We are, individually and collectively, more than the sum of our parts. What’s emerging from the complexity?
Happy new year. What a time! So much is unclear—what gorgeous and fractious directions will our societies take?
Our new year, seems like quite a meeting point. This enklavene is from the obsure to clear with neither diminishing the intensity of the other.
The human species, I-you-us!, are waking up.
This spring brings an outpouring of evidence that we, humans are growing up to meet our meta-challenges, the crises we are all intimately connected with and to.
Joanna Macy on five gifts from uncertainty for aliveness and flourishing.
Presence, Courage and intention, Awareness, Solidarity. And the Immensity of time.
This enklavene is a set of fractals. We zoom in from the bottom of the mountain and the mini-cliff-edged sheep (she looks perfectly at ease!) to the mountain cliffs. And then to the rocks on top.
There are sets of repeating patterns all around us. Importantly, we create them too. It’s a foundation of change.
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*
Kyiv, Ukraine. It is likely you know someone and our entangled connections can be supportive.
In service of this are several articles written in and around the Metamodern Arts Festival Kyiv 2019 and/or associated Emerge gatherings.
We are all continuously engaged in creating!
And that helps us all to effectively, individually and together, catalyze positive transformation.
This is a photo series on our ongoing evolution.
The series is monthly enklavene: illustrations of cultural and social entities (us!) entriely encolsed within, and creating, wider enclaves.
When we’re pushed to the edge and surrounded by disequilibrium are there places of grace?
Here are some resources and connections, links to the regular changes around us, for sources of magic and miracles.
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.
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.
Seek disharmony for peace. Momentarily day and night are balanced at the equinox.
It’s been celebrated across cultures and time.
A heart-rending story. Just beautiful. From faith and spiritual tools turning to dust to help—not only to survive but to come alive again.
We need cut through, insight and scaffolding to explore and enable our potentials.
But simplistic solutions fail with today’s emergencies. What about exploring the sublime? The new and upcoming entangled futures? The archetypes we often miss that frame and guide or thinking?
Simple please, not simplistic no.2 Short videos, playlist and photo gallery. Enjoy!
“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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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.