What is the Liminality Network?

The Liminality Network is a global and diverse community of practitioners, thinkers, and influencers navigating together the unraveling of human and natural systems, and positively contributing to emerging realities. 

We are a community committing to: 

• Engaging in an honest, open, and humble exploration of the “Great Unraveling” and how it has impacted and is impacting members and their communities
• Drawing on the breadth and diversity of our members, and their lived experiences and expertise, which offer unique insights and perspectives on a broad range of relevant topics  
• Aligning around core values of diversity, equity, humility, curiosity, openness, respect, compassion, and presencing the voices of “more than humans” (other species and ecosystems) 
• Acting collectively in ways that influence the nature of the unraveling, minimizing suffering, and building solidarity and social cohesion. 
  

The Liminality Network strives not only to ensure diversity and a balance of global perspectives, it aims to balance the focus of activities (events, dialogues, online discussions, working groups) between: a) deepening members analysis and understanding of the crisis and opportunities we face; b) helping members stay in a place of both accepting and feeling agency over the Great Unraveling; and c) supporting members to individually and collectively identify and develop interventions that grow alternatives to the current path humanity is collectively walking and ensuring the best possible outcomes.

In achieving this, our hope is that together we can strive to be fully present in this liminal space/moment, engaging with our full beings – head, heart and hands – while being present with the Great Unraveling.  Rather than falling into denial or hopelessness, we are supporting one another to stay present, embracing the complexity and uncertainty of what has, and continues to, unfold.  We are embracing the diversity of perspectives and different ways of knowing, presencing the “more than human” and the people who cannot be with us, and seeking always to hold the tension and find balance between analysis and understanding, acceptance and agency and action and intention.

Past Event Recordings

A Youth Perspective on Climate Justice and the Polycrisis

Navigating the Polycrisis – From Understanding to Action

Dreaming Through the Polycrisis

Navigating the Polycrisis: From Research to Practice

Politics in the Polycrisis

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.  Thanks.

The Liminality Network is currently hosted by Post Carbon Institute. Cover image by JR Korpa via Unsplash.