One in fifty billion: At these odds I’m looking for what else is real and, while it does not serve me to hold onto conventional worldviews, unfolding into bigger realities is challenging.
Unfolding realities
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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.
Three transformations: Fall 2022
How do we shift, our societies move, you-I-we transform for flourishing?
3 programs to taste, experiment with for free, to touch-in with.
And, to embrace all the way, should you wish.
Action: making quality choices
How do we solve problems with thought were unsolvable?
And, in the process, catalyze large-scale systems changes.
Seven quality choice points to help.
Inner development: why?
We are built to grow. It is our destiny to grow.
Watch Robert Kegan and many associated with the Inner Development Goals outline why this is so important to meet today’s crises.
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
Two sunsets: and an aurora
We’re living in liminal times.
We experience this all around us—the potential to meet our challenges, to grow and evolve culturally. While, at the same time, crises push our edges ever more to extremities.
This post is a space for some grace with all that is!
Pause: for music
Self replenishment, a little fun and reflective conversation?!
Hilary Bradbury on Music from the Action Research AMICABLE coLAB
Shifting: our focus
By shifting our focus from the ‘level of emissions’ to the ‘rate of warming’ we can have an immeasurably better path than our current climate-crisis trajectory.
By Paul Gilding, Fellow University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Leadership: embodied flow and ease
Flow and ease in stressful times. How can we better manage difficult circumstances and importantly quickly learn to react more positively?
Try Leadership Embodiment with Anouk in this video. A bit of training 🙂
Tethers: maps and growth
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.
See further: through the clouds
What is above the clouds?
Climbing up and seeing what was previously hidden to us is a great metaphor for the vertical learning humans can do. These are discrete changes, step changes.
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.