As an organization, we are oriented towards cultivating conditions for emergence. Our world is rapidly changing and we are facing challenges that cannot be solved using the culturally dominant stories, frameworks, and paradigms. The reliance upon predictable outcomes fails under the weight of this era’s unprecedented complexity. The Holon Institute exists to co-create social, cultural, economic, and ecological connections that actualize the omnipotentiality of humanity’s relationship with emergence.

We are dedicated to illuminating new stories of what it means to be in right relationship with soul, soil, and society. This requires us to go beyond assumed conclusions and cognitive biases and open ourselves up to the journey of illumination. Our work and domains of inquiry are driven by the abundant possibility created through exploration and experimentation. We exist to expand the aperture of possibility in the collective consciousness of Western civilization so that we collectively may envision realities previously unknown.

The way out is through, and the way through is together. We embrace and affirm the work of both facing the grief, shadow, and darkness within ourselves and our world and also embodying the joy, creativity, and life-force energy that animates our experience. The only way we will overcome the problems we face as humanity is to face them head on, which allows the process to transform us. Feeling and honoring grief opens us up to joy. Facing and healing shadow invites new creative expression and possibility. However, there is no amount of false optimism that will insulate us from the consequences of extractive systems. This is a collective grief we must face. Making the shift to regenerative systems may be difficult and uncomfortable, and is critical and necessary work to open the door for this planet’s re-emergence.

Our bodies often know before our minds do. We are committed to listening and learning from the pre-cognitive wisdom of our bodies as we cultivate conditions for new modes of being and becoming in this world. We affirm that all bodies are sacred and holonic in nature – part of much larger ecologies while being an ecosystem in and of themselves. The Holon Institute exists to serve the reintegration of body, mind, and spirit within each human, organization, and system we encounter.

The tools for thinking and innovation of our era have been defined by rationality and quantification and have subsequently atrophied our imaginative capacities. To realize a future in which all life can live in right relationship to all life, we must reclaim our inherent potential as storytellers, meaning makers, and pattern seekers. We seek to include all ways of knowing including data, rationality, intuitions, experiences, and creative explorations. Imagining a future that is currently unknown and unscripted, but is inevitably more beautiful, nourishing, and whole than the present, requires a fundamental transformation in the frameworks, concepts, and stories to which we orient ourselves.