Deep Adaptation

Webinar for launch of new research paper “ Monetary Adaptation to Planetary Emergency ” which contributes to the debate about what can be done about the massive Covid-related public debts. It argues that there is no way out of this debt situation that won't make future pandemics more likely, unl....

Jilani is a classically trained musician, a Certified Leader and Mentor of the Dances of Universal Peace International, and a teacher in the Sufi Ruhaniat International (a Universal Western Sufi Order)....

Sean Kelly, Ph.D., is professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).  He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era, co-editor of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in ....

Rupert is an academic and a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK Links to Rupert's work: Facing up to Climate Reality Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside This civilisation is finished (book) This civilisation is finished: so what is to be done? (lecture).

Henk Barendregt received his doctorate in Mathematical Logic in 1971, and continued studying studied Zen meditation and Vipasssana meditation until 2006. As occupant of the chair of Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science at Nijmegen University, he studied meditation and its neuropsychologic....

Taken from Jem Bendell's blog . "when harvests collapse, we won't be eating our placards. We will be relying on the love we have for each other and the ways we have prepared.".

Skeena ia a mum of three who lives in Stroud, where she runs the Politics Kitchen and is a co-founder of Compassionate Stroud. She is also a Labour Councillor, a trauma release therapist, and teaches Pilates, Yoga, Feldenkrais, Garuda and Energy Medicine and heart-math meditation..

"Paying attention fully to what is around us and in front of us, even though it hurts, is to be fully alive. As Kahlil Gibran wrote, “the deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” First posted in Resilience ..

[Jem Bendell wrote this blog post before writing the Deep Adaptation paper.] What follows is a personal story of my journey over almost 4 years since I began to accept the scale of the climate tragedy and what that could mean for my life....

In my professional world of leadership and its development, hope and vision are recognized as key. I still teach such skills to senior executives in business, politics and civil society and am proud of the way they feel empowered in their purpose as a result....

What I wish for is a collapse of the ideology which has caused so much destruction and suffering, and which will continue to do so as our ecosystems, economies and societies break down. So what is this ideology that I blame for our predicament and wish would collapse as soon as possible?.

A blog post authored by Prof Jem Bendell and Rabbi Jeffrey Newman and read by Michael Dowd. What would a sane society do, knowing that one of its luxury food supplies was being exhausted? Consume less perhaps? Or grow more? Japan, knowing that the Bluefin tuna is going extinct , does neither....

Over the past year more scientists have begun to warn more clearly of the potential and even likelihood of societal collapse due to the direct and indirect impacts of dangerous climate change. These warnings are being lost in the winds of news cycles and drowned out by scientists who prefer assessme....

Elsie Luna is an 11 year old activist who has been a key organiser and spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion Youth. She was one of the first UK strikers for Fridays For the Future and co-founded and co-coordinates Extinction Rebellion Kids....

XR Clare Farrell participated in a Q&A with participants in the Foundations of Sustainable Leadership course, led by Professor Jem Bendell. Clare was a participant in the course in 2019. In this interview they discuss how XR might respond to the evidence of rapid climate change and the Deep Adaptati....

“Katie Carr, senior facilitator with the DAF Core Team, interviewed by an inspiring 11 year old, Merry (whose mum is a volunteer facilitator for Deep Adaptation).  Last year, Merry experienced a really difficult time, coming to terms with her fear about the climate crisis....

Sister Jayanti is the European Director of Brahma Kumaris, their representative at the United Nations in Geneva and a spiritual leader and teacher for over 50 years. She is a pioneer advocate for the spiritual basis of caring for the earth and a key presenter at COP climate change conferences since ....

Amisha is an experienced facilitator and has a gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the earth. She has hosted many retreats and workshops, that include yoga, meditation and sacred activism such as The Heart of Transformation, Wild Grace, and a five month residentia....

Dahr is an award winning journalist and author who spent more than a year in Iraq reporting on the 2003 war between 2003-2013, and has reported for The Guardian, The Independent, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Truthout, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Al Jazeera English, among many others....

Caroline teaches at the University of Bath & is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) Executive Committee; academic & psychotherapist. She is researching children & young people's feelings about the climate and biodiversity crisis in the UK, Maldives & Bangladesh to explore different n....

Hosted by Enough!'s Layla-roxanne, Jem and Gehan will discuss the core themes of the Deep Adaptation agenda – resilience, relinquishment and restoration – with a view to social, environmental and racial justice, grounded in a Scottish and global context....

Charles is the author of "Climate, a New Story" and other books. "I'm not the guy who has got it all figured out. I know that my books and other work comes from a deep, inspired source, but that source is not me! It is more like I'm connecting to a field of knowledge, or to a story that wants to....

Professor Jem Bendell gave the opening keynote at the conference of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The event focused on the response of the psychotherapy profession to the growth of climate anxiety called "Sleepwalking into the Anthropocene." Jem gave a talk on "Hope in the time of climate....

Money is like the operating system of our society, mediating our relationships, enabling and preventing our activities and redistributing resources. Many believe that our money system is the driver of economic growth and arguable the root cause of the climate crisis....

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She has extensive experience working across sectors internationally in areas of education related to glo....

Someone told me people come to XR because of fear, but they stay in it because of love." Jem Bendell.

Professor Jem Bendell gave a talk at Buddhafields' Green Earth Awakening event in the UK in September 2019. He reflected on some spiritual aspects of Deep Adaptation..

Adrian is a co-founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance and lead author of its monthly newsletter as well as coordinator of a Transition initiative on the Somerset levels. He is retired after 25 years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with extensive experience in teaching and supervision in the ....

To understand Deb Ozarko is to understand the Soul. In letting go of the physical world, she has paradoxically embraced the tender sacredness of life. To be in the presence of Deb is to be in the presence of wisdom, joy, humor, passion, compassion, and raw authenticity....

Panel discussion with Prof. Rupert Read, Roger Hallam and Marc Lopatin. Chaired by Anita McNaught at Byline Festival (Pippingford Park, England) August, 2019..

Dr Gail Bradbrook has been researching, planning and training for mass civil disobedience since 2010 and is a co-founder of the social movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) which rapidly spread internationally since its launch in October 2018....

Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. The author of more than twelve   books, she is the root teacher of the Work That ....

In this episode Amisha shares a moment with strategist and educator Jem Bendell. Jem published a paper in July 2018 introducing the concept of Deep Adaptation and stating his belief in the inevitability of climate-induced societal collapse within the next 10 years....

Carolyn is the author of Dark Gold: The Human Shadow And The Global Crisis; Love In The Age Of Ecological Apocalypse: The Relationships We Need To Thrive. With Andrew Harvey, she has co-authored Return To Joy and Savage Grace: Living Resiliently In The Dark Night Of The Globe....

Sustainability scholar Jem Bendell looks to deep adaptation in the face of inevitable climate-induced social collapse - as the global system of carbon capitalism pushes life on this planet towards disaster, only a profound shift in the way we relate to the natural world, each other, and our own mort....

Jem Bendell introduces the Deep Adaptation Q&A series.

The original paper read by Matthew Slater.

Jem Bendell rips apart our assumptions about money..

Jem Bendell talk about recession and the role of the money system in creating it..