The Oasis
The Oasis is an online space and organizing infrastructure for those who want to take action in alignment with the Second Renaissance. Like an island of water and growth in a desert landscape, The Oasis is a gathering point, a growing settlement, and a staging ground for pilgrims and caravans from all across the land.
The Oasis launched April 2025 and meets every Tuesday for 90 minutes starting at 9am Pacific / Noon Eastern / 6pm Central Europe time, as listed on the events calendar. Oasis calls hold polarities of being (interpersonal connection and relational practices) and building (lightweight organizing workspaces for projects), wisdom and action, converging with parallelizing, the cathedral with the bazaar.
Tents at The Oasis
An Oasis Tent is where community meets project for catalyzing energy. Tents are self-organized and autonomously run by their leaders, and set a cadence between weekly and monthly for how often they are active in the space.
Tent Schedule - June 3, 2025
GiveWiser
Field Building
Research & Sensemaking
Crafting for wiser action
Currently active Oasis Tents:
Research & Sensemaking (1st and 3rd week of each month) – Exploring paths to a second renaissance through research and sense-making, and producing reports, papers, articles, methods and tools, including the Second Renaissance Wiki. Learn more
GiveWiser (1st week of each month) – Distilling principles and patterns for wise giving, catalyzing more giving in service of paradigmatic transformation, and enabling better channeling of support to high-impact, deeply aligned initiatives. Learn more
Intentional Ventures (2nd and 4th week of each month) – Intentional Ventures unlocks aligned livelihood through relational, perspectival, and technical support. Learn more
Field Building (Weekly) – Collaborating on projects intended to strengthen the metacrisis aware ecosystem and connecting this work to wider networks, initiatives, and communities. Learn more
Ecofo (schedule still in formation) – Cultivating vibrant relationships in digital transformative communities through weekly dialogue where we practice relating to the Sacredness in one another. Learn more
Crafting for wiser action (Weekly x4) – Slow gathering around as basic relationships to being-doing work and to hold “in kind regard” each other in our becoming and witness each ones creativity. Learn more
Weaving the Cultural Fabric (4th week of each month) – Soft, spacious container designed to help us collectively shape the Forum as a living, evolving cultural infrastructure one that nourishes emergence, belonging, wisdom-sharing, and relational intelligence in our digital ecosystem. Learn more
Tents in formation, in need of schedules or leaders or definition:
Field Building – connecting this work to wider networks, initiatives, and communities.
Seeds Newsletter (monthly) – Seeds of a Second Renaissance newsletter production
Art of the 2nd Ren – for those creating art to explore and share the vision of a Second Renaissance.
Other new and existing projects are invited to set up Tents at The Oasis, with light curation for alignment with Second Renaissance principles. Read more about how to start a Tent or just show up to join in!