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An update on all things Dark Optimism
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!
Death and Rebirth: Farewell, dear Schumacher College, hello new friends
Ah, Schumacher College. There’s a name to conjure with…
For so many of us, it summons magical memories of truly life-changing times. To this day, I remember the tingling surge of energy in my body during the fortnight of the “Life After Oil” course I took there in 2006 — as one attendee put it, I had the air about me of a man in an oasis, after wandering a desert for years.
And with good reason. It was there that I first found a peer group around my concern about our collective future. There that I began shedding the deep ache of feeling alone with the apocalypse. There that I met perhaps a dozen people who remain friends to this day, including luminaries like David Fleming, Rob Hopkins and Stephan Harding. And from there that I can trace a clear thread to the profoundly satisfying work I do today, helping others out of that solitude and into empowered community.
