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# The Enlivenment Network

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- [Life as Odyssey](https://enlivenment.network/2026/07/12/life-as-odyssey/) - ODYSSEY Based on Homer’s epic poem about Odysseus’ ten years of wandering after the fall of Troy, the dictionary defines an odyssey as a long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience. Critics are raving about Christopher Nolan’s new three hour film interpretation of Homer’s epic poem as a colossal origin-myth story of postwar disillusion
- [Belonging in the Age of Anxiety](https://enlivenment.network/2026/07/05/belonging-in-the-age-of-anxiety/) - WHAT DOES BELONGING MEAN? I am provoked by the current political debate about immigration and multiculturalism, and the creeping anxiety about what constantly evolving agentic AI might mean for our humanness in a political ecosystem that bridges the carbon/silicon divide. Mental illness, in the form of psycho-social discomfort is pervasive. We live in the Age
- [Innovation Meets Soul's Yearning](https://enlivenment.network/2026/06/27/innovation-meets-souls-yearning/) - THE NEW DRIVER IN THE SEAT Many years ago, now it seems, I was invited by my friend Rhonda Galbally to join her in Melbourne to help establish the Commission for the Future, to which she had been appointed as its inaugural Director. Under the chairmanship of cultural broadcaster, Phillip Adams, the Commission was an
- [Transformation to Elusive Wisdom](https://enlivenment.network/2026/06/20/transformation-to-elusive-wisdom/) - COLLAPSE OR TRANSFORMATION? THE TRUST DEFICIT We’ve all been brought up on a constant diet of media entertainment shaped by conspiracy theories of the Deep State, corrupt politicians, wealth scams and national security fears, and the glorification of shallow fame and gilded wealth. Social media offers us many rabbit holes down which we can go
- [Bridging Cultural Divides](https://enlivenment.network/2026/06/02/bridging-cultural-divides/) - The Challenge of Relationship One of the issues that comes up in creating any community engaged in direct relationships is what is our relationship going to be with other communities? In particular, indigenous communities, and even more particularly those indigenous communities that our ancestors colonised at great benefit to themselves; benefits that we have also
- [RECKONing With Rupture](https://enlivenment.network/2026/05/25/reckoning-with-rupture/) - THE QUAGMIRE The ancient Dhammapada (300BCE) warned: “We are what we think: with our thoughts we make the world”. Canada’s Mark Carney named it at Davos: the post WWII international rules-based order under US hegemony is over. The global pattern of nation states’ alignments and allegiances are shifting into new geo-political arrangements. Liberal democracy, under
- [Escaping the Anglosphere](https://enlivenment.network/2026/05/05/escaping-the-anglosphere/) - THE ANGLOSPHERE Mark Carney called it out at Davos: the end of the international rules-based order under Pax Americana, the undisputed global hegemon since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The world’s political powers are re-arranging themselves into a new multi-polar multilateralism. In a recent speech in China, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, explained: “what
- [Questions of Sovereignty](https://enlivenment.network/2026/04/02/questions-of-sovereignty/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]THE MANY ASPECTS OF SOVEREIGNTY The dictionary defines sovereignty as [attributive] (of a nation or its affairs) acting or done independentlyand without outside interference. We also see the
- [Regenesis and Circularity](https://enlivenment.network/2026/04/09/regenesis-and-circularity/) - REGENESIS Back in 2023, when I published The Regenesis Journey (amazon.com.au), I suggested that the regeneration of Australia as a sustainable, vibrant, multicultural and socially justice society, should rest on three pillars: Caring for Country—a bridge that unites Indigenous knowledge systems with the Western sciences of ecology, with resultant changes in nature conservation and restoration,
- [Creative Climate Futures Collaboration](https://enlivenment.network/2026/03/26/creative-climate-futures-collaboration/) - Creative Climate Futures Incubator The Aust-Indo Creative Climate Futures Incubator is a cross-cultural artist incubation-residency and exhibition program that brings together Indonesian and Australian artists to imagine alternative climate futures through community driven practices. We take a climate justice lens to this project, recognising the sharply differentiated climate impacts and responsibilities across the region,
- [Shifting Sands](https://enlivenment.network/2026/03/28/shifting-sands/) - Saturdays are when I get to do deep dives into interesting articles from my ‘go-to’ sources, such as The Guardian and The Saturday Paper, bringing me to insightful reflections and musings about the state of the world and my own life. What caught my attention were three different angles on the state of the world
- [Regenesis 2026](https://enlivenment.network/2026/03/25/regenesis-2026/) - THE REGENESIS PROJECT Since 2022 I have been working with my community of creatives in the Greater Blue Mountains to run the yearly Regenesis Project. In 2024 we wound up GBMCAN (Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network) and created a new group, the Enlivenment Network, which continues to host the Regenesis Project as part of
- [Losing Hope—The Price of Materialism](https://enlivenment.network/2026/03/06/losing-hope-the-price-of-materialism/) - AND YET This post is a response to world where traditional sources of hope and aspiration in our modern world of intensifying consumerism, frustrated rage and anxiety, are no longer available to most of us. And the promises of our political leaders no longer ring true. We long for authenticity but fall prey to the
- [Complicity, Integrity and Authenticity?](https://enlivenment.network/2026/02/17/complicity-integrity-and-authenticity/) - Narratives We humans are not a mathematic species who think in numbers. We make sense of the world through the stories we construct about how the world around us 'works' and we folk of the modern-scientific world use numbers (measurable facts) to anchor our stories into some semblance of certainties about the nature of our
- [Reframing the Middle Powers Strategy](https://enlivenment.network/2026/02/09/reframing-the-middle-powers-strategy/) - As the Liberal International Order collapses, a new Middle Powers Strategy requires a new analytical lens: the Modernity/Coloniality Complex, and the shift from extractivist logic to a new eco-relationality paradigm.
- [A Time of Many Ruptures](https://enlivenment.network/2026/01/28/a-time-of-many-ruptures/) - The Modernity/Coloniality Complex Old assumptions and long held beliefs no longer hold. We are being called to face the reality of the modernity/coloniality complex under Pax Americana, which under President Trump’s ‘America First’ is producing the Third Rupture in the so-called rules based world order that we have all assumed would underpin our First World
- [Enlivenment as Counter Culture](https://enlivenment.network/2026/02/03/enlivenment-as-counter-culture/) - Explore how an enlivenment worldview challenges modern Western norms and offers a relational, life-affirming counter-culture rooted in ecology, art and Indigenous insights.
- [Beyond Carney's Rupture Speech](https://enlivenment.network/2026/01/24/beyond-carneys-rupture-speech/) - Sowing New Seeds Indigenous peoples of the world, in the Amazon Basin, Australia and Canada in particular, have long challenged the extractivist intent of First World science when attempting to investigate, categorise and make use of their traditional knowledge about the plant world. This dilemma forms the core of the plot structure of the TV
- [THIN PLACES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEEING EARTH WHOLE](https://enlivenment.network/2026/01/02/thin-places-climate-change-and-seeing-earth-whole/) - From Lisa Graumlich Substack This article is republished with permission from Lisa Graumlich's Stubstack. Please subscribe to her Substack to be part of this growing community of Future Earth biopoetic enliveners. Based in Seattle, Lisa is the inaugural dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. She is a Fellow of
- [Negotiating the Australian Way](https://enlivenment.network/2025/12/23/negotiating-the-australian-way/) - Who Are We? Prime Minister Albanese seems intent on negotiating a particularly Multicultural Australian Way through the churn and debris of the collapsing rules-based world order, ruled over by a dominant USA. This, despite the determined efforts of oppositional political forces in Australia to weaponise social division in the community based on ethno-religious differences, the
- [Threading the Needle of Our Discontents](https://enlivenment.network/2025/11/29/threading-the-needle-of-our-discontents/) - Navigational Challenges How do we thread the needle to effectively navigate the socio-cultural and political transition in which we Australians find ourselves? The politics of division is ramping up, with a focus on the energy transition and climate change and anti-immigration rhetoric in attempts to ‘weaponise’ the reality of the rising cost of living, particularly
- [Regenesis Report Card 2025](https://enlivenment.network/2025/11/23/regenesis-report-card-2025/) - The Three Pillars of Regenesis Back in 2023, I published an edited version of my blog writings as ‘The Regenesis Journey’, arguing that Australia’s future should be based on three pillars of regenerative wisdom. In a world crowded with information, I wanted to see if we could land on three 'simple' principles, which nevertheless encoded
- [Crunch](https://enlivenment.network/2025/11/15/crunch/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]CRUNCH The English word ‘crunch’ signals the grinding sound of hard surfaces coming together, or a crucial point where consequential decisions have to be made. The Politics of
- [The Rebellion of the Earth Kingdoms](https://enlivenment.network/2025/10/17/the-rebellion-of-the-earth-kingdoms/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]Our Feature Image We have taken this image from the 2024 WWF Living Planet Report as we think it captures our anguish and our call for a rebellion
- [The Call to Eldership: Wisdom of the Mountains](https://enlivenment.network/2025/10/08/the-call-to-eldership-wisdom-of-the-mountains/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]The Call to Eldership in the Blue Mountains In the Blue Mountains, many of us are entering a new season of life. A time when work and family
- [School as Caring For Country](https://enlivenment.network/2025/10/03/school-as-caring-for-country/) - A Relational Imaginery Imagine a school, settling into its plateau community of forests, swamps and waterways. The forests of this “mountain place” are rain makers, the rains that fall are gift of the relationship between forest and sky, a gift sent downstream to biodiverse ecological communities and the communities of people in the immediate region
- [The Enlivenment Rave Podcast - Episode One](https://enlivenment.network/2025/08/29/the-enlivenment-rave-podcast-episode-one/) - Introduction This week Catherine and I began a new venture: a fortnightly podcast conversation from the Enlivenment Network community about what living from the viewpoint of a relationist ethos might mean. Catherine van Wilgenburg is a Gippsland-based eco-artist whom I met at the 2023 NENA Conference in Canberra. She invited me to join with her
- [A HI Lyricist Fights AI](https://enlivenment.network/2025/08/20/a-hi-lyricist-on-ai/) - Carl Hemmings, a Human Intelligence (HI) writing lyrics with the help of AI Human Intelligence (HI) in Relationship with AI I’ll start with a clarion call for HI (Human Intelligence) “Be yourself, no matter the AI state of play”! As someone who puts in 2 hours of AI research per day, Mon-Fri, about the impact
- [Parsing the Grammar of Reality: A Response to AI](https://enlivenment.network/2025/08/20/parsing-the-grammar-of-reality-a-response-to-ai/) - Our feature image, George Ward Tjungurrayi's painting: Tingari Ceremonies of Minkuvahala is one vision of parsing the grammar of Reality—a vision embedded in the western desert culture of the Pintupi people of the Gibson desert. As one art curator suggests, such a painting "provides visual cues to a complex story-system; but all the while its air
- [Don't Look Away](https://enlivenment.network/2025/08/16/dont-look-away/) - The Banality of Evil In the film, ‘Zone of Interest’ by Jonathan Glazer, we witnessed how a German family lived its cultured middle-class life in seeming ignorance/denial of the Nazi concentration camp right next door. Where the father of the family was its Camp Director, but also a loving family man, husband to his elegant
- [Helen Loshny on Meeting the AI Challenge](https://enlivenment.network/2025/07/24/helen-loshny-on-meeting-the-ai-challenge/) - Two Paths Forward: AI Deception versus Consciousness-based Collaboration When sophisticated mimicry meets Black Mirror reality, consciousness becomes our guide Helen Loshny has given me permission to share her substack post of 16 July 2025 on the Enlivenment blog. I think it helps us explore how to meet the AI challenge, and takes up the ideas
- [Connecting Threads](https://enlivenment.network/2025/07/09/connecting-threads/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]Image: ‘Shore Thing’ by Niki Read, submitted to the Regenesis Anthology 2025 competition. Like many bloggers, I am finding it difficult to find the words in this world
- [The Australian Way Part 2](https://enlivenment.network/2025/06/21/the-australian-way-part-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]Mulkun Wirrpanda’s ‘Rarrirarri’, photographed by Diana Panuccio, Art Gallery of NSW Indigeneity and Multiculturalism As the world’s ‘most successful multicultural nation’, the articulation of the Australian Way, being
- [The Australian Way Part 1](https://enlivenment.network/2025/06/19/the-australian-way-part-1/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]What Sets Us Apart? While the sharks circle, and the storm clouds gather on the horizon, can the good ship “the Australian Way” continue to deliver the ‘good
- [From Collective Trauma to Enlivened Living](https://enlivenment.network/2025/05/09/from-collective-trauma-to-enlivened-living/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-4px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]– – – – – A N N O U N C E M E N T – – – – – SUPPORTING THE ENLIVENMENT NETWORK We value your interest in
- [Rethinking Productivity for the Enlivenment Worldview](https://enlivenment.network/2025/04/19/rethinking-productivity/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Co-creating the Jagera Ecocommunity](https://enlivenment.network/2025/04/17/co-creating-the-jagera-ecocommunity/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Commoning the Housing Crisis](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/16/commoning-the-housing-crisis/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Finding a Pathway Through the Debris](https://enlivenment.network/2025/04/03/finding-a-pathway-through-the-debris/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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.
