(be) Benevolution
Benevolutionaries are people committed to making this planet a more robust, equitable, consciously evolving, cared-for and caring place for all sentient beings. They wake up in the morning, day after day, and this impossible, inexorable care is twined with the very air they breathe. They work (and play) in a diverse range of spheres and vocations on scales large and small but always with an eye toward inclusion, depth and range.
Benevolutionary posts
Climate consciousness
70 students, a UN, MIT & Vienna simulation meet Integral. With inner and outer development can we transform humanity’s, and our planet’s temperature, trajectory? Try it!
Vale Kari 💙
Kari, the co-founder this website, passed away just before Christmas, 2023.
Unfolding realities
One in fifty billion: At these odds I’m looking for what else is real and, while it does not serve me to hold onto conventional worldviews, unfolding into bigger realities is challenging.
2.0 Conceptual to perceptual
A shift from conceptual to perceptual and how do I feel now?
I’m massively buoyed by all of the extraordinary collaborative components that are allowing and validating the positive changes within us all. You’ll see how alive this set of connections is in me in the cover picture too.
Irreverent: reverence
I really like Christmas. And yes I have all of the usual objections, consumerism, commercialization…
Tim Minchin and the Pogues being reverent with irreverence.
Entangled: agility
We evolved as communal creatures, in close contact with each other, with a lot of mutual support.
Some agility pieces to connect with our evolution and step past individual only.
Clarity: in complexity
Heart, head and hara-centered connections for agility!
Some simple but not simplistic resources centering ourselves in the ever-present uncertainty, volatility and ambiguity around all.
Three transformations: Fall 2022
How do we shift, our societies move, you-I-we transform for flourishing?
3 programs to taste, experiment with for free, to touch-in with.
And, to embrace all the way, should you wish.
Content
Benevolutionaries, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolutionaries start where they are. Included in their spheres of direct influence are the multitudes they will never meet and times they won’t live to see.
They are wildly diverse. Some are superstars in their fields. There are inspring intellects. There’s driven and accidental heroes. Some are people starting something simple and finding themselves changing worlds. And, there’s everything in-between.
* Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.
Muhammad Yunus’s quote is from his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ benevolution
The stories for positive change on this site are across 3 broad categories:
- Beauty — posts on aesthetic and expansive experiences. Art, poetry, travel and emotions catalyzing evolution.
- Benevolutionaries — that’s this page! See above for stories and descriptions.
- Business — it’s meta-modern baby! Conscious collaborative climate and socially sane business is outcompeting our old modern model.
Background ~ better be…
(be) Benevolution aims to assist our deep longing. We are responding to a pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time and, simultaneously, experiencing an ardent awareness of possibilities. The site, its stories and perspectives are to help our agency and engagement – with the painful and the promising – for practical, ethical flourishing.
Stories from before 2019 are drawn from Kings Catch Fire and Greenmode – some of our previous explorations and engagements in personal, family, species, socitey and global thriving.
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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