A vision? Immunity and the clot between ourselves and global crises. Extraordinary care for our meta-crises and personal crash times. Part 2
Immunity part 2: visions beyond crisis
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Amidst all the pain and undeniable loss are windows opening? Silver linings?
Connected: Richard Walley and Nyungar universal language
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.
A good anthropocene? Climate bright spots
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.
It is ok to be not ok: Alain de Botton and James Corden
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.
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Help find attractors: what pulls us forward?
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.
Windows and corona: what you’ve opened so far
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
Transforming narratives: help find the attractors
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.
Surfing simultaneous states: Beauty, fear, joy and despair
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)?
Relax: what can we learn from the fool?
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.
Coronavirus: Humanity’s wake-up call
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.
Four openings: corona and climate hope
In these corona’s of crises, what is connecting and crystalizing while we are confounded and crying? There’s a creative cycle to the new. Here’s Yuval Noah Harari, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Zak Stein and Nick Cave with four deep and insightful pieces, relating to coronavirus and our climate, collaboration. Read on for connecting steps and transformations potentials.
sp/ns The window: holding love and pain simultaneously
With coronavirus pain are windows of hope opening too? How do we help find what the world is trying to be? Here’s the simple please, not simplistic sp/ns version. Audio, video, pictures and poetry of love.
The Window: love in the time of corona
With coronavirus, it is abundantly clear we are globally connected. At the same time, there’s a window, closing, opening—this is our moment. Transformational possibilities. Please help curate them! Submit your virtual and metaphorical windows here.
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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