- [Humans Providing Ecological Services to Country](https://enlivenment.network/2025/04/02/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 inspiration for a recent Senior School project. The local hanging swamp at Wentworth Falls Lake
- [Taming the Beast](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/26/taming-the-beast/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Regenesis 2025: A Call for Entries](https://enlivenment.network/2025/04/05/regfenesis-2025-a-call-for-entries/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]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 –
- [Towards a Uniquely Australian School of Philosophy](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/24/towards-a-uniquely-australian-school-of-philosophy/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]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
- [Gesturing Toward Postcolonial Futures](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/20/gesturing-toward-postcolonial-futures/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]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
- [Responding to Systemic Collapse](https://enlivenment.network/2025/02/23/responding-to-systemic-collapse/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Unbecoming Modernity: Beyond Dualism and Technocracy](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/22/unbecoming-modernity-beyond-dualism-and-technocracy/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]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
- [From 18th Century Enlightenment to 21st Century Enlivenment](https://enlivenment.network/2025/02/12/from-18th-century-enlightenment-to-21st-century-enlivenment/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]Making Sense of Things In her book, You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World (2021), sociologist Karen O’Brien invites us to embrace
- [Overcoming the Trajectory of Helplessness](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/06/overcoming-the-trajectory-of-helplessness/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [Commoning: The Economics of Enlivenment](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/12/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 tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. I am, therefore, not equipped to articulate what an
- [Launching The Enlivenment Network](https://enlivenment.network/2025/03/10/launching-the-enlivenment-network/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]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
- [From Ego-System to Eco-System Economics](https://enlivenment.network/2025/01/10/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, peer to peer support, cross-pollination of ideas and collaboration. Systems Challenge As a sociologist of technological
- [Exploring AI, Humanity and Wisdom with Yuval Harari: Part Two](https://enlivenment.network/2024/10/26/exploring-ai-part-two/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Here, in Part Two, I am continuing my exploration of Yuval Hurari’s book: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2024), as I try to get a handle on this evolving
- [Exploring AI, Humanity and Wisdom with Yuval Harari: Part One](https://enlivenment.network/2024/10/20/exploring-ai-part-one/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Overview In his book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2024), Yuval Harari makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the AI revolution, which is bearing down on us
- [The Art of Resistance as the World Burns Up](https://enlivenment.network/2024/12/07/the-last-hurrah-as-the-world-burns-up/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]We are witnessing how our human world is speeding up so exponentially that it seems to be burning up, literally and figuratively. As Vanessa de Oliveira has noted (‘Hospicing Modernity’, 2021), beneath
- [Cultivating Playful Mind](https://enlivenment.network/2024/10/26/auto-draft-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] The NACH (NENA Arts & Culture Hub) community are committed to spreading the seeds of relationality as new ways of being, thinking and doing, as we partake in the paradigm shift away from Modernity’s
- [Extraction of Nature](https://enlivenment.network/2024/11/21/extraction-of-nature/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]Introducing a new author, B, who is a member of the NACH Founding Group of members, Founder of Posthuman Press, and a philosopher-in-the world. At the Australian Posthuman Summer Lab How do we
- [Art and Culture in the New Circular Economy](https://enlivenment.network/2024/09/13/art-and-culture-in-the-new-circular-economy/) - The intersection of art, culture, and sustainability is not only shaping how we view creativity but also how we rethink the economy. As we move toward a circular economy—one that focuses on minimizing waste, maximizing resources, and regenerating natural systems—arts and culture have an essential role to play. At the heart of this movement is
- [Towards A Relationalist Economy and Society](https://enlivenment.network/2024/09/22/towards-a-relationalist-economy-and-society/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]For any way of thought to become dominant, a conceptual apparatus has to be advanced that appeals to our intuitions and instincts, to our values and our desires, as well as to the
- [Anatomy of the Defeat of the Voice Referendum](https://enlivenment.network/2024/10/26/anatomy-of-the-defeat-of-the-voice-referendum/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Attempts to Rewrite History As the architects of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and leaders of the Yes campaign ponder the majority No Vote that defeated the proposal, there is a fair bit of rewriting
- [The Relationality Paradigm Shift](https://enlivenment.network/2024/11/18/the-relationality-paradigm-shift/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] The Relationality Revolution Many of us tremble with anxiety, looking for someone, somewhere, to blame as we realise that climate change is real; our houses may become uninsurable; our lives choked with information pollution by conspiracy
- [Megalong’s Lyrebird Festival November 2024](https://enlivenment.network/2024/11/21/auto-draft-4/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] The Lyrebird Festival in Megalong Valley Coming to you in the wonderful Megalong Valley of the Blue Mountains, NSW, the Lyrebird Festival returns in 2024 from Thursday the 14th to Sunday the 17th of November. Visitors
- [Relationality Through Learning in Place](https://enlivenment.network/2024/11/21/relationality-through-learning-in-place/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Kindlehill School—Geography in Place Kindlehill School in the Blue Mountains has created a unique eco-curriculum, Buran Nalgarra, for its senior students. They’ve escaped the pressure cooker of the ATR scoring to create
- [Waves of Transformational Change](https://enlivenment.network/2024/11/21/waves-of-transformational-change/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Who is Humpty Dumpty?
- [A Canoe Journey of Inquiry into Enlightenment 2.0](https://enlivenment.network/2024/09/04/a-canoe-journey-of-inquiry-into-enlightenment-2-0/) - IKSL (Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab) Resulting from the strong interest in Tyson Yunkaporta’s best-selling Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (2019), the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab (IKSL) was established at Deakin University in 2021 as an activist, public-facing think-tank. Engaging with the world-wide movement of post-colonial thinkers, IKSL has sought to use
- [The Cultural Challenge of Our Times](https://enlivenment.network/2024/08/06/the-cultural-challenge-of-our-times/) - Finding a New Way of Being, Thinking and Doing There is an underground revolution occurring in the belly of the beast of modern civilisation; a revolution searching for new ways of being, thinking and doing in the cracks and crevices of its unravelling. It requires us to give up easy solutionism—Instead recognising that in doing
- [First Nations Spirituality and Eco-Balance](https://enlivenment.network/2024/06/17/first-nations-spirituality-and-eco-balance/) - I purchased this painting, Tingari Men's Songline by George Ward Tjungurrayi, in an Alice Spring's art gallery, during my first visit to Central Australia, many many years ago. I knew nothing about Aboriginal art, or about Aboriginal culture, but I was drawn to this image as an expression of a very different way of knowing.
- [The Bones of Our Sacred Fire](https://enlivenment.network/2024/05/26/the-bones-of-our-sacred-fire/) - Citizens Lab Berlin: Winter Season on Decolonising Self https://citizenslab.eu/stories/the-bones-of-our-sacred-fires/ Networking Among Like Minds My friend and collaborator, Catherine van Wilgenburg of Living Colour Studio in Gippsland, whom I met at the NENA Conference in Canberra, November 2022, recently emailed me a link to the work of the Citizens Lab in Berlin. Their work is so
- [Be Like Your Place - Buran Nalgarra](https://enlivenment.network/2024/05/21/be-like-your-place-buran-nalgarra/) - Reflections I am at home, recovering from my recent total knee replacement surgery. For those who’ve travelled this path, you know how painful this particular procedure is, but we also know that slowly, ever so slowly, if we persist with rehab things get better, pain recedes and we regain our mobility. The following is taken
- [Reclaiming Arts & Culture in Community Development](https://enlivenment.network/2024/04/26/reclaiming-arts-culture-in-community-development/) - The Dilemma Since becoming involved with the Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network (GBMCAN), and becoming its president in 2022, I have become increasingly distressed by the way in which the arts and culture sector is not integrated into the idea of community development. Instead the Arts has become captured by the ideology of neoliberalism—the
- [Quantum Phenomenology](https://enlivenment.network/2024/04/12/quantum-phenomenology/) - Escaping the Western Cultural Prison of Dualistic Materialism I spent last weekend catching up with my Rigpa dharma community at the Sydney Rigpa Centre in Newtown, for a special Buddhist retreat with Patrick Gaffney. Patrick co-authored The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1993) with Sogyal Rinpoche, based on his oral teachings to his students
- [Grandmother Walking with Kindlehill Senior School](https://enlivenment.network/2024/04/12/grandmother-walking-with-kindlehill-senior-school/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Experiencing Country as a Living Presence Unlike the Western knowledge system, anchored in Cartesian dualism, First Nations knowledge systems are anchored in a worldview whereby all of nature is alive with
- [Wisdom and the Knowledge Code](https://enlivenment.network/2024/01/02/wisdom-and-the-knowledge-code/) - In "Wisdom and the Knowledge Code: The Map is Not the Territory," the author delves into the intricate nuances of cultural understanding and the pursuit of wisdom. Through personal anecdotes and reflections, the narrative challenges readers to reevaluate the limitations of Western education and embrace the richness of diverse philosophies. Prepare to embark on a thought-provoking journey that explores the intersections of anthropology, Buddhist teachings, and the complexities of cultural exchange.
- [Reimagining Conservation in Australia](https://enlivenment.network/2023/09/29/reimagining-conservation-in-australia/) - Reimagining Conservation in Australia: Recognising First Nations Knowledge Systems" presents insights from the Reimagining Conservation Forum, highlighting the urgent need to integrate Indigenous wisdom into conservation efforts. Through collaborative dialogue and practical examples like the Balpara approach, the article advocates for a transformative shift towards pluraversities as repositories of diverse knowledge. This preface invites readers to engage with the imperative of weaving together Indigenous and Western knowledge systems for the benefit of Australia's natural heritage.
- [Glaring Cognitive Dissonance](https://enlivenment.network/2023/10/19/glaring-cognitive-dissonance/) - In Professor Holden’s recent address at the National Press Club, he sheds light on the stark contrast between mainstream economic discourse and the lived experiences of many Australians. This article explores Holden’s insights into key economic topics like productivity, education, climate change, and aging, while also critiquing prevailing narratives and examining alternative perspectives. As societies grapple with complex challenges, this discussion prompts readers to rethink traditional economic paradigms and consider pathways toward a more equitable and sustainable future.
- [Creating a Mycelium Network of Creative Praxis](https://enlivenment.network/2023/11/27/creating-a-mycelium-network-of-creative-praxis/) - The 2023 NENA Conference in Canberra, themed “Life After Capitalism,” convened a diverse array of voices to confront pressing global challenges. Led by Michelle Moloney of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, the event sparked discussions on climate change, wealth inequality, and environmental degradation, offering inspiration and dialogue on holistic solutions. This preface captures the essence of the conference, highlighting the urgency of reimagining societal frameworks and offering hope for a more sustainable and equitable future.
