Below is the preface to this week’s featured resource: Healing Love into Balance. Find the link to download this Brown paper at the end of this post. Love in the…
Continue ReadingAttuning to the Harmonies of Home
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing” – Arundathi RoyYou can find hundreds of definitions of “permaculture”,…
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Below is the preface to this week’s featured resource: Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice. Find the link to download this Brown paper at the end of this post….
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From decolonization to… re-indigenization?I’ve found myself increasingly interested in the promise of ‘embodiment’: the possibilities inherent in the seemingly simple act of being attuned to what our bodies are telling…
Continue ReadingPeople Stitching Earth | Oppression, Healing, Liberation, and Navigating the Terrain In Between
When we made it back home, back over those curved roadsthat wind through the city of peace, we stopped at thedoorway of dusk as it opened to our homelands.We gave…
Continue ReadingNetworks: Resourcing Relationships and Interdependence for an Equitable Future Now
Networks for Equity and Systems ChangeThe events of the past year have made clear what many in and outside of philanthropy already knew: that equality in resource distribution is not…
Continue ReadingThe Angel’s Mafia: elements to be addressed in peacebuilding governance
Our Better Angels need to get their act together.I find myself looking back at five years working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Almost as long as I spent working as…
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The war in Ukraine is a symptom of something bigger— and within reachIn times of war, we are led to believe we are powerless.We are told that violence is inevitable,…
Continue ReadingBeing a strange attractor
This article forms the first in an intended series of articles. The main theme of that series is to reflect on a new language for social transformation. For me, language goes…
Continue ReadingInto the Matrix and Beyond: The Value of Network Values and Values-Focused Processes
A couple of years after the Food Solutions New England Network officially published the New England Food Vision, and just after the network formally committed to working for racial equity in the…
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