Council with Bayo Akomolafe at MassMoCA
The insights of Bayo Akomolafe as we live into these times upend our patterns of thought and ways of knowing....
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.
On this community, this practice
Since the beginning, we’ve listened for how CUHF might serve in these unprecedented times. In response, our conversations and practices have been mycelial in nature—deepening and evolving to meet the call. At ten years, the CUHF community and network continues to grow, morph and surprise us in its compassion, tenacity and possibilities.
In this time of profound uncertainty, dissolution and revelation, we asked a group of Council members to speak about how they understand our work, and what it offers for these times. Their voices are gathered in a circle in this special publication, available now through ISSU.
A Book Launch at MASSMoCA
Join members of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future at MassMoCA on Thursday, October 19th to celebrate the launch of Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World—a new book by M.R. O’Connor on the history and powerful phenomenon of wildfire. Described as “gutsy, clear-eyed, and surprisingly touching”, Ignition offers a wildly hopeful vision of an alternative environmental future. Joining M.R. O’Connor in conversation are fellow CUHF members and writers Meehan Crist and Emily Raboteau.
For more information on the series, click here.
A Year of Practice & Council with NDF
This year, the Council on the Uncertain Human Future is partnering with Natural Dharma Fellowship to offer an interactive series of monthly gatherings called, Rewilding the Soul. Featuring dharma talks by Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson, meditative practice in natural spaces, and dedicated Council Circles, we lean into our oneness with the living planet—combining an embodied practice of meditation with gathering and listening in Council.
For more information on the series, click here.
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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