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• Nature Connection Practices
• Meditation - Spiritual Guidance
• Coaching - Transformation - Philosophy
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• Parent / teacher / child care provider
• One to one, personal
• Groups, teams and organisations
I lead Sterling College (Vermont)’s transformative online programme ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time’, grounded in the desire to face our troubled times, together.
The ‘offers’ section of my profile below tells more on that front, so in this bio let me focus on my own journey to date to see what might resonate, having begun wakening to ‘collapse consciousness’ in 2000.
In 2005 I accordingly quit my job – teaching with marginalised groups, including drug misusers and young asylum seekers – to devote myself full-time to exploring the dominant cultural stories and ‘myths’ charting the course for our society. And, in particular, whether we might change direction before we end up where we are headed, individually or collectively.
Perhaps my proudest achievement since is having shepherded the late David Fleming‘s award-winning Lean Logic and Surviving the Future to posthumous publication. These extraordinary books themselves provide a real framework for making sense of the inevitability of collapse in our times.
In light of their ever-growing popularity, I then taught the ‘Community, Place and Play: A Post-Market Economics’ course at Schumacher College, was executive producer of 2020 film The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?, and now partner with Vermont’s Sterling College, both as consulting scholar on their international EcoGather project and leading ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time’, helping hundreds of participants from every continent on Earth – including several other DA Guides – come to terms with our times, and ultimately reach their own diverse answers to the question: what stories do we want our lives to tell through this period?
For me personally, alongside the above efforts, putting the theory into practice looks like being one of the six custodians of Ireland’s legendary free pub ‘The Happy Pig‘, and having been involved with the Transition Network since its inception, leading to my co-founding Transition Town Kingston and authoring the movement’s second book, The Transition Timeline, back in 2009.
I was also Michael Dowd’s partner for the first of his wonderful ‘Post Doom conversations’ (below), have contributed to two of the Dark Mountain books, and was one of the earliest Extinction Rebellion arrestees.
In earlier years I served as a director of the campaigning organisation Global Justice Now, Chelsea Green Publishing‘s commissioning editor for the UK/Europe, an advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (for my sins!), co-author of the All Party Parliamentary report into carbon rationing, and chair of the Ecological Land Co-operative. Hopefully we’ll get to connect soon.
www.darkoptimism.org
Offers from this Guide to You
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This is an annual, eight-week guided journey we take each winter, with a small community of others worldwide. Providing space and time for shared, in …
- Type: Coaching - Transformation - Philosophy, Meditation - Spiritual Guidance, Nature Connection Practices, Psychology - Psychotherapy - Counseling
- For: Groups, teams and organisations, One to one, personal
- Payment: Donation or a specified span
- Guide: Shaun Chamberlin
Available to take whenever you’re ready, at your own pace — and offered on a ‘pay what feels right’ basis — this flexible yet interactive online offer …
- Type: Coaching - Transformation - Philosophy, Meditation - Spiritual Guidance, Nature Connection Practices, Psychology - Psychotherapy - Counseling
- For: Groups, teams and organisations, One to one, personal, Parent / teacher / child care provider, Self-Guided
- Payment: Donation or a specified span
- Guide: Shaun Chamberlin
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