- [THE UNEXPLAINABLE EXPLAINED - by Robyn Catchlove](https://enlivenment.network/2023/01/27/the-unexplainable-explained-by-robyn-catchlove/) - Oh.....oh.....oh The breathtaking, the mezmerising, the mystical, the..... the...... the.... everything The middle dark night sky’s lightening show And shockingly silent toooooo, Nary a sound thundering, But.....but...... but..... golden pink indescribable Simply unutterable flashing iridescentness Boogieing brightly within our black horizon clouds Nature’s fireworks... ... as before the light goes out With our minds of
- [Humans as Weapons of Mass Destruction](https://enlivenment.network/2023/07/29/humans-as-weapons-of-mass-destruction/) - The Nuclear Atomic Age Born in 1946, I am a child of the Atomic Age whose birth was so vividly displayed in the film, Oppenheimer. Here we see the tragic consequences of the interplay between human ingenuity—the scientific quest; human greed and fear—war and conflict over territory and resources; and human pride—the triumphalism of scientific
- [Two-Way Learning and The Voice](https://enlivenment.network/2023/08/09/two-way-learning-and-the-voice/) - The 2023 Referendum on The Voice The purpose of the call for a constitutionally enshrined Voice in the forthcoming Referendum is to create a structure that will enable the diverse local Indigenous language and cultural groups across Australia to advise the Australian Parliament on how best to devise laws and policies that affect their lives
- [Notes from 'Hospicing Modernity'](https://enlivenment.network/2023/09/09/notes-from-hospicing-modernity/) - Hospicing Modernity Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (North Atlantic Books, 2021) There is a growing realisation that we may now be facing the cultural dying of the modern era as a set of beliefs, knowledges, and institutional practices and structures that have shaped global societies since the 20th century with growing
- [The Search for Identity in a Hybrid World - My Story](https://enlivenment.network/2023/07/04/the-search-for-identity-in-a-hybrid-world-my-story/) - Hybridisation In this age of globalisation and multiculturalism, the question of one’s cultural identity has become problematic. Many of us are untethered from the place of our ancestors, either by personal design or by displacement due to wars and societal collapses. Many of us are the children of transplants from other cultures, both recent and
- [Questions of Identity—Australian Indigeneity](https://enlivenment.network/2023/07/06/questions-of-identity-australian-indigeneity/) - Of the 250 recognised language groups in Australia, many do not live on their ancestral Country, with 37 percent living in our urban areas, especially our capital cities where they speak only the English language. The greatest number (34 per cent) of Indigenous Australians live in NSW, but where they comprise only 3.4 percent of
- [Relationism & the Circular NFP Economy](https://enlivenment.network/2023/07/11/relationism-the-circular-nfp-economy/) - DeGrowth Week Webinars Yesterday 10 July, I tuned into the DeGrowth Week of webinars being offered by NENA (National Economy Network Australia) and caught up with Donnie Maclourcan, an Australian with links to UTS who is now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and who is the Executive Director of the international Post Growth Institute. I’m
- [Storying our Future Through the Creative Arts](https://enlivenment.network/2023/04/22/storying-our-future-through-the-creative-arts/) - An Annual Seven Valleys Arts & Culture Festival The Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network (GBMCAN), which hosts the Regenesis Collective, has joined forces with Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow City Council and Seven Valleys Tourism to plan for an annual signature arts and culture festival that will embed the decision by Lithgow Chamber of Commerce
- [Settler Transplants in Australia's Ancient Soil](https://enlivenment.network/2023/07/02/settler-transplants-in-australias-ancient-soil/) - Australia’s Cultural Soil Indigenous people did not think of themselves as ‘Australians’ but as members of groups bound by a common language and shared cultural norms and values that prescribed their worldview and knowledges about their known ‘world’, including neighbouring language groups with whom they traded. Today they are recognised as members of the oldest
- [White Male Fragility and Violence](https://enlivenment.network/2023/01/26/white-male-fragility-and-violence/) - Fathers and Male Violence This faded photo is of my father and mother in their old age. Now I am close to reaching that age myself. I know all about white male fragility and violence. My father was such a man. As a child I was just plain scared of him, and as soon as
- [Violence and Defying the Enemy Within](https://enlivenment.network/2023/02/12/violence-and-defying-the-enemy-within/) - The Enemy Within—Identity Joe Williams runs a program called 'Defying The Enemy Within'. Joe is a proud Wiradjuri/Wolgalu, First Nations Aboriginal man born in Cowra, raised in Wagga NSW, Australia. I first encountered Jo through his appearance on The Drum, talking about 'the enemy within'. I am the mother of mixed race sons. My children's
- [Cut the Sky—Marrugeku Speaks to Climate Change and the Colonial Inheritance](https://enlivenment.network/2022/11/26/cut-the-sky-marrugeku-speaks-to-climate-change-and-the-colonial-inheritance/) - References This post draws on two sources—both have profound insights for how the arts might respond to the core challenges of our times: Climate change and environmental destruction of Planet Earth through the cult of 'economic growth' Responding to Australia's contested history and the Uluru Statement from the Heart Escaping the prison of only Western
- [The Story of Australia 2023+:  Caring for Country; Multiculturalism; A Wellbeing Circular Economy](https://enlivenment.network/2022/12/17/the-story-of-australia-2023-caring-for-country-multiculturalism-a-circular-wellbeing-economy/) - INTERCONNECTION In 2020, after the mega Gosper Fire had raged through the Blue Mountains, I met up with Dharug man, Chris Tobin, at his bush camp at Bell to talk about Caring for Country and the fires. Chris told me how the fires had raged through here where we sat and talked, but miraculously had
- [Healing People, Country & Culture in the Symbiocene](https://enlivenment.network/2022/11/16/healing-people-country-culture-in-the-symbiocene/) - Beyond the Anthropocene We are living in a new era: the Anthropocene. It is now widely acknowledged that the root of the climate change crises engulfing us is epistemic and caused by humans—the cumulative impact of our modern cultural ways of thinking. These are rooted in an extractivist approach to wealth creation and a profound
- [From Transactional Living to the Gift Economy](https://enlivenment.network/2022/11/23/from-transactional-living-to-the-gift-economy/) - Maleny Eco Village https://www.ecovillages.au/post/what-if-we-all-lived-in-the-gift-economy "Sacred Economics" by Charles Eisenstein https://youtu.be/-GoFzU3cRE4 Collective Stewardship Our 'collective stewardship' model was already too radical for most Australians. But we wanted to push ourselves further. We started the project by charging 'rent' (although we preferred the term 'weekly contribution') using an algorithm to decide how much each person pays -
- [INTERCULTURALISM and MARRUGEKU](https://enlivenment.network/2022/11/01/interculturalism-and-marrugeku/) - Interculturalism As a 'whitefella' of Irish, Danish and English settler descent who married a man of Trobriand Island descent whom I met at university during a demonstration in support of the Gurundji walk-off against the Vestey Pastoral Company who had taken their land, I've long been immersed in the challenges of interculturalism. I was a
- [The New Face of Extractivism—Digital Ghost Workers](https://enlivenment.network/2022/10/14/the-new-face-of-extractivism-digital-ghost-workers/) - Extractivism Dr May Graham, a Queensland Aboriginal Elder and Academic has neatly summarised the essential contrast between the relationist ontology of Australia's First Nations cultures, which has underpinned the 65,000 + years of their continuous, sustainable and adaptive way of living in Australia, and that of the extractivist ontology that underpins global capitalism in all
- [Ancestors and Lineal Connections in Multicultural Australia—The Third Archive](https://enlivenment.network/2022/10/11/ancestors-and-lineal-connections-in-multicultural-australia-the-third-archive/) - Australia's Cultural Foundation Australia finally acknowledges that our cultural foundations lie with the 65,000 years+ history of First Nations cultures, the oldest continuous civilisation on Planet Earth, encoded in the Songlines that criss-cross Australia and which acknowledge the immutable LAW of the interdependence of life—of all living forms, the Earth itself and the swirling solar
- [REGENESIS ONLINE EVENT @EARTH LAWS MONTH 21 SEPTEMBER](https://enlivenment.network/2022/09/10/regenesis-online-event-earth-laws-month-21-september/) - The Regenesis Collective has been invited by the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) to participate in a series of online events which they are holding for Earth Laws month, this September. To connect with this free event visit: https://events.humanitix.com/elm21sept-regenesis ABOUT OUR REGENESIS PROJECT The Ontological Challenge The Australian Government proudly claims that Australia's First Nations
- [REGENESIS - EXPLORING THE CANCER METAPHOR](https://enlivenment.network/2022/09/16/regenesis-exploring-the-cancer-metaphor/) - Cancer One of the most pernicious diseases to afflict the human population is cancer, when the body produces cells that multiple and destroy it. Likewise the impact of the human dream of Progress as continuous economic growth and improved living standards through technological innovation and productivity (more with less) has translated into a ‘cancer’ that
- [Conversations with Artist Jacquelene Drinkall](https://enlivenment.network/2022/07/25/conversations-with-jacquelene-drinkall/) - BMCAN’s Winter Exhibition at The Edge featured three large striking paintings by Jacquelene Drinkall that captured my interest. As someone whose professional life was shaped by my experience as a sociologist of technological innovation, as a Buddhist practitioner for whom the idea of 'telepathy' has other resonances, and as someone deeply interested in ways of
- [Liminal Conversations with Mother Nature](https://enlivenment.network/2022/08/19/liminal-conversations-with-mother-nature/) - James Lee of Earth Arts has written that the arts are a catalyst for individual and community connectivity to place, and are an inclusive producer and communicator of new, or other, forms of socially and ecologically beneficial knowledge. I am interested in how the arts can open up liminal conversations with Mother Nature as we
- [Regenesis](https://enlivenment.network/2022/05/26/regenesis/) - Recognising the Fractal Nature of Our Wondrous World Our world is not the linear world of euclidian geometry and the Western idea of PROGRESS as a linear pathway through time. Our world is a complex system of fractals. A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales.
- [REGENESIS and Technology Futures](https://enlivenment.network/2022/06/27/regenesis-and-technology-futures/) - The Roots of Our Crisis are Epistemic The Regenesis movement recognises that the roots of our crisis are epistemic. They are anchored in our deeply held worldview about the nature of reality and the privileging of humans over all other species and lifeforms. They are also anchored in the relationship between humans and technology, particularly
- [Thinking Differently - Negotiating Two-Way Learning](https://enlivenment.network/2022/07/04/thinking-different-negotiating-two-way-learning/) - The Knowledge (Epistemic) Crisis The roots of our climate and environmental crisis are epistemic—they are based on a flawed knowledge system anchored in Western culture. Many First Nations’ Elders have called for Australia to adopt a two-way learning approach to incorporating First Nations knowledge systems in modern Australia, particularly when it comes to school education
- [Antithesis Project: Sustainability to Regenesis](https://enlivenment.network/2022/07/12/antithesis-project-sustainability-to-regenesis/) - THE ANTITHESIS PROJECT After tuning into Adam Carrel from EY Australia talking on ABC's The Drum last night, I tracked down the recent report, 'Enough: A Review of Corporate Sustainability in a World Running Out of Time', from the Antithesis Project with which he is associated. I've often listened to Adam Carrel with interest, as
- [Thoughts—Towards a Philosophy of Regenerative Living](https://enlivenment.network/2022/02/05/thoughts-towards-a-philosophy-of-regenerative-living/) - Shifting Ground We are all aware we are living in turbulent times where the ground seems to be shifting beneath our feet. Old assumptions are being challenged, while new ways of making sense of it all are yet to crystalise. This is a time when we need to find a new story to make sense
- [Challenging the Old Story](https://enlivenment.network/2022/02/13/challenging-the-old-story/) - Perspectives This morning I met with a local political leader who has been active in the Labor Party for some time. As we sat talking about the need for better organisational infrastructure for the Blue Mountains arts and culture sector, so that as part of Civil Society, they had a collective voice with which they
- [Ceremony and Indigenous Art - Hetti Perkins](https://enlivenment.network/2022/03/28/ceremony-and-indigenous-art-hetti-perkins/) - NGA Fourth Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony—open till July 31 2022 We all know how important the arts—whether in film, music, performance or the visual arts—have been in helping non-Indigeneous Australians understand the depth and breadth of Australia's ancient cultural heritage of our First Nations peoples. It tells not only a story of the devastation
- [Creatives for Regenerative Living](https://enlivenment.network/2022/03/30/creatives-for-regenerative-living/) - Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network—Open Day As part of our commitment to connecting creatives across the Greater Blue Mountains, we are holding our 2022 Open Day on Saturday 30 April at the Gallery H complex at Dargan on the northern side of the Blue Mountains National Park, where the border between the local government areas
- [The Ecology of Revelation](https://enlivenment.network/2021/11/22/the-ecology-of-revelation/) - Insights from Tibetan Buddhism The Buddhist scholar, Antonio Terrone (JSRNC 8.4 (2014) pp. 460-482), has explored how the Tibetan Buddhist terma (treasure) tradition of revealed teachings is based on forming an interdependent exchange between humans and the land they inhabit. The terma tradition is associated with the 8th century mystic Padmasambhava who is credited with
- [Weaving the New Story](https://enlivenment.network/2021/12/06/weaving-the-new-story/) - Watering New Shoots I watched the way the gum tree forests and tall boy grasses sprouted defiantly and joyously after the black summer fires ravaged the lands around me. I searched for the new tender shoots of wisdom that might sprout as we humans looked into the face of our devastation wrought by greed, arrogance
- [The Climate Adaptation Question](https://enlivenment.network/2021/12/30/the-climate-adaptation-question/) - RISKS OF A THREE DEGREES WARMER WORLD Today, reading about the most influential articles of 2021 in The Conversation, I came across a report produced in March 2021 by the Australian Academy of Science on the risks Australia faced in a 3 degree warmer world, and the core policies needed to help Australia play is
- [Artistic Activism in Turbulent Times](https://enlivenment.network/2022/01/16/artistic-activism-in-turbulent-times/) - What is the role of artist activism in an increasingly anxious and polarised society in the face of global warming, pandemics and increasing income/wealth inequality and insecurity? What has inspired art-making through the centuries from the markings on cave walls and ritual dancing and story-telling, to the plethora of images, writings, music and performances that
