"Nearly 150 global leaders are gathering in Paris amid tight security for a critical UN climate meeting. The conference, known as COP21, starts on Monday and will try to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions. Meanwhile Parisians have been placing hundreds of pairs of shoes at the Place de la Republique in the French capital. Emma Ruby-Sachs of the Avaaz campaign group explained the reasons for the gesture." Read the full story and watch the video clip.... Continue reading
Archives for November 2015
Standing at the Threshold by Deborah Koff-Chapin
Interpretive touch drawing artist, Deborah Koff-Chapin, shares her story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... I am sitting at a café in Salt Lake City, Utah preparing to enter the Parliament of the World’s Religions. It seems time to reflect on my New Story Summit experience at this moment. My sense is that it prepared me for this day. Doing Interpretive Touch Drawing for a week amidst the intensity of the field we generated, brought me through some kind of passage. I feel ready to … Continue reading
Conference of Youth in Paris 2015: Day 2 – Intersections, Stories and Strategy
Update from Paris: Day 2 at Conference of the Youth - Movement Intersections, Stories and Strategy.... "Stories create our world. Consciously and unconsciously, the cultural worldviews and stories we are swimming in influence our thoughts and actions and institutions. At Conference of Youth, the youth movement is writing and living a different story than the one we’ve been taught: one of cooperation, regeneration and justice. For our planet and for everyone. The good news here is everyone is … Continue reading
Play BIG: From Isolation Towards Integration by Marian Moore | A New Story of Money
Marian Moore, co-founder & convener of Play BIG, shares the story of her personal experience with inherited wealth one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... For six years, RSF Social Finance has been the primary organizational partner for Play BIG, an intimate annual convening I lead that espouses the idea of activating one’s “whole portfolio” to mission. Play BIG emerged from pioneering work that Carol Newell funded in British Columbia. It is designed for aspiring and experienced … Continue reading
The Findhorn Fellowship and the New Story by Roger Doudna
Roger Doudna, Coordinator of the Findhorn Fellowship, which seeded the New Story Summit, shares their story one year on.... The role of the Findhorn Fellowship The Findhorn Foundation Fellowship is currently comprised of 142 individuals throughout the world who we, the Findhorn Foundation, perceive as activists in their respective domains for ‘personal and planetary transformation’, for a multi-dimensional ‘new story’ wherein they work individually and together, with nature and with spirit to … Continue reading
A Better Way of Doing Business | Giles Hutchins
How can we deliver transformative change towards flourishing, resilient firms of the future? "There is a metamorphosis in our midst. As with the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly, the initial stages of transformation are resisted by the incumbent dominant paradigm, yet, as more ‘imaginal cells’ of the ‘new way’ form into clusters, a tipping point is reached where wider understanding and acceptance of these transformative ways operating and organizing systemically form. "We live in … Continue reading
Women in Climate: Solutions on the Road to Paris and Beyond
What can we do right now to best deal with climate change? Emily Arasim, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network "Women’s voices must be at the forefront of conversations on climate change if we are to rebuild an equitable and healthy world. Women are critical stakeholders both because they experience climate impacts with disproportionate severity and because of the unique and critical insights, skills, and solutions that they bring to the table. Women are central to farming, water … Continue reading
Who Am I Now by Clinton Callahan
It has been a year since the New Story Summit. I am no longer that man who trudged into Findhorn with a motley crew of 15 Possibility Management trainers from the Trainer Guild to serve conscious evolution and upgrade human thoughtware on Earth. As you, I am someone else. What has happened to my story? Who am I now? For me, the 2014 New Story Summit failed embarrassingly. It was 9.5 on my Richter Scale of pain to directly experience so much human intelligence and such tremendous good will … Continue reading
Transitioning to the solar age
Findhorn Fellow and futurist, Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, brings us this 3-minute video describing our transition from the fossil-fuelled industrial era to the solar age - the green transition is happening! Watch video
A New Story of ‘Guardening’ by Edward Acland
Edward Ecland shares his story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... New Stories need new words! The added ‘u’ in GUARDENING is intentional! We GUARDEN a 15 acre small-holding at Sprint Mill in Cumbria. We attempt to demonstrate how human-kind, on our microcosm scale can be of benefit to Planet Earth. Aiming for a sustainable future feels rather unadventurous! Alternatively, the spiral of being of benefit to the planet can go on forever! So the GUARDENING philosophy aims to show how … Continue reading
