(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
Connected: Richard Walley and Nyungar universal language
There’s never been a moment in time when we’ve been so place-based and yet so connected globally. Join Gaia Journey and the Nyungar Aboriginal Australia elders in learning from the past for the present, connected answers.
The essence: Re-integrating with Peter Senge
Re-integration of mind and matter is addressing our social and environmental in-balances. Peter Senge and Otto Sharamer layout this essential shift. It is underway and this change is putting us back together! Our experience, in the modern world, is to make sense of what we see but not include our own feelings and vulnerabilities in that sense-making.
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.
Relax: what can we learn from the fool?
Is it time to stop thinking? Though the idiots call him simpleminded, the fool is willing to step off the cliff with wonder. There is space, in corona, to stop thinking too. There are gems to be found in letting go. Lean into wondering.
Four openings: corona and climate hope
In these corona’s of crises, what is connecting and crystalizing while we are confounded and crying? There’s a creative cycle to the new. Here’s Yuval Noah Harari, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Zak Stein and Nick Cave with four deep and insightful pieces, relating to coronavirus and our climate, collaboration. Read on for connecting steps and transformations potentials.
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.
Storms: thunder, creativity and impact
The unacceptability of violence against humans and nature is coming to a boiling point. Yet in quiet hours—downtown Santiago, Chile —we forget transformation imperatives, how close we are to thunderous eruption.
The stew pot revolution: connections
We need to connect the dots. The diverse issues from protests around the world tangle together. Climate strikes, fare evasion in Chile, roadblocks in Lebanon and Extinction Rebellion in Brisbane are all part of the same phenomenon.
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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