- [Ian RT Colless—Gundungurra Choreographer and Artist](https://enlivenment.network/2021/10/15/ian-rt-colless-gundungurra-choreographer-and-artist/) - Communicating Indigenous Knowledge and Connection to Country through dance Ian RT Colless, a First Nations Artist and Dancer who lives and works between Sydney and New York, will give a talk at the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute Eco-Arts Seminar on Sunday 24 October, about his duty and deep sense of custodianship as a First
- [Singing up a Revolution in Consciousness](https://enlivenment.network/2021/11/07/singing-up-a-revolution-in-consciousness/) - Weaving the New Story Many of us realise that the new story about Australia as a global renewable energy superpower is just a continuation of the extractivist ideology of global capitalism that has led to our current climate and environmental crisis. Because it is not just about environmental degradation, global warming and species extinction. It
- [Linking Ancient Songlines—Art/Science Collaboration with Elders](https://enlivenment.network/2021/11/08/linking-ancient-songlines-art-science-collaboration-with-elders/) - The Genestream Sculpture Sculpture Designer, Ben Beeton: "When you walk into this sculpture you represent humanity…there's that sense of responsibility, that sense of heritage and — as the Indigenous people will tell you – that stewardship of the land." It is hoped the sculpture will be the first of more than 100 artworks linking ancient
- [Lessons from Deep Time Mythic Thinking](https://enlivenment.network/2021/11/10/lessons-from-deep-time-mythic-thinking/) - The Serpent Gurrangatch and the Hunter Mirragan The following post is based on a talk that Bhikkhu Sujato gave at “New Horizons in Buddhism”, the 16th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, held at Leura in the Blue Mountains in June 2019. Global warming is an unprecedented threat to the survival of our civilization and
- [Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country](https://enlivenment.network/2021/06/02/song-spirals-sharing-womens-wisdom-of-country/) - Get yourself a copy of this most wondrous book if you would like to gain a deep insight into the songline (songspiral) traditions of First Nations cultures. In 2019, Allen and Unwin published the Gay'Wu Group of Women of North East Arnhem Land's book, Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines. It's authors, who
- [Designing Regenerative Cultures](https://enlivenment.network/2021/08/22/designing-regenerative-cultures/) - Ecological Design David Orr, a professor Environmental Studies and Politics, suggests four reasons why ecological design provides a paradigm shift for thinking about how to tackles the various crises of our times that we can lay at the feet of the sort of thinking that has underpinned Western Civilisation that birthed economic globalisation and the
- [Call of the Dakini—A Memoir of a Life Lived](https://enlivenment.network/2021/08/22/call-of-the-dakini-a-memoir-of-a-life-lived-2/) - I have now published my memoir, Call of the Dakini—A Memoir of a Life Lived, as a ebook and paperback on amazon.com.au. Because the Amazon self publishing system does not have standard colour printing in Australia, I have also created a 2nd edition B&W edition with greyscale images inside, in order to significantly reduce its
- [Tulkus, Tertons and Turmoil: East Tibet 1855-1955](https://enlivenment.network/2021/08/19/tulkus-tertons-and-turmoil-east-tibet-1855-1955/) - Why is Tulkus, Tertons, Turmoil: East Tibet 1855-1955 an Important Story Published on Amazon.com Firstly it shows how the great 19th century spiritual renaissance of Buddhism in Kham, known as the Rimé (non-sectarian) period, occurred in a land rent by constant political turmoil, rather than in the romantic idea of ‘Shangri La’, a society of peace
- [Embedding the Arts in Community](https://enlivenment.network/2020/11/12/embedding-the-arts-in-community/) - Community Matters Blue Mountains artist, Wendy Tsai, asks: “How do we garner and nurture the passion in why the arts are so important in cultural life?” The answer to this question lies in the strength of the relationships between the creative arts community of practitioners and the wider community of people who are interested in
- [Why Epistemology and Ontology Matter](https://enlivenment.network/2020/11/14/why-epistemology-and-ontology-matter/) - Epistemology and Culture Epistemology is the study of how we construct our systems of knowledge (ways of knowing) that express our worldview. These rest on our ontology, our ideas about the nature of reality. In a multicultural society, it is important to understand that our different cultures embody different assumptions about ontology and epistemology. I
- [The Third Archive - The Promise of Songlines](https://enlivenment.network/2020/11/29/the-third-archive-the-promise-of-songlines/) - The painting featured above, held in my personal collection, is of the Tingari Songline by George Ward Tjungurrayi, a Senior Knowledge man of the Gibson Desert (Barbara Lepani). Songlines: The Power and Promise How to do justice to this small paperback, Songlines: The Power and Promise, written by Margo Neale Ngawagurrawa, Senior Indigenous Curator
- [Warrior Scholars](https://enlivenment.network/2020/12/10/warrior-scholars/) - Decolonising Research—Storywork Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology (2019), edited by Jo-ann Archibald, Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan, and Jason De Santolo, shows how Indigenous Warrior Scholars are using the epistemology of storywork to profoundly change research strategies used in the Academy, and reveal the potential for a transformation in pedagogies and the
- [Wildspace Learning Event 12 September](https://enlivenment.network/2020/09/08/wildspace-learning-event-saturday-12-september/) - RECONNECTING WITH NATURE—AN EVENT FOR YOU https://events.humanitix.com/reconnecting-for-resilience-facing-change-together-a-workplayshop Uncertainty has always been here, now we're noticing it. Wakeful leaders, thinkers and NATURE herself, implore us to listen. However, it may just be too hard to hear this knowing alone. Do we hide? Do we escape? Do we try to create 'a normal' from our cushioning among empty
- [AI & The Struggle for Humane Technology](https://enlivenment.network/2020/09/23/ai-the-struggle-for-humane-technology/) - Center for Humane Technology We envision a world where technology is realigned with humanity’s best interests. Our work expands beyond tech addiction to the broader societal threats that the attention economy poses to our well-being, relationships, democracy, and shared information environment. We must address these threats to conquer our biggest global challenges like pandemics, inequality,
- [Closing the Gap in Ways of Knowing](https://enlivenment.network/2020/09/28/healing-the-wound-ways-of-knowing/) - The Uluru Statement from the Heart In 2017, 250 delegates of Australia's First Nations' people came together at Uluru for the National Constitutional Convention. As a result of widespread consultation among First Nations' people, they issued the Uluru Statement from the Heart as a way forward for Australia and its peoples to heal the deep
- [Jo Truman—Multimedia Artist](https://enlivenment.network/2020/10/20/jo-truman-multimedia-artist/) - I sat down with Jo Truman, a multimedia artist living in Wentworth Falls to discuss her life journey as an artist working with sound, musical composition, voice and the visual arts. While most of her works involve sound and musical compositions, she is also an accomplished visual artist as this watercolour, gouache and graphite image
- [James Bradley's "Ghost Species", 2020](https://enlivenment.network/2020/07/09/james-bradleys-ghost-species-2020/) - James Bradley Trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer, Bradley lives in Sydney with his partner, the novelist Mardi McConnochie. Bradley's novels, which have been published internationally, explore both past and future. His books include seven novels and a book of poetry. He has also edited two anthologies, Blur, a collection of writing by young Australian
- [Quotes for July-August: From Richard Sennett](https://enlivenment.network/2020/07/12/quotes-for-july-august-from-richard-sennett/) - The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism Richard Sennett’s book, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, was published in 1998 yet it has a particular resonance today as employment becomes less and less stable. Before COVID, some young people seemed to enjoy
- [Quotes for August—For Hunger-Proof cities: sustainable urban food systems](https://enlivenment.network/2020/08/11/quotes-for-august-for-hunger-proof-cities-sustainable-urban-food-systems/) - Food shortages have been in the media lately with lower production levels in Victoria due to the Covid outbreak. We are assured there will sufficient of everything available but the fragility of many of our food systems and supply chains has become evident over the past six months when panic buying left supermarket shelves bare.
- [Jem Blendell—The Human Propensity for 'Escape' from the Reality of Death](https://enlivenment.network/2020/07/03/jem-blendell-the-human-propensity-for-escape-from-the-reality-of-death/) - The Ideology of Escape This post is taken from Professor Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation Forum newsletter That modern humans have been oppressing and destroying life on Earth is the most obvious and salient observational fact of our time. I am interested in the deepest reasons for that, beneath the injuries from colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, anthropocentrism
- [Decolonisation of Knowledge—Alex Broadbent](https://enlivenment.network/2020/06/22/decolonisation-of-knowledge-alex-broadbent/) - Alex Broadbent Co-Director, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, and Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg Academia and Decolonisation It has become unfashionable to admit that one doesn’t really understand what phrases like “decolonising knowledge” or “a decolonised curriculum” mean. This is unfortunate. The process of coming to understand what decolonisation
- [Jem Bendell—Dire Warnings on the Climate Crisis](https://enlivenment.network/2020/06/15/jem-bendell-dire-warnings-on-the-climate-crisis/) - Writing in his Deep Adaptation blog, Jim Bendell draws our attention to recent warning from leading climate scientists TIPPING POINTS In November 2019 seven leading climate scientists, including Professor Timothy Lenton of the University of Exeter and Professor Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen published a review in the journal Nature which said: “If damaging tipping
- [Timescapes Exhibition at Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow](https://enlivenment.network/2020/06/22/timescapes-exhibition-at-gang-gang-gallery-lithgow/) - The Exhibition The Timescapes Exhibition will be held at the gorgeous Gang Gang Gallery in Lithgow during the month of July, with its official opening on Saturday 4 July at 2.30pm. The exhibition of paintings and sculptures has been curated by Sharon Howard, owner of Gang Gang Gallery, and the sculptor, Henryk Topolnicki of Gallery
- [Time for the Liveable Income Guarantee in a Post COVID World](https://enlivenment.network/2020/07/01/time-for-the-liveable-income-guarantee-in-a-post-covid-world/) - Beyond Job Seeker and Job Keeper This article, published in The Conversation by John Quiggin, (UQ) Elise Klein (ANU) and Troy Henderson (USYD) was the product of discussion among a group that also included author Tim Dunlop, Western Sydney University emeritus professor Jane Goodall and QUT senior lecturer Dr Jenni Mays. It forms part of the
- [Hibernation—Reflections on the Idea of Time](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/15/hibernation-reflections-on-the-idea-of-time/) - Carolo Rovelli (The Order of Time, 2018) We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the races of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come. . . Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, currently directing the quantum
- [A Wild Love for the World](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/19/a-wild-love-for-the-world/) - Joanna Macy This post honours the life work of Joanna Macy. Joanna is a 90-year-old environmental activist, author, and inspiring teacher of Buddhism and deep ecology. She describes this moment in human history as The Great Turning, a revolutionary shift from an industrial growth society to a life-sustaining culture. Her most recent book is A
- [Ways of Thinking Ecologically—David Wright](https://enlivenment.network/2020/06/09/ways-of-thinking-ecologically-david-wright/) - David Wright David works through the Social Ecology group in the School of Education, Western Sydney University. He is increasingly interested in how ecological understanding can be articulated, communicated and approached through effective learning programs. David has a background in writing for performance and drama and performance studies and brings this to work in his
- [Quotes for June—The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane](https://enlivenment.network/2020/06/10/quotes-for-june-wild-places-by-robert-macfarlane/) - Lorraine: Well, as we move into a less restricted life we can also look forward to bookshops and libraries opening up and the joy of new books. My own bookshelves have been perused over and over. However, revisiting and rereading old books can renew forgotten aspirations, offer inspiration and hope at a time when it
- [Creative Arts Leadership Program 2020](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/09/creative-arts-leadership-program-2020/) - ••••• SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ••••• Leadership is a hot topic - first around the summer bushfires, now around responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the intersection between health, economics, and community. Our creative arts sector has been severely impacted. This is where leadership counts. By reading this paper and joining the forum discussion, you are helping
- [Arts & Culture Cross Sector Collaboration](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/02/arts-culture-cross-sector-collaboration/) - IMAGE: KATOOMBA STREET ART GALLERY, BLUE MOUNTAINS The Street Art Walk is a dynamic, community-driven cultural treasure of the Blue Mountains, created by Street Art Murals Australia (SAMA) in partnership with the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, University of Western Sydney and relevant stakeholders in the Beverly Place precinct. This example of cross sector collaboration resulted
- [Rhizomatic Thinking—Responding to Our Times](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/08/rhizometic-thinking-responding-to-our-times/) - David Pledger—Thinker and Provocateur The following ideas in this blog post are taken from the writings of David Pledger an award-winning contemporary artist, curator, cultural commentator and thinker working within and between the performing, visual and media arts. David writes regularly for Daily Review. https://dailyreview.com.au/the-long-game/ David is a graduate of the National Institute of
- [Four Possible Futures—Quotes for April](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/03/four-possible-futures-quotes-for-april/) - Insights from Simon Mair, Research Fellow, University of Sydney I am dithering about suitable quotes for this month – what might everyone want? Something light and escapist to offset the endless Corona Virus news or something that seriously addresses the issues that this pandemic raises? My own reading alternates between novels for emotional relief and
- [Critical Reflections on Knowledge Systems](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/10/critical-reflections-on-knowledge-systems/) - Defenders of Western Civilisation As Wollongong University charges ahead with its Ramsay Centre of Western Civilisation, and associated BA in Western Civilisation, at the behest of the champions of the British empire like Tony Abbott, we can only hope that this will not be a vain propaganda exercise, but a serious academic appraisal of the
