What we actually need is more dense networks of connection, like the interwoven mycelium of fungi. This network, which looks like the nervous system in our bodies, communicates and transports nutrients quickly. It creates more health and resilience in a garden or ecosystem.

The more you know about another person’s journey, the less possible it is to distrust or dislike that person. Want to know how to build relational trust? Learn more about each other. Learn it through simple questions that can be tucked into the doing of work, creating workplaces that not only employ people but honor the soul in the process.

Critical connections between future-builders matter more than critical mass in long-term transformative work: without these, nothing new can emerge. Networks are the lifeblood of emergence, and yet so much of the way life is organised gets in the way of pioneers connecting