There's so much important work that the SWI can do in the world, and will do, as the people working on this project continue to be dedicated and deliver opportunities. So excite to see this growing. 

Our mission is to learn, practice, teach & cultivate holistic innovation culture. Because we envision a world in which visionaries, their processes, and their creations exist in healthier relationship with the web of life.

Learn more at [wiseinnovation.school](https://wiseinnovation.school/)

Fiscally sponsored project of HAPPI (happi.org)

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**We are inviting your support for our fiscally-sponsored non-profit**, [School of Wise Innovation](https://wiseinnovation.school/), so we can do our part in maturing innovation culture to improve the health of all touched.

**Especially the next generation** - not only in how the technologies we create can be more respectful of their health and development, but also how we might educate youth to become more mature stewards of their creative power, in an era when the gap between idea and reality is approaching zero.[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa9905bc5-4b1c-475f-b128-1962fcd9772a_1166x858.jpeg)

**Does what we do matter if we’re not serving youth?**

Having spent years trying to deeply understand the roots of the metacrisis/polycrisis (our multiple, interconnected crises converging and amplifying each other, resulting in a predicament which is difficult to manage or resolve), we agree with education philosopher Zak Stein that [education IS the metacrisis](https://systems-souls-society.com/education-is-the-metacrisis/).

“When social systems are in periods of rapid transformation the role of schools becomes contradictory. They teach knowledge that is *no longer relevant*, socialize individuals into roles that *no longer exist*, and provide the mindsets needed to continue ways of life that are *rapidly disappearing.*”

How and what we are teaching kids in the modern West is **proving wholly inadequate for cultivating healthy adults**, let alone ones who are **able to address the complex challenges of our time.**

Even what we consider **“top education” promotes a culture of growth at *all* costs**, tolerating the unintended consequences of lead / asbestos / DDT / PFAS, or social media / generative AI, or simply a toxic workplace or absent parent.

Think of some of your loved ones and communities - d**oesn’t it suck that we live with so much illness,** both physical and psychological, caused by innovation that has polluted our food, water, air, culture and spirit?

*Of course*, innovation has afforded us tremendous benefits. Thank goodness for refrigeration, dental care, and video calls 😹

*Of course,* there are serious financial and social incentives holding this system in place that make it challenging to create beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders.

And, systems change. Culture changes. You can feel it changing fast as we speak.

As maturing the goals and mindsets of the system are among the most powerful interventions, let’s explore:

- How can we **design technologies with more care** for our young ones and future generations?
- How can we **develop leaders capable of bringing ideas to life in ways that are better for all impacted**, including themselves and the relationships that matter most?

These are some of the questions we’re asking at [School of Wise Innovation](https://wiseinnovation.school/), along with leading experts who have been staring at these problems for years.

**Our first year of operations has been phenomenal**: a series of experimental courses, workshops, retreats and learning journeys that produced countless tears of joy, and a growing team of inspirational collaborators. See more details [here](https://docsend.com/v/89w6g/schoolofwiseinnovation).

**Yet we mostly focused on adults** who are actively searching for different ways to live, work, and create. This is who our team is currently more closely connected to.

We have been building relationships and planting many seeds with K-12 and university stakeholders domestically and abroad, but have yet to put dedicated resources into mapping the landscape, conducting research, convening experts and prototyping curricula.

For example, in 2025 we aim to develop a **novel nature-based rites of passage experience for aspiring business and STEM students.** We focus on nature-based retreat containers**** as timeless, universal, legal, accessible, and grounded modalities for facilitating an embodied experience of interdependence. Such initiation containers cultivate humility, sensitivity, creativity and resilience, while bringing awareness to place-based indigenous knowledge systems.

With a modest amount of resources we will be able to partner with great folks in our orbit to take the first significant steps towards activating a key pillar of this emerging educational institution.

**Please consider sponsoring a brick in this school** **if you yearn for culture change** in how our kids become healthy, whole, and responsible adults. And how innovation can support and not stunt that flowering.

**We are operating at a fraction of our potential**. We have done a lot with very little. The gap is resources. We need your help to close the gap. This piece of the puzzle is vastly underappreciated and under-resourced. We’re doing the best we can to do it right.

**Your donation, no matter how small (crypto welcomed!) will directly support us in building our capacity** to design more impactful programming, serve more people, and build better bridges that need to be built.

Happy to chat more! Feel free to [schedule a call here](https://calendly.com/andrewmurraydunn-1/check-in?back=1&month=2024-06). We’d love to hear your ideas and explore ways we can work together. Introductions are greatly appreciated too.

**And please consider [joining us this winter](https://wiseinnovation.school/wintercultivator)**! All are welcome who are in need of rest and reconnection to what matters most.

With gratitude,
School of Wise Innovation team

*Fiscally sponsored by [HAPPI](https://www.happi.org/): Helping Awesome People Partner Intentionally*

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