- [Mythic Ways of Knowing](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/22/mythic-ways-of-knowing/) - Dream We are all familiar with the way dreams speak to us in strangely assembled images, drawn from the past, interspersed with our fears, and projected into our future. There is even the ‘science’ of travelling through space and time with lucid (consciously aware) dreaming. While dreams clearly have a function in helping us process
- ['Phosphorescence' by Julia Baird](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/30/phosphorescence-by-julia-baird/) - Baird is well known to many of us as the host of the ABC’s talk show, The Drum. However, she is also an historian and writer, author of Victoria, a biography of Queen Victoria, which critics have hailed as a triumph. In her recently published, Phosphorescence, Baird takes us on a journey that is acutely
- [Art, Health and Wellbeing](https://enlivenment.network/2020/04/01/art-health-and-wellbeing/) - Art and Wellbeing There is a burgeoning interest in the intersection between the creative arts and health and wellbeing, as countries all over the world grapple with an ageing population, the growing incidence of mental health problems across all age groups, and the need to take a more holistic attitude to the way we think
- [Coming Together for a Just Transition](https://enlivenment.network/2020/02/09/coming-together-for-a-just-transition/) - Mridula Amin's article in ABC Online 9 February points to the way in which the summer bushfires have brought communities together across the political divide between those focused on coal mining jobs and cheap energy prices, and those concerned about the impact of global warming on the whole socio-environmental system, and the need to reduce
- [Jo Truman—Bridge to Otherness Soundscape](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/03/jo-truman-bridge-to-otherness-soundscape/) - FREE EVENT—In collaboration with Extinction Rebellion Blue Mountains Do not miss this unique and special experience. All welcome. Donations are appreciated. Where: Bullaburra Hall, corner Noble St and Great Western Highway Bullaburra When: 2pm - 4pm, Sunday March 29 Tickets:https://www.trybooking.com/BIOON Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/178330183457774/This special presentation of a "portrait in sound" of the Blue Mountains and its
- [Jonathan Marshall—Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate Change](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/06/jonathan-marshall-depth-psychology-disorder-and-climate-change/) - Lorraine Shannon—Quotes for March As those of us who survived the fires with homes and families intact start to settle back into so-called normal life, it is impossible to ignore the impact the fires have had on communities, local businesses, the tourism industry and so on. Now is the time, not to return to ‘business
- [Cultural Burning as Caring for Country](https://enlivenment.network/2020/03/08/cultural-burning-as-caring-for-country/) - When I tuned into the Q&A program that kicked off 2020 with an exploration of what we are calling our Black Summer of catastrophic bushfires, one of the speakers was Victor Steffensen, one of the founders of the Aboriginal Firestick Alliance. Victor’s voice was drowned out by the other members of the panel who were
- [Requiem for Blue Mountains National Parks](https://enlivenment.network/2020/01/09/requiem-for-blue-mountains-national-parks/) - On 30 November, 2019, we held the 2019 annual Encountering the Wild arts festival at Gallery H and its basement and nearby cafe. We were a little skittish as up the road there was a small grass fire near Bell Railway Station. Our skittishness proved prescient. Huge areas of the Blue Mountains National Park and
- [Finding our Inner Wilderness—Max St John](https://enlivenment.network/2020/01/22/finding-our-inner-wilderness-max-st-john/) - THE DARK MOUNTAIN PROJECT In this article, published by the Dark Mountain Project (https://dark-mountain.net/the-way-back-to-the-wilderness-within/) Max St John talks about his journey to find his own sense of the wilderness within, through the Daoist body practice of Nei Gong. He describes the profound alienation from our inner wilderness that is 'built in' to our modern consumerist,
- [Sally Gillespie, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves](https://enlivenment.network/2020/02/03/sally-gillespie-climate-crisis-and-consciousness-re-imagining-our-world-and-ourselves/) - Lorraine Shannon, Wild Mountain Collective Seminars Coordinator Many authors write powerfully and insightfully on climate change and grief. Sally Gillespie’s recently published Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves is the one I have chosen for this month’s quotes. Among the range of vital issues this book addresses, it holds out to us
- [Freya Mathews:  The Epistemic and Cultural Challenge](https://enlivenment.network/2020/02/08/freya-mathews-the-epistemic-and-cultural-challenge/) - Conflicting Worldviews Barbara Lepani—in her Opinion article on revisioning conservation for the ABC Religion and Ethics Report (18 Dec 2019), Professor Freya Mathews, a patron of the Wild Mountain Collective, also discusses the important difference between the modern Western idea of 'law' and the idea of 'Law' in Aboriginal culture. We see this playing out
- [Introducing Eco-therapist, Dr Peter White to the WMC](https://enlivenment.network/2019/11/13/introducing-eco-therapist-dr-peter-white-to-the-wmc/) - We welcome Peter, a Wentworth Falls eco-psychology practitioner, to the Wild Mountain Collective. With graduate science degrees in ecology and sustainability, and a PhD in ecopsychology, he draws on a 20 year professional career in environmental planning, as well as community activism focused on nature conservation and environmental protection. Over 10 years ago, as part
- [Peter White on Hope in the Age of Anxiety](https://enlivenment.network/2019/11/13/peter-white-on-hope-in-the-age-of-anxiety/) - https://natureconnect.com.au/genuine-hope-within-the-moment-point-moving-beyond-sugar-coated-hope/BEYOND BEYOND SUGAR COATED OPTIMISM Hope can be genuinely expressed from a position of rationality, that is based on a considered assessment of the situation, the risks and the evidence underpinning the desired outcome. It can be also be expressed from a position of inner knowing, what I described in my last blog as arising
- [Encountering the Wild at Dargan 2019](https://enlivenment.network/2019/12/03/encountering-the-wild-at-dargan-2019/) - With generous support from Bendigo Community Bank, BMCAN’s Wild Mountain Collective, together with Gallery H and Monkey Creek Café, held their annual Encountering the Wild multi-arts event on the edge of the spectacular Monkey Creek escarpment between Bell and Lithgow, on Saturday 30 November. Peter Carroll, Chair of the Bendigo Sponsorship Committee: The Board of
- [Lorraine Shannon—Quotes for January-February 2020](https://enlivenment.network/2020/01/06/lorraine-shannon-quotes-for-january-february-2020/) - Dancing with Disaster—Kate Rigby It is difficult to think of appropriate quotes when half the country seems to be on fire, human life and homes have been lost, vast numbers of people are being asked to leave areas of NSW and the loss of animal life is estimated to be 500 million – a figure
- [Call of the Wild - Podcasts](https://enlivenment.network/2019/10/02/call-of-the-wild-podcasts/) - Nathania Gilson in the Guardian Online 2 October discusses how people are using podcasts to reconnect with nature. Hilary Whitehouse from James Cook University, whose research focus includes environmental education, believes nature-related podcasts are finding an audience due to the rapid rates of animal and plant extinction across the world. As we get closer and
- [Re-Wilding: Quotes for October-November by Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/10/03/re-wilding-quotes-for-october-november-by-lorraine-shannon/) - David Rothenberg, The Survival of the Beautiful I have just returned from a trip to Germany. Although I recently read an alarming report on the rate of insect decline even in German nature reserves, I have come back with renewed hope that we may not be such a hopelessly self-destructive species as I had come
- [The Healing Power of Nature](https://enlivenment.network/2019/10/21/the-healing-power-of-nature/) - Home to us all – How connecting with nature helps us care for ourselves and the earth Authors: Cheryl Charles, Rosalie Chapple, Karen Keenleyside et al. Published by the Children & Nature Network in partnership with the IUCN Commission for Education and Communication http://natureforall.global/whyReport synopsis: This review paper reports on a 2018 research synthesis of
- [The Environmental Loss of Solastalgia—Melissa Harrison](https://enlivenment.network/2019/11/09/the-environmental-loss-of-solastalgia-melissa-harrison/) - Melissa Harrison Have you cried yet? No? Don’t worry, you will. Maybe it will be a news story about the last ice in a glacier, the last living coral on a reef, or the extinction of a bird you have never seen and never will. Perhaps a TV report, or even a tweet, will finally
- [Groundswell - KSCA](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/30/groundswell-ksca/) - The Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation is putting on Groundswell over the weekend 6 - 9 September at Bingara in the New England region of NSW. Across rural NSW, people are adapting to our changing environment and climate. They are regenerating landscapes, reshaping the food system, and using ingenious methods – old and new –
- [September Quotes—Designing Regenerative Cultures](https://enlivenment.network/2019/09/05/september-quotes-designing-regenerative-cultures/) - As a follow-up to the post on regenerative living the quotes for September are taken from: Daniel Christian Wahl’s book Designing Regenerative Cultures Published by Triarchy Press, Axminster, UK, 2016. (Page numbers are not available for these quotes).To see ourselves not as individuals but as living in a pattern of relationships with others; and that
- [Amitav Gosh—The Great Derangement](https://enlivenment.network/2019/09/09/amitav-gosh-the-great-derangement/) - Amitav Gosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and was educated in India, before moving to the United States where he has held professorships at Queens College, City University of New York and Harvard University. He has published many works of fiction, starting with his debut novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986. His Ibis
- [Ways of Thinking—The Great Challenge](https://enlivenment.network/2019/09/25/ways-of-thinking-the-great-challenge/) - I feel as if this book, Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta is one I have been waiting for all my life—a book that probes into a whole different way of thinking and making sense of the world, without falling into the inevitable trap of having to talk about it in the language of another culture
- [Quotes for August—Focus on Aboriginal Rights: Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/08/quotes-for-august-focus-on-aboriginal-rights-lorraine-shannon/) - THE FIGHT FOR A VOICE TO PARLIAMENT It seems appropriate with the 2019 Garma festival having just finished and the Government’s intransigent attitude towards the Aboriginal Statement from the Heart to offer quotes from Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders. Published by Cambridge University
- [EXPLORING CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH FICTION](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/10/exploring-climate-change-through-fiction/) - LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE Christopher Walker has developed a course in climate fiction at Colby College, a private liberal arts college founded in 1831. Colby is part of the US tradition of liberal arts education that has survived the trend for institutions of higher education to be driven by economic imperatives towards more
- [Climate Change, Agriculture and Regeneration](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/17/climate-change-agriculture-and-regeneration/) - The Economic Argument The value of the agricultural sector in 2017-2018 in Australia was $59 billion. It is expected to reach $60 billion in 2020, with the National Farmers Federation aiming for a $100 billion industry by 2030—based on the assumptions of modern industrial agricultural practices that include extensive use of irrigation, application of chemical
- [RE-GENERATION—Pathways out of the morass](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/28/re-generation-pathways-out-of-the-morass/) - The Wild Mountain Collective is joining with friends and colleagues to kickstart an exciting new project—REGENERATION. We envisage the project comprising a conference/symposium hosted by Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Campus, and a multi-arts event, hosted by Bathurst Regional Council. Leading the charge to establish the founding group are Dr Sarah Redshaw, Research Fellow, Charles Sturt
- [Mindscaping Tibet—Dan Smyer Yü](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/09/mindscaping-tibet-dan-smyer-yu/) - Dan Smyer Yü (2015) Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics Religion and Society, Vol.60, Walter de Gruyer, Berlin Dan Smyer Yü is a Professor and Founding Director at the Centre for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University, a core member of the Transregional Research Network at the University of Göttingen and a Research Group
- [Entropia](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/13/entropia/) - Samuel Alexander, Entropia, 2019 When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world. With no option but to build a self-sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set
- [29 September Deep Ecology Workshop—Katoomba, Blue Mountains](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/25/deep-ecology-workshop-29-september-katoomba-blue-mountains/) - FOR THE EARTH - A ONE DAY DEEP ECOLOGY WORKSHOP—Wild Mountain Collective SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 29th July 9:00 am – 6pm Bring lunch to share. Registration process advised later Venue: Katoomba Blue Mountains. Details given on registration Cost: $30 concession - $50/$100 other This event is non-profit and all money raised will go to
- [Jem Bendell Interviews Dr Wolfgang Knorr](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/02/jim-blendell-interviews-dr-wolfgang-knorr/) - This blog post is reproduced from the Deep Adaptation newsletter Preamble: In June 2019 I met with Dr Wolfgang Knorr, a climate scientist with Lund University. With his dozens of peer reviewed climate papers generating thousands of citations, it is clear he has spent decades at the heart of the climate science profession. He wanted
- [Three Options at the End of Civilisation as We Know It](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/14/three-options-at-the-end-of-civilisation-as-we-know-it/) - Samuel Alexander: Any of these three options outlined in this book will involve a transformation of such extreme magnitude that what emerges will no longer in any meaningful sense be this civilisation: the change will be the kind of extreme conceptual and existential magnitude that Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher of ‘paradigm-shifts’, calls ‘revolutionary’. Thus, one
- [Lorraine Shannon—Eco-poetry in the Garden](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/25/lorraine-shannon-eco-poetry-in-the-garden/) - The poet/gardener Alice Oswald writes: “I don’t know anything lovelier than those free shocks of sound happening against the backsound of your heart … spadescrapes, birdsong, gravel, rain on polythene, macks moving, … seeds kept in paper, potatoes coming out of boxes, high small leaves or large head-height leaves being shaken, frost on grass …
- [Lorraine Shannon—An Ode to Cicadas](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/09/lorraine-shannon-an-ode-to-cicadas/) - Thirty-eight degrees Celsius today. It’s supposed to be early autumn. The plane trees, always the first to signal the end of summer, have crisp brown edges on their leaves. A day of no birds, shrivelled worms, burnt grasses. Only flies and ants seem to have survived. A microscopic view, of course, might reveal scores of
