As an emergent and adaptive network of networks, we will harness the energies, talents and enthusiasms of our members and network partners to develop a series of self-funding projects across 2026. Through these projects we will seek to spread the seeds of ENLIVENMENT as a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing, in alignment with First Nations knowledges, and acting as allies with First Nations peoples and their communities.

The Force of Life Collective is a creative experiment in turning conversations into music – where voices from interviews, podcasts and lived experiences are transformed into songs and audio art that carry their emotional truth. It is not just about producing music, but about finding a deeper language for the times we are in: a way to move beyond facts and arguments into something that can be felt, remembered, and shared. Each piece becomes a kind of “musical echo” of the many voices behind it – scientists, activists, elders, community members – woven together into a growing body of work that seeks to reconnect us with what really matters: our relationship with life on Earth, each other, and the future we are shaping together. Force of Life Collective

Project Lead: Mik Aidt, based in Geelong

Our blog is a home for creative non-fiction articles and commentary that will share our creative responses to the tsunami of intersecting crises engulfing our world. It will track the search for a new story of ENLIVENMENT, of courageous, resilient resistence to the techno-managerialist, neo-liberal economic global order, as it reaches its apogee in colonising the territory of our minds and emotions through algorithmic data harvesting.

—Project Lead: Barbara Lepani

The Rebellion of the Earth Kingdoms

As a continuation of our commitment to promote the shift from the extractivist worldview of today’s dominant culture to the relationist worldview of Australia’s First Nations cultural foundations, we are developing a project to pull together a diverse group of creative minds: writers, musicians, visual artists and cultural workers to story-board a multi-arts publication/performance in 8 episodes: The Rebellion of the Earth Kingdoms. In this story we will join forces with the World Wide Union of Robots (WWUR) to  explore how to rescue humanity from its entrapment in extractivist techno-materialism and dreams of conquering space after trashing the Earth’s kingdoms.

The Eldership Revolution

Inspired by Danish writer, Tor Norrestrander’s call for an Eldership Revolution across countries of Anglo-European cultural heritage like his own. In acknowledgement of the role Elders play in Australia’s First Nations cultures, we are exploring the potential for reimaagining Retirement through Eldership Revolution based on the ancient eldership traditions of Anglo-European cultures.

What if we could redefine the purpose and meaning of retirement away from commodified leisure and pleasure, to co-creating life-affirming legacies for the coming generations: an Eldership Revolution in service of all Life on Planet Earth. We will be looking to our network partners, with potential for links with the Geelong-based work of Mik Aidt and his Force for Life projects. Who else could be our partners in this important project?

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— Project Leads: Barbara Lepani, Mik Aidt, Inge Riebe

Living Futures Krew

Living Futures Krew is an intergenerational, place-based mentoring program grounded in the belief that the wellbeing and future capacity of our children is inseparable from the health of the land, waters, and communities they belong to. In a time of ecological uncertainty, this program supports young people to develop the skills, confidence, cultural understanding and creative agency needed to navigate possible futures for themselves and each other on this planet. Based at the Lakes Eco Hub in Lakes Entrance, the program celebrates the living places young people inhabit — insects, birds, native plants, bush foods, wetlands and bushland — and connects them with Indigenous cultural knowledge and local ecological systems.

— Project Lead: Catherine van Wilgenburg