Are you practicing the future today ?

Cultivating the soils for life-centric cultures to emerge takes time and practice.

This last week I have found myself frequently sitting in circle, online and offline. - Often with candle lit, simple meditations to start and end.
- Invitations to check into our bodies - our felt senses.
- Non hierarchical

With everyone able to share deeply and honestly without judgement as a standard practice.

Witnessing different communities reflect, share and support each other while allowing all the grief, struggle, conflict, shame, joy and mess of being human in these times to show up is a beautiful thing

I take this as positive signals of progress in unravelling times.

Joanna Macy said:

"In nature, living systems evolve in complexity, flexibility, and intelligence through interactions with each other. These interactions require open-ness and vulnerability in order to process the flow through of energy and information.”

Basically life itself requires behaviours of open-ness and vulnerability to evolve.

So every organisation, business and community as a living system of human beings must learn to evolve or…..

The decaying systems of modernity do not currently recognise these behaviours to hold much value.

In fact I imagine many organisations and institutions today still view these very suspiciously.

The systems today value speed, efficiency, control, output, certainty (illusion of).

In my experience they avoid open-ness and vulnerability wherever possible, especially dwelling on impacts of BAU.

Modernity and its rational economic ways doesn’t like messiness - which is ironic as they are creating an absolute shit show in damage to human, ecological and planetary health.

But I’ve witnessed what these practices of openness and vulnerability can do over time:
 
- They cultivate awareness of self and others, respect and trust. 
- They help build the qualities of resilience, humility and courage
- They lead to an emerging creative energy and new dimension of intelligence within a community which can be profound.

I’d say they are an essential practice on the path towards regenerative futures.

Cultivating the soils for life-centric cultures to emerge takes time and practice. 
It's messy, there is much composting to be done.

But without commitment to the practice…

Well, ask a farmer about trying to grow nutritious food without paying attention to the soil.

Are you practicing the future you long for today ?