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...

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 idea of 'sovereign' recently applied to a type of citizenship - the sovereign...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Explore how an enlivenment worldview challenges modern Western norms and offers a relational, life-affirming counter-culture rooted in ecology, art and Indigenous insights.

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...

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...

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...