Humans, shift. We change to understand the world from new thinking patterns.
Understanding that we shift—and some of the ways we can ease these changes—can help us all.
Tethers: maps and growth
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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.
Brittlestar brilliance: more than money
We can make sense of our extraordinary natures with new stories.
Our next narratives go beyond what strongly attracts us, modern-day money only focus.
Samhain: A halloween festival of change
We have gotten it all wrong. I-you-us, in our ability to matter and to make a significant difference for ourselves, for the crises around us, are not stuck in our ways.
Transgressive: next systems and thinking patterns
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.
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
Lights, camera, simplicity: short videos cutting through complexity
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!
A charging meme: The power of the stories
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.
We need help! For transformations
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.
Hidden stories: Shifting our thinking patterns
Reframing controversy. Ryan Lobo’s photo stories shift what we believe is possible. Intangible and unconscious to compassion and connection.
Shamanic sensemaking: conscious transformation
Transformation is inevitable.
Yet, using approaches that involve seeing the system and its patterns, sense-making that constructs new narratives and connecting can herald purposeful transformation for human and planetary wellbeing
Transformation: 8 steps to a new economy for the 21st century
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
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.