“True unlearning is the process of bidding farewell to detrimental cultural programming, fostering imagination and awe in relation to life, discernment and empathy in relation to our world, and community and Eros in relation to one another.” – Martin Winiecki

Keynote Transformation

Unlearning Together

By Martin Winiecki

...We’ve entered the era that the Hopis predicted in their prophecies of the “great purification,” the unstoppable entropy of not only our external political, economic and ecological systems, but above all the unexamined assumptions underlying those systems.

Article Social Justice

Change the Worldview, Change the World

By Drew Dellinger

Gender, like race, is a social construction, which is to say, a story. And the stories of sexism and racism that have cast such a pall over our history and our present illustrate the power of worldview and narrative in generating and maintaining systemic oppression.

Conversation Sacred Activism

The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism

By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk, Martin Winiecki, Rhonda Fabian

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?

Conversation Consciousness

Social Breakdown and Initiation

By Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop

Orland: ...A 'right' is not just for me. It's an acknowledgement that the framework that gives me access to my own potential is the same framework that gives access to someone else's potential. So this is the idea of civility. Civility is the framework that allows people to communicate in ways that allows the collective potential to be realized and achieved.

Essay Healing

The Migrant Quilt

By Valarie Lee James

Each quilt represents countless lives lost on border ground, a hundred-mile strip of geography spanning two countries. The interstitial border region has morphed into a distinct culture of its own and the quilts, with their binational contributors, fly its flag.

Gallery Identity

Humanæ

By Angélica Dass

Humanæ is a work in progress by the Brazilian artist, Angélica Dass. Based in Madrid, Dass is documenting the range of human skin tones through her portraits. To create her human mosaic, she paired each of nearly 4,000 portraits with specific [...]

Mixed Media Global Music

Sapient

By Steven Chesne

Composer Steven Chesne spent a year unearthing ancient, precious peace invocations and prayers from all over the world: words of the oneness of mankind, spoken by Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mohammed, the Sikhs, the Hindu, the Jews, the Cheyenne, the Kikuyu, and the Baha’i.