Accelerating the Greening of Humanity

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Every day brings new discoveries about creation that reveal a stunningly beautiful, artfully complex, and thoroughly interconnected world. This is challenging how we understand our place and role as human creatures within the larger community of creation.​ Every day also brings evidence of troubling environmental changes: biodiversity loss, climate change, plastic pollution, deforestation, and sea level rise, among others.

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In light of this new knowledge and these serious crises, we know that we cannot depend on the same frameworks and tools that helped create these crises to get us out of it.

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Changing course will require a major transformation of humanity’s worldview and way of life – a cultural, moral, and spiritual task that Thomas Berry called “The Great Work” of this new millennium. To guide and accelerate this Great Work, we need places that demonstrate what it means to live in harmony with the earth, places that enable old patterns and ways of thinking to unravel and reform, places that unlock and unleash humanity’s creative capacities for change. We need places that gather the growing energy and work around the Great Work and help it move a little faster, places that “accelerate the greening of humanity.”

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Circlewood’s creative design team, immersive educational strategy, and talented leadership are creating such a place.​​ Set within a dynamic 40-acre forest on beautiful Camano Island, Circlewood Village is becoming a center for transformation and innovation where people come to be changed through connection, co-learning, and collaboration.