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
Our answers rely on collaborative solutions. We are more than, just, individuals. Such ideas are transgressive—we’re not used to thinking about ourselves as individuals AND parts of a whole.
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
Future moments don't follow present ones like beads on a string. Effect does not follow cause hand over fist — Karen Barad* Quantum time. Is it actually useful?In blindfolds and balls, part one, we left a spooked to grandma. She’s seen balls go through open windows...
Economic commons activities—there are many more already than you think!
These are initiatives that are socially driven. Risks and benefits are shared mutually. We avoid costly overheads and dominating hierarchies.
We are in the midst of a major evolutionary leap. A dramatic increase in cooperation is possible.
Colaboration for climate, covid, injustice and inequality answers is essential. The New Possible showcases success.
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…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
You, I, we are breaking the social norms. In seeking solutions to global crises we’re creating new thinking patterns.
Our crises are not solved with the same level of thinking that created them—we’re going beyond the conventional patterns here.
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!
You’re in for an incredible treat.
This is poetry, a gateway to collective healing with the incredible poets and human beings Marie Howe and Pádraig Ó Tuama.
We are changing the purpose of business with clean energy leading the way.
Our new purpose is that we serve the world and all beings.
Our world is changing, inside and outside of ourselves.
For climate and crises answers, we need to step into the extraordinary and then hold that with the ordinary.
Transformation is inevitable.
Yet, using approaches that involve seeing the system and its patterns, sense-making that constructs new narratives and connecting can herald purposeful transformation for human and planetary wellbeing
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
We are better off together. We are greater than fear. This wonderful advert takes xenophobia on without playing to division and polarisation. Aspirational and what we feel we are and want to be.
Stuck in our ways? Our thinking patterns have strong roots, memes. These are ideas, phrases, words, images which ‘virally’ replicate from brain to brain.
“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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