The Way of Water

The water element partakes of the Divine Feminine, both astrologically and alchemically. In the psychology of alchemy, one strives towards a perfect balance between the elements within an individual. The alchemical term for water processes, solutio, means “transformation by water.”

Reflections on Water

Water is a keeper of secrets, a bearer of memory, and a patient teacher. It moves beneath and between all things, carving space for life and asking only that we pay attention. Here, writers gather to listen—and to make an offering: poems, meditations, and witnessings shaped by the slow intelligence of water.

Deschooling Dialogues | Alnoor Ladha with Bayo Akomolafe

In this conversation, Bayo Akomolafe and Alnoor Ladha explore the entanglements of identity, activism, whiteness, and emergence in a time of planetary crisis. Bayo challenges the notion of human centrality, advocating for humility as ‘dis-ability’ — an epistemological opening to new ways of knowing, being, sensing and relating in the world. They discuss whiteness not as a racial category but as a…

Bioregioning and Our Felt Sense of Place

A bioregion is a coherent geographical entity—a landscape—not politically defined. It has coherent geology, landform types, fauna, flora, rainfall, and human history. So, there's a coherent story that runs through all these layers. When we think about the kinds of "islands of coherence" we need to move forward as a species, bioregions provide that cultural grounding—what was historically true and…

Have We Outsourced Our Thinking?

Artificial intelligence is the culmination of the revolution in information technology that began in the 15th century with the printing press, followed in succeeding centuries by lithography, photography, phonography, and film, each of which extended the mass production of information to a new realm. A review of the cognitive and social effects of those previous technologies will help to…

Design Science: Thinking Like a Planet

Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are…

The Art of Belonging | Emergent Universe Oratorio

The Emergent Universe Oratorio (EUO) is a musical and poetic composition for chorus, orchestra, and orator, of the Great Story of our vast evolving Universe, the new scientific cosmology of our cosmic birth, to galaxies, stars, Earth, life, of human emergence and transformation. It is a response to the greatest crisis in the history of humanity, and if we can respond as one thread in the tapestry…

David Heeney

David Heeney sees the world as on the precipice of important changes – changes that will be positive if we step up, but could be very negative if as a society we do not address the big, systemic problems or messes that confront us. David is convinced that organizations can make a difference, whether public or private, and loves working with clients who share that vision. A management…

Rethinking Progress | Forming the Right Questions

What are the fundamental questions that humans alive at this particular moment in time should ask of themselves? What conjectures should we spend time pondering in order to realize a framework by which we may live hopeful, meaningful lives in the Anthropocene? By finding the right questions, we can inoculate ourselves to despair and focus our energy on the more productive pastures of vision and…