Slocan: Integral forest cooperative

Success across multiple traditions, values and perspectives.

The Slocan cooperative is generating healthy and vibrant local communities, building on respect for one another and a healthy, fully functioning ecosystem

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.

Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.

We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…

We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…

Sustaining the soul

Sustaining the soul

Living through colony collapse is heart-rending enough but we are not without resources.

The more we avail ourselves of the hidden nectar of Spirit inside our hearts, the more we can become like stubborn, blooming flowers in a parched and dry land.

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Re-creating relatedness: a meta shift

Re-creating relatedness: a meta shift

In the crises around us we are the problems and also the solutions. That’s a thinking pattern shift. From individual to collective.

How can we assist this for thriving in the hear and now as well as the future?

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An initiation: and a koan

An initiation: and a koan

A koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve—our global village.

We are part of the world. Yet, how can we be initiated into caring for everything? Even knowing we’re connected to it all.

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Festina Lente

Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally

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“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.

- Festina LentÍvaldi