Online Colloquium No. 17: Holistic training for enlightened social innovation

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Zachary Schlosser, The School for the Future

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Holistic training for enlightened social innovation

The School for the Future is an attempt to use enlightenment training to help make social innovators more effective. Starting with courses on introductory social entrepreneurship, effective campaign design for activist leaders, and novel neuro-phenomenologically informed enlightenment training practices, The School is now developing an R/D team. One of its goals is to describe how “intuitions,” the whole field of non-analytic information sensing mechanisms which humans have available to them, can be developed by contemplative practice and applied in social innovation. The ultimate aim of The School is to become a federated network of altruistic learning villages. Zach says: „I started The School because it’s the education I wish I’d had.”

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Zach Schlosser (* 1987 ) is a contemplative and entrepreneur. He has a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University, where he focused on Buddhist meditation theory and practice and comparative mysticism. His meditation experience includes a six-month solitary retreat. He has written about the intersection of meditation and technology and, in Integral Leadership Review, how trusting desire can lead to more socially engaged practice. He has been an educator and mentor for over 10 years, teaching meditation and self-transformation in non-profits, churches, pain clinics, prisons, schools, and startups. Previous to The School for the Future, he cofounded the leadership development technology company Numina and, along with integral philosopher Bonnitta Roy, the experimental integral education semester Alderlore SOLE. He is currently leading the Digital Naturalness Project, which designs digital technology that feels like nature.