Dear <Subscriber>,
In the midst of the world’s upheavals, are you looking for a more positive and effective way forward – for yourself and for the world?
That’s what we’ve been exploring, developing and living into for more than 42 years here at Context Institute. This rich and rewarding journey has led us to focus on three foundational capacities as the practical keys to lasting personal and cultural change:
- Being savvy about psychodynamics (personality and motivation)
- Being skillful with diverse modes of cognition (perception and thinking)
- Being adept at the new strategy for success (whole-system win-win-win)
In modern culture, these three capacities are mostly underdeveloped and distorted. I see their weakness and dysfunction at the root of all of the big issues the world now faces: climate change, social injustice, species extinction, unsustainable economy, deforestation, dysfunctional governments, nuclear weapons, soil depletion, runaway technology, and on and on.
And because they’re so foundational, it’s by developing them that we find our most effective way forward.
In this newsletter, I’d like to offer two opportunities for you to deepen into them and discover their daily practical benefits.
The Stoa presentations
The first opportunity is via a series of online presentations I gave for a group called The Stoa. These provide the context, overview and examples of practices that you need to understand about how these capacities can be used to address today’s challenges at both personal and world scales.
They’ve been well received with collectively over seven thousand views.
The first one, last August, was called Cultural Co-Evolver: Frameworks, Skillsets, & Strategy for Embodied Action and provided an overview.
The people at The Stoa were intrigued and they invited me back to be their “Philosopher in Residence” for four additional events in November and December.
I used the first three to go deeply into each of the three capacities. The fourth event was an open conversation weaving together all of the threads from the previous events.
The videos, plus PDFs of the slides, from the full series are available here. The video playlist is here on youtube.
Do you long to make a difference for life and the Earth? Then dive into these videos and discover what becoming a conscious cultural co-evolver with the support of these three capacities could mean for you and the world.
Apr/May Bright Future Now –
Early-Bird discount ends Saturday
Are you ready to go deeper, to go beyond concepts to experience, practice and community? If you are, then join us in the Apr/May cohort for Bright Future Now, our 8-week online immersion into the three capacities.
“One of the best online courses I’ve taken in a long time. Awesome course design, great content, stellar people. I recommend it MOST highly.”
“This course is not just content, it’s connection, depth, and embodied ideas in shared practice. I highly recommend it if you are still looking for a bridge from dreaming of a new world to actually moving toward it.”
Intrigued? Find out more about the content here and the course design and process here.
If you’re interested in the $395 Early-Bird rate, now is the time to act. That rate ends this Saturday, 2/19. We also have a group rate and financial aid for those who need it. You can find out more about all the registration options here.
The opportunities for positive change are enormous now for those who can sense them. Listen to your heart and come join us!
With appreciation,
Robert Gilman
February 16, 2022
