Special Double Invitation to Lectures This Week
Let’s reckon with the now, and rebuild what comes next
Dear friends and regenerative future-builders,
This week, I’m inviting you to join me for two special gatherings, both grounded in this month’s theme of Reckoning, the first stage of my 7R Regenerative Futures framework.
1. Free Lecture Tomorrow, Thurs Jun 19
(In place of my weekly Thursday Office Hours chat with paid subscribers)
🗓 Thursday (tomorrow)Time: 12:00 PM NOON PDT (Pacific Time) On Substack Live, open to ALL subscribers
We are watching the world shift in real time. As headlines and communications from the White House cause anxiety, worry and chaos over the Israel–Iran crisis, many are asking: Is this really World War III? How do we make sense of it all?
So as a natural progression from my Navigating a VUCA World article, I’m changing up my regular Thursday office hours format for something timely, grounded, and urgently needed.
In light of the escalating Israel–Iran crisis and rising fears of wider war, I’m shifting this week’s Thursday office hours for paid subscribers into a free, one-time Substack Live session open to all subscribers.
I’ll be guiding you through how to think like a systems futurist in a moment like this:
How to cut through noise, see beyond headlines & connect the dots across historical patterns
What questions actually help you understand, not just react- How to assess this crisis across multiple lenses, actors, trends and outliers, e.g., geopolitical, economic, systemic, psychological, cultural, sociological, etc.
And how to discern: Is this really WWIII? Or just another chapter in a longer collapse?
I don't have all the answers. But I'll make sure we ask better questions.
As we’ve covered in prior lectures, this isn’t about hot takes, fearmongering or doomscrolling. It’s about learning how to think clearly in complexity.
This session is free and open to all subscribers — paid or free. Because when the world feels like it’s being pushed off a cliff, we all need tools to make sense of it.
If this session helps ground and sharpen your understanding, consider becoming a paid subscriber to support more work like this.
Let’s reckon with this moment and prepare to rebuild what comes next.
2. REMINDER: Monthly Zoom Lecture – “RECKONING”
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS:
🗓 Sunday, June 22
🕓 4:00 PM PDT
(Zoom link will be emailed separately prior)
As announced in my last article, this lecture will be the next installment of my monthly deep-dive lecture series for paid subscribers.
This month, we’ll explore the first phase of the 7R Framework I introduced in my last article: Reckoning.
I’ll go deeper into:
The core personal, cultural, and civilizational reckonings we must face now
The mindsets, beliefs, and conditionings we’ve inherited from obsolete systems that have led to our current broken status quo
The early signs of transformation underway — from economic to technological to social governance shifts happening around the world
How to recognize collapse not as an ending, but as a hinge moment to regeneration
This session will be both theoretical, evidence-based and deeply grounded, with space for questions and dialogue as always.
We’ll focus on the changes in mindsets, beliefs and social conditionings that we need to confront and reconcile the better future we want to build. I’ll also share the systems transformations currently happening here and around the world in service to developing better technological, social and economic governance models from the ground up.
If you’re not yet a paid subscriber and want to join this call, now’s the time.
Your support sustains this work and helps build the future we all need.
In times like these, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, disoriented, or paralyzed.
But if we understand the systems, the cycles, the histories — and if we show up ready to do the inner and outer work — we become builders of the next world, not just bystanders in the collapse of the old one.
Let’s reckon. Let’s rebuild. Together.
With you in the storm,
Bian “B” Li
The Regenerative Futurist