Project

The Foundation Stones Project
A core curriculum for 21st century change agents

At the heart of Context Institute’s work is a core curriculum for 21st century change agents – seven essential topic areas for understanding our world and ourselves – that we call the Foundation Stones:

What Time Is It? introduces us to the core challenges and opportunities we face in the 21st century, and invites us to make the journey from being part of the problem to being part of the solution, from the mindset of the Empire Era to the mindset of the Planetary Era.
Tools For The Journey equips us with the essential metaphors and concepts we need as we work on making the shift into a Planetary Era perspective.
How Connected Are We? addresses one of the core misconceptions of the Empire Era.
Living As A Whole Being explores the deep, personal, inner aspects of our nature and being.
Whole-system Economics weaves together threads from all of the previous four Stones to address how we might approach our practical, daily, outer existence in the Planetary Era.
Whole-system Governance addresses the practical means of collaboration that will be needed to allow Planetary Era cultures to thrive.
Street Smarts For Change Agents circles back to each one of us from these big-picture visions and addresses the question of “what can I do to make a real difference — to make history?”

It is our response to the core challenge of our times: to bring our cultures into sync with the 21st century reality around us and get past old ways of thinking and cultural blind-spots so that we can build the better future many sense is possible.