This isn’t really an online course; it’s an immersive process of learning and personal transformation, bringing together people from across the globe. You'll have the choice to decide which of the many practices, theories and materials are most relevant to you, and create your own personalised journey. Every aspect of New Ways of Knowing is designed to be applied directly to your life, work or projects. In this way, the complexity of the world is your teacher, while the faculty and your fellow participants act as guides and inspirations to help you apply what you're learning to real-life situations and problems. 

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Alexander Beiner has designed online and in-person experiences for thousands of people, including the Rebel Wisdom Sensemaking 101 course. New Ways of Knowing is something new, as well as an evolution. The insights gained from running those cutting-edge courses and retreats has been used to create a new format and experience design, with the aim of making the experience meaningful and accessible regardless of your background.

Logistics and Practicalities

There are three main ways you'll learn and experiment in New Ways of Knowing. The first is in our live sessions with the faculty, which happen on Wednesdays at 8pm UK time (3pm New York and 12pm Los Angeles) and run for 90 minutes. The second is through weekly sessions with your 'pod' of four people, where you'll be given dialogue practices and other techniques to help deepen your inquiry together. The third is the resources, practices and reading lists you can explore in your own way throughout the process. You will also have the opportunity to try personal development techniques like breathwork, process work and IFS (Internal Family Systems) to connect to the complexity within you. 

The overall format of the course has been designed to enhance and deepen your learning. Our first two sessions will be on 13 and 20 December, and then we'll break for the winter holidays. The idea is to give you time and space to practice, watch or read the material most relevant to you. You'll have access to a curated list of our teachers’ core work, along with simplified explanations of systems theory and complexity science, and an extensive 'reading, watching and listening' list. You’ll also be introduced to some initial practices, including a new Complexity Tolerance meditation, a Curiosity Journal, and a variety of frameworks and theories to help you tap into new ways of knowing. Ultimately, this period is about embedding your capacity to gain an intuitive, lived experience of complex systems and the metacrisis.

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When we get return from the break in January, each week will include a live session from one of our teachers. Depending on the teacher, these will either be a guided practice, or Q&A session to give you a chance to delve into aspects of their work most relevant to you. You can use the gallery above to see what’s happening week on week.

All sessions will be recorded, and if you prefer to access only these recordings and the full list of resources, you can also sign up for a ‘Content-only’ ticket. If you choose to opt for the whole experience, you’ll have the option to work in a ‘pod’ of four people, where you’ll have weekly dialogue practices based on the subject that week. In the past, pods have to lasting collaborations, and even a marriage and birth! While we can’t promise that, we can say confidently that the pods are a powerful way to deepen your learning and connections.  

By the end of New Ways of Knowing, you will leave with a deeper understanding of how to embrace complexity and navigate the meta-crisis. You will have new orientations and new responses to complex problems, and a set of practices you can use in your life moving forward. Above all, you will have gone on a deep collective inquiry into our shared humanity and the potential of a new world.