Capra Course

Happy Holidays from the Desk of the Capra Course Team!✨ This Spring, join the Capra Course community to uplift the Systems View of Life! Registration is now open for the Spring 2025 Capra Course! Learn more and register here ~ capracourse.net The Capra Course is an online course, based on Fritjof Capra’s book ~ The Systems View of Life that consists of twelve pre-recorded lectures, with one new lecture being posted each week. Each lecture is about 40 minutes long and is supplemented with live welcome and closing sessions with Fritjof, downloadable written and visual materials, and an exclusive online discussion forums in which Fritjof will participate. Course Fees: Student/Low Income ~ $200 Independent Professional ~ $500 Executive ~ $1000 Full and partial scholarships available Learn more and register here ~ www.capracourse.net #learning #community #network #systemschange

Happy Holidays from the Capra Course Team!✨ Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course are now open! You can now register or buy a gift certificate and give the gift of learning at www.capracourse.net You are also welcome to apply for a full or partial scholarship if needed. The Capra Course includes live sessions with Fritjof, a vibrant forum, optional study groups in different languages and the opportunity to join our alumni network at the end of the course. The Capra Course is not only a course to learn about systems, we are a strong community supporting each other in creating the change we know is possible and all deserve. Learn more and register here ~ www.capracourse.net hashtag #learning #community #network #systems #systemsthinking

Is 2025 the year you finally find work that aligns with your work with your values and contributes to a thriving, regenerative future? 🌱 Announcing: Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods Virtual Course 🌱 Hosted by Gaia Education - a partner organization of Fritjof Capra's Capra Course Join Della Duncan and Silvia Di Blasio for an immersive virtual course that they designed to guide you on the path toward meaningful, purpose-driven work. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gnsWpHi6 Use "CAPRA25" for a special Capra Course community discount code✨ Course Dates: January - April 2025 Format: Online (Self-paced & Live Sessions) In this transformative 4-month course, you'll explore: 🌍 The principles of regeneration: Understand the ecological and social principles that underpin a regenerative economy and how to weave them into your career. 💡 Discovering your purpose: Clarify your values, passions, and unique contributions, helping you align your work with your deeper sense of meaning. 🔄 Shifting from extractive to regenerative work: Learn practical tools and strategies for creating a livelihood that nurtures both people and the planet. 🤝 Building community and collaboration: Connect with like-minded individuals and gain support from a network of changemakers committed to a better future. Whether you're looking to pivot to a new career, deepen your current work, or launch a regenerative business, this course will empower you to design a life and career that sustains both you and the world around you. What you’ll receive: 🌱 Interactive live sessions with experts in regenerative economies, sustainability, and personal development 🌱 Tools and resources to help you navigate your unique career path 🌱 Peer support and coaching from a community of like-minded participants 🌱 Guided exercises, materials and reflections to clarify your values and goals Space is limited - Register early to reserve your spot. Full and Partial Scholarships Available 🌿 Sign Up Today and take the first step toward a future of meaningful, regenerative work! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gnsWpHi6 Let's grow a world where our livelihoods nourish both ourselves and the planet. Together, we can build a regenerative future. 🌍💚

How Can a Systems Lens Help Make Sense of the Unraveling? Join Jeremy Lent and Morag Gamble in a conversation with Dr. Fritjof Capra on Friday, Jan 10th to explore how systems thinking might help us comprehend these times. As the world prepares for the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, there is every reason to believe that a political cataclysm is about to erupt. The election of someone who has vowed to be a “dictator” on day one to head the world’s most powerful country, with minimal institutional or legal restraints on his power, could turn out to be one of the most momentous events in the history of the modern world. In a broader global context, we are facing accelerating climate breakdown in the wake of the disastrous COP in Azerbaijan, worsening ecological devastation around the planet, dangerous global conflicts, and an ever-widening gulf of inequality between elites and the rest of humanity that is unsurpassed in history. Much of the world is struggling to make sense of what is unfolding, and what it will mean in the years ahead. It is increasingly clear that the dominant world order is unraveling—but where do we go from here? On January 10 at 1 pm Pacific, global permaculture leader Morag Gamble will be facilitating a conversation with world-renowned systems theorist Fritjof Capra and Jeremy Lent on the systemic dynamics that underlie this fateful moment in the human story. Please RSVP here to the event (you will also need to register on Zoom) - https://lnkd.in/gnJbDVJJ . . Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course are now open! 🎉 You can register now at www.capracourse.net You are also welcome to apply for a full or partial scholarship if needed. The Capra Course includes live sessions with Fritjof, a vibrant forum, optional study groups in different languages and the opportunity to join our alumni network at the end of the course. The Capra Course is not only a course to learn about systems, we are a strong community supporting each other in creating the change we know is possible and all deserve. Learn more and register here ~ www.capracourse.net #learning #community #network #systemschange

