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.
sp/ns
sp/ns (simple please, not simplistic) is supporting a new meme. The more commonly used tl/dr (too long, did not read) has outlived its usefulness
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.
For the interim time: new dawn
Transfigure your mind
for your arrival in the new dawn
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.
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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 LentĂŤvaldi*
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.
Phosphorescence: life in the middle of dark
On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark. Phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your heart to.
Genius from light within.
Re-creating relatedness: a meta shift
In the crises around us we are the problems and also the solutions. That’s a thinking pattern shift. From individual to collective.
How can we assist this for thriving in the hear and now as well as the future?
Global sunsets II: and a sunrise
When near the end of day, life has drained, in the dusk, explore your arrival in the new dawn. Global sunsets and a sunrise.
Global sunsets: reach of new colors
All the time we are remaking and renewing. In ourselves and the world every day.
Global sunsets and colors to remake and renew by.
Ancestors: keep leading us into hope
Sources of inspiration are all around us echoing through the generations and our ancestors. Valerie Kaur connects this with our collective memories and enabling hope.
Revolutionary certainly. Overall she frames this as Revolutionary Love in practical embodied steps.
Longing: Moonrise, moonset, sunrise and sunset
Go to the limits of your longing. Embody these sun and moon rises and sets. Let them flare up like a flame and make big shadows to move in!
Chalanais
Settle down in the sea of destruction,
Without harm and without fear;
Rise up on the peaceful arc,
As a young queen in bloom.
Sunset and sunrise at Chalanais through the solstice.
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?
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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