Humans, shift. We change to understand the world from new thinking patterns.
Understanding that we shift—and some of the ways we can ease these changes—can help us all.
Tethers: maps and growth
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Metamodern
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We can forecast a more beautiful future and catalyse it. Universally selecting synergies are creating our next narratives, next economies, next systems alleviating much suffering for all.
The Commons: Next economies, politics and culture
Economic commons activities—there are many more already than you think!
These are initiatives that are socially driven. Risks and benefits are shared mutually. We avoid costly overheads and dominating hierarchies.
Wellbeing economy: in the USA
What’s the story? A wellbeing economy in the USA and a world we can create together—we have the resources. What do you envision?
Transformation: 8 steps to a new economy for the 21st century
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
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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*
Infinite potential: Antony Gormley and places of transformation
We co-produce our present-futures.
Antony’s quantum cloud sculpture is particles and trajectories. You determine what you see and, similarly, are a co-producer of possible futures.
sp/ns 2: A story upgrade
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!
Attractors: strangely, we keep getting pulled in
We already have all the solutions we need to ensure flourishing, alleviate oceans of suffering for all sentient beings and answer pressing emergencies such as climate. Yet, we act too slowly seemingly beholden to outdated ideas. There’s a strange attraction to our old archetypes. It’s time for an upgrade! What do the new ones look like?
Lights, action, synergy: overcoming a deficit
It’s hearts AND minds. For thriving transformations, climate answers, we’ve great models inc. technical and awareness. Yet there’s still an action deficit. How do we overcome it?
Beam and wave: sincerity leading change
Climavores see further—enthusiasm beyond sarcastic criticism, be both authoritative and timid while neither arrogant nor tentative—sincerity with our irony!
Elegant attraction: our emerging universe
We can forecast a more beautiful future and catalyze it. We’re, universally, selecting emerging synergy; elegantly attracted order; new beneficial properties.
This is a beautiful talk on emergence, its significance and fundamental importance for humanity. Emergence, its connections and underlying science are laid out clearly.
Read on for a life-giving, fount of energy. Love if you like to think about this in terms of what is being created.
Climate-x: Entrepreneurial step change
Shatter business as usual. This Climate-x story is about creating entrepreneurial, social and climate synergy. it’s a different level of thinking to action.
Meta-modern business: outcompete common practice
“Like all social constructs, the market could be different: we have created the market and we can change it," Tomas Björkman. * Looking for a common future for all of humanity while our businesses outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises?...
Go beyond business as usual: meta-lean canvas
“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them”. The idea of new thinking — for business, social and environmental success — is appealing. But how do we get there? The Meta Lean Canvas helps.Beyond Business as...
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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