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We bring local wisdom keepers and futures thinking together, to build rooted sacred futures.
Rooted Futures: Imagining what can be,
grounded in the local wisdom of the land you stand on.
FOR ANYONE READY TO RELATE DIFFERENTLY TO EARTH
You know we need to live differently. The way we've been doing things no longer feels like enough, and you want something more meaningful and soul-led.
You want to relate to the Earth through indigenous wisdom. Whatever you do for work, you belong here.
Come with curiosity and willingness.
"I truly believe that in the past 10 years that I have lived in Bali, I had no idea about the depth of the wisdom in Bali, the ancestral wisdom."
Dian, ecopreneur and sustainability content creator.
PLACE-BASED,
LED BY KEEPERS
Every chapter belongs to its land. Local wisdom keepers teach, and we host. We never carry one tradition to another.
ROOTED FUTURES
Futures thinking, grounded in the wisdom of the land you stand on.
HEART-LED
Change starts within. Meditation, prayer, somatic and intuitive practice ground us in the living Earth.
REVERENCE
The Earth is alive. We relate to it in reciprocity, not extraction.
COMMUNITY
A local community of wisdom keepers and a translocal Emerging Earth community.
WHY NOW?
Our political and economic institutions are crumbling, after taking the Earth's natural systems to breaking point. This is the metacrisis, born from broken stories about who we are in relationship to each other and the earth.
Building new systems starts with healing the narratives both within us and outside us.
We need to invest in not just what work needs to be done, but what is the kind of human that needs to be cultivated in order to do the work that needs to be done.
As someone working in climate and energy, Emerging Earth Residency allowed me to step outside the usual “business-as-usual” approaches. Practices like the Nature Wisdom Council created a powerful container to listen more deeply, not just intellectually, but relationally, to the natural world. I left with a renewed sense of clarity, and a more conscious way of engaging with the complex intersections of climate, capitalism, and societal systems.
Stanley Ng
New Energy Nexus Global Partnerships Director
EMERGING EARTH, BALI
A cohort of eleven at Sari Devi Ecolodge in Jatiluwih, inside the UNESCO-listed Subak landscape. Our Balinese wisdom keepers: Made Masak of the Mawija community kitchen, Sugi Lanus on the lontar palm-leaf manuscripts, Putu Bawa Usadi and Etha Widiyanto.
COLLABORATE WITH US
Emerging Earth is place-based. Every residency begins with a place and the people who carry its wisdom. We find local collaborators wherever we host.
We are looking for people and organisations who want to co-create, teach, fund or tell the story of this work. If you hold a place, a community or an organisation that wants to host a residency, or if any of this is close to what you are working on, we would like to talk.
