People Power
Way of Council | Speaking and Listening from the Heart
Journal Article
Council is an ancient way and modern practice whose roots are within the natural world, spanning diverse cultures and religions. This practice elicits an experience of true community, recognizing that each voice needs to be heard, that every person has a gift, a story to share, a piece of the whole.
The Bridge to Tomorrow is a Work-in-Progress
Journal Article
It’s not sufficient anymore to know about the benefits of connection. We must dynamically partake of this capacity to be together in a way that improves our individual health outcomes.
Envisioning the Beloved Community
Journal Article
After edging close to the brink of ecological and societal collapse and after enduring enormous suffering on our precious Earth, enough people of good will and skillfulness were able to do just enough to pull us back from that brink so that complex life on earth might continue. We now live in the Beloved Community.
The Power of Pausing
Journal Article
What if we could remember, again and again, to stop – to just “be” – if only for a second?
The Tree Saviors of Chipko Andolan | A Woman-led Movement in India
Journal Article
Chipko means "to hug," "to embrace." Women declared that they would hug the trees to protect them—loggers would have to kill them before they felled the trees.
What is Solidarity?
Journal Article
As we start to see how all oppression is connected, we can also start to see glimpses of how all healing is connected. And that our own liberation is not only bound up with that of others but that our collective future is dependent on it.
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
Journal Article
The story one tells oneself about climate change shapes individual feelings and actions. For example, are we on the verge of breakdown or breakthrough? There is ample evidence for both.
Unlearning Together
Journal Article
...We’ve entered the era that the Hopis predicted in their prophecies of the “great purification,” the unstoppable entropy of not only our external political, economic and ecological systems, but above all the unexamined assumptions underlying those systems.