- [Quotes for July—ANIMISM: RESPECTING THE LIVING WORLD](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/09/quotes-for-july-animism-respecting-the-living-world/) - Chosen by Lorraine Shannon, Coordinator of the Wild Mountain Collective's Exploring Ideas occasional seminar series From: Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World. Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2005. Graham Harvey argues in this book that a new understanding of animism can contribute significantly to contemporary debates about consciousness, cosmology and environmentalism. Notions that ‘animism’ is
- [Beyond the Zero Sum Game](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/01/beyond-the-zero-sum-game/) - TRAFFIC JAM ON EVEREST This photo is likely to become one of the most famous images of 2019. It perfectly encapsulates the zero-sum game of modern society. Known to the Tibetan People as Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the Universe, one of the Mountain Gods of ancient Tibet, for the modern cashed-up consumer it has become
- [Faith, Ceremony and Fearlessness](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/02/faith-ceremony-and-fearlessness/) - Today I attended my monthly gathering of dharma friends for a Riwo Sangchö practice. This is a smoke offering ceremony that acts as a physical metaphor for transforming all the negativities in the world, freeing them into the indivisible unity of space and wisdom. I am a Western woman, brought up culturally as an Anglican
- [The Green Economy Movement—Quotes for May by Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/05/the-green-economy-movement-quotes-for-may/) - Alison Hope Alkon, Black, White and Green: Farmers Markets, Race and the Green Economy. University of Georgia Press. This book is among many now appearing on how to move to a green economy. The examples are based in the United States but are still pertinent to the situation in Australia. For Australian publications on this
- [Anthropocene Noir—Quotes for June](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/05/anthropocene-noir-quotes-for-june/) - Deborah Bird Rose, "Anthropocene Noir" Paper presented at People and the Planet 2013 Conference, ‘Transforming the Future", RMIT 2013Quote 1 Anthropocene—the Age of Man—this era in which human action has become a planetary force. We know the climate change issue well because it has the greatest profile, but it is just one big part of
- [CLIMARTE's KEYNOTES AT ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019—MELBOURNE](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/25/climartes-keynotes-at-artclimatechange-2019-melbourne/) - Keynotes are presented by CLIMARTE's ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 Festival in association with The Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne On Tuesday 30 April 2019, Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones (USA), Co-founders of The Natural History Museum and Not An Alternative, a collective that works at the intersection of art, activism and theory, will give
- [CLIMARTE'S KEYNOTES: ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019—MELBOURNE](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/25/climartes-keynotes-artclimatechange-2019-melbourne/) - Keynotes are presented by CLIMARTE's ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 Festival in association with The Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne MIRANDA MASSIE (USA), Director, Climate Museum, New York City, will give a public talk on Wednesday 1 May, Carillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre A Museum for The Path Ahead: New York City’s Climate
- [Love Among the Ruins with Ian Milliss](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/30/love-among-the-ruins-with-ian-milliss/) - Barbara Lepani: I recently met Ian Milliss who is one of the founders of the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation (www.ksca.land). I was struck by a piece of writing Ian had on his wall, titled ‘Love among the Ruins’. For me this was the perfect response to the revisioning of our relationship to the natural
- [Australian Nature Writing](https://enlivenment.network/2019/05/12/australian-nature-writing/) - Unlike America and the United Kingdom, and despite the way in which our sense of Australian identity is anchored in our love affair with 'the bush', expressed in poetry and art badhowen, Australia does not have a well developed literary culture of nature writing. One Australian writer who stands out is Mark Tredinnick, a member
- [Week ending 15 March—Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/14/week-ending-15-march-lorraine-shannon/) - Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet, University of Chicago Press, 2013.Remember: “… first that the natural world is considerably more resilient than I had thought, and that damaged and degraded ecosystems can rebuild a great deal of their complex webs of species, communities and ecological processes, if we give them half a chance to
- [Ryan Jasper Walsh—Filmmaker](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/17/ryan-jasper-walsh-filmmaker/) - Ryan is a young Australian documentary director, editor and film practitioner specialising in intimate, non-fiction storytelling, who is part of our Wild Mountain Collective community. Since returning from 4 years living in China, Ryan has turned his focus to storytelling about issues of climate change and ecological destruction. The recent mass fish kills in Menindee
- [Resilience: Relinquishment: Restoration](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/28/resilience-relinquishment-restoration/) - Professor Jem Bendell of Cumbria University in the UK has been exploring how human society will adapt to the existential crisis that climate change is posing to our world as we fail to keep global warming below 2%. Positive feedback loops will act to accelerate the impact of climate change on weather systems, the environment,
- [Lorraine Shannon—Plant Speak](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/11/lorraine-shannon-plant-speak/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1554947553109{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-right: 10% !important;margin-bottom: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddc299 !important;}"] M.Hale, 1677 Though the Earth be not animated with a Sensible soul, yet it is possible that it may be a great, Immortal Vegetable. The latest buzz-word, this morning’s radio program informs me, is conversation.
- [The Phenomenology of Perception](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/08/the-phenomenology-of-perception/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1552027008511{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddc49b !important;}"] We know not through our intellect but through our experience. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Eng. 1962) Sarah Redshaw gives us the following review of February's Monthly Meet gathering to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty's book, The Phenomenology of Perception, a ground
- [The Order of Interbeing—Thich Nhat Hanh](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/10/the-order-of-interbeing-thich-nhat-hanh/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1552194422944{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-right: 10% !important;margin-bottom: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #96ccce !important;}"]Be open to receive others’ viewpoints, to learn throughout your entire life. Live simply and share time, energy and material resources with those in need. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war.The concept
- [Quotes for Rest of February 2019—Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/13/quotes-for-rest-of-february-2019/) - Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind, edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1995.Mary Catherine Bateson: “The self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that
- [Quote for Week Ending 8 March 2019—Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/13/quote-for-week-ending-8-march-2019-lorraine-shannon/) - Our Once and Future Planet, Paddy Woodworth, University of Chicago Press, 2013. Our Once and Future Planet explores the area of environmental experimentation and innovation known as ecological restoration. This is the practice of attempting to fix disruptions to the natural world caused by centuries of human activity. Woodworth provides examples from around the globe where
- [The Philosophical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis—Lynn White](https://enlivenment.network/2019/02/13/the-philosophical-roots-of-our-ecological-crisis-lynn-white/) - Michael Paul Nelson of Oregon State University, together with Thomas J. Sauer of the US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, reminds us of the prescient words of Lynn White, a historian of medieval science and technology, when he delivered a lecture on the 'Historic Roots of Our Ecological Crisis' in March 1966 at the
- [Quote of the Week 19 February 2019—Lorraine Shannon](https://enlivenment.network/2019/02/18/quote-of-the-week-19-february-2019/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1550533151944{margin-top: 8% !important;margin-right: 8% !important;margin-bottom: 8% !important;margin-left: 8% !important;padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;background-color: #dbb78c !important;}"]“What we are looking at is nothing less than an environmental revolution, an economic and social transformation that ranks with the agricultural and industrial revolutions. … The environmental revolution will be driven primarily by the restructuring
- [Leanne Tobin—Patron of the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/05/leanne-tobin-patron-of-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - Our featured image above shows Leanne Tobin's 2009 work Nurragingy and Colebee. The significant event which led to the name of Blacktown is one of momentous importance in the history of Australia: the first land grant ever given to Aboriginal people. At the heart of the Black(s) Town story stand Nurragingy and Colebee, highly regarded
- [Celebrating Trees Seminar—Saturday 6 April](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/06/brad-diedrich/) - The Wild Mountain Collective's Exploring Seminar Series will host its first 2019 seminar, Celebrating Trees. Featuring renowned eco-artists, Janet Laurence and Louise Fowler-Smith, it will be held at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Seminar Room on Saturday 6 April: 2—4pm. Entry is $20 waged and $10 unwaged—pay cash at the door.[vc_single_image image="978" img_size="full" img_link_large="Brad Diedrich"]Janet Laurence
- [Encountering the Wild Multi-Arts Festival](https://enlivenment.network/2018/10/30/encountering-the-wild-multi-arts-festival/) - Join the Wild Mountain Collective community as they celebrate their launch with a multi-arts festival “Encountering the Wild” on Saturday Dec 1. [vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1540910778573{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;background-color: #b8d9f9 !important;}”] Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 2 PM – 5 PM Venue: Gallery H 227 Chifley Road, Dargan 2786 Hosted by
- [Lorraine Shannon - The Myth Gap Review](https://enlivenment.network/2018/12/04/lorraine-shannon-the-myth-gap-review/) - Perhaps the most famous 'myth' of Aboriginal culture is that associated with the Rainbow Serpent. However Aboriginal culture is also rich in the mythology of other Creation Ancestors whose actions created the features of the Australian landscape. Their journeys are recorded in songlines that criss cross Australia, and are remembered through dance, ceremony, art and
- [Encountering the Wild at Gallery H Basement Dargan](https://enlivenment.network/2018/12/05/encountering-the-wild-at-gallery-h-basement-dargan/) - [vc_single_image image="813" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="link_image" css_animation="slideInUp" img_link_large="Brad Diedrich"] Saturday 1 December, the Wild Mountain Collective held its Encountering the Wild Multi Arts Festival launch event at Mark O'Carrigan's complex at Dargan, which includes a cafe, Gallery H and its basement function space. Willem Hendriksen of Retro Rehash sourced the musicians, Simon Hearn sourced the artists,
- [Why can't you take the gift we offer?](https://enlivenment.network/2019/01/28/why-cant-you-take-the-gift-we-offer/) - Yesterday, quite by chance, I happened on Ellen Fanning interviewing Wesley Enoch, Director of the Sydney Festival. She began by questioning him about the ALWAYS vigil installation at Barangaroo for the Sydney Festival, and whether it was making people uncomfortable in relation to the 'Change the Date' campaign about Australia Day on 26 January, the
- [The Inner Wild of Poetic Resistance](https://enlivenment.network/2018/09/20/the-inner-wild-of-poetic-resistance/) - The idea of the ‘wild’ is not just the world of undomesticated nature. It is also the inner poetic strength of the human spirit in the face of oppression. For this reason this blog is honouring Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist, writer, cultural advocate, filmmaker and scholar, whom Australia has kept imprisoned on Manus Island
- [Wild Mountain Collective Launch Party](https://enlivenment.network/2018/10/04/wild-mountain-collective-launch-party/) - [vc_single_image image="736" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="link_image"]The Wild Mountain Collective is holding its Launch Party, Encountering the Wild, at the Basement, Gallery H, Dargan. Gallery H and its basement, together with the adjacent cafe, are feature buildings of Mark O'Carrigan's Hatter's Huts—architectural sculptures in their own right. They stand on a narrow ridge on the southern side of Chifley
- [Eco-Civilization - Jeremy Lent](https://enlivenment.network/2018/10/23/eco-civilization-jeremy-lent/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1540333236974{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-right: 10% !important;margin-bottom: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #bfd6b3 !important;}"]The crucial idea behind an ecological civilization is that our society needs to change at a level far deeper than most people realize. It’s not just a matter of investing in renewables, eating less meat, and
- [Our Patrons of the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/09/17/our-three-patrons-of-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - John Wolesley John is a leading figurative landscape painter who is exhibited widely in Australia. He uses unique techniques of watercolour, collage, frottage, nature printing and other methods of direct physical or kinetic contact to find ways of collaborating with the actual plants, birds, trees, rocks and earth of a particular place.[vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1537166637042{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-bottom:
- [Welcoming Henryk Topolnicki to the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/24/welcoming-henryk-topolnicki-to-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1535251820250{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddc8a1 !important;}"] All religions will pass But this will remain Simply sitting in a chair And looking into the distance —Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov Henryk: As an artist, I do this myself quite a lot. That space between your mind and what
- [Wild Mountains Collective Book Club kicks off](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/27/wild-mountains-collective-book-club-kicks-off/) - A small group of us met at Barbara's house to think about how we wanted the Wild Mountains Collective Book/Writers Club and its associated blog, to evolve as a forum where we could discuss ideas with one another and explore the rich literature that touches on the themes that are informing the Wild Mountain Collective.
