Victor Cary

Theo Dawson. The idea was simple and brutal: the gap is the distance between the complexity of the challenges you're facing and the developmental capacity you currently possess.

Rawls and Arendt were preoccupied not with feeling but with fairness — an attempt to imagine the world one would want if one were born into a different situation.

More worrisome, most of the policy design that goes on at the level of the State and international organizations sits comfortably within the same epistemic and cultural order that created the problems in the first place. How to go beyond the aporias caused by the fact that we are facing modern problems for which there are no modern solutions... See more

Rules don’t create order; they codify what worked in the past. In dynamic environments, a different type of stability emerges from evolving interactions over time.

'leadership does not reside in a person but in an arena that can be occupied by offerings of specific wisdom to the needs of the community. so leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual... leadership for this era is not a role, or set of traits; it’s a zone of inter-relational process.'

~ nora bateson, ‘small arcs of... See more

For Arendt, forming an opinion was an active process of “making present to my mind the standpoints of those who are absent.”

What’s a Protocol?

At the Wolf Willow Institute, our work begins with a simple premise: that complexity, consciousness, and ecological belonging are braided. We’re certain that navigating this civilizational inflection point requires more than care and cleverness - it demands a deep shift in consciousness. A move from linear control to relational... See more

We live in complexity: systems that are entangled, adaptive, and emergent. Impacts are non-linear. Consequences are unpredictable. Pathways cannot be precomputed. Futures unfold through feedback and interaction, not through equilibrium.