NEW WAYS OF KNOWING
Expand, experiment and develop powerful skills to help you thrive in a changing world.
You'll experience:
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A collective inquiry with others from around the world
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What it feels like to meet complexity with agency
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Inspiring classes from a world-class faculty
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Powerful cognitive, dialogue and embodiment practices
You'll gain:
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Transformative insights into complex problems in your own life and projects
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A more comprehensive view on the most important global issues today, from AI to immigration
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A foundational understanding of complexity studies, systems theory and cognitive science
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Extensive resources including a workbook, a reading list, guided practices and more
Beginning 14th of January 2026, finishing 4th of March 2026
Price: £245 ($320) Earlybird / £295 ($385) General / £450 ($590) Breathwork Track (limited)
If you are on a low-income and would like to apply for a reduced fee scholarship, please click here.
Adapt, thrive and transform in an age of crisis and transition. Learn from the brightest minds in systems change, cultural transformation, complexity studies and peak performance. Tap into new ways of knowing and find the others as part of a global gathering.
YOUR FACULTY
WHY THIS, WHY NOW?
We are walking out of a past that can no longer sustain us and into a future yet to be born. At this moment in history, we're facing multiple overlapping crises in ecology, politics, economics and culture. Runaway AI, political polarisation, geopolitical instability and immigration tensions are all converging at once.
Heavy stuff… or maybe not. It all depends how we approach it.
The word crisis derives from the Greek krinein, to decide. It’s an inflection point; as much an opportunity as a catastrophe. Another ancient Greek concept is relevant here: Kainos. Kainos means 'new'. Not just new in form, but something we've never seen before. Many of us want to move into a new social reality beyond the endless cycles of extraction and consumerism, but feel tangled in the systems that dictate our lives.
The first step toward real transformation is to cultivate new ways of seeing and being that unlock possibilities in our own lives. It’s that process that gives us the confidence, skills and inspiration to impact the world around us in our unique way.
Cultivating new skills and perspectives can fill us with active hope as we enter new territory collectively. Active hope isn't blind optimism, but a orientation toward the unknown that seeks out new ideas, cultivates imagination, strengthens our agency and creativity. We all have the capacity to do that, and New Ways of Knowing will help you cultivate the skills that unlock these capacities with other people from around the world.
At its heart, it's about learning how to navigate and thrive in complexity. Whether we're trying to change our political systems, cultures, organisations or even our own minds, we're wrestling with complex systems. They have a life of their own, evolving and changing while we're trying to make sense of them. To thrive in the world today, and find new solutions, we need to develop a new relationship to complexity. Not just in the systems that make up our lives, but our own inner worlds, and the places where they meet.
That doesn't just mean gaining an intellectual understanding, but learning how to embody and flow with uncertainty, nuance and contradictory information. Knowing how to prompt AI well, as well as how to discern its dangers. Using your agency to manipulate the leverage points and feedback loops in the world around you, while also surrendering to the flow of reality. It means practicing new ways of seeing and being that allow us to truly engage with the complexity of the world and our lives. To find those capacities, we have to go to the cutting edge of cognitive science, complexity theory, systems change and personal development.
New Ways of Knowing will teach you skills, theories and practices that help you re-orient your sensemaking, and deepen your connectedness to other people and the world. As well as curated content that helps simplify complexity theory, systems change, mythopoetics and cognitive science, you will learn practices to help you to approach problems and contradictions from a new perspective. Tap in to new insights, deepen your understanding of the systems around and within you, and flow with complexity in multiple domains of your life.
Use the gallery below to see what's happening each week.
Week One: Agency with
Alexander Beiner (14 January, 2026)
Week Two: Aliveness at the Edges with Trish Blain (21 January)
Week Four: AI and Imagination with Ari Kuschnir and Schuyler Brown (4 February)
Week Five: The Wisdom of the Group (11 February)
Week Seven: Flowing Systems with Nora Bateson (25 February)
Week Eight: Visioning with
Alexander Beiner (4 March)
Week Three: Survive and Thrive with
Jamie Wheal (28 January)
Week Six: Songs of the Land with Sam Lee (18 February)
*All sessions start at 8pm London / 3pm NY / 7am Melbourne and run for 2 hours
THE EXPERIENCE
This isn’t a traditional online course; it’s an immersive process of skill-building and transformation with people from around the world. 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.
As well as bespoke techniques like our Complexity Tolerance Practice and our Sovereignty Meditation, our faculty will help you develop a range of skills each week. We will also create ample opportunities for you to connect with others in the cohort and explore how to create networks of support and impact together.
This year, we also have a limited number of 'Breathwork Tracks' for those who want to go deeper into a journey of personal transformation. Alexander is a breathwork facilitator trained in Inspirational Breathing, which involves deep, continuous diaphragmatic breathing to elicit a powerful altered state. Breathwork can help us unlock our creativity, help us reconnect to our bodies, and come into contact with and process unresolved feelings and thought patterns.
If you choose this option, you will have three guided online sessions with Alexander across the duration of the course, along with support to develop your own breathwork practice. By the end of the course, you will have a created the foundations for a life-long skill and enjoy a healthier, more expansive breath pattern.
Alexander Beiner has created online and in-person experiences for thousands of people. His retreats have been covered by The Guardian, BBC and GQ and his courses have garnered praise for their innovation and immersion. The most recent New Ways of Knowing received an average rating of 9 out of 10 in post-course surveys for overall quality and value for money.
Logistics
There are three main ways you'll skill-up, 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 7am Melbourne) and run for two hours (all sessions are recorded and will be available to watch if you miss one).
The second is through weekly sessions with your 'pod' of four people, where you'll have a chance to embed the lessons from our faculty sessions with weekly practices and discussions. There are still pods running from the last New Ways of Knowing in 2023. In other courses, pods have led to business collaborations, and even a marriage and birth! While we can’t promise that, we can say confidently that they are a powerful way to deepen your learning and make meaningful connections.
The third way you'll learn is more self-directed, and based on what you're looking for. We have an extensive 100+ page workbook full of foundational frameworks and theories, from sensemaking tools and complexity theory to the science and psychology behind the practice you're learning. You'll also have access to our Mighty Networks (a private social network for the course) where you'll find session recordings, a selection of the best sessions from five years of previous courses, reading lists and a place to connect and collaborate with the wider cohort. You will also have the opportunity to try personal development techniques like breathwork, Trish Blain's Edges work and various embodiment practices to connect to the complexity within you.
By the end of New Ways of Knowing, you will leave with a deeper understanding of how to embrace the complexity in your life, navigate the meta-crisis and step into your agency. You will have developed new skills, identified how to apply them to your life. Above all, you will have gone on a deep collective inquiry into our shared humanity, your own agency and how to bring active hope into the world around you.