We envision a Thriving World for All, with Exploitation of None - a future where all humans don’t just survive, but thrive, in sustainable and just balance with our planet.
A living laboratory for human potential
Where the new world
is being brought to life.
The Luminaria is a crowd-powered living lab where people who care explore how humanity can fulfill our potential to thrive holistically, in sustainable balance with our planet.
Find the people, ideas, skills, products, places, experiences, and support that make it easier to live a life of sustainability, justice, and holistic thriving.
Where changemakers around the globe connect and empower themselves to make the move from surviving to thriving.
Free to join. Explore at your own pace. Be what comes next.
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To explore the art and science of being the change toward a thriving world for all. We don’t just dream of it...we become it.
One audacious goal
1 MillionCollaborators
One shared vision
A Thriving World for All.
Practicing the future, one experiment at a time.
No one person builds the whole future alone. We progress when people like us take collective action to bring our lives, ideas, skills, questions, experiments, resources, and imagination into service of a greater vision.
We have built machines for attention, extraction, expansion, profit, production, and scale.
I believe we can build something better: a machine for human progress - a system that helps us become more capable of meeting our needs, mastering our influence, and thriving in sustainable and just balance with each other and the planet.”
An ecosystem that grows positive change
A place to live the change, not just hope for it.
Caring about your life and caring about other people and the planet aren’t opposing values. They are interdependent.
We want to live healthy, rewarding, and fulfilling lives. We want to live on a planet that is thriving - lush with abundant resources and diverse ecosystems.
But how do we reconcile fulfilling human needs with our impact on our planet and each other?
We start where we are, and we help each other build from there.
The Luminaria is bringing together people, tools, learning, opportunities, products, projects, and experiences that can help us live, work, teach, learn, play, and grow together in collaboration as we evolve.
Come to find support, opportunities, resources, and your tribe for the journey toward a better future. Stay to help build a meaningful legacy.
Connect
Find friends, collaborators, mentors, communities, and people who care about people and planet - and want to experiment and practice our collective way toward better solutions, in our lives and at scale.
Learn
Explore education, conversations, evidence, practices, and tools for personal and collective thriving.
Practice
Elevate your daily experience with personal and collective experiments in thriving, collective action, events, and positive changes in real life.
Discover
Find mission-aligned products, services, organizations, opportunities, and places through our growing global directory and interactive map of members and collaborators.
Build
Bring your skills, ideas, projects, questions, and experience. Find people to help you explore, test, and improve them.
Play
Explore games, rewards, challenges, creativity, events, and ways to make meaningful change more engaging and rewarding for yourself - and at scale.
Find your place
There are a lot of ways to belong here.
You don’t need to arrive as an activist, expert, scientist, entrepreneur, or anything else. Your dedication to being the change, in your own unique way, is enough.
Maybe you’re looking for your people. Maybe you want to learn. Maybe you’re building something. Maybe you simply know the way we’re doing things now isn’t good enough - and you want to be more.
Individuals & Explorers
Come for community, growth, resources, learning, experiences, or simply curiosity.
Creators & Contributors
Artists, teachers, researchers, organizers, makers, facilitators, healers, designers, developers, writers, and practical dreamers.
Businesses & Professionals
Offer products, services, skills, jobs, resources, and solutions that help people and planet thrive.
Partners & Projects
Communities, nonprofits, researchers, funders, initiatives, and organizations ready to collaborate, test ideas, or expand impact.
Don’t see yourself here quite yet?That’s okay. Start as an Explorer. Find your place in the tribe in your own way.
What’s a “living laboratory”?
Your life is already full of experiments.
Every time you try a new habit, solve a problem differently, change how you communicate, choose a product, join a community, learn a skill, or test a new way of doing something, you’re experimenting.
Luminaria helps make those experiments more intentional, connected, and useful.
Try something.
Choose a practice, challenge, tool, or change worth exploring.
See what happens.
Notice what shifts, what helps, and where friction remains.
Share what you learn.
Turn lived experience into insight others can build upon.
Improve the next experiment.
Use what we discover to make better possibilities easier to practice.
How individual learning becomes collective wisdom
One heart.Many minds.
The Luminaria works because each of us benefits from the wisdom of others while contributing to collective progress in our own way.
Contribute lived wisdom
Each of us brings unique perspectives, ideas, experiences, growth, and discoveries to the shared vision of thriving.
Curate what helps
Traditionally, much of that wisdom gets lost to time. We seek to harvest its value without asking people to become uniform.
Redistribute and improve
Luminaria makes thriving wisdom easier to find, explore, practice, and give feedback on, so what we learn can keep getting better.
From disconnected lives to shared legacies of thriving.
Through collaboration within spaces, places and platforms that can help us capture and curate our wisdom, we help each other preserve what we learn and pass it forward. This is a place to play and practice what it means to thrive in every area of life - and to generate a legacy of progress.
The question underneath every other question
Are we just passengers of life, or can we become drivers?
Are we merely products of our biology, histories, habits, cultures, systems, and surroundings?Are we fated to follow the dominant paradigms toward global collapse?Or can we understand the forces shaping our beliefs and behaviors well enough to become conscious participants in who we become, how we live, and what happens next?
Health. Relationships. Work. Money. Community. Culture. Politics. Environment. The places we live, the people we live with, and the systems around us can feel like opposing forces acting upon us.
They are constantly shaping one another - and shaping us.“Humanity keeps happening to itself, and calling it fate.”
