The Holon Institute

We’re very excited to announce The PolyOpportunity, a multi-track experience crafted in partnership with House of Beautiful Business and Acosta Institute, coming to you in 2025! - four in-person gatherings across four continents (a Salon in Berlin, a Retreat in Hudson Valley/NY, a Festival in Tangier, and a Bootcamp in Istanbul); - a 12-week digital learning journey; - and six Open House online public forums. For it is dawning on us: There is no going back to ‘progress.’ We must create a new reality together. One that transcends liberalism, populism, and techno-optimism alike. One where a plurality of stories, paradoxes, and truths strengthen one other. The PolyOpportunity is a call to imagine a future beyond the Anthropocene, beyond super-optimized greed, beyond extractive industries, beyond divisive politics. A bid to shape an economy where beauty is imperative, where diverse life thrives, and where technology fuses with biology to serve greater goals. Call it the planetary, more-than-human, or life-centered era. In any case, it has begun. Over the course of four months, we will explore five major Opportunities and how they interrelate: -    Regenerative Economics (a new value system) -    Extended Consciousness (a new relationship with technology) -    Collective Healing (a new societal pact) -    Planetary Citizenship (a new form of belonging) -    Open Curation (a new way of learning) We will also study ten "Powers" to realize them: Humility, Attention, Imagination, Conviction, Courage, Energy, Intimacy, Resilience, Laughter, and Time. And we'll do it with everything we've got: intellect, heart, spirit, body, and most importantly, community. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ggSjq5Ja You can pick and choose, or take part in the full journey. In any case, I hope you will join us!

It's our first #givingtuesday at The Holon Institute. 😀 This year has brought many firsts, and I'm immensely grateful for each of you who have made them possible. Speaking of possibility; this is what The Holon Institute is all about. The Holon Institute is an education and advisory organization that aspires to co-create the conditions from which new stories and systems may emerge, to activate the latent potential of human creativity, and to illuminate new possibilities so that all life on earth may exist in right relationship. We hope to be activators of connection in a fractured world, and recognize ecological and spiritual renewal. But we can’t do this without you. We hope you will join us on our journey to cultivate collective becoming – seeing and being seen, healing and integrating – while shaping the emergent future together. Thank you for being part of our inaugural Giving Tuesday campaign. https://lnkd.in/gM6gTiR2

The Holon Institute has an exciting announcement coming next week. Those of you subscribed to our newsletter will hear it first. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/g3XE9xdF

The The OmniPotential Series recordings are now live and available for your viewing! Watch each of the episodes on our YouTube channel here: https://lnkd.in/ghT8Xict If you'd like to see the included resource list for each episode, you can find that here: https://lnkd.in/gwtVks4t Thanks to each of you who joined us for this series, we appreciate all the love and support you have been showing these last few months. Next week we’ll be announcing a series of IRL and virtual events building on the themes of the OmniPotential Series. We’re very excited about what’s in store next year and hope you’ll join us on this journey. 😀

In what is sure to be a tense week, this conversation with Chris Everett will be a hopeful respite. We hope you can join us for the last episode of the Omnipotential Series where will explore the role of imagination in our times.

"For some of us, the complexity and richness of being fully alive is difficult and we struggle to consent to all it holds: loss, grief, pain, aloneness, illness, the pangs of hunger or fullness, the grip of fear, and the finality of death. In fact, we may even be trying to avoid feeling these things at all costs. But in the process, we also lose access to the beautiful things that come with being fully alive in our bodies: pleasure, joy, energy, connection, sensuality, self-expression, creativity, being held, and savoring the sun's warmth. We can't avoid the painful things we experience through our bodies without sacrificing the good, the beautiful, the rich." – Dr. Hillary McBride I hope you can join us this Wednesday for the fourth episode of the Omnipotential Series for a conversation about embodiment and why it is critical to overcoming the systemic challenges we face as a society.