Voertaal: Engels

Join Jeremy Lent for the launch of our new Pioneers for Change - RE:IMAGINE series. This fall we will be guided by some amazing guests to discuss and rethink the question; in what world do we want to live? How does this relate to our modern worldview of seperation and infinite growth? How can we reimagine and reshape it and what do we need to know about tranistion theories and symtems change?

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Pioneer Session | Jeremy Lent - The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe

Our dominant worldview of disconnection, tells us we are: 1) split between mind and body, 2) separate from each other, and 3) at odds with the natural world.

This worldview has passed its expiration date and needs to be replaced by a worldview of deep interconnectedness, argues Jeremy Lent.

Why? As our civilization is heading towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. It's not just dangerous—it's based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings.

Jeremy concludes that:

Once we shift our worldview, another world becomes possible.

Latest book - In The Web of Meaning (June 2021) Jeremy offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for an alternative worldview based on deep interconnectedness, showing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures.

Weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom, it offers a rigorous and integrated way of understanding our place in the cosmos that can serve as a philosophical foundation for a life-affirming future.

About Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. Born in London, England, Lent received a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and was a former Internet company CEO.

His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.

Flow of the session

20:00-20:15 INTRO - Welcome to the Pioneers for Change Learning Community

20:15-20:45 RE:THINK - Deep dive into the topic with Jeremy

20:45-20:55 RE:SPOND - Share and exchange ideas in small break-outs.

20:55-21:30 RE:CAP - Ask me Anything with Jeremy

PIONEERS FOR CHANGE | RE:IMAGINE Series

This session is part of a series of Pioneers for Change interactive webinars. With (inter)national pioneering speakers such as Jeremy Lent (The Web of Meaning), Reon Brand (Co-emerging Futures & Rethinking Design) and Jan Rotmans (Professor of transition studies and sustainability)

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