New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens*

Thomas Hübl: William, in all your work in conflict areas, what do you see as the symptoms of trauma? And do you see that there’s a kind of recycling of trauma as a part of the conflict you work with? William Ury: Thomas, it’s a pleasure to be speaking with you. I was trained originally as an anthropologist and was always keen to study human beings and how we related. The passionate question…

Johannes Holzer

I work as an IT Consultant and travel most of the time between Munich and Basel. Whenever I get the chance to take pictures I take my bag and explore new places for landscape photography in my region “Alpenwelt Karwendel.“ Since the Spring of 2016 nightscape photography has been my love. Whenever there is a clear sky I try to capture the Milky Way or other fantastic constellations in…

gallery four | Natural Beauty

Artist Statement I love my region, ‘Alpenwelt Karwendel,’ in the southern part of Germany in the Bavarian Alps. I was born there and want to show others my beautiful home and to motivate them to visit the places that I capture on film. All my pictures are from this region. I don’t need to go to special spots all over the world; I have everything I need right here to create my crazy ideas!…

Walking Into Sacred Spaces of the Wild

The great egret lifting from the reeds On foot among the great elephant herds and lion prides of the Okavango Delta wilderness, I was given a profound awakening to the flowing wholeness of the living Earth. In the rainless October days, the sage bushes dry to crisp stalks of yellow light and their scents grow denser in the heat. By mid-afternoon, the grasses are a tawny blaze and the lions…

Reflections on Our Pilgrimage Into Society

In February 2016, we started out on a pilgrimage—one with no time limit. Beforehand, we had given away all our possessions except the contents of our two rucksacks. The wish to do so came up when we were planning our first pilgrimage from October to December 2015 from our home in Switzerland to the World Climate Conference in Paris. There’s no single motivation for what we’re doing. Each of us…

Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos

The first time I wept for the Earth I was alone in the woods in late summer after a long run. It was, I believe, the combination of runner’s high, a sense of connection to the beautiful natural setting, and the culmination of several months’ personal awakening to the gravity of our ecological crises. I just stood there with my hands on my knees, crying in shock. It was a rare and surprising…

Dealing With the Darkness of What Humans Do to Humans

This article shows how in response to thuggish forces the qualities of feminine intelligence—available to men as to women—can enable us to take a significant leap in consciousness and demonstrate what anyone can do to build a beautiful future. What we encounter now—in Europe and the Middle East, as in the US—is an upsurge of primitive, brutish forces employing threat, superior power, trickery,…

Daniel Castro Garcia

Daniel Castro Garcia is a London based photographer and film-maker. He studied Spanish and Latin American Literature at University College London and after graduating went on to work as an Assistant Director in the UK film, commercial and music video industry. Along side this profession; Daniel developed his photography practise. Having started out as a street photographer working on personal…

Activism in the Teaocene

I once was a frontline activist dedicated to protecting ancient rainforests and the indigenous people who inhabited them from destruction. I unfurled banners from gigantic construction cranes, rappelled off monumental bridges, blockaded giant ocean-going cargo ships, and scaled international financial institution headquarters to remind my fellow humans that the growth of ancient forests was…

Subtle Activism: A Way Forward through Chaotic Times

Subtle Activism One of the characteristics of our strange new post-US election world is that things are in such flux that it is difficult to orient ourselves to the new environment and know what actions to take. It is as though many of the established pathways of thought have been blown open, leaving us scrambling to make sense of our new reality. We are being required to re-evaluate our most…