The future we long for is possible…

Next River is an institute for practicing the future.

Imagine a future where we all have what we need to live a life rich with wellbeing. Everyone is housed with nutritious food to eat and clean air to breathe. When conflicts inevitably arise, we use transformative justice to make amends. There is accessible healthcare for all our bodies, minds, and spirits. We live in right relationship with the land and other living beings. 

This liberated future is on its way. But only if we make it. 

Next River is working to create the cultural conditions necessary for a truly free world to emerge—starting by enabling a changed national belief about freedom.

Freedom’s Revival

What would it look like to understand our freedom as stemming from a deep connectedness with other living beings? What would be possible if we understood, believed in, and practiced this freedom? 

Finding Home

In an unfree society, freedom must be made. Next River is applying the principles of interconnected freedom to the material and social realities of homeownership, through the research and development of a collective homeownership model called
Finding Home.

Research

We use a range of qualitative research methods to build knowledge about the conditions for and obstacles to collective liberation.

Our Work Pillars

Narrative Change

We seed narrative change to shift shared beliefs about the nature and practices of freedom through content creation and campaigns.

Network of Practice

We are nurturing a network dedicated to generational liberation, who can grow and refine our freedom knowledge, skills, and capacities.

Get free with us!

Our Freedom’s Revival workshops reconnect us with the experience of genuine, interconnected freedom.

Make a donation

Your gift helps incubate future-facing ideas, practices, and initiatives that advance our collective liberation.