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Transformation
“Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled” ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
On this page you’ll find stories about transformation. Enabling it. Helping to catalyse future potentials, alleviating much suffering for all.
Slocan: Integral forest cooperative
Success across multiple traditions, values and perspectives.
The Slocan cooperative is generating healthy and vibrant local communities, building on respect for one another and a healthy, fully functioning ecosystem
Uncovering insides: we grow like a set of Russian dolls!
Like matryoshkas, our thinking-patterns are characterized by wider circles of understanding.
We grow in distinct steps. This results in very different ways of understanding crises like climate and poverty.
A developmental journey: power, perspectives and passion
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is in the way we handle this very moment — Thich Nhat Hanh
Our mental progression is a key helping supporting beneficial transformation.
About transformations
Transformations is about emerging change—our world’s destabilising as some things get exponentially worse, some exponentially better. It can’t last and futures that encompass interlinked pieces—e.g. climate emergency solutions such as women’s access to education for fairness, equity and beneficial carbon drawdown—are what we can create.
If this sounds like a new level of thinking, it is! A paradigm shift, triple-loop change and new business models.
This page started with the Transformations 2019 conference in Chile. On the last day, Friday, 18 October, Santiago exploded. What’s happening in Chile mirrors pain and trauma around the world.
You’ll see Chile posts cover the events as well as interconnections and what we can do to help catalyse new futures, large system changes, justice and to address emergencies (including climate).
More transformation posts
An ode: to creativity and transformation
We are all continuously engaged in creating!
And that helps us all to effectively, individually and together, catalyze positive transformation.
Connecting: local and global catalysts
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.
Bracing: living in our climate
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
Visions: can and do change the world
Stories from 2030 is about our world, climate crises, disruption, acceleration and transformation.
It is a follow-on from Visions 2100 which was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
How to move: a transformative climate pattern
Greenhouse gas has always been confounding. We’ve had profitable solutions for decades. We didn’t take them as humans are not numbers.
Grace, magic and miracles: while the nights are getting longer
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.
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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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.