The Enlivenment Network

The Enlivenment Network

ABOUT US

We are a network of engaged individuals and organisations working to create a dynamic, ecologically healthy and socially just society, by spreading the seeds of a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing—an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW. In this we acknowledge that Australia’s cultural foundations rest on First Nations knowledge systems encoded in their relational ethos of Caring for Country, in all its multiple levels of meaning.

We draw inspiration from the courage, resilience and determination of burra (Australian eels) who each year make an epic migration to the Coral Sea to breed, with their tiny baby elvers making their way back and up the coastal rivers to their home, including up the Nepean River, through the barriers of the Warragamba dam, to Lake Burragorang, Gundungurra Country.

Our artists, creatives, storytellers and culture change advocates are community weavers, drawing on ancient wisdom traditions, the insights of science, the nourishment of connection and the liberating power of story to tell the new story of enlivenment. We are the resistance to the emerging techno-oligarchies’ ability to use AI across multiple domains of knowledge to harvest our minds under ‘cognitive capitalism’. We are part of a distinct paradigm shift to an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW. Away from the technocratic, neo-liberal economics of profit maximisation and human exceptionalism over nature, which underpins the intersecting crises of our times.

We seek to support the growth of a mycelium-like network of cultural connections that celebrate our eco-spiritual kinship relationships with all of the natural world, to nourish our courage and resilience, and to hand over life-affirming legacies to our coming generations, human and non-human alike.

We pay respect to all the Elders, past, present and future of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.

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ARTICLES

Gesturing Toward Postcolonial Futures

The Enlivenment Network—Tarik Cutuk Through my role as a Board Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and interest in the arts and culture more generally, I became involved with Barbara Lepani and Catherine van Hilgenburg’s efforts, after the 2023...

|Mar 20, 2025

Commoning the Housing Crisis

Taking an Enlivenment Worldview Embracing the Enlivenment Worldview means taking a hard look at how we are thinking about the growing housing crisis. As we discussed in our post about commoning as an economics for the Enlivenment Worldview, housing is where the...

|Mar 16, 2025

Commoning: The Economics of Enlivenment

Why Economics Matters I have been educated as a sociologist, with post graduate studies in the history and philosophy of science, with a focus on the sociology of innovation. Alongside this, I have also pursued a long learning-practitioner journey in the Dzogchen...

|Mar 12, 2025

Launching The Enlivenment Network

The Enlivenment Network We have chosen to call ourselves the Enlivenment Network, inspired by Andreas Weber’s vision of reimagining our way of making sense of things through the lens of bio-poetics. His Enlivenment Worldview embraces a new cultural orientation...

|Mar 10, 2025

Overcoming the Trajectory of Helplessness

The Trajectory of Helplessness When I first visited the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea in 1971 with my university boyfriend, Charles Lepani, who would later become my husband, I entered a world that was starkly different from my Australian life. I found...

|Mar 6, 2025

Responding to Systemic Collapse

Old Assumptions Gone As Trump 2.0 continues to tear up the post WWII world order, in favour of a new era of naked imperialism, we are forced to revise our taken-for-granted assumptions about how the world’s political systems of power and economics work. And as...

|Feb 23, 2025

From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics

NENA's Mission NENA promotes itself as a network of organisations and individuals working to create an ecologically healthy and socially just society by transforming Australia’s economic system. It seeks to do this by providing a platform for knowledge sharing,...

|Jan 10, 2025

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