This slide deck presents an early draft of ideas for creating a school that is dedicated to helping communities learn how to guide their collective evolution toward health and resilience.

1. Creating A School
of Applied Cultural
Evolution
Design for What Is Needed In The World Today

2. “The world needs integrative solutions to systemic crises.”
“Communities around the globe need to
gain the ability to guide themselves
toward greater health and resilience.”
This is a Grand Challenge for Cultural Evolution
“All the while, we are bombarded by
cascading disruptions due to the
profound complexities of human-
environment relationships.”

3. We Need Highly Trained Researchers and Practitioners

4. All the pieces exist to create
the learning ecosystems that
we desperately need.

5. Misaligned Motivational
Drivers and Incentives
Institutional Silos Entrenched
Development
Fragmented Knowledge
Required Integration
Cannot Emerge
But it won’t happen the way things are now

6. Required Integrated
Function
Interoperability of Knowledge
Convergent
Findings Consilience
Mutual
Compatibility
Cultural Scaffolding Is Key!

7. A tremendous amount
is known about the
dynamics of social
change.
It is time to weave this
into a tapestry of
integrative knowledge
around field sites that
focus on bioregional
health and resilience.
Research + Synthesis
Translate Into Practice

8. Every location on Earth where social change occurs
as a field site for cultural evolution research.
Imagine…

9. At the heart of this… there is a school.
It is time. We must build one.

10. Our mission is to curate, integrate, and
translate the best science available for
change practitioners.
Build global network of field sites… help communities
guide their own evolution.