We ignore profit.
We commonly believe we will act when it is in our financial interest to do so. Not so.
Critically, we can do something about it!
Power and profit: a paradox
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Meta-business
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Looking for a common future for all of humanity? Businesses assisting this will outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises. Meta-business!
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.
Stories from 2030: COP 2021 launch
Stories from 2030, our world and reaching to visions past climate crisis, told by 7 of the 82 contributors to the book – live from Glasgow!
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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*
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?
Connecting: local and global catalysts
Local, extraordinary economic solutions are limited by modern-day expectations. We can Bounce Beyond that by bringing these economies together.
Steve Waddell explains transformation systems that are allowing local brilliance to thrive and shift global structures.
Visions: can and do change the world
Stories from 2030 is about our world, climate crises, disruption, acceleration and transformation.
It is a follow-on from Visions 2100 which was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
How to move: a transformative climate pattern
Greenhouse gas has always been confounding. We’ve had profitable solutions for decades. We didn’t take them as humans are not numbers.
Independent and interdependent: our new economic story
Our next economies offer hope and life while keeping our modern-marvels
They are transcending limitations and weaving in beauty and care.
4 short videos showcasing these creations.
Unseen economies: Kiri Dell on replenishing and Maori cultural concepts
The paradigm has shifted in New Zealand. That change is heavily influenced by Maori culture and it’s creating significant value for us all.
Six values: Sandra Waddock on next economies
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
Transformation: Steve Waddell on new economic norms
A new economic meta-story. You-I-we are creating it and moving from GNP to how we share, collaborate, support each other’s happiness and achieve our own.
Steve on supporting experimentation and connecting to really give birth to this next economy for the majority of us.
It takes a village: Glenn Page
It takes a village. That’s the new paradigm.
We’re never going to be able to work through current meta crises as individuals. Glenn Page talks on creating the wellspring for collective seeing.
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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