Big Picture Perspectives for Planetary Flourishing

Nicholas Hedlund is the founding director of Eudaimonia Institute, a think tank and social innovations lab based in Northern California. Studying under the philosopher Roy Bhaskar, he received his PhD in Philosophy and Social Sciences from University College London. He was an exchange scholar at Yale University in the Department of Sociology, served as Executive Director of the Integral Research Center, was organizer of the International Critical Realism & Integral Theory Symposia Series (held in London and San Francisco), and was Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Environmental Science & Policy and the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. He is co-editor, along with Roy Bhaskar, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, and Mervyn Hartwig, of Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century: Critical Realism and Integral Theory in Dialogue. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is Dean of Integral Education at the California Institute of Human Science. In 2011 he founded MetaIntegral, a social impact network that supports change leaders around the world in applying integrative principles to projects and organizations. In 2018 he founded The Exo Studies Institute through which he is pioneering an integral approach to anomalous phenomena including UFOs/ETs. Sean combines a strong academic background in the philosophy of science and integrative metatheories with an open-hearted exploration of the mystery and multi-layered nature of reality. He has published and edited numerous articles, chapters, and books. He is the co-editor of Metatheory for the Twenty-First Century and Dancing with Sophia: Integral Philosophy on the Verge.