Productivity Most economists are still arguing about Australia’s need to ‘improve our living standards’, advocating productivity as the solution. Lachlan Vass, a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute of the prestigious ANU Crawford School of Public Policy,...

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...

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...

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 among...

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...

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 ace-predators...

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 White...

Indigenous Knowledge in What Sense? Tarik Cutuk: To continue my musing on gesturing towards post colonial futures While the diffusion of Indigenous Knowledges into the Australian mainstream is now widely officially supported within government institutions and policy...

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 NENA...

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 rubber...

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...

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 towards...