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“Passive hope is about waiting for external agencies to bring about what we desire. Active Hope is about becoming active participants in bringing about what we hope for. Active Hope is a practice. Like tai chi or gardening, it is something we do rather than have.”

—Joanna Macy in Active Hope

Here are a few favorite questions to help you show up for your life in a more authentic, more joyful way. Choose one, and give yourself a moment or two to see what answers come up within you.

• What is happening in this present moment that I can embrace?


• What does my true self yearn to do?


• What inside me needs to be expressed?


• When in my life have I felt

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It’s also important to acknowledge that the systems change or innovation scene is not the only place where change and innovation is happening. Real change doesn’t always get recognised as something novel or innovative. Because it’s so novel and innovative it doesn’t get recognised at all! I’m interested in that kind of change.

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or fr... See more

We are entering an age of increasingly unpredictable climatological change. We are entering an age when we must remember that the most important ideas may not belong to human beings, but to bacteria and insects and entire geographies.

"Simple ways to have a peaceful moment:

• Close your eyes and just breathe for two minutes.


• Leave your phone in another room for an hour.


• Watch a cloud form and then dissolve.


• Stand in the sunshine and notice how it warms your skin.


• Light a candle and watch the flame dance."

Reciprocity is not merely generosity; giving away a surplus is an investment, insurance that others will help in your own time of need