Spring | Summer 2016

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A Glimpse into the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible: The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter

The quality of our conversations makes our world what it is. How we talk to each other determines whether we walk away from each other and prepare to fight for our separate interests, or hold fire, stay together, and open up into a future of mutual understanding and brighter possibility. Conversation is an art that can be practiced at any scale, from ones and twos to thousands, on timescales…

Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD

Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She serves as the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals…

Heart Phoenix

Heart Phoenix's work, service and activism has spanned over five decades.  Having worked as an educator, activist and champion throughout the United States and numerous countries on environmental and animal rights, social justice, peacebuilding and gender equality, she brings the passion and energy of her name...Heart.  She is the Chair of The Peace Alliance Educational Institute and co-founder…

Building a Progressive Spiritual Movement

Let’s Unite Our Efforts and Build a Truly Progressive Spiritual Movement Thousands of activist groups work to save the environment, address the needs of the homeless and hungry, ensure we have a safe and adequate supply of food and water, and fight racism and economic injustice. Many are making valiant efforts. Yet we continue to see the devastation and destruction of our environment, an…

Renewal from the Ground of Our Being

The spectacularly successful freedom struggle Gandhi conducted in India had three phases: (1) personal empowerment (shedding fear, for starters), (2) Constructive Programme (CP), where you break your dependence on the oppressive regime, and then (3) direct nonviolent resistance (satyagraha) where still needed. It was a program for the complete renewal of Indian society, and so it could be for…

Re-wilding Christianity: An Emerging Model of Regeneration for a Domesticated Church of Empire

In the Beginning was the conversation and the conversation was with God and the conversation was God. —John 1:1-3 Religion, and Christianity in particular, as a system within the larger system of human culture, is undergoing a massive death and regeneration story. While other sectors of society are experimenting with new, regenerative socio-economic and political models,…

Free at Last: Being What We Are

Nature has apparently designed us to evolve into a more unified, awake state of consciousness. Many religious teachings for millennia have pointed to the realization of this unity as the highest attainment of a human life. Mutual devotion to this level of realization on the part of countless individuals has led, over thousands of years, to our current process of awakening together. There is a…

Tom Christensen

Tom Christensen is Editor of Innovative Development: Emerging Worldviews & Systems Change and Developmental Innovation: Emerging Worldviews & Individual Learning. A student of human nature and Spiral Dynamics, his other works can be found at www.graves3g.com/

Transrevolution: The Twelve Phases of Structural and Cultural Metamorphosis

This model draws on a deep study of religious and political history, Systems/Complexity Theory, depth psychology, archetypal mythology, eradigmatics, and several other disciplines. The core insight for transrevolutionaries—those who encourage the evolution of mature, resilient, and self-reflective social systems—comes down to this: If you can’t beat ‘em, transform ‘em by receiving, tending, and…