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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

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: change, crisis, culture shift, dark night of the soul, global crisis, humanity and the global crisis, maturation of society, societal change

Toward A Science of Intentional Change by Joe Brewer

21 October 2016 Leave a Comment

"Humanity needs a science of intentional cultural change. The only way for us to arrive at a thriving planetary future is through a deliberate, well-designed, collective process. Otherwise the 7.4 billion of us alive today (and our descendants) will not successfully navigate the complexities of 21st Century globalization. "The stories we tell about economic systems have strong influences on the policies that get adopted by governments and the management practices of investors, entrepreneurs, … Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: change the world, Collective Evolution, cultural shift, evolutionary change, global change, humanity's evolution, planetary future, science of intentional change, societal change, transformational thinking

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: A Culture Without Fear

2 August 2016 Leave a Comment

An insightful article in Kosmos Journal from our community friends at Terra Nova Voice, Tamera, Portugal.... "First Nation tribes from North America coined a term to describe the ‘disease of the white man’ – wetiko*. In their understanding, wetiko consists of two essential characteristics: chronic inability for empathy and an egoistic fixation on one's own personal benefit and profit. The First Peoples used this word specifically because they could not fathom any other explanation for the … Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: capitalism, community evolution, culture shift, healing collective trauma, late-stage capitalism, post-capitalism, societal change, Wetiko

Why the living wage is victory for people power, not party politics

22 September 2015 Leave a Comment

"Neil Jameson, whose campaign for decent pay has won over Lidl, explains why he prefers taking a battle to the streets to Westminster infighting.... "Greying, bearded and radiating a determined calm, Jameson has more than a hint of the Jeremy Corbyn about him. Like Corbyn, he believes passionately in the value of politics as a democratic, bottom-up, grassroots process and has spent much of his working life trying to shift the balance of power in society. "But unlike Labour’s new leader, … Continue reading

Filed Under: Social justice Tagged With: bottom-up movements, community organising, grassroots movements, living wage, movements, people power, people's movements, power of people, social justice, social movements, societal change

It’s Not Climate Change  -  It’s Everything Change

1 August 2015 Leave a Comment

"Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind." Read the powerful story of the future without oil by Booker Prize winning novelist Margaret Atwood.... Continue reading

Filed Under: Ecology & sustainability Tagged With: change, climate, environment, societal change

Cultural Creatives: The Awakening of Humanity by Barbara Marx Hubbard

17 April 2015 Leave a Comment

Findhorn Fellow, evolutionary biologist, visionary and author of Conscious Evolution, Barbara Max Hubbard, illustrates how new worldviews emerge and social change occurs, and how a new awakening is beginning from the ground up, in this excerpt from Chapter 1, The Awakening of Humanity. "Cultural creatives are defined by a set of values, a new lifestyle and worldview. Feeling that we are all members of one planet, they are concerned about the environment and social-economic justice. They have a … Continue reading

Filed Under: Consciousness Tagged With: awakening of humanity, Barbara Marx Hubbard, collective consciousness, cultural creatives, culture shift, economic justice, evolution, humanity's awakening, movements, noosphere, planetary future, social change, social justice, societal change, worldview emergence

Towards a New Activism to Effectively Support a Transition to a Post-Growth Economy

14 April 2015 Leave a Comment

"Activists and civil society change agents from all over the world are increasingly starting to realise that the climate crisis, the inequality crisis, and many other issues so close to activists’ hearts will not come anywhere near getting resolved if we do not change the economic system. Within all diversity of movements like the Commons, de-growth, Great Transition, or the solidarity economy, within and around them a new story of systemic change is emerging." Read the full story in Kosmos … Continue reading

Filed Under: The New Story Tagged With: activism, change agents, civil society, economic change, institutional change, Kosmos Journal, Micha Narberhaus, movements, new story, societal change, systemic change

GEN+20 Summit: Living the New Story – 6-10 July 2015

13 April 2015 Leave a Comment

People from all walks of life are coming together in community to explore alternative ways of living and being. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) beautifully reflects the intent to live more sustainably and harmoniously on the planet. It consists of a constantly expanding network of intentional communities and ecovillages bridging all cultures and continents. In July members from the GEN family from all over the world will gather at the Findhorn Foundation and Community to celebrate over 20 … Watch video

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: communities, culture shift, ecovillages, GEN+20 Summit, Global Ecovillage Network, intentional community, movements, new story, societal change, sustainable living

Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

8 April 2015

What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it? "You really can’t grasp the new story — as a society — and continue to live the way we live. First you begin to move toward more voluntary simplicity, which is, literally, reducing your dependence on money. You start doing more things yourself. You pay much more attention to your relationships, to the gift economy. You perhaps get a deeper sense of being part of and a contributor to a living universe evolving toward ever … Continue reading

Filed Under: Economy & business Tagged With: business, Change the Story Change the Future, David Korten, Dean Paton, economy, finance, gift economy, money, new story, societal change, story, Yes! magazine

How to let altruism be your guide: TED Talk by Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard

24 January 2015 Leave a Comment

In this 16-minute TED Talk, happiness researcher and Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, discourages endless growth and encourages selflessness and self-awareness through the practice of altruism for a sustainable world. Scientific research shows how altruistic love changes our brain structures, demonstrating that individual and societal change is possible for the common good. In Matthieu's words, "Long life to the altruistic revolution." Watch video

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: altruism, brain and altruism, change, consciousness, happiness, Matthieu Ricard, revolution, self-awareness, societal change, TED Talks

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The Findhorn Foundation’s New Story Hub is a resource centre for anyone engaged in the cocreation of a new evolutionary paradigm. We invite you to participate and to help us accelerate our collective understanding of what might be, what is emerging and what must change, both in us and in the human story. read more

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