Author: Dr Sarah.P.Houseman

Dr Sarah P. Houseman is a skilled educational design practitioner. Over 4 decades Sarah has facilitated groups across school, university and community contexts. She has qualifications and professional expertise in organisational leadership, strategic foresight and governance. Sarah's PhD (2021 ) investigated participant experiences in non-hierarchically governed organisations. Sarah currently works as a social researcher for the NED Foundation building case studies of community-led energy transitions in regional towns.

21st century shaman

I am playing with the archetype of the shaman as a helpful turn towards perceiving wholeness of person and society. This is part of an exploration of ways of integrating and experiencing oneself an integral being, so relevant in the context of the Anthropocene, where western enlightenment values no longer serve as a philosophical guide to humanity’s... Continue Reading →

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Why the Anthropocene?

Context: We are living with the increasing urgency to make a systemic shift in our globalised society so that we live/create within the ecosystem boundaries of our host - the Earth. We have been talking about this for over 20 years and the urgency is not dissolving. It is increasing and February's heat wave in Eastern Australia... Continue Reading →

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Welcome to governance, systems & the shaman

Beginning my second year of research as a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, I share this blog as a response to friends and family who want to know more about this project, and because I want to share some of the mind-blowing philosophy, science and social theory I engage and grapple with. In particular the... Continue Reading →

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