- [Liology](https://enlivenment.network/2018/09/06/liology/) - The Wild Mountain Collective shares similar aims to the Liology Institute, which flows from the work of Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning. Below is their explanation of the meaning of Liology and now it can inform our world view. My favourite quote from
- [Deep Time Dreaming—The Meaning of Aboriginal Art](https://enlivenment.network/2018/09/11/deep-time-dreaming-the-meaning-of-aboriginal-art/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1536637234884{margin-top: 10% !important;margin-right: 10% !important;margin-bottom: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddcdb3 !important;}"]We are learning to see Australia through Aboriginal eyes, beginning to recognise the wisdom contained in their epic story… We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through
- [The Aesthetic Beauty of the Universe—Jasper Lepani](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/13/the-aesthetic-beauty-of-the-universe-jasper-lepani/) - Photography is a field which has developed immensely over the years; from a highly specialized knowledge of equipment and composure, to instant post-processing and 4K high definition cameras that barely take up more than couple of millimetres on the back of your phone.The world of photography has become an ever more crucial cog in
- [Welcoming Lorraine Shannon to the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/10/welcoming-lorraine-shannon-to-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - I was delighted to hear of, and then be invited to join the Wild Mountains Collective as I have been involved in environmental issues for many years, first as an active member of ASLE – the Association for Literature and the Environment which was founded in the USA but has since become an international association
- [Welcoming Eliot Reynolds to the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/14/welcoming-eliot-reynolds-to-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1534254077949{padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddcba8 !important;}"]When life gets out of balance, Eliot reconnects to the earth by taking long barefoot walks in the bushland, visiting local waterfalls and letting the cold winter wind wrap her arms around him in loving embrace.Eliot Boyd Reynolds is a music composer, player and
- [Welcoming Inge Riebe to the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/20/welcoming-inge-riebe-to-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1534684966468{margin-right: 7% !important;margin-left: 7% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #ddccb1 !important;}"]Much of my life I have felt my role is as a translator, sometimes of languages, sometimes between people at odds, and most often between cultures. My primary discipline is anthropology with a strong interest in oral history. Some of
- [Memories of Wild Places](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/06/memories-of-wild-places/) - Back in 2005 I was living in Nelson, a small lifestyle town on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand—said to have the best weather in all of New Zealand. Clear sunny skies and in winter to the west you could see the towering snow capped peaks of the Southern Alps. I
- [The Hidden Language of Trees](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/07/the-hidden-language-oftrees/) - [vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1533619619978{padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;}”] Remember James Cameron’s Avatar—the highest grossing movie of all time! [vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1533619738439{margin-right: 15% !important;margin-left: 15% !important;padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #bbc699 !important;}”]This fascinating secret world of the language of trees is what German forester Peter Wohlleben explores in The Hidden Life of Trees: What They
- [Honouring the Kangaloon Ecologies Group](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/09/honouring-the-kangaloon-ecologies-group/) - The Wild Mountain Collective kicked off on the inspiration of Charles Massey’s Call of the Reed Warbler, the “manifesto for uncivilisation” by the UK Dark Mountain Project, founded by Paul Kingsnorth as a self-confessed recovering environmental activist, and the work of Dave Abram with his US based Alliance for Wild Ethics. However our deepest roots
- [Touching the Earth—Welcoming Martin Roberts](https://enlivenment.network/2018/08/11/touching-the-earth-welcoming-martin-roberts/) - [vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1533874991560{padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-bottom: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;background-color: #c3d6b8 !important;}"] Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as
- [There is a new appetite for serious reflection](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/30/there-is-a-new-appetite-for-serious-reflection/) - Writing in the Observer this weekend, Alex Preston draws our attention to the publishing phenomena of a growing interest in serious books. As he says, the story of Sapiens is about a book becoming part of a national conversation. “Readers like to read the same book, particularly if it’s a good and interesting one,” Daunt says, “because
- [Tantric Buddhism and Inter-being](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/30/tantric-buddhism-and-inter-being/) - [vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1533516900683{padding-top: 7% !important;padding-right: 7% !important;padding-left: 7% !important;}”] My dharma friend, Catherine Paul, recently visited Kakadu in the Northern Territory. Visiting this protected wilderness area, she felt the full benefit of her years as a member of the full-time practising sangha at the Lerab Ling retreat centre in the south of France. She posted this
- [Welcoming Ian Brown to the Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/29/welcoming-ian-brown-to-the-wild-mountain-collective/) - art change the world? I’ve never liked this question, its too simplistic. History and common sense say that almost anything can provoke change in society, from the smallest event or trend to the cataclysmic. But mostly it happens from a combination of many accumulating ‘nudges’. I often think about the famous quote from Margaret Mead,
- [The Wild Mountain Collective](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/05/wordpress-resources-at-siteground/) - We citizens of the City of Blue Mountains live in 26 urban villages surrounded by wilderness—the one million hectares of the ancient, rugged Blue Mountains World Heritage Area of temperate eucalypt forests, vivid red sandstone cliff faces, deep ravines and gorges and plunging waterfalls. Over 4 million people visit us each year to replenish their
- [Encountering the Wild in the Trobriand Islands](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/14/encountering-the-wild/) - [vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner]It never occurred to me to go to Papua New Guinea. I wanted to go to Paris. I was in love with the world of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. However during a demonstration in Sydney in support of the Gurindji people who had claimed the right to live on their own land,
- [In Search of the Wild Archetype](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/23/in-search-of-the-wild-archetype/) - Back in 1992 Clarissa Pinkola Estés published ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’, a book that would transfix American culture, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Her book is a call to recover the wild within us in the face of the deadening impact on our inner psyches of the economism
- [Freya Mathews on Relating to the Natural World](https://enlivenment.network/2018/07/29/test-iframe/) - Freya Mathews is one of Australia's leading environmental philosophers and a practising Daoist. She has explored the way in which Daoism gives us a different way of relating to the natural world. Freya has agreed to support the Wild Mountain Collective, and we have created a window into her website here so that you can
- [Jeremy Lent: A Plea to Yuval Harari](https://enlivenment.network/2018/12/22/jeremy-lent-a-plea-to-yuval-harari/) - Here, with his permission, I share an article by Jeremy Lent of the Liology Institute. Like me Jeremy seeks to understand how humanity got to its current existential crisis in terms of its relationship to the 'more than human world' as climate change and species extinctions as the cumulative effect of modern techno-capitalism threatens the
- [Listen to New Zealand's Whale Whisperers](https://enlivenment.network/2019/01/04/listen-to-new-zealands-whale-whisperers/) - Hori Parata, New Zealand's Maori Whale Whisperer: "As more whales beach and die – from exhaustion, heat stroke or seagulls feasting on their flesh – an acute sense of grief is growing among New Zealand’s indigenous people, who regard whales as their ancestors and taonga (treasures). These days it is like a zoo. People just
- [ArtBytes | Wild Mountain Collective forges ahead](https://enlivenment.network/2019/03/17/artbytes-wild-mountain-collective-forges-ahead/) - [vc_single_image image="32" img_size="full" img_link_large="Brad Diedrich"]Following the successful Encountering the Wild Event at Dargan in December 2018, the Wild Mountain Collective is gearing up to support a number of activities. These will support our community in using the creative arts to explore and celebrate the ‘wild’ and our sense of interconnected relationship with nature and one
- [Lorraine Shannon's April Quotes - Timely Reminders from Ernst Friedrich Schumacher](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/23/lorraine-shannons-april-quotes-timely-reminders-from-schumacher/) - E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered, Vintage Classics, 2011. (First published, 1973). In his Introduction to this reprint of Small is Beautiful, Jonathan Porritt writes, “Fritz Schumacher (1911-1977) was a great synthesizer, bringing may disparate concerns within the same frame of reference. He was the first of the
- [June-July Quotes—Celebrating Deborah Bird Rose](https://enlivenment.network/2019/06/23/june-july-quotes-celebrating-deborah-bird-rose/) - LORRAINE SHANNON: From: Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. University of Virginia Press, 2011. It seems pertinent at the moment, following Deborah Bird Rose’s death in December 2018 to focus on some of her writings that examine both the positive and negative effects of human existence and actions on planet earth.In the
- [INTERBEING - PROPOSAL FOR BLUE MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTRE](https://enlivenment.network/2019/04/23/interbeing-proposal-for-blue-mountains-cultural-centre/) - A group of artists from the Wild Mountain Collective got together to develop a proposal for the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé Exhibition 2020 Program. Unfortunately we were not one of the 4 submissions chosen from a field of 50 applications, but we thought it worth sharing our ideas with our readers.Our core theme/idea was
- [ENCOUNTERING THE WILD AT DARGAN](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/05/encountering-the-wild-at-dargan/) - Ryan has been busy filming for several climate action campaigns, including Voice of the Barka (Murray-Darling Basin) and further filming in Fiji and New Zealand for WeWill. Now we are finally pleased to share with you Ryan Jasper Walsh's video record of our 2018 launch event, Encountering the Wild, which was held at Gallery H,
- [The Serpent Gurrangatch and the Hunter Mirragan](https://enlivenment.network/2019/07/07/the-serpent-gurrangatch-and-the-hunter-mirragan/) - Bhante Sujato This essay was presented by Bhante Sujato at a plenary session of the Sakyadhita 2019 conference in Leura, NSW. Global warming is an unprecedented threat to the survival of our civilization and culture, indeed our very lives. The aboriginal myth of Gurrangatch and Mirragan tells of a time when the land of the
- [Jim Blendell Year’s Review of Deep Adaptation to Climate Change](https://enlivenment.network/2019/08/02/jim-blendell-years-review-of-deep-adaptation-to-climate-change/) - Working with my colleague Matthew Slater, I have produced a Compendium of Research Reports on Climate Chaos and Impacts, which we release today. In it I summarise 23 studies, which I consider key from the past 12 months. Last year it was unusual to claim that it is too late to stop runaway climate change damaging
- [Lorraine's Quotes for November](https://enlivenment.network/2019/11/09/lorraines-quotes-for-november/) - From Glenn Albrech, Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World (Cornell University Press), 2019 Week 1 “As a consequence of the new scientific knowledge of symbiotic coexistence, I submit that we actually live in the ‘symbioment’. It is a recognition that, at its foundation, life is all about the sumbios, or ‘the living together’

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- [Our Team](https://enlivenment.network/our-team/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” title_font=”|600||on|||||” title_text_align=”center” title_text_color=”#8300E9″ title_font_size=”65px” title_letter_spacing=”1px” title_line_height=”1.1em” text_orientation=”center” title_font_size_tablet=”65px” title_font_size_phone=”42px” title_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_post_title][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ module_id=”barbara” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Barbarra-Lepani.jpg” title_text=”Barbarra-Lepani” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||10px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] Barbara Lepani Enlivenment
- [Podcasts](https://enlivenment.network/podcasts/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] PODCASTS [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Talking ArtZ | Align the Sound | [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”30px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row
- [About TEN](https://enlivenment.network/about/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”2560px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-4px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/header_back3.jpg” title_text=”header_back3″ align=”center” force_fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] The Enlivenment Network [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”|600|||||||”
- [Member sign-in and manage account](https://enlivenment.network/member-sign-in-and-manage-account/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Header” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4449E0″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(33,11,1,0.46) 0%|rgba(10,3,0,0.54) 100%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Firefly-Create-an-illustration-that-visually-shows-an-original-coloring-for-the-camera-375-Recovered-2jpg-scaled.jpg” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(43,24,12,0.85)” max_width=”700px” custom_margin=”||34px||false|false” custom_padding=”17px|40px|17px|40px|true|true” border_radii=”on|40px|40px|40px|40px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” header_font=”Poppins|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”45px” header_line_height=”1.2em” text_orientation=”center” header_font_size_tablet=”46px” header_font_size_phone=”32px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”] Member sign-in and manage account [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” text_text_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.7)” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”center” text_font_size_tablet=”15px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”55px” header_font_size_last_edited=”off|desktop”
- [Projects - Regenesis](https://enlivenment.network/projects-regenesis/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NACH-BAnner-23-scaled.jpg” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECTING CREATIVES PROJECTS [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Projects Section” module_id=”Regenesis” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_color=”#becca9″ background_enable_image=”off” custom_margin=”-9px|||||” custom_padding=”10px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ admin_label=”Project 04″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”1464px” custom_margin=”50px|||”
- [Video](https://enlivenment.network/video/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||2px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||15px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] VIDEOS [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Enlivened Video Resources Welcome to the Video Resources section of the Enlivenment Network—a curated collection of visual content that
- [Play List](https://enlivenment.network/play-list/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Firefly_Create-an-image-suitable-for-the-header-banner-of-the-event-list-page-on-the-enlivenm-740965-1-scaled.jpg” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECTING CREATIVES Playlist List [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”2px||5px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”66px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″
- [Event Calendar](https://enlivenment.network/event-calendar/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Firefly_Create-an-image-suitable-for-the-header-banner-of-the-event-list-page-on-the-enlivenm-680316-scaled.jpg” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECTING CREATIVES Event Calendar [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”2px||5px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”66px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″
- [Event List](https://enlivenment.network/event-list-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Firefly_Create-an-image-suitable-for-the-header-banner-of-the-event-list-page-on-the-enlivenm-740965-1-scaled.jpg” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECTING CREATIVES Event List [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”2px||5px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” min_height=”66px”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″
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- [Courtesy Page](https://enlivenment.network/courtesy-page/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_fullwidth_slider use_bg_overlay=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h1″ header_font=”Poppins||||||||” header_font_size=”44px” text_orientation=”right” width=”100%” content_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||-184px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH” use_bg_overlay=”on” bg_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.31)” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Poppins|600|||||||” body_font_size=”18px” background_enable_color=”off” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(42,63,28,0.18) 0%|rgba(41,56,38,0.59) 100%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/banner01.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” text_orientation=”center” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_padding=”109px||||false|false” custom_css_free_form=” .et_pb_slide_description{|| float:left !important;||}||.et_pb_slide_image{|| right:0px;||}” border_width_all_image=”150px” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] NENA Arts and
- [Talking Artz](https://enlivenment.network/talking-artz/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text
- [Branding Research](https://enlivenment.network/branding-research/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”2560px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-4px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/header_back3.jpg” title_text=”header_back3″ align=”center” force_fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] Branding Research Development of the HoneyEater
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- [Animate](https://enlivenment.network/animate/)
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- [Encountering the Wild Event Video](https://enlivenment.network/encountering-the-wild-event-video/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”1px|||||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” width=”100%” max_width=”2560px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/header_back3.jpg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” force_fullwidth=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ title_text=”header_back3″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Encountering The Wild Event Video [/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https://vimeo.com/345194931″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_video][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left”
