It boils down to two things...

Entropy

...the movement toward disorder, randomness and uncertainty.

We experience entropy in our own minds in the form of things like

Syntropy

...the movement toward order, organisation and complexity.

We experience syntropy in our own minds in the form of things like:

(Technical sidebar: Entropy is a thermodynamic and information theory concept used in physics, chemistry, and biology. We use ‘entropy’ and ‘syntropy’ more broadly as shorthand for the general patterns of disintegration and integration that appear across multiple scales — from physics and biology to psychology and society)

Our use of technology has amplified both of these forces at once.

Life's been chaotic because amplified entropy and syntropy are duking it out across the world.

But with this knowledge, there’s something we can all do.

Our habits create our minds.

And our minds create our world.

If we can change our cultural habits, we can change our world.

Our Theory of Change

We provide coaching, courses and education to help everyday people move beyond entropic habits that harm and fragment the mind and world. We support them to adopt syntropic habits that evolve and integrate the mind and world:

• clarifying purpose

• regulating emotions

• deepening fulfilment and love

• building healthy relationships

• living in alignment with values

Our Mission

Our Framework

Many self-improvement tools are shallow. They address different symptoms of the mind, but not the full structure of the self.

The Hope Movement aspires to take the most comprehensive approach possible to syntropic human development, currently drawing from:

• developmental psychology

• extended evolutionary meta-model

• integral theory

• integrative psychotherapy

• metamodern philosophy

• ancient wisdom traditions

• modern transformative modalities

Areas of Development

Areas of Life

The next stage of humanity's evolution starts with you.

With me.

With all of us.

Meet the Founder

The Hope Movement was started by Jordan Bakker in 2026.

For over 15 years, Jordan has worked to bring about external and internal syntropic change in the world.

His external journey of syntropy has involved work as a human rights and environmental advocate with Displacement Solutions, a school teacher and a school transformation change agent with the Centre for Multicultural Youth, as well as a collaborator on innovative mental health and wellbeing initiatives with Unconditional Self-Therapy, Integrative Psychology and Medicine and the Integrative Attachment Therapy Institute.

His internal journey of syntropy has consisted of meditation, self-inquiry, therapy and many other transformative practices. Jordan lived in an ashram for 2 years in the tantric nondual yoga tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. He was mentored by the spiritual teacher, author and philosopher, Terry Patten, in the integral tradition, helping him set up the organisation A New Republic of the Heart. Jordan studied meditation with Harvard Professor, Dr Daniel P Brown and Geshe Sonam in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu and Bon traditions. Jordan is a certified Heroic life coach.

Jordan has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Masters of Applied Teaching Practice (Secondary), and is working on a second Masters. He is co-editor of The Climate Change and Displacement Reader (2012).