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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
When we’re pushed to the edge and surrounded by disequilibrium are there places of grace?
Here are some resources and connections, links to the regular changes around us, for sources of magic and miracles.
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.
The paradigm has shifted in New Zealand. That change is heavily influenced by Maori culture and it’s creating significant value for us all.
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
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. 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.
Please come along on this walk, a virtual walk along four paths, the physical, then collective systems, feelings and shared cultures.
And then there’s a fifth path, the path of the solstice, a standstill, it has been this way for all of our lifetimes and for millennia. A gift of our times, this year, is we are closer to these supportive memories.
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?
You, I, we are breaking the social norms. In seeking solutions to global crises we’re creating new thinking patterns.
Our crises are not solved with the same level of thinking that created them—we’re going beyond the conventional patterns here.
“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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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.