Blindfolds and balls part 2: Grandma goes technicolor

Future moments don't follow present ones like beads on a string. Effect does not follow cause hand over fist — Karen Barad*  Quantum time. Is it actually useful?In blindfolds and balls, part one, we left a spooked to grandma. She’s seen balls go through open windows...

Blindfolds and balls: your grandma, grandkids and mindwarping solutions

Solving climate and equality crises takes a new script. That’s hard.

If we can expain quantum to our grandmas or grandkids our updated thinking patterns may stick.

Standstill: our 12 day solstice

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.

Standstill: our 12 day solstice

Standstill: our 12 day solstice

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.

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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