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

Smaller communities allowed for more sustainable economies. Determined not to depend on one source of sustenance, people supplemented their farming with increased hunting, fishing, and gathering. They expanded existing networks of trade, carrying large amounts of goods all across the continent in dugout canoes and on trading roads; these routes pro... See more

Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more

“We seem to have been living for a long time on the assumption that we can safely deal with parts, leaving the whole to take care of itself.

But now the news from everywhere is that we have to begin gathering up the scattered pieces, figuring out where they belong, and putting them back together. For the parts can be reconciled to one another only

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