A Mindful Circle
A number of CUHF conveners are longtime Buddhist practitioners. On Sunday, May 22, they came together via Zoom to reflect,...
In the Council on the Uncertain Human Future
we slow down, come present, and listen deeply.
We share our understandings of the social and political context in which we meet,
the planetary changes underway, and the human behaviors that brought us here…
and stay with the implications for all living beings, including ourselves.
With open hearts and minds,
we acknowledge the conditions and losses underway.
We ask… what matters from here?
Given what we know, how do we live now?
How might we serve, individually and together…
with and for the Earth?
Listening together, collective wisdom may arise
between us, further seeding empathetic, earth-based,
life-affirming ways into the new realities…
These practices of listening, steady presence and reckoning,
and the trust, insight, community and evolutionary visioning
that may grow from them, are path for these times… mycelial and emergent.
Please explore our practice stream, readers and films…
Learn more of our intentions, the ongoing contributions of CUHF members,
and how you might join us.
…and shifting the paradigm.
In the Council on the Uncertain Human Future…we slow down, come present, and listen deeply.
We share our understandings of the social and political context in which we meet, the planetary changes underway, and the human behaviors that brought us here…and stay with the implications for all living beings, including ourselves.
With open hearts and minds, we acknowledge the conditions and losses underway.
We ask… what matters from here? Given what we know, how do we live now? How might we serve, individually and together…with and for the earth?
Listening together, collective wisdom may arise between us, further seeding empathetic, earth-based, life-affirming ways into the new realities…
These practices of listening, steady presence and reckoning,and the trust, insight, community and evolutionary visioning that may grow from them, are path for these times…mycelial and emergent.
Please explore our practice stream, readers and films. Learn more of our intentions, the ongoing contributions of CUHF members, and how you might join us.
…it shifts the paradigm, sustaining us.
In Witness
In December 2020, a small group of CUHF members visited MASS MoCA in North Adams MA, where two powerful exhibitions were on view—Ledelle Moe’s When and Blane De St. Croix’s How to Move a Landscape. Together, Council members reflected on what they had seen. Nara Garber documented the experience, and created this film, In Witness.
We welcome you to view the film.
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CUHF Community at MIT
Since the summer of 2020, faculty and staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been convening in small circles to build and deepen collective reflection on the planetary environmental crisis, as an Affiliate of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future.
It’s Time for Higher Education to “Get Real” about the Climate Crisis
Learn about the history of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, and our work in A new Earth conversation (NEC) at Clark University, in a new piece by CUHF Core Team member, Diana Chapman Walsh.
A new Earth conversation Brochure
The initial Council on the Uncertain Human Future (2014) inspired Clark University faculty and staff to join the process (2015-2019); a vision for A new Earth conversation emerged from those Councils and has grown into a campus-wide climate initiative, enabling deeper conversation and cultivating possibility with students.
View the brochure on Issu