Walking
Walking invites us to live lightly, as wanderers, nomads, pilgrims who carry only the necessary resources. It is a framework that helps to embody learning, and creates opportunities for us to respond to an ever-changing environment.
“Walking. It is good for my body, good for my mind and good for my spirit. No words are sufficient to contain my praise for walking. I choose to move and flow rather than to remain fixed and static.” - Satish Kumar |
Challenging Dominant Structures
Creating healthy ways of being in the world includes educating ourselves and working towards liberation from dominant structures such as patriarchy, colonisation, consumerism and white supremacy.
“Our current education system is biased to maintain many harmful aspects of the status quo. Let me give you an example. In the UK we learn repeatedly about Nazi Germany and its concentration camps, but almost nothing about the British empire and its ongoing legacy of white supremacy, imperialism and patriarchy that exists today. Without critical analysis of the power structures that exist today, how can the current education system be part of changing them?” - Kathleen Cassidy (Doing a Mistress) |
Emergent Strategy & Small Scale
“How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale.” (AMB) Emergent strategy focuses on the importance and impact of small actions, how we adapt to a changing world with intention, focusing on interdependence, collaboration and resilience. Our actions ripple out, creating more complex changes on a large scale.
You can read more about LiC and ES on this blog post: Land in Curiosity: Meet Emergent Strategy “To see our own lives and work and relationships as a front line, the first place we can practice justice, liberation, and alignment with each other and the planet” – Adrienne Maree Brown (Emergent Strategy) |
8 Shields & Natural Cycles
8 Shields is a practical framework that can be used to design learning and community systems. By observing and replicating natural cycles we follow a blueprint for integrative design.
You can read more here: The 8 shields model and how we use it "Our job is to pay attention for patterns as groups of people and share what we observe with each other. Birds are phenomenal role models [for this], as soon as you connect to them you get so much awareness." - Jon Young |