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Dougald Hine

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. He has collaborated with scientists, artists and activists, serving as a leader of artistic development at Riksteatern (Sweden’s national theatre) and as an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies (2023). He co-hosts The Great Humbling podcast and publishes a Substack called Writing Home.

Facing and Staying with the Trouble

This module carries us further into the descent, inviting an honest reckoning with the layered ecological and social crises that many communities struggle to fully face. Rather than convincing or confronting, we cultivate the capacity to stay present as awareness moves from avoidance and confusion toward an integrated, wholehearted understanding.