Final call for the last ‘Leading Through Collapse’ online courses

Happy New Year. One of my resolutions involves stepping back from my role as an advocate scholar on unfolding societal disruption and collapse. Over the past year I’ve written a lot and travelled a lot to promote what I consider to be thoughtful and caring responses to our predicament. Working on this topic full time isn’t easy: it is huge, heavy, and regularly attracts anger in response (from Berlin to Tasmania!). I feel grateful for the many people I have met or heard from who have positively changed, or are changing, their lives as a result of the analysis I shared over the last 6 years. But I also know that my views on the patterns of thought and behaviour that got us into this mess appear too radical for many. The most recent reminder of that are some responses to my previous essay about the Pope’s Xmas message on hope. The time it took to explain what I didn’t say, rather than what I did say, was a good reminder to focus in future on where there is resonance and synchronicity.

As part of stepping back, the next two online courses ‘Leading Through Collapse’ will be my last. It’s been a huge privilege to meet and e-meet so many people from around the globe who are prepared to face the truth of our predicament and find ways to be useful and influential at this time. I am pleased we already have an enthusiastic alumni community, with many past cohorts meeting regularly and an annual online gathering. It has also been a professionally valuable experience working with my co-facilitator Katie Carr over the past 6 years. I am pleased she will keep supporting leaders on their collapse engagement. 

If you want to go deeper into how you can better approach these times, and get to know fellow travellers, then you need to apply immediately for one of the two remaining online short courses. You can apply here. Alternatively, if you know someone who might benefit from it, please forward them this information.  

One of the benefits of my book tour was discovering how my broader and deeper critique is welcomed by people from many walks of life in Latin America. One of the interviews I did was just released by one of the continent’s top Universities. I was able to provide far more contextual commentary on the technological, corporate and geopolitical shifts which are degrading social dialogue, than in previous interviews. You can jump to that part or see the whole 90 minutes below.

In the coming year I will still be writing some essays on collapse-related topics on this blog, but only once a month, or less. They will evolve in style, as I give less attention to the latest science in the various fields of climate, biodiversity, food security, poverty, and suchlike, and instead express what I am thinking about as time goes by. If you live in Australia, please take advantage of Amazon offering a mega cheap deal for Kindle copies until the end of January, download the epub for free anyway! Yes, that’s right, you can help Jeff Bezos go back to space for less than the price of a coffee.

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