Humanity’s greatest unsolved problem may not be a lack of intelligence, technology, resources, or possible solutions. It may be that we have not yet learned how to master the internal and external forces that keep us from choosing, building, and sustaining those solutions.
Luminaria exists to help us see those forces, find the places where meaningful choice remains possible, and practice becoming more.
What Luminaria isA Transformative Human Ecosystem™: an evidence-based living lab and practice community for people who want more agency in their own lives - and want to help build cultures where more of us can thrive.
How possibility becomes practice
What if a better future wasn’t a dream, but a design?
Imagine life beyond the dominant story.
Make room in our minds and cultures for futures that are more humane, sustainable, just, joyful, and alive.
Turn those possibilities into experiments.
Bring evidence, lived experience, creativity, and community into the work of real change.
Build the culture you wish existed.
Practice new ways of being, collaborating, and creating progress - together.
Dream it.→Test it.→Build it.→Be it.
The theory of change beneath The Luminaria
The smallest human struggle and the largest human crisis are connected.
A habit you cannot break. A change you cannot sustain. A future we know we need, but keep failing to build. These may look like different problems. Beneath the surface, they are shaped by the same machinery.
How individual humans think, feel, and behave is influenced by the structure and function of the human brain, so it scales through the collective in patterns that become the choices we make, the cultures we create, the systems we build, and the impact we have on one another and our planet.
01Self
03Systems
04Environment
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The Four Forces of Influence™ act together through the human condition.
Trying to demand change without understanding the human condition is like treating the symptoms of an illness without understanding what causes them.
The good news: human behavior is highly adaptable - and we can design for that.Go beneath the surfaceWhy influence is both our superproblem and our superpower+
We are built to be influenced.
The human condition learns fast because it is sensitive to influence.
We pick up cues for what to notice, value, feel, and do from more sources than we consciously perceive. That sensitivity helps us adapt to new people, technologies, cultures, and environments. It is part of what makes humanity so successful.
It can also work against us.
Media wants our attention. Companies want our money. Politicians want our votes. Ideologies want our beliefs. When influence is manipulated, coerced, reactive, or simply misaligned with thriving, it can pull our lives - and our world - away from what we actually want.
The same sensitivity gives us levers.
Influence is both a superproblem and a superpower.
It gives us many places to create positive change by working with human behavior instead of against it. We can learn to influence ourselves, align the forces around us, and build conditions that make better choices easier to begin, sustain, and spread.
The human condition, the Four Forces of Influence™, and Transformative Human Ecosystems™ are the mechanics of the consciousness revolution, if you prefer the epic, poetic, spiritual picture...
Or simply the practical work of building a better future.
We all carry this power beneath the surface of our awareness. We just need to learn how to map it, access it, and use it wisely.
Why change is hard - and where our power really lives
See the forces acting on us. Find the levers that make change. Shape what happens next.
Forces are influencing what people notice, feel, choose, and practice.
By influencing us, they influence what we think, feel, say, and do.
Luminaria turns the abstract question of human freedom into a practice in personal and collective evolution: where can we change a cue, practice, relationship, story, reward, role, system, or environment so more thriving-aligned action - and better outcomes - become possible?
Grounded in cross-disciplinary evidence and sciences. Built on the architecture of the Four Forces of Influence™ and Transformative Human Ecosystem™ models.
Self
Biology, nervous-system states, thoughts, emotions, habits, memories, needs, and beliefs.
Social
Relationships, belonging, status, imitation, norms, expectations, and group identity.
Systems
Incentives, institutions, policies, economic structures, rules, and distributions of power.
Environment
Physical spaces, available choices, environmental cues, and surrounding conditions.
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We design to empower
Knowing what influences people changes how you design change.
Instead of simply telling people to care more, try harder, or make better choices, we can build cultures and environments that make better choices easier to discover, practice, repeat, share, and enjoy.
That’s why Luminaria brings together community, education, practice, incentives, environments, products, projects, tools, and feedback instead of treating change as a problem of individual willpower.
We’re building a place where the culture around you can help support the person you’re trying to become - and the world you’re trying to help create.
What if a better world was easier to find?
Some of tomorrow is already here. It’s just scattered, siloed, and buried in the noise.
Imagine finding more of what helps you live in line with your values:
- Peopleyou want to know
- Skillsyou want to learn
- Productsyou want to support
- Projectsyou want to join
- Placesyou want to go
- Possibilitiesideas, tools, communities, opportunities, and experiments worth exploring
Who can you trust?What actually works?What only looks good on the surface?What quietly shifts the cost onto other people - or the planet?
The Luminaria is bringing more of the aligned pieces together into one connected, navigable ecosystem.
A place to live, work, teach, learn, play, and grow alongside people who are trying to build a more thriving, sustainable, and just world, too.
Already here
Some of that world already exists.
Still to build
Some of it still needs to be imagined, tested, and built.
Find the people who care. Find the pieces that work. Help build what isn’t here yet.
Don’t miss the beginning
Be here when the doors open.
The new Luminaria is being built now - and some of the most important decisions will be shaped by the people who arrive early.
Come find your people. Explore what we’re learning. Try an experiment. Bring an idea. Find something useful. Help us build something better.
It’s free to join. You don’t need to know exactly what your path is yet. Let your curiosity step inside and discover what it means to be part of the story of humanity building a Thriving World for All.