Re-imagining is a place for people who believe that the stories of the Modern world no longer sustain us, bringing us to brink of catastrophe – ecologically, economically, spiritually. Our troubles cannot be solved merely through technology, or even politics; rather, we need to re-imagine what it means to be human. We seek new stories, new poetics, new ideas – and we put our ideas and stories into action. This work requires the wisdom of those at the margins, and by those with the courage to imagine a new world. Click here to learn more.
Featured Articles
The Climate & The Cage:
On Mass Extinction &
Mass Incarceration
By Theodore Richards
Making connections in a civilization rooted in building fences, in drawing lines, will always be a hard sell, so bear with me. I am going to try to make sense of our moment, of the myriad crises in which we find ourselves – the many cages in which we are imprisoned.
3 Poems
By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Be in the Conversation,
Not the Fight
By Heidi Bar
MeToo Squared:
Breaking Silence
By Meta Commerse
The Love That Burns
By Theodore Richards
Courage to…
By Mike Keating
On Vistas, Voles, and Volition
By Katherine Hauswirth
Contemplation Music Writing
Strikes Emotional Chords with Kids
By Jeffrey Pflaum
Rites of Passage
in Our Times
By Josette Luvmour, PhD and Ba Luvmour
Re-sources
Re-Imagining Education
Empowering educators to take a deeper look at the stories told in our schools and to re-imagine them in transformative and
nurturing learning spaces.
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Classes, workshops, and lectures that help to empower people to re-imagine who they are and their place in the world.
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