Future Fossils Episode & Ecosystem Offerings
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We’re taking a break from weekly Office Hours / Show & Tell’s in order to focus our attention on the course. Stay tuned for a new series later this spring with exciting guest speakers and formats. Want to share something you’re working on? Get in touch!
In the meantime,
This is the LAST CALL for Embodied Ethics Course! We have 100 incredible students joining us, from the heart of Silicon Valley to the far edges of the cultural wilderness. Safety / Alignment / Ethics / Founders / Engineers / Designers / Investors engaging with Educators / Philosophers / Artists / Storytellers / Healers / Elders over a shared knowing that we're missing the mark and another way is possible. Check out the Info Session Recording we did last week in case you missed it.
Course host and wise innovation advocate Michael Garfield recently interviewed Josh Schrei on Future Fossils, exploring the mythic dimensions of innovation and asking what it would look like to infuse the Digital Era with ancient wisdom. Josh and Michael both want to see a revival of initiatic mystery schools and ask what they might look like reimagined for a world in which code-as-magic is mundane and kids wield tools of world-shaping power. In this episode they discuss the need to pace ourselves and anchor novelty production in ecologies of accountability; what it means to raise our children well amidst the latest revolution in computing; and why humans keep invoking powers greater than our understanding. It's RICH.
Last week’s Show & Tell featured Alja Isakovic and Mathew Mytka sharing about their work with Tethix: a social impact venture dedicated to helping people (re)imagine and create technology that enables collective human flourishing. This team is walking the talk, and wants to help you do it too. Signup for ETHOS and join the Tethix Pathfinders community for a taste of wise innovation and to help you better embody what you truly care about in the work you do. Check out their robust curated library of tools and techniques.
🎁 Ecosystem Offerings
It’s getting hard to keep track of all the wonderful events and experience on my radar:
House of Beautiful Business: Between the Two of Us | “The Network for the Life-Centered Economy” inspires and equips organizations and individuals to shape more purposeful, inclusive, sustainable futures through projects, content, and experiences. In Tangier, the city “between the two,” meet to write a new story at the poetic juncture of different worlds. Uniting more than 50 speakers and performers with 500 business leaders, scientists, artists, policy-makers, activists, and educators from across the globe, for four days of immersion, inspiration, and ideation.
Hurry Up We’re Dreaming | HUWD is a new online quarterly magazine dedicated to technology and spirituality; a chance to explore the tangled, blurry, in between realm and meet others who inhabit it. They’re cooking up a delicious first issue of the magazine which will be free for you to read, feel, experience in September. This means currently open to submissions. For you writers, artists, technologists, mystics who want to contribute (words, images all welcome), reach out with your pitches.
Is there something you’d like to offer? Reply to this newsletter or email help@wiseinnovation.school and we will consider sharing it in the future.
📖 Recommended Media
We’re starting to curate relevant essays, podcasts, stories and more. Here are some artifacts I’m appreciating:
Advaya | Learn from visionary teachers, philosophers, ecologists, healers and scientists in live and self-paced courses (the likes of Sophie Strand, Vandana Shiva, David Whyte, Tyson Yunkaporta).
On Clouds and Natural Law (The Emerald) | Historically, tradition after tradition sees an innate, artful order to the natural world and views the Law of the Land as something vibrant and alive, present in the breath and in the waters and in the endless cycling of the clouds. In this living vision of Law, nature unfolds along particular patterns and pulses, and the task of the human being is to understand what it means to align to this inherent pattern. Any discussion on Law that does not include a sacred, ceremonial component, is incomplete. For the Law of the Land, as it is traditionally seen, is alive, and what matters most is our communal ritual connection to it.
🔥 Support
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Much gratitude,
Andrew Dunn
Wise Innovation Project