The Gaiarcadia Academy of Integral Advanced Studies (GAIAS) brings thought leaders and change agents from all over the world to Western Australia and to our global audience and network, with the aim of further enhancing Gaiarcadia Academy’s global influence in transitioning humanity into the Gaianthropocene or Ecozoic era.

Upcoming Events

Public Webinars

21 April 2024, 6:40am-11:00 0am AWST [3:40PM Pacific Daylight Time, Saturday 20:04.241

Our Cosmic Journey to GaiaSelf

Five outstanding thinkers ( bios at gaiarcadia.org/summit/speakers/) will speak on Our Cosmic Journey to GaiaSelf. The session begins with a welcome by Dr Janelle Trees & concludes with a panel discussion which promises to be entertaining, thought provoking and memorable.

Prof. Brian Swimme
[4:00PDT] Cosmogenesis of the Gaiasphere
Cosmologist, California Inst. of Integral Studies (CIIS), author Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe (2022), dir. award-winning film Journey of the Universe, co-author The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfolding Universe with Thomas Berry. See www.brianswimme.org

Prof. Elisabet Sahtouris
[4:40PDT] Gaian ecosophy for the awakening of humanity
Professor Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, speaker, consultant on Living Systems Design, author Gaia’s Dance: the Story of Earth & Us (2018), Biology Revisioned (1998) and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution (2000) • She teachers at the School of Business & Communication, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. See www.sahtouris.com

Prof. Sean Kelly
[4:20PDT] Becoming Gaia: birth of the Gaianthropocene
Professor Kelly teaches in the CIIS Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness program • He’s the author Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation (2021); Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era (2010) & co-translator Edgar Morin’s Homeland Earth: A manifesto for the New Millennium • ciis.academia.edu/SeanKelly

Prof. Alexander Laszlo
[5:00PDT] The Connective Intelligence of the Gaian Mycelial Humanetwork
Professor Laszlo’s website is alexanderlaszlo.net. He’s a researcher, interested in how to human well, both individually and collectively. He’s the author of Syntony Sense: Evolutionary Intuition for World Changers (forthcoming), co-author The New Paradigm in Sentience and Consciousness (2023)

Prof. Mary E. Tucker
[3:40PDT] Thomas Berry and the Emerging EcoSelf
Professor Tucker is Co-Director o the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is co-author of Thomas Berry: A Biography • co-creator award-winning film Journey of the Universe, member International Earth Charter Council. Mary is unable to attend so she’s kindly recorded her presentation to open the session.

Prof. Freya Mathews
[6:30PDT] Indigenity and Panpsychism: paradigms of an Ecological Civilization
Emeritus Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Latrobe University. Her books include The Dao of Civilization: a Letter to China (2023); The Ecological Self (1991, 2021) &, For Love of Matter: a Contemporary Panpsychism (2003). She is the author of over a hundred essays, chapters and articles in the area of ecological philosophy. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. See link below & www.freyamathews.net/about-me

Dr Zhiwa Woodbury
[6:10PDT] Quantum Phenomenology: uplinking our psyche to Gaia’s
Panpsychologist; retired eco-defense attorney; climate psychology researcher/writer, blogger at EcopsychologyNow.blog. His recent works include Climate Trauma, Reconciliation & Recovery (2022); Gaian rEvolution: Entering & Shaping the Gaianthropocene in Climate Trauma & Recovery (2021); Breaking the Taboos Inhibiting Gaia’s Awakening (2020); Natural New Deal for Planet Earth (2019) & Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma (2019)

A/Prof. Matt Segall
[6:50PDT] Love and Death in the Gaianthropocene
A/Professor Segall is Chair of Science Advisory Committee, Cobb Institute and Lecturer in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His publications include: Whitehead and Marx:A Cosmopolitical Approach to Ecological Civilization (2019), Love and Death in the Gaianthropocene (Prologue to my talk at Boom Festival) https://youtu.be/-P6siQlg4D0 (July 2023)

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21 April 2024, 2:00pm-4:00pm

Education & Learning for Thriving in the Gaianthropocene | Ecozoic

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.  – H.G. Wells, 1920.

A century after these wise words, we need to ask what kind of education and learning? How can it help us to avert catastophe & to upshift humanity into thriving?

In this 2 hour webinar* distinguished leaders in environmental and Gaian education and in complexity, holistic, integral thinking and learning ( bios at gaiarcadia.org/summit/speakers/ ) share ideas, issues, concerns & lived experiences using case studies and examples. The webinar will conclude with a 45 minute panel discussion.

Don’t miss this lively, informative and inspiring webinar with outstanding speakers and a discussion which promises to be entertaining, thought provoking and memorable. 

Prof. Elisabet Sahtouris
Professor Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, speaker and education consultant including to Gaia School in Estonia. She is the author of Gaia’s Dance: the Story of Earth & Us (2018),  Biology Revisioned (1998). She teachers at the School of Business & Communication, Chaminade University,  Honolulu, Hawaii. See recent article in Whole Life Times  Special  Issue  24#2 at wholelifetimes.org/se/

Dr Peter Le Breton
His PhD titled Farther Reaches of Human Learning in Transformative Studies was done at California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a Warm Data Lab Host, certified by the International Bateson Institute. The porcess helps groups address complex problems. His R&D interests include  mutual learning in living systems & thought as a system.

Dr Nora Bateson
Dr Bateson is director The International Bateson Institute, creator Warm Data Lab, author Combining (November 2023), Small Arcs of Larger Circles (2016), award-winning filmmaker, producer An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of Gregory Bateson. Fellow of Lindisfarne, member of Club of Rome, winner Media Ecology Award.

Toomas Trapido
Tomas Trapido is the principal of the Gaia School in Estonia and founder of Gaia Academy/Gaia Akadeemia (adults). He’s a biologist, permaculturalist and member of the Estonian Greens Party.

Dr Shae Brown
Dr Brown is the originator of Complexity Patterning. She’s a complexity educator, academic and student advocate at Southern Cross University in Queensland, Australia.

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