IFLAS - Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability

23/04/2024

Join us on 1 May @ 13:00 BST (GMT +1) for our next webinar about the University of Cumbria's part-time Doctor of Business Adminstration (DBA) programme. Meet members of the programme team & current DBA research students. Learn about how you can become a part of the next cohort and begin your DBA research journey with us in October 2024.

Register for this online event via the link below:

Learn about our Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) which will equip you with the knowledge, skills and capability to undertake independent research within your professional context.

28/12/2023

Live in Europe and wanna meet in person with people to discuss 'deep adaptation'? This spring, two events, in Belgium and Hungary, are bringing together leading thinkers, doers and activists on collapse readiness. I am looking forward to attending. Links for further information and how to sign up, are below.

Belgium (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve) 14th to 17th March, 2024

Horizons of Change - A retreat with Satish Kumar, Adélaïde Charlier, Pablo Servigne and Jem Bendell from 14th to 16th March 2024
https://www.thesprouts.co/horizons-of-change-retreat

Confluence of Wisdom: Forum on System Change, Activism and Mindful Leadership

https://www.thesprouts.co/confluence-of-wisdom-forum

Hungary (Budapest) - 19th and 20th April, 2024

Deep Adaptation: Five Years Into Collapse?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP9thFv9Xmvqi1JP5Rrf7fvdLBytdjyxq_TUWZpG7aO_h8cQ/viewform

If you can't make it to these, then perhaps consider an online course on DA?
https://www.katie-carr.com/leadingthroughcollapse

A transformative day with four influential voices in deep adaptation, activism, collective resilience, and transformative education. Satish Kumar's six decades of radical love converge with Jem Bendell, Pablo Servigne, and Adelaïde Charlier's insights on navigating collapse and fostering regenerati...

02/12/2023

"In my work in palliative care, I’ve nursed thousands of dying people. Now I’m one of many accompanying a dying civilisation. The diagnosis is pretty much incontestable, although the precise manner of its termination is still playing itself out."

"...there will be no softening of the collapse of societies, for people or wider nature, unless more of us discover and prioritise our own spiritual response to this predicament. That is not a summons to fluffy feel-good spiritual experiences to keep the horrors at bay. It is a summons to fierce and profound inquiry, a deep plunge into the joypain of existence, and a wholly (holy!) different perspective on reality and what it is to be human in that reality. Such a Way lifts (or sinks) us into an utterly different relationship and perception of life; of self and that which is beyond the self. Without that we shall persist in limited perceptions of what it is to be human and part of all of life. Without it we would continue deploying our good intentions and rearranging bits and pieces of ordinary reality without fundamentally changing our relationship to that reality."

Reverend Stephen Wright writes a guest blog. You can listen to it at
https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell/deep-spirituality-in-an-era-of

Or read it:
https://jembendell.com/2023/12/02/deep-spirituality-in-an-era-of-collapse/

A guest essay for jembendell.com by Reverend Wright, narrated by Jem.

26/08/2023

As societies breakdown, we will need peer-to-peer collaboration, including commons-based enterprise and exchange systems. This is a key takeaway from my book , focused on in a book review from Shareable written by currency innovation guru Stephen DeMeulenaere . Perhaps a bit more hopeful than the book itself, the review is a nice call to arms for a freedom-loving environmentalism.
https://www.shareable.net/a-new-compass-for-navigating-past-the-collapse-a-review-of-breaking-together-by-dr-jem-bendell/

Nenad Maljković Michael Dowd Luke Wilde Denise Castelli Ben McConaghy Vicki Robin Emilio Mula Franny Armstrong Amisha Ghadiali Andrew Medhurst Kathryn Anne Allen Reed Adri DelaTierra Amanda Hamilton Justine Afra Huxley Inez Aponte Aaron Vandiver André Clements Anastassia Ozerova Stephanie Ann Muna AbuSulayman Amanda P. Witdarmono Aidy Halimanjaya Alan Heeks Adebayo C. Akomolafe Anna Gelderd Albert Cañigueral Anita Setyorini Hara Bloom Denton Hockley Michel Bauwens Becca Dakini Chris Taylor Charles O'Malley Nicolas Briet Barbara Cecil Beth Foster-Ogg Brett Reginald Scott Sophy Banks Kaliya Identerati

If it seems like a slow, yet noticeable decline is occurring around the global economy, society at large, and certainly the environment, it’s because it

21/07/2023

Absolute bo****ks being shared with me on Twitter but I can't reply as I've been booted off. No, co2 wasn't higher during all previous ice ages.

