Once upon a time, when words began to vanish, blessings and spellbooks brought them back.
Enchantments, songs, exquisit illustrations, words and poetry, are here to reconnect with nature.
Lost words: blessing
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Simple please, not simplistic. Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, film and pictures all help words. Hence these short videos. Enjoy!
Irreverent: reverence
I really like Christmas. And yes I have all of the usual objections, consumerism, commercialization…
Tim Minchin and the Pogues being reverent with irreverence.
Insight: for change
Single, double and triple-loop learning to go deeper. This helps us to reframe and reconceptualise, to go deeper and be more effective, around the things we are working on and care about.
Widening circles: of identity care & responsibility
As we grow and change through life, our circles of care, who we take ourselves to be and our sense of responsibility, for a larger whole, can widen and deepen.
Abigail Lynam describes our developmental journey in this short video.
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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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9500 years old: mind-boggling
A tree that in some way or another has lived almost 9500 years.
This ancient organism sprouted in the early neolithic period. Mind-boggling!
Diversity-power: Lynette Thorstensen and Sushant Shrestha
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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.
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.
Vandana Shiva: On the arrogance of Newtonian power
In the fossil fuel age, Newtonian power “will subjugate nature”
Vandana Shiva talking to Russell Brand on things we learn about together, where we can evolve together.
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!
Connecting: local and global catalysts
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Steve Waddell explains transformation systems that are allowing local brilliance to thrive and shift global structures.
Necessary wildness: a fountain of life
This beautiful video showcases Scotland’s mountainous wildness. Yet it is about more including abundance and diversity. Those are a mindset, a thinking pattern, as much being about flourishing wildlife land and seas. You-I-we thrive under such conditions.
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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