Alnoor Ladha

Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules, a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play, and make trouble together.

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. He is the Council Chair of Culture Hack Labs, a co-operatively run advisory for social movements and progressive organizations. He is also the co-director of Transition Resource Circle and the co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: The healing of wealth in the time of collapse.

Philanthropy as a Territory of Transition

Article

This article focuses on philanthropy as a territory of transition, rebalancing wealth, knowledge and power while repairing historical injustices. It explores that philanthropy can exacerbates our current exploitative system through undemocratic and unaccountable processes; by increasing endowments through existing market mechanisms; and through a lack of imagination on how to support the requisite paradigm shifts.

Published in Winter 2023
By Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy

Blueprints for Men

Article

Ever the rugged individualists of myth and legend, we men are content to run the race with our broken conditioning rather than step into the unknown. Unfortunately, success in this race is not an individual event; it’s a team sport that impacts our communities.

Published in Spring 2022
By Mark Grayson

Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller

Conversation

Alnoor Ladha interviews Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer and activist who pioneered the method of soul-centered psychotherapy.

Published in Winter 2021
By Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha

Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing

Conversation

Charles Eisenstein: The Amazon is where Gaia’s memory of health still exists. And if that can be preserved, there will always be hope. If there is one healthy region that still has integrity, then it can teach the rest of the world to be healthy again.

Published in Autumn 2020
By Charles Eisenstein and Alnoor Ladha

What is Solidarity?

Introduction

As we start to see how all oppression is connected, we can also start to see glimpses of how all healing is connected. And that our own liberation is not only bound up with that of others but that our collective future is dependent on it.

Published in Autumn 2020
By Alnoor Ladha

Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography

Conversation

Alnoor | When people ask me, “what’s the most important thing I can do,” I often say to people, especially in the spiritual community: to understand how neoliberalism works. We must understand how capitalism works because it is the very oxygen in which we are breathing. It has intermediated every aspect of our lives.

Published in Spring 2020
By Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception

Conversation

Daniel | Since I started this whole journey…it’s felt to me that there is the potential that we, in this lifetime, can somehow make a kind of quantum, mutational leap into another dimensional realization.

Published in Fall 2018
By Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian

The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism

Conversation

Alnoor: …There is no doubt that we are in the midst of unprecedented moment where there is no return to old certainties. Part of this pain that we are facing in the world is a pathway toward transformation. Or will we perish in the horror of the onslaught that we are facing?

Published in Summer 2018
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian

Life After Patriarchy: Three Reflections on the Coming Revolution

News Item

Advising Editor Alnoor Ladha has written a provocative essay with the support of One Billion Rising in observance of International Women’s Day on March 8. One Billion Rising is celebrating its sixth year of risings with a radical video: ‘My Revolution Lives In This Body’

“If we look at the broader currents of what is happening, we are seeing a profound shift in values away from what has often been called dominator logic. This is not just a re-balancing of masculine versus feminine values, but a redefining of the central tension of anti-life versus life-centric values that are at the very core of our global operating system.” – Alnoor Ladha

See the video.

March 6, 2018 in News Items
By Rhonda Fabian

Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Article

By Alnoor Ladha
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?

Published in Spring | Summer 2016
By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk