What are we noticing?
The coming together of a diverse range of environmental and societal crises interacting in ways that lead to the accelerating destabilization, breakdown, or collapse of the current order, increasingly termed “the polycrisis.” This is not a new story or new phenomenon for billions of people and more than humans. It began hundreds of years ago with colonization by Europeans or through other forms of exploitation.
We’re also noticing that the unraveling of some systems (the dominant neoliberal, consumption and growth-based economic system, for instance) may not be viewed as a “bad” thing. However, the destabilization, breakdown, or collapse of these dominant systems is and will have a profound impact on the lives of every being on the planet.
What’s our response?
Facing up to these interconnected crises requires unprecedented cooperation and coordination to rapidly realise a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient world. The Liminality Network is part of this.
Liminality – a quality of being in between two places or stages, on the verge of transitioning to something new.
Network – a group or system of interconnected people.
How are we doing this?
We are collaborating with Post Carbon Institute to convene and support a global and diverse community of practitioners, thinkers, and influencers navigating the polycrisis together and positively contributing to emerging realities.
Catalysed and co-created with potential members from every continent, we prioritise relationality and a culture of care. As a community we are striving to ensure diversity and balance in our global perspectives; to holding spaces for weaving relationship, solidarity and unifying narratives; to deepening our analysis and understanding of the polycrisis and opportunities emerging; to supporting each other to stay present, embracing the complexity and uncertainty as it unfolds; to developing interventions and growing alternatives, collectively ensuring the best possible outcomes.
From the outset key principles include meaningful inclusion of diverse perspectives, ways of being and knowing, balanced global south and north participation, seeking to presence more than humans as kin not just guests, accessible technology, and attendance enabled across all time zones. Participation by all age groups, and by people from all sectors and different perspectives from within these, is prioritised.
Where are we now?
A growing community and a developing multi-hub structure, with members coalescing in smaller gatherings and groups, while contributing to the whole.
A community committing to:
- Generous and humble sharing of knowledge, perspectives, experiences and worldviews;
- Distributing leadership and promoting equity across diverse ways of being and knowing;
- Deepening our individual and collective understanding of the polycrisis as it is being experienced by members and their communities;
- Accepting that the polycrisis is here and accelerating;
- Acting collectively in ways that influence the nature of the polycrisis, minimizing suffering, and building solidarity and social cohesion; and
- Aligning around our core values of diversity, equity, humility, curiosity, openness, respect, compassion, honoring all humans and the “more than humans” (other species and ecosystems).
If you are interested in joining the Liminality Network, please complete this form. We (the Coordinating Circle) are inviting people into the Network in small numbers at a time, so please bear with us.