Emma
@emmaproud
Emma
I believe that to design for appropriate participation is ultimately to design for human and planetary health.
Daniel Christian Wahl • Emergence and Design
Transformation can be defined as significant changes in form, structure, or meaning-making. It can also be described as a much deeper process, including “the unleashing of human potential to commit, care, and affect change for a better life.”16
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
it's actually interesting to think of the meta potential. of coming home to place, rather than lose ourselves in the meta crisis of yet again trying to fi nd solutions to a problem at global scale
Samantha Power • The Great Simplification
Daniel Christian Wahl
When we celebrate our victories, we increase our sense of agency and our incentive to do more. When we feel empowered and impactful, we can be more effective in making a world of greater justice.
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
We have suffered an “extinction of experience”, a phrase coined over 20 years ago by naturalist Robert Pyle
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
When we know what we want, when we hold a vision of the world we want to create, we inspire people.
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about. Connecti
... See moreThrough thousands of years of anthropocentric conditioning […] we have inherited shallow, fictitious selves, and created a pervasive illusion of separation from nature. […] As long as the environment is ‘out there,’ we may leave it to some special interest group like environmentalists to protect while we look after our ‘selves.’ The matter changes
... See moreIn 2024, I witnessed in many places how creating the right holding spaces—where attention and intention align—unleashes extraordinary energy and agency