Faced with accelerating disruptions and social and environmental breakdowns, traditional forms of philanthropic giving may be less effective than they once were. Confronted with societal divisions, wars, and the climate crisis, core actors in philanthropy have begun to ask how philanthropy can respond more effectively in moments of a polycrisis…

Read the article in Italian — Japanese — German — Portuguese — Spanish — Traditional Chinese — Ukrainian I have just returned from Latin America. I find myself a somewhat different person than the one that left a couple of weeks ago. What changed? During my visit I went to…

Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse — Read the article in Spanish — Japanese — German — Traditional Chinese — Italian — Ukrainian — Russian — French I am sitting in a train on the Räthische Railway riding back from Pontresina, high in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Surrounded by the presence of melting glaciers I reflect on…

A 10-Point Meditation on Our Current Moment Read the translation into French — German — Japanese — Traditional Chinese — Spanish — Italian — Dutch — Russian — Ukrainian As the reckless attacks and war crimes against the Ukrainian people broadened and became more brutal, I found it difficult to concentrate and to continue writing this contemplation…

Part I: The Social Grammar of Destruction Read the article in Italian — Traditional Chinese — Spanish — Japanese — German 1 / German 2 — French — Dutch — Russian /Russian (summary version) — Ukrainian In this blog, I invite you to join me in a meditative journey on the current moment. We start with Putin’s…

Read the article in Dutch — in Traditional Chinese — in Spanish — in Japanese — in Italian — in French Dear Friends, as we enter the new year, I would like to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and to set the intention for 2022. What did we…

In the face of accelerating social and environmental breakdowns, how can we build our collective capacities for transformation to bring about a just, inclusive, and regenerative society for all? — Read the article in Spanish — Italian — Traditional Chinese — Japanese Key Lessons Learned: In our work over the past two decades at the Presencing Institute, we have learned a few key lessons in regard to building our collective capacity for transformation.

Read the article in Italian — Spanish — Traditional Chinese — Japanese — Dutch — Hebrew In 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall would collapse, I was co-leading an international student group in a program called Peace Studies Around the World that took us to East and West…

Read the article in Spanish — Japanese — Traditional Chinese — Italian — Hebrew — German In ancient Jerusalem there was a gate called the Eye of the Needle which was so narrow that when a fully loaded camel approached it, all the bundles had to be removed so that…