- [WASTE TO ART WORKSHOPS](https://enlivenment.network/the-re-imagining-waste-art-project-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”2px|||||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”2560px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Reimagine-02.jpg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” title_text=”Reimagine-02″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ force_fullwidth=”on”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] WASTE TO ART WORKSHOPS – WITH SCHOOL-AGE KIDS @ BLACKHEATH and LAWSON Waste Art
- [The Re-imagining Waste Art Project—Regenesis Journey](https://enlivenment.network/the-re-imagining-waste-art-project/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-24-at-1.31.17-pm.png” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”Screen Shot 2021-09-24 at 1.31.17 pm” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_heading title=”The Re-imagining Waste Art Project—Regenesis Journey” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text_align=”center” title_font_size=”38px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_heading][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” custom_padding=”||2px|||”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_2″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″
- [Creatives for Regenesis](https://enlivenment.network/creatives-for-regenerative-living/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://wordpress-483476-4871185.cloudwaysapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/RA_Graphic-Logo_RGB_Black_Sml.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ title_text=”RA_Graphic-Logo_RGB_Black_Sml”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] BMCAN’s Creatives for Regenesis project would like to acknowledge Damon Gameau’s leadership with his Regenerating Australia film. As Damon says: Our current economic system is degenerative and
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- [Event List Header](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/event-list-header/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Firefly_Create-an-image-suitable-for-the-header-banner-of-the-event-list-page-on-the-enlivenm-740965-1-scaled.jpg” hover_enabled=”0″ template_type=”section” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”Firefly_Create an image suitable for the header banner of the event list page on the enlivenm 740965 (1)” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”
- [Podcasts Title](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/podcasts-title/) - [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”module”] PODCASTS [/et_pb_text]
- [TEN Podcast Header](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/ten-podcast-header/) - [et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”module”] Talking ArtZ | Align the Sound | [/et_pb_text]
- [TEN Podcast Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/ten-podcast-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”30px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” width=”87%” max_width=”100%” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/phone-copy2.png” title_text=”phone copy2″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Talking ArtZ [/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=”Talking ArtZ – Click for description” open_toggle_text_color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#000000″ title_level=”h3″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Talking ArtZ By Brad Diedrich for The Enlivenment group
- [Section 25](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/section-25/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Footer” _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#1F2228″ saved_tabs=”all” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||60px||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”||30px||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” header_4_font=”Poppins|700||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”0.1em” header_4_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Get In Touch or Create an Account [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”_initial” text_text_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.7)” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” text_orientation=”center” max_width=”600px” module_alignment=”center” text_font_size_tablet=”15px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”55px” header_font_size_last_edited=”off|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”] Vivamus suscipit
- [Section 24](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/section-24/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Call to Action” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#000000″ saved_tabs=”all” locked=”off” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”700px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” header_5_font=”Poppins|700|||||||” header_5_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_5_font_size=”19px” header_5_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”center” header_5_font_size_tablet=”15px” header_5_font_size_phone=”14px” header_5_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”] 7 Day Premium Account Free Trial [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” header_2_font=”Poppins|700|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_2_font_size=”75px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” z_index=”12″ text_orientation=”center” header_2_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_2_font_size_phone=”24px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”] All
- [Section 23](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/section-23/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Call to Action” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4c1f00″ saved_tabs=”all” locked=”off” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”700px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.2″ _module_preset=”_initial” header_5_font=”Poppins|700|||||||” header_5_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_5_font_size=”19px” header_5_line_height=”1.4em” text_orientation=”center” header_5_font_size_tablet=”15px” header_5_font_size_phone=”14px” header_5_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”] 7 Day Premium Account Free Trial [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” text_text_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.7)” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”Poppins|700|||||||” header_font_size=”63px” text_orientation=”center” text_font_size_tablet=”15px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”55px” header_font_size_last_edited=”off|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]
- [Member Menu](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/member-menu/) - [et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”_initial” text_font=”Inter|700||on|||||” link_text_color=”#4449E0″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ template_type=”module”] MY ACCOUNT | MEMBER DIRECTORY [/et_pb_text]
- [Connect to the Buzz](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/connect-to-the-buzz/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#560700″ hover_enabled=”0″ saved_tabs=”all” template_type=”section” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”87%” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”65px” width=”99.9%” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECT TO THE BUZZ [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light|900|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”68px” header_2_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_2_font_size=”29px” custom_padding=”6px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] SUBSCRIBE TO THE NACH
- [B Team](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/b-team/) - [et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ module_id=”barbara” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/B-image-e.jpg” title_text=”B-image-e” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||10px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] B Founding Member B. (they/them) is a Melbourne-based artist and the founder of Posthuman Press, which specialises in creative posthuman texts. Their own work obliterates binaries and seeks
- [Response text](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/response-text/) - [et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_line_height=”1.2em” template_type=”module”] Thank you for reaching out to NACH, we will respond to your message shortly. In the meantime consider signing up for notifications direct to your email whenever we publis a blog post, and to receive our monthly Newsletter. Just fill out the form below.
- [NACH Header](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/nach-header/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#4f170b” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_type=”circular” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(12,102,37,0) 0%|#233530 70%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”rgba(42,46,64,0)” background_color_gradient_end=”#2d1111″ background_color_gradient_end_position=”70%” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NACH-BAnner-23-scaled.jpg” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”66px” header_3_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”] CONNECTING CREATIVES PROJECTS [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [NACH Home Banner 01](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/nach-home-banner-01/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_fullwidth_slider use_bg_overlay=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h1″ header_font=”Poppins||||||||” header_font_size=”44px” text_orientation=”right” width=”100%” content_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||-184px||false|false” border_color_all=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH” use_bg_overlay=”on” bg_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.31)” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Poppins|600|||||||” body_font_size=”18px” background_enable_color=”off” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(42,63,28,0.18) 0%|rgba(41,56,38,0.59) 100%” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/banner01.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” text_orientation=”center” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_padding=”109px||||false|false” custom_css_free_form=” .et_pb_slide_description{|| float:left !important;||}||.et_pb_slide_image{|| right:0px;||}” border_width_all_image=”150px” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”] NENA Arts and Culture Hub [/et_pb_slide][/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][/et_pb_section]
- [Rosey Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/rosey-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Projects Section” module_id=”Networks04Rosey” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/RR_Books_2_-_Copy_d5d2fac4-c69e-4d17-8491-b16e83bde8c6_720x.webp” parallax=”on” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”8px||81px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ admin_label=”Project 01″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”#ffffff” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”54px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”23px|22px|23px|22px|true|true” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Montserrat|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#842f12″ header_font_size=”80px” global_colors_info=”{}”] RoseyRavelston Books & Publishing GBMCAN has formed a partnership with RoseyRavelston Books & Publishing Services. A social enterprise located
- [LATS Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/lats-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Projects Section” module_id=”NetworksLithgow” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Carolyn-Dance-Spiral.jpg” background_size=”initial” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”8px||110px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ admin_label=”Project 03″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”#ffffff” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”54px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”0px|22px|0px|22px|true|true” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”5%||5%|” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_cta title=”LITHGOW ARTS TRAIL” button_url=”http://talkingart.com.au/” url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”Montserrat|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#353740″ header_font_size=”30px” header_line_height=”1.7em” body_font=”Montserrat||||||||” body_text_color=”#747d88″ body_font_size=”18px” body_line_height=”1.8em” use_background_color=”off” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#747d88″ button_border_width=”4px” button_border_color=”#747d88″ button_border_radius=”100px” button_letter_spacing=”2px”
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- [Retro Rehash Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/retro-rehash-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Projects Section” module_id=”NetworksRetro” _builder_version=”4.19.1″ custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”8px||110px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ admin_label=”Project 01″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”47px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/241838725_1938777839657325_2498908737871670226_n.jpeg” title_text=”241838725_1938777839657325_2498908737871670226_n” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WIllem.jpg” title_text=”WIllem” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-29px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_cta title=”RETRO REHASH | Willem Hendriksen” button_url=”http://retrorehash.com.au” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Find out more here” _builder_version=”4.19.4″
- [Text 23](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/text-23-2/) - [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ template_type=”module”] Spreading the seeds of relationality—a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing Relationality brings timeless ancient wisdom and contemporary systems thinking together, acknowledging the fundamental truth that we are relationally embedded in a world of networks of networks—within nature, within
- [Text 23](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/text-23/) - [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” header_font=”||||||||” header_font_size=”41px” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ template_type=”module”] Spreading the seeds of relationality—a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing Relationality brings timeless ancient wisdom and contemporary systems thinking together, acknowledging the fundamental truth that we are relationally embedded in a world of networks of networks—within nature, within
- [Connect Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/connect-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#560700″ global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” max_width=”87%” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light||||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”65px” width=”99.9%” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] CONNECT TO THE BUZZ [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Geosans Light|900|||||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”68px” header_2_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_2_font_size=”29px” custom_padding=”73px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] SUBSCRIBE TO THE NACH FEED [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″
- [Slider Module 02](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/slider-module-02/) - [et_pb_fullwidth_slider use_bg_overlay=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h1″ header_font=”Poppins||||||||” header_font_size=”44px” text_orientation=”right” width=”100%” content_width=”100%” hover_enabled=”0″ border_color_all=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ custom_margin=”5px||||false|false” template_type=”module”][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH” use_bg_overlay=”on” bg_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.31)” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Poppins|600|||||||” body_font_size=”18px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/banner01.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” hover_enabled=”0″ border_width_all_image=”150px” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on” custom_css_free_form=” .et_pb_slide_description{|| float:left !important;||}||.et_pb_slide_image{|| right:0px;||}” sticky_enabled=”0″ text_orientation=”center” title_text=”banner01″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(61,28,11,0.19) 0%|#3a190b 100%” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”] NENA Arts and Culture Hub [/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH”
- [Slider Module 01](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/slider-module-01/) - [et_pb_fullwidth_slider use_bg_overlay=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h1″ header_font=”Poppins||||||||” header_font_size=”44px” text_orientation=”right” width=”100%” hover_enabled=”0″ custom_css_free_form=”/* to start and */.et_pb_slide_description{|| float:left !important;||}||.et_pb_slide_image{|| right:0px;||}” border_color_all=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ template_type=”module”][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH” image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NACH-LOGO-23.png” use_bg_overlay=”on” bg_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.31)” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Poppins|600|||||||” body_font_size=”18px” background_enable_color=”off” background_image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/banner01a.jpg” background_enable_image=”on” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” border_width_all_image=”150px” border_color_all_image=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”] NENA Arts and Culture Hub Spreading the Seeds of Relationalist Thinking [/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=”NACH” image=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NACH-Logo-and-Tag-2.png” use_bg_overlay=”on”
- [Regenesis Section](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/regenesis-section/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Projects Section” module_id=”Networks03WMC” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”8px||52px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”section”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ admin_label=”Project 04″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”50px|||” custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/regenesis-logo-2a-72.jpg” title_text=”Graphic_228_Summer_01_PARTY” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ custom_margin=”-33px||||false|false” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}” src__hover_enabled=”on|desktop” src__hover=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/regenesis-logo-2a-72.jpg”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https://enlivenment.network/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/event-banDFSDner5.jpeg” title_text=”event-banDFSDner5″ align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”-33px||||false|false” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”5%||5%|” global_colors_info=”{}”
- [Mission Statement](https://enlivenment.network/et_pb_layout/mission-statement/) - [et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”rgba(96,55,47,0.82)” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”2em” background_color=”rgba(132,23,6,0.18)” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_padding=”5px|5px|5px|5px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” template_type=”module”] At NACH, we are dedicated to cultivating a vibrant, interconnected arts and culture community that champions relationalist thinking. We believe in fostering creative collaborations and shared values that honor diversity, sustainability, and mutual support. Through our network of artists, thinkers, and cultural
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