by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 9, 2025 | All Posts
Hey friends,
It’s been a busy year — not least with building out our thriving Surviving the Future community in its gorgeous new online home — and I’m aware that this blog has been a little neglected lately!
So I wanted to share here the below update sent out to my mailing list, covering that new site, January’s forthcoming Deeper Dive and our new guests, my forthcoming appearance at the Revolution in the 21st Century online international festival, our global community map, books from our alumni, etc etc…
Just click the image below to dig in!
by Shaun Chamberlin | Oct 28, 2023 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Surviving the Future, Uncategorized
Autumn has always been my favourite season, and over recent years it brings additional succour, signalling time to start preparing in earnest for the winter’s Deeper Dive.
This now-annual tradition has become a real highlight of my year, as a new small group capped at just fifty folk gathers to reflect meaningfully on our tumultuous times, and the ways we might choose to move through them. Starting in January and running online for nine weeks, I find it the perfect complement to the reflective energies of winter.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Sep 15, 2023 | All Posts, Cultural stories
As John Lennon had it, “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.
And as this culture continues the gruelling, methodical work of devastating our world in the face of all wisdom, and I accordingly work at preparing this winter’s Deeper Dive into Surviving the Future, I actually want to write here about something more personal than my usual themes!
by Shaun Chamberlin | Dec 7, 2022 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, The Sequel
Dear David,
I miss you. Still.
Ah, I’d planned to put this post up last Tuesday, on the twelfth anniversary of your sudden death, but I was too busy dealing with the flurry of interest in your legacy, so I know you’ll forgive me.
Instead I post it today. I have long had an impulse to burn a copy of the award-winningly beautiful final Lean Logic, to send it to you. And known that it is to be done on a full moon. Somehow it has never quite been the time. Tonight it will be.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 4, 2022 | All Posts, Articles
Originally written as my contribution to the Jihlava Inspiration Forum book, October 2022
The following is my response to the invitation for a brief 1,000 word reflection on the topic:
“How should we transform our relationships for the future? And what can each of us do about it?”
Transforming our relationship ~with~ the future
“The crisis we face is fundamentally one of relating”
The more deeply I reflect on these words from the extraordinary Eve Annecke, the more truth they reveal.
And indeed, useful truth… of that special kind that opens real, practical paths for transforming our future. [i]
That said, I must be clear.
My own dark optimism does not permit me to convey the popular idea that our future can be “anything we dream”; nor even that it will be bright, at least in any common sense of the word. Quite to the contrary, our time is one of lessons long ignored coming back to bite.
Our time is one in which the common assumption that our children will be better off than us has already quietly reversed. One in which the hard consequences to hubris come starkly into view, even as we stubbornly insist that our destiny is off-world, exploring the stars…
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 20, 2020 | All Posts
It is all too easy to get caught up in current events today, with the U.S. president scheming to discredit his own country’s election results, COVID-19 resurgent in many countries, social upheaval and natural disasters continuing to worsen with each passing year, to name but a few issues screaming for immediate attention.
But there is danger in letting our eyes be drawn too often, for every one of these current events is the product of underlying trends, and it is these that are more likely to reward intervention. Indeed, without such attention to the underpinnings, current events will only get more and more overwhelming until…
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