Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
NEW ENERGY SOURCES, POLITICAL CULTURE, LEARNING, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, BEHAVIOUR, ACTION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICEpat kanemetaphor, George lakoff, language
What is the transformational work, personal and cultural, that's needed to create durable systems change? Not scaling "up", or "out", but scaling DEEP
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
Philanthropy that doesn’t ask to you report, or comply, and “gifts” you way more than you asked for... Studying Mackenzie Scott’s YieldGiving
REGEN ECONOMIES, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUAL, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, YES WE CANpat kanephilanthropy, Mackenzie scott, Jeff bezos, amazon, GIFT ECONOMY
Vive is a new social platform for communities signing up to a "transition" worldview and practice
How Ireland’s Nollaig na mBan evolved from a day off housework to a celebration of women’s achievements
FEMININE, YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUAL, LOCALISMpat kaneireland, christmas, celebration, women, fe ], feminism
Are life coaches and fitness classes, aiming to get those on long-term sick leave back to work, coercive or liberating?
Thinking like Gaia is more than the sum of the cards, says planetary coach Tom Mansfield
PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LEARNING, INGENUITY, FUTURES, ARTISTSpat kanegames, cards, gaia, play
Attending COP this fortnight, Vanessa Nakate says young people fighting for a habitable planet need to be properly resourced
If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice
As the “HSBC 9” eco-protesters are acquitted of criminality, an eloquent open letter explains their actions
ACTION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneExtinction Rebellion, activism, climate activism, green protest, protest
The UN and the WHO begin a three-year global campaign to stress the power of connection - and the health costs of loneliness
YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, PLANETARIANpat kaneunited nations, WHO, loneliness, isolation, social capital, atomisation, health
Want to be a “paradigm-shifting cultural explorer, peacekeeper, and mental health champion”? Then try some “listening as rebellion”
“Abolishing the rational, embracing the strange can create portals to other worlds”. Future Natures wants your vision of a weird nature
“The Mother’s Call” from Jewish and Palestinian activists introduces a feminist, peace-oriented take on the current conflict
YouthXYouth’s Ila Malhotra Gregory on the need for a global (r)evolution, led by youth, for education
“We're living through a global 'blandemic' in building design - an age of boring”, says Thomas Heatherwick, who wants emotion to return to architecture
Pop music has always thrummed to the topic of working lives. Now the delivery (or "gig") economy is inspiring new viral hits
ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGY, YOUTH, A BETTER MEDIA, VIDEO/FILMpat kanegig economy, delivery economy, brazil, venezuela