Amidst all the pain and undeniable loss are windows opening? Silver linings?
There is a clot between ourselves and our world. As I struggle through a month of covid vax side effects what is this telling me? Joining up my extraordinary care with meta-crises and personal crash times. Part 1
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 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.
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.
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*
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.
How do we empower people to see the transformations that are right in front of us? In addressing climate and corona and other crises, we’ve got many great examples. Scaling them means understanding our blindspots, being a little aware of our inbuilt biases.
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.
COVID turned us upside down in minutes showing transformation is clearly possible. We need new narratives to carefully co-create a better world for all. You can help create these and find the attractors that shift us. What is pulling us forward? Please submit windows that you see opening and closing.
Are we, and will we build, back better? As we live into this great viral transformation, the corona(tion) that’s been rushed upon us, here are some of the pictures and thoughts submitted so far to love in the time of corona—windows that are opening and closing for us
Our job is to find what the world is trying to be. Can you help answer covid-19 and climate emergencies for a better future? Beauty changes us and is part of creating new compelling, strongly attractive stories. Help enhance these stories, they already exist. Submit your pictures, poetry, phrases, stories here to help.
Windows may be opening. Like me, you’ll have experienced joy and despair all at the same time. Maybe our feelings, our emotional states, are all true. All simultaneously present. From torment and unease, to satisfied and joyous, touching blissful and enlightened. What does this look like (and what’s the science)?
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.
These are challenging and frightening times… let us also keep in view the systemic needs and possibilities that crisis exposes — David Korten
Is there an opening to embrace, a window into a better future for all? In this article, David writes about simultaneous potentials in this time of coronavirus.
“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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