Perspectiva
= magazine and more: Perspectiva—Perspectives on Systems, Souls and Society
Description
Erik Haines:
"Perspectiva—Perspectives on Systems, Souls and Society — was conceptualized in late 2015 and formally co-founded in late 2016 in London by Jonathan Rowson and Tomas Björkman as a registered charity.
Rowson is a British applied philosopher with degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Bristol who served as British Chess Champion from 2004 to 2006 before transitioning to policy work at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), where he directed the Social Brain Centre and authored the influential 2014 report Spiritualise: Revitalising Spirituality to Address 21st Century Challenges.
Björkman is a Swedish entrepreneur who founded Investment Banking Partners AB and chaired EFG Investmentbank AB before turning to philanthropic-philosophical work through the Ekskäret Foundation, an initiative aimed at sustainable individual and societal development based on retreats hosted on Oak Island in the Stockholm archipelago.
The institutional purpose Rowson and Björkman articulated for Perspectiva was to bridge a perceived gap between contemporary social-change organizations—which they argued were strong on systemic analysis but weak on the existential and developmental dimensions of human life—and the long traditions of contemplative practice, philosophical anthropology, and integral theory that policy work was failing to integrate. Perspectiva organizes its work through four thematic strands (Realisation, Insight, Praxis, and Emergence) and operates a publishing arm, Perspectiva Press, which produces what Rowson calls “soul food for expert generalists” in the form of short, intellectually dense books designed as durable cultural artifacts."
(https://www.erikhaines.org/p/on-enchanted-flatland-iain-mcgilchrist)