WorldCrafting

In an age when many of our inherited stories are cracking under the strain of planetary change, WorldCrafting invites students to step into the role of empowered meaning-maker.

Because the old authorities—religious, scientific, political—can no longer deliver a single, unquestioned map of reality, we can no longer pretend to know which worldview young people should adopt. Yet this doesn’t mean that all worldviews are equal. Some help life to thrive; others lead it toward collapse. This course offers a guided initiation into the art of creative discernment: learning how to explore, interrogate, and ultimately craft a way of seeing that is personally coherent, socially viable, and ecologically sane.

Through immersive dialogues, readings, and creative experiments, we’ll journey across the great landscapes of human understanding—from indigenous cosmologies that honor the living Earth, to classical philosophies that seek eternal order, to modern frameworks of progress and reason, to the postmodern unraveling of certainty, and finally to the emerging integral perspectives that weave these fragments into a deeper whole. Each of these worldviews will be treated as a living ecosystem of ideas—something to inhabit, feel from the inside, and examine for its gifts and its shadows.

By the end of WorldCrafting, students will not leave with someone else’s map of reality, but with their own—one that aligns with both the truth of their lived experience and the needs of the Earth community. This allows students to stand on a foundation that is both authentic and robust.