Radical honesty with my ski patrol colleagues makes me feel less scared. And more capable, too.
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There are two kinds of inconceivable: 1) the one I tell myself isn’t possible and 2) the one I can’t imagine.
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How do you design a public meeting when you believe that everyone has something to share, not just the vocal few?
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Mutual agency fosters sovereignty in self and others and enables a generosity that seeds our regenerative future.
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Low-grade depression—the words a friend spoke on a call a few weeks ago. It never occurred to me that the word ‘depression’ could apply to me, but I knew to trust the reverberations in my body. It explained how I’ve been feeling for several weeks. And it lead to a big gift in understanding how I “power” myself.
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Consider that innovation is simply new work, and the constant regeneration of new work is how we adapt to our changing world. If our work stayed the same, our species would not have travelled and settled across the planet. New work--innovation--allows us to evolve. The habitats we build for ourselves have evolved with us, for they are the result of our work.
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It is reasonable to expect that feelings can be talked about and explored in a personal relationship. It is reasonable to expect that drivers can happily go on their way when no accidents happen. There is something out of proportion, and deeply unfortunate, in the behaviour of the gaslighter and the angry old white man.
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There is a strong pull within us to move back to normal, to business as was usual. Opening businesses, ceasing our physical distancing practices too early is collapse behaviour. Wanting something to be as it was in insufficient to make it so; feedback loops are life or death right now and we ignore them at our peril.
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We have two options to choose from: collapse or hardship. For valid life or death reasons, we have chosen the latter. We have chosen the hardship of physical distancing, and the hardship of tough economic conditions to avoid the collapse of our healthcare systems. In the process, new ways of thinking, making and doing are enabling us to handle the situation as best we can.
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