Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2024

Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2024

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.

Dear David…

Dear David…

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.

Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2023

Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2023

Well, after last winter’s powerful ride, it’s now just six weeks until our second Deeper Dive, this time alongside Stephen Jenkinson, Nate Hagens, Isabelle Frémeaux, Mark Boyle, Sherri Mitchell, Tim DeChristopher, Rob Hopkins and Vandana Shiva, each of whom brings a unique and hard-won perspective on the challenges and joys of life well lived in these times. Together, we’ll feed those into reflecting on our own paths.

It feels a real privilege and honour to be holding such a potent space again this winter, and inviting into it both guests for whom I have such profound respect, and old friends and new — like yourself? — to become part of the enduring community that continues to grow around the work.

Access David Fleming’s masterwork for free – launching LeanLogic.online!

Access David Fleming’s masterwork for free – launching LeanLogic.online!

By now most readers of my blog will be familiar with my late mentor’s masterwork Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It.

You might though be less familiar with LeanLogic.online, which is now ready for its full launch!

This is a lovingly developed and completely free online version of the award-winning book, converting it into the hyperlinked format that its holistic structure suits so perfectly. It’s also easily searchable, which I know is something many people have longed for in the print version, even with my careful efforts in producing a thorough index.

My coronavirus dilemma – weighing crises against each other?

My coronavirus dilemma – weighing crises against each other?

So, we have a sold-out London event on Monday, launching our film, book and online course. And all week I’ve been agonising — with the others involved — about whether to cancel it or not, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of writing (Thursday...