PRESENCE
On Sunday, November 5, Council members and conveners from around the world came together for the final What Matters Now...
Bayo Akomolafe to Serve as Inaugural Senior Fellow
This year, we are honored that visionary Bayo Akomolafe will serve as the inaugural Senior Fellow to the Council on the Uncertain Human Future. He will also be in residence at the Schumacher Center for Local Economics in Great Barrington MA. Stay tuned for our upcoming collaborations. You can learn more about his work here.
Read about Bayo Akomolafe’s 2023 visit to Massachusetts last April, when he joined members of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future for a special Council gathering at MASSMoCA in North Adams—also the site of our CUHF office.
2024 Threshold Councils
The threshold is a liminal space, signaling transformation. This year, CUHF hosts a series of Threshold Councils as we slow into presence—moving together into deep witness of the social and planetary changes underway, and the openings emerging. We build community, listening for what may emerge between us.
In February, members of the Higher Education community (some pictured here) took up these questions. This summer, a community of visionaries co-hosted by Bayo Akomolafe will share their wisdom. Later this year, council circles will bring together young climate leaders in Massachusetts, women dharma leaders, and women creatives and mothers.
On this community, this practice
Since the beginning, we’ve listened for how CUHF might serve in these unprecedented times. In response, our conversations and practices have been mycelial in nature—deepening and evolving to meet the call. At ten years, the CUHF community and network continues to grow, morph and surprise us in its compassion, tenacity and possibilities.
In this time of profound uncertainty, dissolution and revelation, we asked a group of Council members to speak about how they understand our work, and what it offers for these times. Their voices are gathered in a circle in this special publication, available now through ISSU.
CUHF Community at MIT
Since the summer of 2020, faculty and staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been convening in small circles to build and deepen collective reflection on the planetary environmental crisis, as an Affiliate of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future.
It’s Time for Higher Education to “Get Real” about the Climate Crisis
Learn about the history of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, and our work in A new Earth conversation (NEC) at Clark University, in a new piece by CUHF Core Team member, Diana Chapman Walsh.
A new Earth conversation Brochure
The initial Council on the Uncertain Human Future (2014) inspired Clark University faculty and staff to join the process (2015-2019); a vision for A new Earth conversation emerged from those Councils and has grown into a campus-wide climate initiative, enabling deeper conversation and cultivating possibility with students.
View the brochure on Issu
