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.

How to: Nurture the fields of change

How to: Nurture the fields of change

ow? can we nurture holistic system change in the world? can we open to nature and collective wisdom? are mind, heart, body and spirit engaged in our work? do we inspire coherent action for transformational outcomes? do we experience and approach...

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Connecting: local and global catalysts

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.

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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).

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Festina Lente

Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally

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“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.

- Festina LentÍvaldi