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Holding Space for Strong Emotions
Can we create professional cultures that invite curiosity and authentic engagement, to help individuals deal with profound feelings about the climate crisis while moving towards compassion and understanding? This was my question after participating in the Shift conference on corporations and adaptation to climate change. … Continue reading Holding Space for Strong Emotions → Read more
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A life changed by collapse (mine)
As the news doesn’t get any easier, we can benefit from discussing with each other how we might respond positively. For some of us, that involves new forms of leadership. That’s why I continue to co-teach the online course ‘Leading Through Collapse’. One suitable for your time zone is coming early next year. In every… Read more
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The Politics of Collapse: uncommon conversations for unprecedented times
If we don’t help develop something different, then the future of politics will be defined by authoritarian centrists and their lie of betterment through conformity versus right-wing reactionaries and their lie of betterment through reversal. Instead, a politics centred on liberation from oppressive economic systems and the regeneration of community could help us in this… Read more
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Not Sweating on Others Waking Up – thoughts after a Temazcal
One of the Elders of Teotihuacan hosted me in a Temazcal (Mexican sweat lodge). In this essay I share my experience and insights. Suited for Halloween, I feel. Thx, Jem… Continue reading Not Sweating on Others Waking Up – thoughts after a Temazcal → Read more
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The Freedom in Truth – launching ‘Cayendo Juntos’
This is the transcript of a speech I gave at the Monterrey Book Festival, Mexico, 6th October 2024 to launch Cayendo Juntos, the Spanish edition of Breaking Together. So there is nothing much new in this blog, but some additional discussion of Latin America. One result of my trip that I’m pleased with is some… Read more
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The Francophone World in an Era of Collapse
The Francophone world will continue to be important on this predicament of societal collapse, for at least three reasons. In this essay I explain those reasons, and why I am launching the French version of Breaking Together in Grenoble, France, on October 30th. If you live nearby, I hope to see you there. If not,… Read more
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