"creative disruptors":

:people who deliberately disrupt their own thinking habits

to create space for imagining positive change
 
    
        "creative disruption": the art of making (good) trouble

If you're trying to change things for the better against the odds: welcome home.

You can join us here. :)


current films of recent Cafe Disruptif Gatherings:
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    Negotiating the Surrender:
    an evening with Dougald Hine

    Hosted by  Cafe Disruptif, with Dark Economies

    A public talk by Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project and
   A School Called Home, hosted by Café Disruptif in partnership with Falmouth
   University’s Dark Economies research group.June 5th, 7-10pm. Falmouth.
    FILM OF THE DISCUSSION NOW AVAILABLE HERE.



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            Breaking the Silence:
            an evening of discussion with Dr Rupert Read

             Hosted by Cafe Disruptif

            The climate emergency has now hit the headlines. Our biggest task is to engage.
             We have the technology, the data and the money to face this - it's just
              invariably in the wrong place.


               Join us for an evening of discussion with Dr Rupert Read (who you may well
               have seen or heard on multiple broadcasts talking about climate breakdown
               and the Extinction Rebellion response.)
              June 20th, 7pm, Cornwall College, Pool, Cornwall.
                                                                                Film of the evening NOW AVAILABLE HERE: CLIMATE CATASTROPHE:
                                                                                                                                                                   DR RUPERT READ




a cafe disruptif espresso for the head

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a tiny bite of the doughnut:

 Check out the clip below for the first couple of pages of Doughnut Economics: you may decide
you ARE absolutely the sort of person who reads economics books ... :) .
Reproduced by kind permission of Kate Raworth and her publishers.
For more you can just click through to her site: Kate Raworth

A tiny bite of the doughnut.

Old goats, revolution and doughnuts:



UPCOMING cafe disruptif EVENTS



"creative disruptors":

:people who deliberately disrupt their own thinking habits

to create space for imagining positive change
 
    
        "creative disruption": the art of making (good) trouble

If you're trying to change things for the better against the odds: welcome home.

You can join us here.



  what cafe disruptif does

1 connects all flavours of creative disruptors in a deliberate effort to mix up our skills, perspectives, ideas and disciplines to squeeze every last drop of shared learning from all our efforts to create change for good
2 spotlights ways to stay healthy and strong  to
ensure we don't crash through
exhaustion, loneliness or frustration
3 curates an interdiciplinary treasure trove of tools, techniques and insights from all sectors, especially arts and social science, to help us catalyse the monumental transformation we  need across our social, environmental and economic structures
Our emphasis at the moment is on understanding the psychology of change: what makes some people hurl themselves at it with abandon and joy, and what makes some people hide behind the sofa and throw the cushions at anything that seems in any way different, new or "other". If we don't understand what makes our messages of change and renewal so horrifying to some, we are never (Big word. We mean it. ) going to find a way of connecting. And connect we must: across all our sectors of environmental, social and economic change because we *really* need to get better at working together; and with all those who think we must be actually unhinged to want it.

I had a conversation with someone recently where I casually mentioned we are facing so many complex, difficult problems, what we probably need is revolution. She is a lawyer for a local municipality in the US. She almost choked on her fruit cake and fell off her chair. She turned grey,  look at me aghast and asked, mouth still full, why would I want something "so destructive, that would lose all the structures we had put in place to fend off the barbarians"?

Wow. Now, *that* made me think. We are actually speaking different languages. She sees "revolution" as an INCREDIBLY BAD THING that will TEAR DOWN THE WALLS OF CIVILISATION AND LET ALL THE VERY VERY BAD AND LAWLESS PEOPLE GET EVERYWHERE. Whereas I see it as an amazing thing of renewal and change and improvement and can only feel happy when I feel the word coming out of my mouth.

It made me think a *lot*.

No wonder we're all getting nowhere....

Come and join us at our gathering ... all are welcome!

hello.

 We're some of the people thinking differently. You'll see this list changing as more people pitch in....

We believe in shaking up our collective presumptions.
Just to check they're not nailing our feet to the ground,
or locking our minds into boxes.
Without us even realising. It can 'appen.
Intrigued? Read on.

Want to be included? Click here.

Want to add your thoughts to our wee survey?

Click here.
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We're from all sectors, all parts of Cornwall and the SW, and we're all sort of people. Diversity is the mother of everything brilliant.

This is some of us, and some of the things we're coming at from a very different angle...and each of us are collecting, and sharing, some  of our  gear-changing disruptive favourites on this very website. We're compiling a hoard of fireworks for the mind: have a look here at what we've found so far.

Welcome.
Grab a coffee. Offer an opinion. You know how cafes work.

imagining the best

society:
disrupted
Loads of people are simply, honestly, deciding we can do better when it comes to making healthy, resilient communities. It's nice to know you're not alone. We're really, really not...

assuming we can

economics:
disrupted
All that allegedly impossibly complicated number stuff that is too tricky for mere mortals to understand...is in fact entirely understandable. This page will prove it.

systems thinking

environment:
disrupted
Imagine concentrating not just on reducing the amount of damage we're doing to our planet and the natural systems we rely on...but actually deliberately and on purpose *making them better*...radical? Or blinding common sense?

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