(be) Benevolution
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“Synthesis for step change. We’re consciously managing more abstract, longer term goals. We’re assimilating negative feedback. This wins capital in the new world” ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Conscious collaborative business outcompetes
Today’s significant issues cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. There’s a new, step change, coming. We’ve had the Industrial Revolution and the Exponential Organisation – iCentered and Information Revolution – is with us.
What’s the next step? Benevolution is already outcompeting the old systems.
Business posts
Fact: Fake or fantasy?
Is there anything else I can do? Marilyn Hamilton on Ukraine, news and weaving stories.
You may discover spirit, find buoyancy and navigate the turbulence of daily life: revealing the possibilities of a thriving future.
Barrett Brown: climate, communication, transformation
Truly improve global social, environmental and economic conditions.
Dr Barrett Brown, steps us through a global transformation for sustainability in this case tea & cocoa from small growers in regions, such as Kenya and India, to multinational distribution by Unilever, Netherlands.
One way to combat Russia: clean energy
Drastic steps reducing our energy consumption, cutting Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels, have multiple benefits.
Security, climate and more.
Uncovering insides: we grow like a set of Russian dolls!
Like matryoshkas, our thinking-patterns are characterized by wider circles of understanding.
We grow in distinct steps. This results in very different ways of understanding crises like climate and poverty.
A developmental journey: power, perspectives and passion
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment — Thich Nhat Hanh
Our mental progression is a key helping supporting beneficial transformation.
An ode: to creativity and transformation
We are all continuously engaged in creating!
And that helps us all to effectively, individually and together, catalyze positive transformation.
Stories from 2030: COP 2021 launch
Stories from 2030, our world and reaching to visions past climate crisis, told by 7 of the 82 contributors to the book – live from Glasgow!
Initiator: the climate emergency and growing-up
Opportunity and crises—can we support our psychological development and inner transformation to meet present and pressing needs?
Content
Business, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolution’s business stories are about today’s step changes. This is like the shifts brought about by the industrial and information revolutions alongside the political/social reformations that co-created them.
It is really hard to see such step shifts while they are occuring. There’s evidence the next phase, call it meta-modern, is underway. Signs include:
- We are living in an era of exponential change. Things are getting exponentially better, other things exponentially worse – simultaneously. Current ways of organising are destabilising.
- Synergy: when we synthesize disparate viewpoints, demands and imperatives new solutions can emerge.
- Climate change is a good example. Addressing it requires new thinking. Businesses that reverse global warming and are more socially and financially profitable, synchronously as they grow, are emerging.
* Quote with thanks to Hanzi Freinacht: We’re moving from the industrial age. We’re enabled by the internet age. In a globalized, post-industrial, market together these mean significant change. That change is a new step – metamodern. See Hanzi’s Listening Society book for an eloquent and compelling read on benevolutionary change.
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 – superstars, accidental heroes, inspiring intellects and everyone between. People breaking boundaries.
- Business – that’s this page! See above for details and stories.
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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