Cycles of Crisis: Renew Your Mind, Restore the World
Drawing on scripture, systems thinking, and the insights of the Amazon e-book Cycles of Crisis, this school equips you to understand why growth-at-all-costs is breaking our world — and how a mindset of reduce, restore, and revive can help heal it.
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the recurring historical and ecological patterns that define 'cycles of crisis' and explain why conventional growth economics perpetuates them.
- Articulate the philosophical and spiritual case — including scriptural foundations — for a 'reduce, restore, and revive' worldview as an alternative to endless growth.
- Identify the specific crisis patterns most relevant to your own community, region, or industry.
- Apply a practical personal audit to map where your own habits, work, and consumption either feed or break the cycle.
- Develop a written personal action plan with specific, realistic reduce-restore-revive commitments you can begin immediately.
- Explain the concept of 'mind renewal' as a precondition for lasting systemic change, drawing on both spiritual tradition and modern behavioural science.
- Connect with a community of like-minded learners to share strategies, hold accountability, and multiply local impact.
- Communicate the core ideas of Cycles of Crisis clearly to others, becoming an informed voice for transformation in your own sphere of influence.
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The curriculum
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6 modules · 17 lessons
Seeing the Cycles — Understanding the Crisis Patterns Around Us
Before we can change anything, we must see clearly. This opening module builds the foundational literacy of the course: what a 'cycle of crisis' actually is, how these cycles have repeated across history and ecology, and why most conventional responses fail to break them. Learners move from vague anxiety to clear-eyed diagnosis.
- 1.1What Is a 'Cycle of Crisis'? Patterns Across History and NatureIncluded
- 1.2Why Growth Economics Drives the Cycle — A Plain-Language Systems ViewIncluded
- 1.3Mapping Your Own Crisis Landscape — Local, Regional, and Sectoral DiagnosisIncluded
Renewing the Mind — The Inner Transformation That Precedes Outer Change
This is the philosophical and spiritual heart of the course. Drawing on Romans 12:2 ('be transformed by the renewing of your mind'), wisdom traditions, and modern behavioural science, learners explore why external fixes always fail without internal transformation — and what mind renewal actually looks and feels like in practice.
- 2.1Scripture, Wisdom Traditions, and the Call to Think DifferentlyIncluded
- 2.2What Behavioural Science Tells Us About Changing Our Own MindsIncluded
- 2.3From Anxiety and Despair to Grounded, Values-Driven ActionIncluded
The Philosophy of Enough — Making the Case for Reduce, Restore, Revive
This module builds the intellectual and moral architecture of the course's alternative vision. Learners go beyond simply critiquing growth to articulating a coherent, positive worldview: what 'enough' means, what restoration actually requires, and how the reduce-restore-revive framework applies across the domains of economy, ecology, and community life.
- 3.1Reduce — The Radical, Liberating Logic of LessIncluded
- 3.2Restore and Revive — What Healing Actually Looks Like in PracticeIncluded
- 3.3Communicating the Vision — Becoming a Confident, Credible Voice for ChangeIncluded
The Personal Audit — Mapping Your Own Role in the Cycle
With frameworks in hand and minds renewed, learners now turn the lens on themselves. This module guides a thorough, honest, and non-shaming personal audit of how current habits, consumption patterns, work, and relationships either feed or begin to break the cycle of crisis — producing the raw material for the personal action plan.
- 4.1Auditing Your Consumption — Food, Energy, Stuff, and MoneyIncluded
- 4.2Auditing Your Work — How Your Professional Life Feeds or Breaks the CycleIncluded
- 4.3Auditing Your Community — Relationships, Influence, and Social CapitalIncluded
Your Personal Action Plan — Reduce, Restore, Revive Starting Now
All the learning of the course converges here. Learners synthesise their audit findings, their renewed mindset, and their community context into a written, specific, realistic personal action plan — not a vague wish list, but a committed, time-bound roadmap with accountability built in.
- 5.1Designing Your Reduce-Restore-Revive CommitmentsIncluded
- 5.2Building Your Accountability ArchitectureIncluded
- 5.3Sharing Your Plan — Going Public and Multiplying ImpactIncluded
Living the Transformation — Sustaining Change and Spreading It
The final module ensures that the course is not an end but a beginning. Learners establish the habits, communities, and ongoing learning practices that will sustain their reduce-restore-revive commitments through the inevitable setbacks, evolving crises, and long haul of genuine transformation — and equip them to multiply their impact far beyond this course.
- 6.1Sustaining the Renewed Mind — Spiritual and Practical Rhythms for the Long HaulIncluded
- 6.2From Individual to Collective — Catalysing Change in Your CommunityIncluded
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Your teacher
A note from your teacher
David Clilverd
I've spent years watching the same patterns play out — in history books, in news headlines, and in the communities around me. Crisis follows crisis, and the standard response is always to push harder on the very levers that created the problem: more growth, more production, more consumption. That troubled me deeply, and it drove me to write Cycles of Crisis, now available on Amazon, where I mapped the recurring patterns that trap civilisations — and the pathways that have allowed communities to break free.
I believe, as scripture teaches, that lasting change begins with the renewing of our minds. Not optimism as denial, but a genuine transformation in how we see the world and our place in it. That conviction shapes everything in this school. My goal isn't to overwhelm you with the scale of the crisis — it's to give you the clarity, the courage, and the practical tools to become part of the restoration. I'm glad you're here, and I believe that the fact you've found your way to this school means you're already ready to act.
— David Clilverd
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