by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
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.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last month the wonderful Kim Hare invited me to be the keynote speaker at a reunion for attendees of her freely-offered The Edge Retreat, which doubled as the launch for her book At The Edge. I decided to offer a 20 minute whistle-stop tour of my life so far: ...
by Shaun Chamberlin | May 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
A few months back, amidst the stimulating ferment of The Deeper Dive, I literally woke one morning with the short analogy below in my head. Prompted, without doubt, by my frustrations with the burgeoning popular debate on whether there’s “still time” to avoid the worst effects of destabilising our very climate.
I’m glad the climate scientists are doing their specialised work — who knows what useful insights they might unexpectedly turn up — but honestly, for the rest of us, it really doesn’t seem the critical question at this point…
Here’s what fell out of me when I woke up; the couple of folk I shared it with encouraged me to post it here:
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 | Oct 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was deeply shocked to hear last night of the death of Michael Dowd, creator of the wonderful PostDoom.com. He and his wife Connie Barlow have been good friends to me, as they have to so many others. Michael and I had exchanged a few words on Saturday, so I knew that he was in New York with his family, after the passing of his father on Thursday.
I had absolutely no idea that he himself passed away that night. I’m very much still processing the news, but wanted to share the below beautiful tribute from Jordan Perry, approved by Connie, with whom my thoughts are.
by Shaun Chamberlin | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The below phone message is from Morgan Trowland, the 40-year old civil engineer recently imprisoned for three years after suspending himself and a Just Stop Oil banner over the Dartford Crossing of the M25 motorway, prompting the police to close the road for 40 hours.
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