dane cads

One of his observations is that when any aspect of a living system is torn from its contextual relationships, it can then be exploited. How a description is made of a person, a family, a community, a culture, or an ecosystem –matters.

"If you feel resistance before you begin, it's usually procrastination and you need to get started.

If you feel resistance after you begin, it's usually feedback and you need to make adjustments."

Most of us intuitively understand hierarchies as relationships of power and superiority/inferiority (etymologically, “-archy” has to do with rule/authority): these are domination hierarchies. Higher is better, lower is worse: a zero-sum mindset is assumed, and value-judgments follow. This is how our culture is structured, because domination... See more

This is not about making a new script or vocabulary. It is about contextual and transcontextual shifts. Ecologies move in inter-relational ways — Bateson said this 80 years ago, and his father, William Bateson, said it in 1888. Indigenous cultures have been saying this for thousands of years.