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!
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.
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.
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*
Simple please, not simplistic.
Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, pictures can all help the narratives. Enjoy these short videos!
We are changing the purpose of business with clean energy leading the way.
Our new purpose is that we serve the world and all beings.
Our world is changing, inside and outside of ourselves.
For climate and crises answers, we need to step into the extraordinary and then hold that with the ordinary.
John O’Donohue’s poem
In praise of the grace of water.
Watch it emerge and wend it’s way to the arctic ocean in these photos accompanying John.
COVID turned us upside down in minutes showing transformation is clearly possible. We need new narratives to carefully co-create a better world for all. You can help create these and find the attractors that shift us. What is pulling us forward? Please submit windows that you see opening and closing.
Our job is to find what the world is trying to be. Can you help answer covid-19 and climate emergencies for a better future? Beauty changes us and is part of creating new compelling, strongly attractive stories. Help enhance these stories, they already exist. Submit your pictures, poetry, phrases, stories here to help.
With coronavirus pain are windows of hope opening too? How do we help find what the world is trying to be? Here’s the simple please, not simplistic sp/ns version. Audio, video, pictures and poetry of love.
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!
We need cut through but simplistic solutions fail to answer our climate, equity and empowerment emergencies. How about sp/ns—enjoy the videos, audio and gallery below.
“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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