Conscious Tech Community Writing Day
✍🏻 Let's write?
🪄 Over the last 2+ years, we've co-created a lot of magic in Conscious Tech discussions, events, projects, and field trips.
💜 We've learned and generated many interesting insights together. We've known that we have many meaningful things to say to the world, as a collective, and as individuals.
🕊️ There are some moral imperative to share them right now, too. But, we simply enjoy IRL time together so much that we've been procrastinating on writing.
🚂 So, let's get together IRL to get our Substack train going! For reals this time.
Or just come hang out and work on your website, project, or any tasks you've been procrastinating on and need some writing buddies for.
See you Tuesday as usual!
What is Conscious Tech?
"Conscious Tech" has a two-fold meaning:
1. Technology that expands consciousness, on an individual or collective level, towards mindful loving compassion, and flourishing. (e.g. mental health tech, tech for relational caring, tech for spiritual awakening & wisdom). We believe that consciousness evolution is the key to solving the polycrisis reality that we find our species and planet in.
2. Technology that are crafted with conscious intent and process and a truly life-centric orientation, minding the complex systemic dynamics that a product and service reside in. (e.g. calm tech, ambient computing, natural gesture interfaces)
What is CTC? We are a 2 year old multidisciplinary innovators' community - from backgrounds such as neuroscience, engineering, brain-computer interface (BCI), human-comuter interaction design (HCI), psychotherapy, arts, plant medicine, somatic healing, and other ancient wisdom practices. We come from academic, industry, and startup contexts and gather weekly in person in San Francisco, and go on excursions to other parts of the world.
Together, we explore shared concerns and curiosities about the impact of a new wave of emerging technologies on human well-being: from AI to next-gen BCI and biosensors, and more. We contextualize them with ancient wisdom technologies such as plant medicine and meditation to advance our research and innovation projects, holistically. We aim to channel technology's power to heal our connections to Self, Each other, and the Planet.
We advocate for the ethical research, design, and development of well-being-focused products and services - enabled by emerging technology. We also advocate for systems change - positive futures where Technology and Capital support human and planetary flourishing. Not the other way around. We want to contribute to an economy that's regenerative, life-sustaining, and positive-sum, not extractive.
Our 4 pillars of action are:
1. Community Building
2. Translational Research
3. Innovator Support
4. Product Incubation
A deep dive of our values can be found here: https://lu.ma/rcb9yltg
If these resonate, join us!