culture shift

Why do we need to change the stories we live by? | Daniel Wahl

4 September 2018 2 Comments

"What kind of culture do you think would emerge from a culturally dominant narrative that goes a bit like this: Competitiveness and me-first thinking is part of human nature. We are the result of random mutations in life’s struggle for existence in a meaningless material universe on its steady decline towards maximum entropy. We live on a planet likely to be struck by a massive asteroid long before its sun goes supernova. "On the other hand, what kind of culture would emerge from a dominant … Continue reading

Science and the New Story by Michael N. Nagler

9 May 2018 Leave a Comment

"For some decades now, we have been going through a “spiritual crisis,”.... and that crisis can be seen as a struggle for the core narrative of our culture. The real “culture war” is not between one society's culture and another but between between the “old story” that tells us we live in a random universe made of physical particles and an emerging story, being in part recovered from a long (and often forgotten) tradition of human wisdom that says, No! We live in a meaningful universe pervaded … Continue reading

A Design School for Planetary Collapse | Joe Brewer

18 May 2017 Leave a Comment

"Design schools all over the world are failing their students by ignoring the most important challenges they will face as they live through a time of unprecedented disruption and ecological collapse. Let me state plainly — we need a Design School for Planetary Collapse. "At the core, such a school would be a right of passage for achieving the combination of intellectual, emotional, and moral maturity that our present “leaders” clearly lack. Selfishness replaced with a selfless commitment to … Continue reading

Podcast: Becoming a Conscious Change Agent with Daniel Wahl

17 April 2017 Leave a Comment

"“Things have got to change!” How many times have you heard that phrase? Well, the world and humanity are changing. As we awaken and become conscious citizens, how can we co-create innovative change, inspired by Nature, for the greater good? Listen in as expert Daniel Wahl talks about sustainable leadership, resilient communities, and designing regenerative cultures." A Findhorn Fellow, Daniel works internationally as a consultant and educator in regenerative development, whole systems design, … Continue reading

All Change or No Change? Culture, Power and Activism in an Unquiet World, Part 3

20 February 2017 Leave a Comment

Welcome to the third and final article in this three-part series co-published between Occupy.com and Transnational Institute. Read Part 1 here.... and read Part II here.... Culture Hacking: A New Approach to Change "We advocate for an approach to social change that we call culture design or culture hacking. Addressing the systemic threats for humanity in the 21st century will require an intentional, open, and collaborative ‘design science’ for social change. The elements of this approach … Continue reading

All Change or No Change? Culture, Power and Activism in an Unquiet World, Part 2

13 February 2017 Leave a Comment

Welcome to the second article in this three-part series being co-published between Occupy.com and Transnational Institute. Read Part 1 here.... Part II: A Tale of Two Histories "In order to see the root causes of our planetary crisis, we must go back deep into human history and compare the cultural narratives that have given rise to the world as it exists today. Only then can the deep work of culture design begin." Read the full story by Martin Kirk, Jason Hickel and Joe Brewer.... Continue reading

The Real “State of Power” is Culture | Joe Brewer

8 February 2017 Leave a Comment

"We must question our stories if we are to create beneficial changes in culture." "I just wrote a new article about how all political struggles are first and foremost cultural. We must examine the stories of economics and human nature if we want to move away from extractive systems of wealth hoarding that have been destroying the natural environment. "May these words bring insight and empowerment to wherever you are in the struggle for humanity's future. We all are in the crucible of change … Continue reading

All Change or No Change? Culture, Power and Activism in an Unquiet World, Part I

1 February 2017 1 Comment

This is the first article in a three-part series being co-published between Occupy.com and Transnational Institute.... "In this essay, we approach the world from a whole-system perspective. This means looking at those rules, laws, norms and trends that affect the whole planet, rather than any individual nation, region or issue. When you stand back far enough, it becomes clear that dramas of 2016, though vitally important, are nothing like as profound as many are suggesting. In truth, the core … Continue reading

Crisis by David Whyte

31 January 2017 Leave a Comment

CRISIS is unavoidable. Every individual human life and every society is drawn eventually, as if by some unspoken parallel, as if by some tidal flow or underground magnetic field, toward the raw, dynamic essentials of its underlying existence, as if everything up to that point has been a preparation for a meeting, a confrontation in elemental form with the essential flaw in our makeup or the makeup of our society, and with what until then, we could only receive stepped down, interpreted or … Continue reading

Living Through the Death of Capitalism | Joe Brewer

17 November 2016 Leave a Comment

"Humanity is in the crucible of change now. It is an all-hands-on-deck transition — away from life destroying economic practices based on wealth hoarding and extraction and toward life affirming practices of regeneration and renewal. "For it will be the beacons of light we carry that will show others the way forward. For my part, I am working with social movements to connect the dots of wealth extraction and training change makers in the art and science of intentional social change. I have seen … Continue reading

Why do we need to change the stories we live by? | Daniel Wahl

Science and the New Story by Michael N. Nagler

A Design School for Planetary Collapse | Joe Brewer

Podcast: Becoming a Conscious Change Agent with Daniel Wahl

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