The Future Mind – A conversation with Jonathan Rowson

A Conversation between Jonathan Rowson and Àlex Gómez-Marín

Thursday, December 19
9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET 

This event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING.

Jonathan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Perspectiva, a publishing house and praxis collective based primarily in London. Perspectiva describes itself as an urgent one-hundred-year project to improve the relationship between systems, souls, and society in theory and practice. Jonathan is a philosopher and social scientist by academic training and has degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. He has written extensively on the idea of metacrisis as our multi-faceted delusion, and he is increasingly focused on experiments in community and spiritual praxis to help shift socio-economic immunity to change. He is an Open Society Fellow and a Fellow at The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey. In his prior role as Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts he authored influential research reports including A New Agenda on Climate Change, Money Talks, and Spiritualise, and curated and chaired related events. He is also a Chess Grandmaster and three-time British Champion (2004–6) and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book, The Moves that Matter – A Grandmaster on the Game of Life was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. He hails from Aberdeen in Scotland, and now lives in Putney, London, with his wife Siva, and their two sons, Kailash and Vishnu. You can find Jonathan on his substack, The Joyous Struggle.