Generating Transformative Change is coming to Europe! I’m stoked!!
And we have an introductory online experience too, Cultivating Emergence. It is stand-alone. Come along in late Feb and March 2023.
Cultivating emergence: introduction
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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.
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.
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
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.
Trransformational: Climate and sustaining our psyches
Being fully present, sustaining ourselves while engaging with climate crises, is radical.
We’re called to be part of a profound shift, one underway within and around us all and there are some tools that can support us.
Independent and interdependent: our new economic story
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.
Unseen economies: Kiri Dell on replenishing and Maori cultural concepts
The paradigm has shifted in New Zealand. That change is heavily influenced by Maori culture and it’s creating significant value for us all.
Six values: Sandra Waddock on next economies
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
Transformation: Steve Waddell on new economic norms
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.
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.