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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