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/ #:~:text=During%20ice%20ages%2C%20CO2,see%20fluctuations%20in%20the%20graph).

09/05/2023

My book on a freedom-loving response to collapse is out today in Kindle format. Hardback is also available now. Audio & paperback from GoodWorks coming in June & free epub in July from the Schumacher Institute website.

In @ #2
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Together-freedom-loving-response-collapse-ebook/dp/B0C1JLL45V/ref=zg_bsnr_157464011_sccl_2/145-7190423-4788245?psc=1

27/12/2022

The best talk of 2022.

Lyla June explains how humans were once positive keystone species, benefiting nature.

In this profoundly hopeful talk, Diné musician, scholar, and cultural historian Lyla June outlines a series of timeless human success stories focusing on Nat...

12/11/2021

The draft final communique from came out a couple of days ago. It reflected the 'corporate capture' of COP26, and the failure to launch a plan that responds to climate reality. That is criticised today in a public letter signed by over 200 scholars from over 30 countries. Any spin today about nice words between USA and China should not distract us or journalists from who and what is being served by the current international policy agenda on global heating - and the implications of their failure to try to transform economies and prepare properly for troubles ahead.

Hundreds of scholars sign open letter urging communities to lead their own ‘emergency response’ after ‘failure’ of Cop26 to slash dangerous greenhouse gas emissions

09/03/2021

‘Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries’, book launch. Tuesday 23 March from 16:00-17:30 GMT.

The University of Cumbria’s Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) and the Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership (Business, industry and leadership) are delighted to announce the online launch of a new book by two of our academic staff:

‘Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries’, edited by David F. Murphy and Alison Marshall published in January 2021.

This edited collection is the introductory volume of a new Routledge book series with the same name: 'Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations’.

The Online Book Launch on 23 March will be chaired by Dr Stephen Gibbs, Principal Lecturer in Business and Leadership, and will include an interactive panel discussion with contributing authors and the editors.

"Citizenship and Sustainability of Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries "offers an opening for debates on critical current issues, particularly those that may be too new to yet be the subject of theoretical studies.

The volume brings together chapter authors who are leading thinkers who are pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking about corporate citizenship and sustainability to advocate and generate innovative models and practices.

We plan to stimulate discussion at the online launch and you will be invited to actively contribute.

For more details click here:
https://sustainabilitypractitioners.org/2021/03/06/citizenship-book-launch/

All participants will receive the Zoom link prior to the launch by email.

Get your own copy

Details of how to purchase the book with a 20% discount at Routledge Paperbooks Direct can be found in this PDF.

Download:https://sustainabilitypractitioners.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/citizenship-sustainability-in-organizations-book-flyer.pdf

Media Partner

This event is supported by the Association of Sustainability Practitioners (ASP).

“Connecting, supporting and challenging sustainability practitioners.”

sustainabilitypractitioners.org

15/12/2020

"In the Company of Rebels"
My chapter on lessons from successes & failures of cross sector partnering is out in
Murphy, D. F. & Marshall, A. (eds.) (2021) Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations, Routledge

Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations: Exploring and Spanning the Boundaries is the introductory book in the series of the same name and draws upon new conceptual thinking from some of the leading contributors to The Journal of Corporate Citizenship on topics of social responsibility, or...

21/09/2020

Insights from analysis on Radio4 as the author is interviewed. But it's not just CEOs! Worth a listen.

CEO Society and Time management.