World Builders

BEAM(ing) regen·era

It wasn’t until we moved into the dome in our new neighborwood that the rainbows became brighter and more present on a regular basis. It was becoming more and more obvious with each beaming we are sphere now, always have been. That’s also when I started to be

Future

Fridays for Future

A scenario for a revolution of caring, inspired by Jane McGonigal’s book, Imaginable, and Greta Thunberg’s courage to care for the earth, and by Veronica Anderson’s heart for Mother Earth and her vision for a feminine revolution.

Design

Invisible Visible

The Design Science Studio is a decade-long anticipatory art and design-driven accelerator inspiring a future that works for 100% of LIFE. We empower global creators, systems thinkers, organizations and initiatives to work together to imagine, collaborate and create a regenerative future.

Meditation

Loving Kindness Meditation

My challenge was to breathe, focusing on the beginning and ending of each breath. So I thought of how my inner architecture is formed by the in breath and our outer architecture is formed by the out breath.

Meditation

Love. Listen.

What if we could hear the voice say, “I love you. I am listening.” Could we learn to say these things from our own hearts and really understand these words to be a reflection of our true selves? We might be changed, transformed.

Sacred

Sacred Architecture

Deep Design is a practice of inner and outer architecture to build a new earth. Sacred architecture is a powerful tool to help humanity actualize its potential as stewards of the earth, to heal trauma, and expand into unity consciousness.

Connection

Life and Death

The gap is in the mind. The sense of separation that we feel is a perception of the self as separate from other human beings and from the earth and from the rest of the universe. However, I do not exist apart from the other. The smaller self does not exist apart from the larger self.

Worldbuilding

Unemployed and Unemployable

Canada, since it has been founded upon a legal fiction, has been abolished. Crown sovereignty has been invalidated. Land sovereignty has been returned to Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis. All currencies have been rendered invalid. Thus, corporations are obsolete.

Change

Land Acknowledgement

As Canadian Settlers for Indigenous Sovereignty (CSIS), representatives of The Corporation for Apartheid Nationalism and Aboriginal Dispossession and Assimilation (CANADA), we admit to our crimes, surrender, and give the land back.

State Violence

The Invasion of Wet’suwet’en Territory

This invasion is evidence of the shallow commitment of colonial governments to Indigenous rights and reconciliation and the hollowness of PM Trudeau’s statement at the recent COP-26 in Glasgow that Canada will take a ‘leadership role in the fight against climate change.'

Change

A Theory of Change

I was considering a solution to the polarization that is being amplified, accelerated, and intensified by our social, economic, and political technologies.

Quants

The Messengers

They had the feeling of being alone in the universe, searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. What they could not see was that sentience was all around them.

Mind

Mind the Gap

The interregnum is fraught with challenges, uncertainty, ambiguity, confusion, and division. Yet there is hope. Not only that, if we are awake, we might notice a convergence. The mystery is found in the possibilities afforded by multiple systemic crises.

Music

A Moving Performance

In the experience of this performance, I am moved by the way we can transform perception when we shift from the dominant frame of standards and norms to the wider sphere of reality and the wonder, beauty, complexity, and diversity of life.

Conflict

Conflict Resolution

From the beginning of time, we are told in one tale of our origins, the world has been formed by the separation of reality into opposing elements and forces. Ever since, we have been involved in a constant cycle of one versus another.

Transformation

Cosmolocal Reader

Humanity is at a crossroads, and the challenges we are facing, with the climate emergency, ecological overshoot and an equity crisis, are asking for bold and transformative thinking and strategy.

Love

What happens if I rearrange the letters from SCARED to SACRED?

In contemplating life I am reminded of the wise words of Marcel Proust - "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Synchronicity

How are you awake?

When I was watching the Foundation episode, “Mysteries and Martyrs,” I felt a profound sense of resonance with the character Gaal as she realizes that she is sensing the future before it actually happens.

Poetry

We Are Earth

An Appeal from The Human Collective to Itself: “WE are Earth, / And Our Garden, / Does not seem well. / Eden cries out, / That it is not hidden, / Nor lost.”

Storytelling

Bovine Bob Finally Finds His Voice

The tale of one Bovine who discovers just how difficult it can be to get important information to those one cares about. A reading by the author.

Art

The Art of Noticing

The art of noticing is in contrast to paying attention. It is an approach for a wholistic human experience—perception, cognition, emotion, and action—that reorients time, energy, and resources toward what really matters.

Design

Rapid Prototyping

What we learned about rapid prototyping from Tom Chi was the importance of working with actuals rather than conjectures. Guessing will not take us very far. We actually need to build something tangible to test whether something will work or not.

Journalism

World Builders

Movement journalism creates a process that centers the people who are most targeted and oppressed—centers their collective solutions and strategies for survival and social change.

Flow

Group Flow State

Together, we weave worlds. Through consciousness, we create worlds by accessing memory and projecting possibilities into the future.

Storytelling

Storytelling as a Prototype of the Future

In the Design Science Studio, we learned about world building and backcasting as a means of imagining the future and working backwards from that imagined world to think through the steps that we could go through to bring that imagined world into reality.