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Marilyn Hamilton writes about our eve of reconnecting— consolidating and integrating learning, reinventing how we operate.
Upshift: recalibrating,(re)connecting, transitioning
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Integral
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Integral
Comprehensive, inclusive, non-marginalizing, embracing—Integral. A surprisingly simple and profoundly useful theory of everything!
Consciousness: and earth
We are shifting to re-recognize our deep interconnections with the world around us.
This is not new and can be held lightly, not dis-acknowledging science but going beyond current limitations.
Intergenerationally, Walt Whitman does this beautifully. Explore the conscious connections with Walt and enjoy!
See further: through the clouds
What is above the clouds?
Climbing up and seeing what was previously hidden to us is a great metaphor for the vertical learning humans can do. These are discrete changes, step changes.
Reframe and reconceptualize: Single, double and triple loop learning
Single, double and triple-loop learning can help us to un-stick our difficulties.
Mark Twain, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Mila A., Simon Divecha, Roebyem Anders, Joanna Macy and the Inner Development Goals illustrate how. Try it for yourself!
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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*
Diversity-power: Lynette Thorstensen and Sushant Shrestha
Lynette Thorstensen and Sushant Shrestha, in this presentation, part of a Transformative Climate Advocacy program session, showcase the power of a diversity of perspectives, people and approaches.
Emerging: human consciousness
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.
Barrett Brown: climate, communication, transformation
Truly improve global social, environmental and economic conditions.
Dr Barrett Brown, steps us through a global transformation for sustainability in this case tea & cocoa from small growers in regions, such as Kenya and India, to multinational distribution by Unilever, Netherlands.
Slocan: Integral forest cooperative
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
Uncovering insides: we grow like a set of Russian dolls!
Like matryoshkas, our thinking-patterns are characterized by wider circles of understanding.
We grow in distinct steps. This results in very different ways of understanding crises like climate and poverty.
A developmental journey: power, perspectives and passion
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment — Thich Nhat Hanh
Our mental progression is a key helping supporting beneficial transformation.
Solstice: narrated walking meditation
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Initiator: the climate emergency and growing-up
Opportunity and crises—can we support our psychological development and inner transformation to meet present and pressing needs?
Bracing: living in our climate
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
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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