Breathing with the Forest
Open FeatureAn immersive experience of shared breath with the Amazon rainforest.
Emergence Magazine presents
Shifting Landscapes Film Series
Aloha ‘Āina FilmNote from the Editors
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Recent Stories
Sun House
The Nightingale’s Song
Time: A Conversation at London’s Architectural Association
Making the Invisible Visible
Breathing with the Forest
ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing
Earth as Koan, Earth as Self
Reading the Rocks
Holy Terroir
The Birdman of Old Delhi
Enraptured with Earth
Najin and Fatu
MOTH: Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination
Chasing Cicadas
Deep Time Diligence
Honoring the Wild Proliferation of Earthly Perspectives
Mycelial Landscapes
Puffling
Glacial Longings
Seeds of Reciprocity
Exit 238
Desert, Fire, Flood
An Offering of Remembrance
A Path Older Than Memory
Poems from the Song Dynasty
Ten Love Letters to the Earth
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told
Otter
Feature
SHIFTING LANDSCAPES
FILM SERIES
The Nightingale's Song
Aloha ‘Āina
The Last Ice Age
Taste of the Land
Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time.
Our Annual Print Edition
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing
ChatGPT has divided opinion on how artificial intelligence might shape our future: Is it a harbinger of our demise? Or a friend, arrived just in time to guide us through our collective unraveling? As we entangle ourselves with this technology, are there ways we can use it to transform our intelligence, rather than simply replicating it?
In this week’s essay, writer and adaptive leadership trainer Dana Karout pokes fun at the ways ChatGPT mirrors our own limited ways of thinking. Drawing on her work helping communities navigate conflict and complexity, she pushes us to resist regurgitating what we already know in situations that demand new ways of being. As we try to address the existential challenges mounting around the world—ecological, social, spiritual—could ChatGPT’s empty spiels help us let go of our certainties? What true creativity, what real responses to our moment of crisis, might emerge from our unknowing?
This Week’s Podcast
ChatGPT has divided opinion on how artificial intelligence might shape our future: Is it a harbinger of our demise? Or a friend, arrived just in time to guide us through our collective unraveling? As we entangle ourselves with this technology, are there ways we can use it to transform our intelligence, rather than simply replicating it?
In this week’s essay, writer and adaptive leadership trainer Dana Karout pokes fun at the ways ChatGPT mirrors our own limited ways of thinking. Drawing on her work helping communities navigate conflict and complexity, she pushes us to resist regurgitating what we already know in situations that demand new ways of being. As we try to address the existential challenges mounting around the world—ecological, social, spiritual—could ChatGPT’s empty spiels help us let go of our certainties? What true creativity, what real responses to our moment of crisis, might emerge from our unknowing?
ENGAGE
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)
Sharpham Trust, Devon, England
Online: April 30 – June 4, 2025
In-person: June 18 – 21, 2025
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (US)
Whidbey Institute, Washington, US
Online: August 6 – September 10, 2025
In-person: September 25 – 28, 2025
Stories Written in the Land
ENGAGE
The Song of the Seasons
Devon, England
June 26 – 29, 2025
The Song of the Seasons
Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US
May 23 – 26, 2025
