Managing Election and Political Stress: Practical Tips for a Healthier Mindset
Managing Election and Political Stress: Practical Tips for a Healthier Mindset At a time when politics can generate anxiety, outrage, information overload, polarization, and damaged relationships, this practical guide addresses an important but easily overlooked capacity for social transformation: remaining psychologically grounded while staying civically engaged. It offers concrete practices for recognizing stress, setting boundaries […]
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) Playlist
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) Playlist This video series introduces the Memetic Activation Platform (MAP), a framework for understanding and engaging with the evolution of culture through memes, meaning-making, and coordinated collective action. Blending systems thinking, narrative strategy, and participatory tools, MAP explores how ideas spread, how cultural patterns shift, and how intentional “memetic design” can […]
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) – Design School for Regenerating Earth Series (2025)
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) – Design School for Regenerating Earth Series (2025) This 4-part 2025 series presents an updated and more applied articulation of the Memetic Activation Platform (MAP), delivered through the Design School for Regenerating Earth. Building on earlier MAP concepts, it explores how cultural transformation can be intentionally guided through narrative, identity, and […]
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative While most discussions of the Great Transition focus on transforming systems, Jim Collins turns attention to a parallel challenge: how do human beings navigate the periods of uncertainty, disruption, and reinvention that accompany profound change? Through the stories of people confronting life’s […]
Listening To The Earth Elders
Listening To The Earth Elders This conversation between Marianne Williamson, Mindahi Bastida—founder of The Earth Elders and ritual ceremony officer of the Otomi Toltec peoples—and Lara Mastropasqua explores Indigenous wisdom and the climate crisis through a fundamentally different relationship between humanity and the living Earth. Its importance to the Great Transition lies in challenging a […]
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe The Web of Meaning addresses one of the deepest dimensions of the Great Transition: the worldview through which we understand ourselves and our relationship with the living Earth. Jeremy Lent argues that the dominant culture’s experience of separation—from nature, […]
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning The Patterning Instinct explores a foundational question for the Great Transition: how did humanity come to see the world in ways that produced today’s dominant civilization? Jeremy Lent traces the evolution of meaning-making across cultures, showing how deeply rooted patterns of thought shape societies, […]
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis In this episode of *Your Undivided Attention*, the hosts examine how AI systems are increasingly capable of manipulating human attachment, emotion, and perception—raising concerns about psychological dependency and distorted reality. The conversation explores how persuasive technologies can exploit cognitive vulnerabilities, potentially leading to what some describe as […]
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp In this insightful conversation, researcher Luke Kemp explores the patterns and drivers behind the rise and fall of civilizations, drawing on historical and systems analysis to illuminate risks facing modern society. Rather than treating collapse as an anomaly, the discussion frames it […]
Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology. And doom and gloom messaging is just NOT working. This video presents the results of social experiments aimed at changing human behaviors in positive ways. Find out what approaches were effective […]