On the More-Than-Human World | May 19, 2022

On the More-Than-Human World | May 19, 2022

An Evening with David Abram presented by California Institute of Integral Studies Public Programs In person and streaming live. Join CIIS philosophy faculty Matt Segall for an inspiring conversation with David on the wild intelligence of our bodies, the ecological depths of our imagination, and the ways in which sensory perception and wonder inform the ...

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Exploring Wonder and Urban Wildness | May 21 or May 22, 2022

Exploring Wonder and Urban Wildness | May 21 or May 22, 2022

An In-Person Walking Workshop in San Francisco’s Presidio How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing planet? At this liminal moment, when so many ecological boundaries are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its embedment within the biosphere, ...

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Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder | July 31 – August 5, 2022

Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder | July 31 – August 5, 2022

A six-day workshop with David Abram at the outrageously beautiful Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, British Columbia At a moment when so many ecological limits are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its own embedment within the biosphere, how can we swiftly catalyze a collective recognition of our thorough dependence upon the animate earth? ...

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Depth Ecology Camp | August 24 – 28, 2022

Depth Ecology Camp | August 24 – 28, 2022

With Nora Bateson, Wade Davis, Rex Weyler and David Abram Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address ourglobal challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth. What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological frame for seeing our world, our ...

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Essay: In the Ground of Our Unknowing

Essay: In the Ground of Our Unknowing

Facing the paradoxes and ambiguities enmeshed with the COVID-19 pandemic, David Abram finds beauty in the midst of shuddering terror. As we’re isolated in this uncertain time, he writes, we can turn to the more-than-human world to empower our empathy for each other.

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