For the past six months, Life Itself has been working on our Deliberately Developmental Spaces project which aims to bring together stakeholders, ecologies of practice, innovations, funders, and other relevant resources as it relates to ‘deliberately developmental spaces’. This project materialized out of the growing realization that systemic transformation on a social scale relies on deep inner transformation. And so, we think that ‘deliberately developmental spaces’ might have a meaningful role in addressing the meta crisis, and this project aims to bring together some of the practices and organizations that might be meaningful to coalesce the field.

During the community call, we invited our community members along with anyone else interested to both learn about the project and give feedback on what kind of next steps might be meaningful.

Read and sign the Deliberately Developmental Spaces Manifesto

We call for the creation of "deliberately developmental spaces" that cultivate the psychological and cultural capacities to respond effectively to the growing crises before us. These spaces can take many forms ranging from courses or programs to physical environments including new forms of monasteries or universities.

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About Boaz Feldman

Boaz is a practical visionary, a clinical psychologist and trainer, a Dharma teacher and transdisciplinary researcher acting for personal and political empowerment. He has worked with numerous international organizations (UNOCHA, WHO, Doctors Without Borders) in a variety of humanitarian contexts and conflict-affected regions. Boaz first ordained as a Buddhist Monk in Thailand in 2004, studied MBCT/MBSR at University of Oxford/Bangor, has over 7 years of compounded retreat experience and graduated from the Bodhi College Teacher Training program and now leads meditation retreats across Europe. He assisted Somatic Experiencing trainings and taught as the main faculty in Europe for Organic Intelligence, and founded NeuroSystemics, a Swiss-based NGO providing somatically-centered multi-level capacity building around the world. He is an Associate at Life Itself Research.