The Whidbey GeoDome is an on-the-ground transformative learning process that catalyzes a shift in worldview – from ego- to eco-centric – resulting in greater personal and community resilience and a more healthy planet. Its mission is to transform worldviews, values, and behaviors of individuals, institutions, and communities toward “social bio-mimicry”, a cultural worldview that is aligned with Nature–organic, empathic, verdant, and cooperative.
Our strategy is to utilize the cutting edge technologies of the GeoDome*– with its stunning imagery and capacity to visualize whole systems–to create an awe-inspiring, visceral awakening to an eco-centric, everything- is-connected worldview. This immersive experience will be coupled with a transformative educational curriculum based on whole systems thinking, design science and social artistry for individual, organizational and community change. We will utilize the power of visual storytelling to engage students at all levels, as well as organizational and community leaders, in learning new stories and new ways of being, with an emphasis on cosmological and ecological literacy.
*The GeoDome is a portable immersive multimedia environment (an inflatable planetarium – 25 feet in circumference and 13 feet high) that can provide breath-taking visualizations of a guided tour of the universe, the evolution of life on earth, the unfolding story of humanity, and ecosystemic insights into one’s own bioregion. http://geodome.info and http://www.youtube.com/user/elumenati
Project Director: Rick Ingrasci
Managing Director: Britt Conn
Team: Chris Thorsen, Joe Menth, Vito Zingarelli, Charles Terry, Stephan Schwartz, Doug Kelly and Jerry Millhon.
Advisor: David McConville, Gene Kahn
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