complexity
Imaginal Cells | The Caterpillar’s Job to Resist the Butterfly
When I told Elisabet Sahtouris that we were having a retreat program called Butterfly Connection in her native Greece in 2009, she wrote back saying “it is interesting that your message downloaded right after I wrote two emails on butterfly metamorphosis.” Good timing!…
Building Trust for a Sustainable Society
A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading….
Why #Occupy? – Beyond Political Democracy and Anti-Capitalism
I am really isolated from the urban centres. All I have heard about #Occupy has been from friends and the media. I…
Framework Lock-up: Framed in Simplism
If your mind is on a framework, you have yourself in another place that is not here and in another time that is not now. Are You Framed in Simplism?…
Decision-Growing: When Content and Process Come Together
When we are part of a community, some decisions are made that impact the way we live and interact with each other…
We Can Do Without a Conductor – Why Society Needs Less Leadership and More Social Resilience
I went to listen to Schubert’s “Tragic” Symphony this week in a local music festival here in the UK. Before the beginning…
Creating and Re-Creating Frameworks
So how about keep creating and re-creating the frameworks and models we use? Import them from someone else might help but is very limited. Work your insights into a framework……
Beauty and Something Else
I know that I know when the object of knowledge is beautiful, both through my lenses and to the eyes of the collective. Seemed a good beginning to my exploration. Why is beauty a successful criteria in choosing a correct path/theory/work?…
What can we do from far away?
Our world is more connected than ever and it is getting more likely that people have at least a friend or two…
What I’ve Learned from the New Parish Priest
Meeting the New Parish Priest I am lucky to have worked with communities that embed a spirit of service – they are spiritual and…