Flourishing February Unconference
💌 Please Save the Date
The Flourishing Foundation & Compassion 2.0 communities would like to invite you to an unconference and ecosystem mapping day on February 8th.
We hope to hold a collaborative space of learning and exchange for theorists + practitioners working on operationalizing progress narratives that center human & planet flourishing - not as byproducts of tech acceleration & capital accumulation.
📚 Example Themes to Co-explore
Theory
Systemic Flourishing
Individual Flourishing
Flourishing in Complexity
Flourishing Progress Narrative
Practice
Regenerative Economics in Action
Measuring Flourishing
Design Compassionate Organizations
Building Flourishing Products & Services
Nurture Flourishing Communities
🌳 Why We Gather
We live in a poly-crisis reality today where positive futures for carbon-based life forms are not a given anymore - we must actively co-design their emergence.
Many humans are becoming conscious that our current techno-capital and social systems are largely built on extraction-nary progress narratives that measure success based on quantity and speed of material accumulation, not on meaningful life-sustaining impact. While humans and the planet are living systems, many of the systems that govern our existence are not.
While the accumulation paradigm brought us much material abundance in the past era of development (in "developed" societies at least), it also compromised many humans' and the planet's best interests in the process, exacerbating complex wicked problems from climate change to modern meaning crisis.
In other words, Technology are Capital are both neutral, they can nurture life or extract vitality from life forms, deploying a new wave of transformative technology such as AI, BCI, HCI, Biotech etc. into current misaligned systems would amplify the latter - and existential risks. This reality calls for collective re-design and experimentation of new world systems.
Many systems-aware scholars and innovators have been redesigning truly life-centric and regenerative systems within academia and startup ecosystems alike. We need more translational spaces for Team Life humans to learn, question, and experiment together, across traditional institutional boundaries, especially in tech-led ecosystems.
🌷Join us for a weekend of interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing, discussion, and co-creation. We aim to be more than an un-conference - a movement amplifier. Together, we aim to:
Generate momentum and tangibility around projects that improve human and planetary flourishing.
Make progress on the theoretical foundations of this work.
Share knowledge and experiences to grow together.
Inspire new collaborations, ideas, and projects.
❓Here are a few of our guiding questions:
What is flourishing?
What does it look like in an era shaped by transformative technologies and rapid social change?
How do we make sense of complexity?
How does personal flourishing relate to systemic flourishing?
In what ways do existing systems (natural and built) enhance or inhibit human and planetary flourishing? How can we learn from them?
How might we move theory into practice? From organizations and communities to technologies and economies, how can a deeper understanding of flourishing inform the way we design and create things?
🙎Who should attend: We believe interdisciplinary collaboration is key to this movement, so we welcome participants from diverse backgrounds:
People and organizations whose work or research is focused on human and planetary flourishing.
Innovators and creators who are eager to co-design products, spaces, and systems that lead toward positive futures.
Interested and interesting people who want to learn from each other and connect with people who care.
📅 Dates/Schedule:
Saturday, Feb 8 | 10am-4pm | Unconference sharing sessions and deep dive workshops
Location: TBD
We’ll follow up soon with more details. Hope to see you there!