author, sustainable designer and digital influencer questioning the systemic implications of consumerism, and the impact of mass consumption and advertising on the psyche.#whatisemerging“The World We Knew When We Were Born Has Ended.” – Emergewww.whatisemerging.comAndré Carvalhal is an author, sustainable designer and digital influencer questioning the systemic implications of consumerism, and the impact of mass consumption and
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Brett Scott is an author and the creator of ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness’, exploring emergent forms of finance, alternative currencies and economic activism.#whatisemerging“To Understand The Monetary System, People Need To Grasp The Idea Of Interconnectedness.” – Emergewww.whatisemerging.comBrett Scott is an author and the creator of ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness’, exploring emergent forms of finance, alternative currencies and economic
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