“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.
A shift from conceptual to perceptual and how do I feel now?
I’m massively buoyed by all of the extraordinary collaborative components that are allowing and validating the positive changes within us all. You’ll see how alive this set of connections is in me in the cover picture too.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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).
Single, double and triple-loop learning can help us to un-stick our difficulties.
Mark Twain, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Mila A., Simon Divecha, Roebyem Anders, Joanna Macy and the Inner Development Goals illustrate how. Try it for yourself!
Lynette Thorstensen and Sushant Shrestha, in this presentation, part of a Transformative Climate Advocacy program session, showcase the power of a diversity of perspectives, people and approaches.
The human species, I-you-us!, are waking up.
This spring brings an outpouring of evidence that we, humans are growing up to meet our meta-challenges, the crises we are all intimately connected with and to.
Joanna Macy on five gifts from uncertainty for aliveness and flourishing.
Presence, Courage and intention, Awareness, Solidarity. And the Immensity of time.
Is there anything else I can do? Marilyn Hamilton on Ukraine, news and weaving stories.
You may discover spirit, find buoyancy and navigate the turbulence of daily life: revealing the possibilities of a thriving future.
Truly improve global social, environmental and economic conditions.
Dr Barrett Brown, steps us through a global transformation for sustainability in this case tea & cocoa from small growers in regions, such as Kenya and India, to multinational distribution by Unilever, Netherlands.
“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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