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Peter Merry

Peter has spent most of life involved in helping people to learn. From teaching in a secondary school in rural northern Ghana through to co-founding and leading an online global learning platform with Ubiquity University, he travelled via international youth work with the Council of Europe using experiential learning techniques such as interactive theatre to training CEOs and government Ministers. Peter is recognised as one of the world’s top experts on leadership.

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The Promise of Liberty and the Pain of Separation


We have a civilisation that is unrooted from its embodied past, focused on separation and the “objective” world intelligible to the rational mind, and which has lost its ability to sense the relationships in the whole and feel the suffering that we inflict on other life forms.


Published in Volume 22 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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