December 13, 2024

Culture

If we think of lonely people as a public health crisis then their disease is now twice as prevalent as cancer and growing rapidly.

"We have survived for so long because the environmental devastation we are experiencing today is an exception, not a human norm. We are deeply wired to connect. We build and flock to cities, construct monumental temples to gather in, and endlessly write, dance, and sing about the experience of relationship because for us to be in relationship is simultaneously to meet our need for survival, create possibility in our lives, and access the divine. Give us food and we will host a feast. Give us a drum and we will dance together. Give us a tool and we will put our enormously powerful brains together in community to figure out how to use it to create the conditions for connection."

"Carry these abilities forward into modern times and we should be living in a golden age of connection. We are not." - David Jay

BOOK EXCERPT: Connection Is Our Lost Superpower

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Culture

Why “heterarchy” might be a better way to describe the shifting roles and relationships that actually hold communities and institutions together.

ARTICLE: The Central Role of Collaboration and Trust in Human Societies

Culture

A “different voice” that speaks from a premise of connection and responsibility rather than separateness and hierarchy

‍‍BOOK: In A Different Voice

Culture

Regenerating nature, communities, and local economies through systems change

‍BOOK EXCERPT: Putting Systems Change in Place‍

Culture

“We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening to the world as it is we may discover that gentleness, decency, and bravery are available."

INTERVIEW: Margaret Wheatley: Warriors For The Human Spirit