The Enlivenment Network
The Enlivenment Network
NAVIGATING OUR SITE
Under Media, you can find our blog and podcasts. Under Projects, we list the range of projects that our community is developing. Under Resources, we list PDFs of key articles, Video links and podcast links that help you find a pathway to key ideas that inform the ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW.
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, based on the idea of REGENESIS. This reimagining of our relationship with the more than human world as one of fellow EARTHLINGS provides a pathway to a future that combines our First Nations ethos of Caring for Country in all its multiple levels of meaning. Multicultural Australia rests on the cultural foundations of the 65,000+ years of this continuous living worldview.
INSPIRATION OF THE EELS
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. A reworlding of our world, 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.
The political crisis of flailing democracies and populist rage are the result of the failure of the post-Enlightenment belief that:
- continuing human progress is constant and inevitable
- everything will get better over time.
This patently no longer holds. We are living in the era of blowback from our profligacy. The question now is whether societies bound by the promise of 'better' or 'more' can learn to endure 'less' and even 'worse'—embracing the new ethos of relational enlivened living as fellow EARTHLINGS in kinship with the living Earth.
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.
ARTICLES
Talking ArtZ 89.1FM | Podcasts
Brad Diedrich for The Enlivenment Network on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM
Podcasts hosted on BradDiedrich.com Servers.
Talking ArtZ is your weekly dive into the creative heart of the Blue Mountains and beyond – where artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders share their work, ideas, and passion for the arts. Hosted by The Professor on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, the show airs Thursday evenings from 6–7pm, spotlighting everything from visual arts and performance to philosophy, music, and grassroots cultural change.
In this special episode, we announce an exciting new collaboration with the Enlivenment Network – a cultural and philosophical initiative led by Barbara Lepani that explores the transformative power of story, art, and dialogue in a time of ecological and social transformation.
🎧 Missed an episode?
Our growing archive of past episodes features in-depth conversations with local and visiting artists, musicians, curators, writers, poets, and creative activists. Whether you’re an art lover, a practicing artist, or simply curious about the cultural life of the region, there’s something for everyone in the Talking ArtZ back catalogue.
Stay tuned, stay curious, and keep talking art.