Poem | Let Us Seek Refuge
By Dr. Rama Mani, Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World; Founder, Theatre of Transformation
Let Us Seek Refuge
As we watch them flee their homelands
Battered by bombs we sold their leaders
Impoverished by markets that made us rich
As we then rush to bolt our borders
Let us halt
And look into the mirrors of their eyes
To realize
That…
Mirror Flourishing: The New Business North Star
David Cooperrider describes how the Appreciative Inquiry Summit—multi-stakeholder planning with a thousand people in the room—brings out the best in human systems: "What we appreciate appreciates—we become what we study—so let's study the concept of full spectrum flourishing."
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We…
Tiny Steps
He crouches hopefully on our back steps. He is waiting for his supper and I, as his regular waitress, do not disappoint. I bend to pet his wiry black whiskers, touch the tip of his tiny pale nose. He visits morning and night, without fail, has his breakfast and supper here, leans against my leg for a bit of a petting, then takes off for parts unknown (unknown to me, at least... he is…
Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
~Lady Galadriel
Breaking Free of The Hero Myth
We humans and the way we interact with narrative, we’ve come a long way. We’ve evolved from the days of stories round a campfire, epic tales…
Excerpt | Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey
By Maya Zuckerman, Spring | Summer 2016
Breaking Free of The Hero Myth
We humans and the way we interact with narrative, we’ve come a long way. We’ve evolved from the days of stories round a campfire, epic tales of heroes fighting monsters in far away lands, the gods playing tricks with the mortals, the hubris of humanity, and legends of beautiful and scary creatures who filled the oceans,…
Josh Gorman on the New Story for Young People
Joshua Gorman is the founder and Coordinator of Generation Waking Up, an organization that is igniting young changemakers to bring forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world. He designed a major called “Global Youth and Social Change” at George Mason University, serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Youth Action Network/TakingITGlobal-US, and supports youth-led projects…
Community Peacebuilder Immersion Training
Special Announcement
The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding is offering a Community Peacebuilder Immersion Training Program. This two-week residential experience will provide the knowledge, skills, and support for inspiring and operationalizing peacebuilding practices in personal life and work, potentially creating a center for peacebuilding, within the learner's community.
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Money and the Divine Masculine
By Charles Eisenstein, via his website
I recently attended a ceremony at the Tamera village in Portugal in which the officiant invoked “the healing of money.” Immediately a vivid image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his strength to free himself and rise up. Finally, in a desperate, colossal effort, he…
Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age | an Open Letter to the American People
by Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney, via Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Dear Fellow Citizens:
By their purported test of a hydrogen bomb early in 2016, North Korea reminded the world that nuclear dangers are not an abstraction, but a continuing menace that the governments and peoples of the world ignore at their peril. Even if the test were not of a hydrogen bomb but of a smaller…
Killing the Caterpillar: Competing Worldviews at the Chrysalis Stage of Humanity
By Alnoor Ladha
The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Columbia University Press, 2014
Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
Dieter Duhm
Verlag Meiga Press, 2015
In 1972, the Club of Rome published a groundbreaking study titled The Limits to Growth. MIT scientists used computer simulations to create scenarios playing out how exponential…