Coming January 2023 in response to a recent article, along with a resource Tool for “Building Healthy Organisations”.
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… I salute their courage. It is not easy to step away from a lifestyle that has likely brought much comfort and safety, even when you realise that it comes at a price you are no longer willing to pay. Luckily, as well as the obvious trepidation, I often detect a sense of relief …
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… we look at the ‘roots’ of the western view of the economy and make clear its fatal problems; we talk about approaches that produce fundamental systemic change; we discuss and contribute to the political changes that are needed ...
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… Early on I became more & more curious about the purpose of “life”, wondering if our “one wild and beautiful life” is truly and simply “nasty, brutish, and short”, or if there was more joy and connection to experience, together. Where’s the fun, the playfulness of life, when so many are suffering? …
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… invisible infrastructures require our attention, just as much as the visible structures … A healthy culture functions best when it is in a reciprocal and harmonious relationship with these more formal group visible structures, as well as the informal, invisible infrastructures, allowing them to be rooted, vital and expansive as an ecosystem …
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… We’re here to hold conversations that help us to unearth any histories and judgments, to appreciate some of the possibilities or qualities opened to us, and to come more into choice about how we relate with or embody these energies. We are, in today’s world, looking for ways to re-define gender in a more satisfying way …
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… Clearly, this is a man who’s had his ego bruised, and who – rather than receiving the telling-off the nine complainants’ case against him represented with grace and learning a lesson or two – is very publicly throwing his toys out of the pram instead. It is an unfortunate, but also supremely obvious strategy …
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… I am so susceptible to unconscious patterns. I know that I’m not the only one: humans learn foundational things – like our mother tongue, or social cues – through observation and repetition … We are what we eat. We become what we think. Humans are creatures of habit, and our habits create culture …
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… We chose the name "Culture Garden" to describe the practice of creating a supportive environment for groups in which a diversity of healthy cultural forms can grow — as our Mother Tree metaphor supplying extra nutrients, sending messages about changes, and enculturating seedlings to thrive in their particular soil, through their extensive root systems …
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… When organisations bring awareness to strengthening interpersonal skills, like clean communication and feedback channels, information can better flow among team members … This promotes a dynamically egalitarian environment where authority is distributed among empowered team members, and ‘emergent wisdom’ can truly arise … enabling the organisation to achieve its mission more effectively …
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… Toxic Masculinity — although imperative to name, as history has shown us that women often suffer the most — often ended up making men “wrong”, so this was never my focus, as we all played a part in our collective healing …
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… Are you present to your personal inspirational moments that guided you towards your gifts for this planet? Have you completed a “River of Life” exercise to get present with the important and meaningful aspects of your life, and see where it has taken you to today? …
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… For many reasons, I left that kind of government work. The financial stability it afforded me came at too high a cost to my mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. And this week, while resting quietly, I had a scary revelation. I now have no choice. I cannot go back to a career based on disconnection …
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… In January, I declared 2018 the year of Awakening the Healthy Masculine. I paused, I watched. I had many conversations with my communities, as the Immature Masculine rears, all day, everyday in the news. … It is precisely because the Immature Masculine is rearing so loudly, that it is becoming obvious to many of our communities…
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… 'My people,' I realized, are those who, due to inherited, systemic, or more recent trauma and/or due to being conditioned by privilege, have learned to respond to life events by 'getting bigger' (dominating) or by 'getting smaller' (submitting to, or being victimized) … I became fascinated by the way that dominator dynamics seem to be rooted in particular ways of relating to our bodies’ sensate signals …
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… How we must communicate cleanly with each other to reinforce good habits, and to generate a sense of unity by matching our words and our deeds. And most importantly, that we are not the first to grapple with these questions: ancient social technologies can help us to lay the foundations for a peace that future generations will enjoy …
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… I have come to love the process of working with culture: playing with the interplay between structure and emergence, past and future, skill and weakness, hope and heartbreak … to develop the skills, habits and practices that we know contribute to greater success and wellbeing.
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... we can ill afford not to continue the conversation while the political divisions in the US and around the world brings us ever growing awareness that now is the time to act. Our opportunity to practice your Healthy Masculine, and to co-mentor each other is upon us …
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… communities are seeking connection, while ensuring effective planning, and financial well-being … Joanna Macy has called our changing times "The Great Turning”, and we are seeing more and more wonderful examples of communities readying themselves for the future through connective cultural practices …
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I love to compete. It drives my inner passions. It fuels me to become a better person … But I started to see that some people think of competition as an end game. To destroy the other, in order to win for yourself.
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