(be) Benevolution
This is a home for stories, conversations and art that catalyze the synergy of evolution.
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Lights, camera, simplicity: short videos cutting through complexity
Simple please, not simplistic.
Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, pictures can all help the narratives. Enjoy these short videos!
It is ok to be not ok: Alain de Botton and James Corden
We have turned the world, more or less, upside down in five minutes. There’s a silver lining to this in rediscovering vulnerability, connection and friendship.
Alain and James lift much weight from our souls in this beautiful short interview.
A winter solstice tale: finding direction past our limits
This story comes from a recent journey, staring into flames of intention, being awakened by lost truth. To travel soulfully through life means we first move inward to gain insight, then move outward into the world with inspired action. We leave our collective inebriation behind and reveal unconscious understandings that frame how we make sense of our world and around us.
Dazzling Darkness: The view from our planet
How can we create pathways between what David Whyte describes as our inner world and the outer world of the yet-to-be-discovered? Pathways that lead us through the close passage of endings and onto the tender ground of what is coming to be.
How do we manage this, particularly, in those darkest of early dawn hours when the light of new day has yet to illumine our next steps. In this exquisite letter, David explores the frontier conversations that can help us navigate both the dazzle and the darkness.
Think, are you thinking? Transformations 2019
My people cried today. Enough is enough, they said Surely, enough is enough. We rise. We stand. We speak. Enough is enough. We take back our power.
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This site is about our present and our future. We are experiencing a high degree of disruption, polarization and destruction. We’re hearing a lot about a lot of difficult and challenging shit.
But we – humans, society and our social systems – are also developing to dramatically improve the felt experience of life for all. Convergent pathways for a world that is genuinely better for all sentient beings.  A benevolution.
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Benevolution
Benevolent stories & beautiful conversations
for the benefit of all.
Developing, transforming ~ benefit
Convergent pathways are not linear changes. Benevolution features some of the diverse perspectives and manifestations incubating our future. There are many stand out stories that, taken together, reveal a mosaic of dramatic shifts. This expansive and expanding conversation is a significant developmental resource in and of itself. These emergent narratives benefit transforming complex challenges and catapult our conscious engagement.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ beauty
In times of great upheaval, we need stories of positive change more than ever; stories that inspire and activate people to make changes in their own lives and connect and catalyze individuals and organizations in co-creation. Benevolution is a place to find stories where you’ll hear from people, organizations and groups who took a risk to change their lives to change the world in the spirit of benevolence, for the benefit of all, with the energy of evolution.
Creating ~ better be…
We are experiencing deep longing. A pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time, sadness for the loss of potential, of planetary health, of community. But that’s not all. We are also experiencing an ardent awareness of beauty and possibility. Creating change challenges us to hold the painful and the promising together. To step past seemingly mutually incompatible perspectives and into practical, ethical flourishing.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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Nearly all the content on this site is creative commons (BY-NC 3.0 US). Please share, copy, accredit and repost! See individual articles for details and authors. Most pictures are by Festina LentĂvaldi, (be) Benevolution.