an intentful practice
for us, with Earth
hospicing and decomposing ways of acting and perceiving that led to our predicamentenacting a sensorimotor world in service to the flourishing of life
We are heading towards a socio-ecological collapse.Yet, we are complicit in the very processes that are threatening our collective well-being.Earth, and the life on it, will continue to endure with or without humans, like they have done before.But, what will be our place on this earth?Will the dominant worldviews and paradigms of today continue to drown us till our last breath?Or, will we emerge from the re-organisation acting in a way that actualises the living systems we are in?If you want to show up differently, join us in this practice for our collective flourishing, with Earth.
situate
situate: to place in a context
inception: an act, process, or instance of beginning
This is birthed from a self-serving, idiocentric position.I realise that I am showing up in a way that reinforces and propagates the systems and their structures in the production of sustained violence on humanity and the planet.I am frustrated.Yet, in an attempt to act differently, the gravity of the dominant system pulls me back.I sense discomfort, unpleasantness.So, I respond, with a space for sustained phase transition, a space of change to destabilize our current state, a space of self-organisation towards a different coordination.This space is an expression of my skill: of perception, of attunement, of taking action, of fulfilling intentions, of being alive.Welcome.~ Justin
of worlds
There is one physical world.Yet, the environments we perceive ourselves to be in can be starkly different.As we sense information around us, we act on affordances in the environment and enact a socio-material world that is meaningful to us.Somehow, these worlds that we have enacted and the affordances we perceive in that world are strongly coupled to the actions that have led to social and environmental phenomena that are increasingly unconducive to life.In modern science, scientists have shown that six out of nine planetary boundaries are crossed. The Earth systems that gives us life will most likely reach irreversible tipping points that will change the world, and life, as we know it.The disruption of the Earth's metabolism intersects with the market economy, which transforms the gifts from the Earth using human labour into commodities, with the objective of accumulating wealth in the hands of the few.This system, too, has produced or amplified other risks to human flourishing: violence, income inequalities, human health crises, etc.This system, too, is being reproduced and perpetuated by us. Our actions continue to fragment, separate and disconnect us from one another and from the Earth. These actions continue to be information for others couple their own actions too.Instead, what information can we put out there that will invite actions of wholeness, actions that reconnect us to the living systems that we are in?What constraints will allow an different attractor state to emerge, one that truly allows for human flourishing on this planet?
invitations
invitations: perceived opportunities for action as afforded by the environment
We are adopting the Broccoli Seed Agreement from the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective.The following is the agreement in verbatim:The broccoli seed agreement invites you to consider the following statements:I understand that…
The engagement with the work of the collective may not have any immediate practical application in my context and that is ok.
I do not have to agree with anything presented, but I am happy to see what happens.
I may feel uncomfortable, confused and frustrated through this process and I take responsibility for observing and learning from my conscious and unconscious responses/resistances/fragilities.
It is up to me to decide when to push myself further and when to stop and reflect/observe.
horizon
on the horizon: coming in the near future
big net positive: consulting for businesses in phase transition towards a degrowth-aligned future