Human Venture Institute

Creating a globally networked, mutually supportive community of learners and practitioners of Human Learning Ecology... [more]

A New Field of Study

Human Learning Ecology is a new integrative discipline that draws on the extensive dataset of human achievement and failure across periods of history, cultures, disciplines and fields of endeavour... [more]

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Educational programs, events, and research to develop and contribute your capacities to understand and address humanity’s most significant challenges... [more]

    The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    General Omar Nelson Bradley, Armistice Day Speech

    The Human Venture is the on-going collective striving of our species to become more intelligent, compassionate, and just. It’s the real-world efforts of individuals and societies to understand and guide human evolution in ways that are wise and constructive, rather than harmful and destructive. 

    The Human Venture Institute and Human Venture Leadership work to create a globally networked, mutually supportive community of learners and practitioners who are applying Human Learning Ecology to address our world’s most significant challenges.

    Explore Across Disciplines

    The challenges we face are systemic and cross-disciplinary. Specialization while necessary is not sufficient. Have a look at the cultural resources we are drawing on to further our understanding of the human venture.

    Develop Adaptive Capacity

    The unprecedented nature of the challenges facing us means that conventional, routine learning will not be enough. Develop the foundational capacities to lead beyond convention through our offerings.

    Join Our Learning Community

    We are a group of dedicated individuals who care deeply about the state of the world and where humanity is going. Join our newsletter to stayed connected and support your own learning journey.

    From engineering and history,
    to psychology and journalism 
    explore a range of disciplines

    By studying common patterns in human striving, failure and achievement throughout our species’ development, we can understand ourselves and our predicament more deeply. And by situating that within the larger story of life processes, we can begin to develop the capacity required to help us innovate, problem-solve, and pursue adaptive lines of development for generations to come. Welcome to the Human Venture!

    Get a foundation in
    Human Learning Ecology

    What we’re really hurting for at this point in history are leaders with insight, foresight and wide-sight – the kinds of leaders that can help us identify and prepare for the most significant threats and opportunities coming our way especially those challenges that most of us don’t see, understand, or care about yet. Develop foundational capacities to lead beyond convention through our program offerings.

    Introductory Audio Course

    Listen to our course presentations through your favorite podcast app.

    Foundations
    Course

    Learn together with a class and facilitator through our online course.

    Associate
    Program

    Contribute to human learning ecology through the associate's program

    Life is the source of learning.
    Explore widely and deeply.

    The Human Venture community is dedicated to the ongoing identification and collection of resources that point to the leading edge of human and social development. The resources cover various fields of endeavour, times in history, authors and pioneer leaders. Here's a small selection of the cultural resources we have drawn over the decades.

    Book Lists

    Trailheads into human achievement and failure that reveal the nature of adaptive capacity

    Interviews

    Insights from other explorers of the human story.

    Keep in touch

    We are a group of people dedicated to figuring out how humanity can do better. Receive news about our latest explorations, programs, and events.