all the ways in which we close down into “us” and “them.” Since polarization is the most potentially disheartening thing for me, I’ll use how I’ve been working with it as an example.

The movement advocates a holistic philosophy that takes non-human life as an intrinsic value and seeks a better quality of life grounded by values rather than goods. This holism is particularly sympathetic to Asian and pantheistic wisdom traditions such as Daoism, Buddhism and Native American religions.