Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
I am writing in the harsh light of a lantern and my blazing wood stove on the fourth night of a “public safety” blackout currently forecast to last for three more days. I am not near a fire or an evacuation zone. But that could change as quickly as a new fire report.
Healing the Wounded Mind
To have inner strength requires that we carry vision within us. Also, that we learn, or at least accept responsibility for, transmitting that vision.
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
She is close to ninety, and I wanted to be able to work with her before she completely passes the baton to others.
Global Social Witnessing
By Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
You swipe through your favourite news site while sitting in a train, and you enter the typical bombardment of information. Can you feel the contraction of your chest, the narrowing down of your attention, the closing of your heart?
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future
By C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl
When we talk about the current situation in the 21st century, one of the few things most people would agree on is that, yes, we do live in an age of disruption. That means the future is going to be different from the past.
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
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The Alchemy of Power
By Joni Carley
Small and large businesses, schools, governmental, nongovernmental, and civic organizations are demonstrating what decades of studies bear out: operationalizing values is the best insurance for living and working with robust people, within robust economies, on a robust planet.
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
By Jeremy Lent
These received ideas that we have about meaning, how do they actually arise? Whose word are these ideas from?
From What Is to What If
By Rob Hopkins
Given the state of the world, the message of despair is pretty convincing. Things look grim. But something about that doesn’t sit quite right with me. In fact, there’s evidence that things can change, and that cultures can change, rapidly and unexpectedly.
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
By Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out—not one that hunts us down. In the twenty-first century, becoming a caregiver is a transformation that comes at us, requiring us to rethink everything we once knew. When a loved one becomes a caregiver, everything changes...