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another world is possible – but we need to believe in her first.
Abundance Practices for Changemakers
I come back to the work of abundance because scarcity - like shame - isn't a driver for a more just and regenerative world. Capitalism will tell us that scarcity is a driver of innovation, a force behind creativity. But I wonder where the stretches of our imagination...
Self Help, Collective Liberation… and Capitalism?
I often say that self-work is world-work, with many layers to its meaning. I believe firmly that the two are interconnected. That all the self-work I have done (therapy, coaching, plant medicine, seminars, books, meditation, travel) has benefitted the world and my...
Self Work is Part of System Change
One of our greatest necessities in the age of climate change is to shift our focus from the individual to the collective. From solo tweaks to widespread system change. As changemakers, this means our work is two-fold: working at the external level of the system, and...
Name the System
We have a tendency in our culture to download system problems on to individuals. The most recent example I've seen (sorry North America!) is the basically-mandatory tipping culture here, solving the low wages of the service industry & gig economy with the...
Asking for What You Want Can be a Revolutionary Act
How old were you when you stopped asking for what you want? As children, we know how to ask. We see something, desire it and express that. But somewhere along the way, we often learn the idea that it's bad. I was about 5 or 6, and remember asking for something and...
Reading a Room for Power
One of the most valuable skills we can cultivate as changemakers is the ability to read a room for power. To understand the power dynamics at play, so they can be shifted in the balance of justice. Let’s say you’re in a meeting or other group situation. Take a moment...
The Language of Separation
I saw this sign in Montreal recently, & want to talk about why rhetoric like this is so problematic. Humans and nature are not on a collision course – because humans are not separate from nature. We never have been and never can be. Language like this implies that...
What’s Your Role in Remaking the World?
Here's the thing about change and remaking the world: it requires each of us to play our role. And not just any role - the role that we feel called to. To do otherwise plays into the paradigm of right/wrong, good/bad...
The Limits of Possibility
I love to read, although keeping up with my list is near impossible. My to-read wishlist now has over 335 books (which if my math is right, means even if I read one book a week for the next six years, without adding any, I still won’t be finished. Help?!). Recently...