midwifing change
we’re caught in a liminal space that’s colored more by the war of the worlds than the transition between them. what might it mean to consider the space of the threshold — hospicing the old and midwifing the new?
midwifing change
A community of practice — creating a network of practitioners who can support civil society organisations to design their endings, and intelligently and carefully dismantle them.
What Are the Practices and Mindsets That Can Be Helpful to Navigate Loss, Grief, Change and Transitions? And What Does It Mean to Make Good Compost as We Close Ideas, Forms, Collective Creations That No Longer Serve Us?
These moments where one world-system is dying and another is being born are experienced emotionally - as loss, grief, dissonance, confusion, excitement; socially - as contention, struggle, polarisation; and spiritually - as a breakdown in encompassing narrative, meaning and purpose, and a longing for home.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Vanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity" | The Great Simplification 125
youtube.comPractices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds (SSIR)
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who makes a good midwife?
Margaret Wheatley, the brains behind the Berkana model, spoke of four essential areas of work that are needed to sustain an emerging paradigm: naming, connecting, nourishing and illuminating elements of the emerging patterns. These are how we are beginning to understand our role in this work: seeing ourselves as gardeners, or midwives, working to
... See moreSophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
The longer I do this work, the more I understand that we need to build a stronger account of the moment we are in: a story of decline and new opportunities; of deep crisis and mind-bending possibilities. Most importantly, a time to act from hope rather than sink into fatalism. We need to confront and reckon with the existing order; to reveal it for... See more