Aliveness Initiative

The Aliveness Initiative is a collaborative effort to catalyze and scale human and more-than-human flourishing by restoring ecological belonging, embodied relational awareness and the magic and mystery of life.

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We see a crisis of planetary imbalance and disconnection marked by loneliness, alienation, burnout, economic inequality, toxic contamination, climate crisis and species loss.  These issues are not only environmental and economic— but also psychological, cultural, and spiritual.

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We also notice a shift in which the limits of purely reductionist scientific knowing are becoming visible, while complexity science, embodied wisdom, ecological consciousness, and relational ways of knowing are re-emerging.

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The central question is existential:

 

What does it mean to be human, alive, and in right relationship with the living world?

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The Aliveness Initiative exists to respond to this moment by reawakening and restoring connection to:

• ourselves (mind, body, spirit)

• each other

• the more-than-human world

• and the mystery and aliveness of the cosmos

 

We bring together healthcare professionals, educators, community leaders, researchers and change makers to cultivate ecological belonging and human flourishing through learning, practice, and collaboration. We believe that together we can support our ecological selves, awaken the aliveness within and around us, of which we are a part and belong, and rekindle our internal flame and spirit.  It is time to heal and come alive.