"According to the systems view of life, all life forms are intelligent. They interact with their environment cognitively through sensory organs; and as these organs become more complex, so do the corresponding cognitive processes. Eventually, we have the evolution of brains, nervous systems, and human consciousness. The ability to form abstract concepts is a key feature of our consciousness, and human intelligence today includes the abstractions we associate with mathematics and with computers — algorithms, mathematical models, and so on. However, these mathematical abstractions are peripheral to the intelligence inherent in all living beings. Living intelligence is tacit and always organically embodied. Its key quality is the ability of being in the world, of moving around in it and surviving in it. With the development of artificial intelligence, we have overemphasized algorithms and other mathematical abstractions, and have neglected our tacit, embodied, living intelligence. As a consequence, our ability of being in the world — in other words, our wisdom — has dramatically diminished. A society that sees making money, rather than human well-being, as its main goal, and in the process of doing so destroys the natural environment on which human survival depends, cannot be deemed very intelligent. The critical question, in my view, is: which uses of AI are helpful and appropriate, and which are inappropriate because, although they enhance the mathematical aspects of human intelligence, they may diminish our embodied intelligence, or wisdom, of how we should live." ~ Dr. Fritjof Capra The quote above is an excerpt of a recent interview Fritjof did for La Lettura, an Italian Newspaper - here's the link to read the article in Italian: https://lnkd.in/gYMUjNGJ Join the Capra Course learning community and develop the leadership skills needed to face the systemic challenges of our time! We just opened Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course! Sign up here - capracourse.net The Capra Course is a 12-week long program that includes: * Multiple live sessions with Fritjof * 12 engaging pre-recorded lectures, released each week * Study groups in different languages (optional) * Subtitles in English, Spanish and Italian * Six extra weeks for catching up after the course ends * Automatic access to the Alumni Network, which includes quarterly meetings with Fritjof and the Capra Course team and monthly meetings through the new Alumni Spotlight Program (optional) Course Fees: Student/Low Income ~ $200 Independent Professional ~ $500 Executive ~ $1000 Full and partial scholarships available Register here ~ https://lnkd.in/gMJAK6xh

A daughter's loving film portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, systems theorist and ecologist. An Ecology of Mind - short film featuring Dr. Fritjof Capra and many other great systems thinkers. https://lnkd.in/gkQZx7gZ Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course are now open! 🎉 You can now register or buy a gift certificate and give the gift of learning at www.capracourse.net You are also welcome to apply for a full or partial scholarship if needed. The Capra Course includes live sessions with Fritjof, a vibrant forum, optional study groups in different languages and the opportunity to join our alumni network at the end of the course. The Capra Course is not only a course to learn about systems, we are a strong community supporting each other in creating the change we know is possible and all deserve. Learn more and register here ~ www.capracourse.net #learning #community #network #systemschange

New article by Jeffrey Sachs, "What ails America — and how to fix it." https://lnkd.in/gTk6ympy In this article, economist Jeffrey Sachs, one of today's most knowledgeable and eloquent political observers, gives a lucid systemic assessment of the political situation in the United States after the re-election of Donald Trump. Join the world wide Capra Course learning community and develop the leadership skills needed to face the systemic challenges of our time! We just opened Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course!🎉 Sign up now here - capracourse.net The Capra Course is a 12-week long program that includes: * Multiple live sessions with Fritjof * 12 engaging pre-recorded lectures, released each week * Study groups in different languages (optional) * Subtitles in English (New!), Spanish and Italian * Six extra weeks for catching up after the course ends * Automatic access to the Alumni Network, which includes quarterly meetings with Fritjof and the Capra Course team and monthly meetings through the new Alumni Spotlight Program (optional) Course Fees: Student/Low Income ~ $200 Independent Professional ~ $500 Executive ~ $1000 Full and partial scholarships available Register here ~ https://lnkd.in/g5gqUmsY

