Talk Nova Conf 2025: Cultivating Connections

Presentation at Nova conf

## Notes and Reflections

Positive sense that these ideas are spreading. Can sound a bit generic and age of aquarius at times but that is to be expected
- Many of these people have been doing this decades. Sense that there is a growing critical mass that even if a minority you are now able to find others and come out in the open e.g. to mention spirituality etc (cf example of psychedelics: once something you hid, now something you can openly talk about it and acknowledge you have done)
https://transformationscommunity.org/ - Bruce Goldstein presentation
Lots of this stuff gets funded and/or comes out of sustainability
- cf Hannah Gosnell talk IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
- IPBES assessment: looking at "Underlying causes of biodiversity loss" ≥ focus on inner dimensions ❗
- Goal: "Human and nature live in harmony" by 2050
You can feel the coming takeover of green (worldview)
- Focus is mostly on nature and sustainability, on relationality etc
  - e.g. in Hannah's presentation the major focus is on building "nature connectedness"
- Art show at beginning was all about students making eco-art
- Much less on wisdom (including reason) or metamodernism, or emphasis on consciousness evolution
Little direct mention or use of integral e.g. Pal Dobrin talking about how more people now touch nondual experience but they don't then change worldview. classic integral point: your experience gets interpreted through your cultural frame.