The Enlivenment Network

The Enlivenment Network

ABOUT US

Our network of engaged individuals and organisations is working to create a dynamic, ecologically healthy and socially just society,  spreading the seeds of an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW that provides a pathway to a future that combines our First Nations ethos of Caring for Country in all its multiple levels of meaning, with the values and aspirations of the other ethnic communities that make up multicultural Australia.

The Enlivenment Network is the organisational anchor of NENA, New Economy Network Australia.

Referenced in our logo, 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 homes, including up the Nepean River through the concrete barriers of the Warragamba dam, to Lake Burragorang, Gundungurra Country. A metaphor for the resilience of Indigenous knowledge systems speaking back to modern Australia.

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 support a distinct paradigm shift to an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW. Away from the technocratic, neo-liberal economics of profit maximisation, techno-harvesting of human emotions and alienation from the natural world, 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 the more-than-human 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

Co-creating the Jagera Ecocommunity

Jagera Jagera, (pronounced jag-ee-ra) is named after the beautiful foam bark tree, an important local rainforest regeneration pioneer and traditional resource of the Yaegl people.  Join Us We are a diverse group of like hearted people co-creating a small community...

|Apr 17, 2025

Regenesis 2025: A Call for Entries

Call for Entries: REGENESIS 2025 – A Creative Invitation to Imagine ‘Living Sustainably’ Resilient Blue Mountains in collaboration with The Enlightenment Network and Rosey Ravelston Books, is proud to announce the return of the REGENESIS Anthology – a creative...

|Apr 5, 2025

Finding a Pathway Through the Debris

The Work of the Enlivenment Network Here in the Enlivenment Network, we are trying to develop this pathway through the debris of Modernity and its mirror companion, Coloniality. The deep-seated alienation and dissociation we see in rising anxiety and depression...

|Apr 3, 2025

Humans Providing Ecological Services to Country

Kindlehill - Buran Nalgarra We asked, What ecological services to the community of life does/could our School provide, if we mimic or take inspiration from the swamp elder at Wentworth Falls Lake? Eco-systems Thinking and specifically, Biomimicry have been the...

|Apr 2, 2025

Taming the Beast

As we ponder the rise and rise of authoritarianism, resurgent ethnic nationalism and reactive misogyny across the world—from the Taliban in Afghanistan to the US under Trump 2.0—we are forced to consider the nature of ourselves as the human species, the...

|Mar 26, 2025

Towards a Uniquely Australian School of Philosophy

Gesturing Toward Re-Enchantment Tarik Cutuk: Continuing my musings on some philosophical challenges As remarked by the great Australian anthropologist, Bill Stanner, in his collection of essays (1979), it is commonly remarked amongst some Aboriginal people that...

|Mar 24, 2025

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

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