This year is almost over and while in some parts of the planet the days are getting shorter, colder and darker, in others, Spring is already exploding with flowers and scents. The polycrises may sometimes become overwhelming. We may numb ourselves with endless entertainment or keep busy with work. We may turn the news off or start believing in conspiracy theories because everything is confusing and frustrating. Sometimes, it is easy to lose ourselves and believe we are too small to make any difference. Are things going to change ever? We at the Capra Course believe there are a few antidotes to all of this and we invite you to consider them: ✨Gratitude: In a society where we are bombarded with messages that emphasize we are never enough, never have enough, and will never find what we are looking for, gratitude becomes a revolutionary act: there are so many things in life we can be grateful for! What are your reasons? ✨Learning about what matters: it is difficult to focus on anything important when we have so many distractions. We need to make a conscious choice to learn about what matters: Life and how it works. In the Capra Course, we love learning about living systems and how they have already created the tools we need to change the world. What matters to you? ✨Community: nothing is healed in isolation. Life organizes itself in network (always), your well-being affects our well-being and vice versa. At the Capra Course, we have been building a growing community of systems thinkers and we are expanding in partnerships with groups and organizations doing similar work. What is your community? Join our community of learning in the new year! Registrations for the Spring 2025 Capra Course are now open! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gMJAK6xh What you can expect: 🌿12 weekly lectures packed with the wonder of Life as the center of systems thinking, systems being and systems doing 🌿12 weekly summaries, prompts and complimentary materials 🌿Study groups led by experienced alumni (in various languages, days and time zones) Six live sessions with Fritjof 🌿Access to the alumni network platform and the quarterly online gatherings with Fritjof 🌿Be welcomed by a growing community of systems thinkers The Capra Course lectures are pre-recorded and offer subtitles and summaries in English, Spanish, Italian and soon they will also come with Portuguese subtitles and summaries.

Join Dr. Fritjof Capra and the global Capra Course community to uplift the Systems View of Life! Registration is now open for the Spring 2024 Capra Course! Learn more and register here ~ capracourse.net The Capra Course is an online course, based on Fritjof Capra’s book ~ The Systems View of Life that consists of twelve pre-recorded lectures, with one new lecture being posted each week. Each lecture is about 40 minutes long and is supplemented with live welcome and closing sessions with Fritjof, downloadable written and visual materials, and an exclusive online discussion forums in which Fritjof will participate. Course Fees: -Student/Low Income ~ $200 -Independent Professional ~ $500 -Executive ~ $1000 -Full and partial scholarships available

A note from Dr. Fritjof Capra after the recent U.S. Election... After the shock of the presidential election in the United States, I still feel that the emergence of a systemic and ecological understanding of life is a central characteristic of our era. However, it is not a smooth process. In my life, I have seen scientific and cultural revolutions, backlashes, and wild pendulum swings. The re-election of Donald Trump is a powerful political backlash. In these troubled times, an inspiring passage from Margaret Wheatley's book Who Do We Choose To Be? comes to my mind. “It is possible in this time of profound disruption," Wheatley writes, "for leadership to be a noble profession that contributes to the common good. It is possible, as we face the fearful complexity of life-destroying problems, to experience recurring moments of grace and joy... It is possible to use our influence and power to create islands of sanity in the midst of a raging destructive sea.” I feel that this is what we are doing with our Capra Course community. As we are expanding our island of sanity, we increase not only its size but also the community's diversity, complexity, and sophistication. The more we interconnect, the stronger will be our resilience in this latest political turbulence. Fritjof Capra . . Join Fritjof Capra and the Capra Course community to uplift the Systems View of Life! Registration is now open for the Spring 2025 Capra Course! Learn more and register here ~ capracourse.net The Capra Course is an online course, based on Fritjof Capra’s book ~ The Systems View of Life that consists of twelve pre-recorded lectures, with one new lecture being posted each week. Each lecture is about 40 minutes long and is supplemented with live welcome and closing sessions with Fritjof, downloadable written and visual materials, and an exclusive online discussion forums in which Fritjof will participate.