We are all continuously engaged in creating!
And that helps us all to effectively, individually and together, catalyze positive transformation.
An ode: to creativity and transformation
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Collaborative
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Collaborative
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.
Transgressive: next systems and thinking patterns
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.
Lights, camera, simplicity: short videos cutting through complexity
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!
Stories, poetry, silence: What it seems to say
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.
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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…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
A charging meme: The power of the stories
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.
We need help! For transformations
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.
Shamanic sensemaking: conscious transformation
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
Transformation: 8 steps to a new economy for the 21st century
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
Powerful stories: we’re better together
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.
Memes, stories, narratives: Essential for wellbeing
Stuck in our ways? Our thinking patterns have strong roots, memes. These are ideas, phrases, words, images which ‘virally’ replicate from brain to brain.
Disorder afflicts the land: and a story hero to restore harmony!
We navigate the world through stories. We tell ourselves them, create and hold on to them to make sense of complexity around us. What happens when they are past their use-by date? A new story is essential for scaling solutions. This is George Monbiot on these narratives and their power.
Infinite potential: Antony Gormley and places of transformation
We co-produce our present-futures.
Antony’s quantum cloud sculpture is particles and trajectories. You determine what you see and, similarly, are a co-producer of possible futures.
Pivotal moment: WWF on fixing nature and pandemics together
Our health, human, animal and nature are linked. We can create multiple benefits with solutions that reduce the likelihood of pandemics while simultaneously delivering sustainable food systems, restored environments and animal protection.
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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