Kiley Arroyo

Established in 2007, the Cultural Strategies Council (CSC) is a vehicle for interdisciplinary research, collaborative learning, and justice-led systems transformation. Our primary expertise lies in supporting equitable cross-sector and cross-cultural collaboration on complex global issues. This work is rooted in an intercultural understanding of how complex systems adapt, drawing upon Western…

We Are All Wet

The Internet seeks to remake us in its image and we seem not to mind. It measures our preferences and we’ve become enamored of that which is measured, buying that this is actually something of value.

The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly

Much like the interconnected symphonies of trees, fungi, plants, animals, fauna, bacteria, and insects in a forest, immersive, Earth-based educational experiences support collective learning and personal growth within a radically different system from the dominant Western culture of industrial education.

Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence

The shift is away from the previously dominant materialist view towards an ensouled cosmos informed by a new spiritual and archetypal consciousness consistent with the insights from quantum and complexity science.

The Ecozoans

Everyone who breathes air, drinks water, takes in nourishment from the land, marvels at the moon, sun, and stars, and is conscious of being energized by wondrous processes that evolved over billions of years is an Ecozoan.

The Age of Freedom

I’m talking about some of our most deeply held and cherished ideals: the individual self, left vs right, religion vs humanism, free-market capitalism vs socialism, even democracy in its current form, all these have become false idols and dinosaurs, and the more closely we cling to them the harder it becomes to create space for a new civilisation to emerge.

Prayers in the Dark

Steeping ourselves in the uncertainty of these times, I pray we foster our innate visionary skills and a strong devotion within our hearts to serve what is truly sacred, our planet home.

The Unchaining and The Unveiling

While it was rare for people to change their positions, the presence of empathy was palpable, whether it was a Palestinian listening to the embedded fear of the Holocaust in Jews and Israelis, or they in turn listening to the violent eviction of one of the attendee’s siblings from their home in Palestine.