Welcome to the Principles and Practices for Deep Transformation: Laying the foundation for a new regenerative world course by Jeremy Lent.

Course summary:

Our civilization is careening at an accelerating pace toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality. Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require a fundamental transformation of society encompassing virtually every aspect of the human experience: our values, our goals, and our collective behavior. We need to transform our core human identity, our relationships with others, and with the nonhuman world.

The depiction of humans as selfish individuals, the view of nature as a resource to be exploited, and the idea that technology alone can fix our biggest problems, are all profound misconceptions that have collectively led our civilization down a path to disaster. The only way we can truly change our trajectory is by approaching society’s problems from the foundation of an alternative worldview—one that affirms life, rather than the accumulation of wealth above all else. Ultimately, this worldview could serve as the basis for a fundamentally different type of society: an ecological civilization.

This course, based largely on the work of Jeremy Lent’s recent book The Web of Meaning, but also drawing on many other diverse sources, lays out principles and practices of deep transformation for the individual, for community, and for society at large. It offers participants a deep but accessible guided exploration of an alternative life-affirming worldview based on the intersection of modern science and the world’s great wisdom traditions, along with an inspiring and practical vision of pathways that could lead to an ecological civilization.

Course timeline:

This course consists of 10 weeks as follows:

Week 1: How Did We Get Here?

Week 2: Who Am I?

Course completion and certificate:

In order to complete the course you need to:

• Watch all the videos 
• Participate in at least 1 forum discussion per week
• Attend as many of the community sessions (live sessions with co-facilitators) as you can
• Attend or watch the recordings of Friday sessions
  

How to communicate with us:

If during the duration of the course you experience any challenges, personal, technical, or otherwise that prevent or significantly challenge your participation in the course, please connect with us, we are here to support you:

Yan Teixeira: yan.teixeira@gaiaeducation.org