That's a great article Adam, again well researched and presented. I feel comforted by the fact that my age and stage makes it a lot easier to take the Small Wins approach and not to feel too guilty for being unable to effectively contribute to Big Victories. I am heartened though to see the Big Victory path that President Biden has set the USA onto. His leadership gives me growing confidence that global Climate Change Action can progress much more rapidly now, and we can individually contribute our Small Wins to the cause. This hope can be incredibly transformative for a family, a community and a nation and will result in real change.
Tempered radicals. Thank you for giving a name for what I have somehow instinctively embodied (not having an MBA, but simply being in the milieu). At the same time, what appears to be happening is that many of those tempered folks are going truly radical and visiting the edges in their own inner work. With the fundamental assumption being that if enough of us change at fundamental levels we cannot help but affect the aggregate being, the collective consciousness, in ways that could rapidly spread. Limbic resonance, emotional co-regulation, and peer-influence are all extremely powerful effects.
In speaking with Julia Kim this week (with thanks to Charles Homes) she said "we are finding each other." And her efforts speak volumes about what is possible when working from such a holistically deep inner/outer perspective. As to us finding each other -- with that kind of peer network organically forming across and between organizations, perhaps there will be new models of collaborative leadership, moving and leading from fundamentally different value sets, mindframes, ways of being in and as the world.
The system will be disrupted, is being disrupted, radically by Gaia herself. We no longer have to push that, it is happening of its own accord. We can be there with alternatives to offer those who are ready to try something new. We can be there with open arms, with deep imagination, with ways of sitting with and even loving uncertainty as part of the promise of truly healing all our traumas -- those we have wrought upon ourselves, upon others, upon the land. We can remember we are full human bodies alive as part of Gaia. The journey of Reconnection begins with each of us, one at a time.
My software DNA modified your small wins concept into scalable small wins. If we could find those small wins and spread those to other people, regions, governments, then we could get lots of small wins creating more momentum. Part of the beauty and magic of creating a movement and giving that movement a roadmap.
Great article as always! And hopeful and persistent which is what we need.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." This familiar phrase from the 60's is catchy and indisputable, but I have never quite known what to do with it. Thank you, Adam, for Issue 23 which provides us with the context, dare I say 'permission', to "bring forth change" with "our natural gifts and proclivities".
Adam to support the points you are making in this issue, I would like to offer the following poem by Jane Hirshfield; it was part of my event last Saturday and generated great exchanges on the same topic of "small wins vs. big victories". Enjoy!
Thank you Adam for the balm for us nomads of organizational life. I've tried the radical approach and, aside from the failure, felt that it could not work for me. Largely, as I later came to realize, my 'radical' approach brought about (or perhaps was trigger by) a disconnect...it broke a bond between my soul and the earth. Having worked to renew that bond, I feel ready to renew my nomadic organizational path as a 'tempered radical' (love the term). And I now realize that my own path of transformation must include relationship (within, with others, with the earth) or it will not bear fruit. I can also now see that part of this transformational journey is actually one of listening/watching for and then jumping into the jet stream of transformation which already there, all around us. Many (including me at times) are just not listening. -Mike den Haan
That's a great article Adam, again well researched and presented. I feel comforted by the fact that my age and stage makes it a lot easier to take the Small Wins approach and not to feel too guilty for being unable to effectively contribute to Big Victories. I am heartened though to see the Big Victory path that President Biden has set the USA onto. His leadership gives me growing confidence that global Climate Change Action can progress much more rapidly now, and we can individually contribute our Small Wins to the cause. This hope can be incredibly transformative for a family, a community and a nation and will result in real change.
Tempered radicals. Thank you for giving a name for what I have somehow instinctively embodied (not having an MBA, but simply being in the milieu). At the same time, what appears to be happening is that many of those tempered folks are going truly radical and visiting the edges in their own inner work. With the fundamental assumption being that if enough of us change at fundamental levels we cannot help but affect the aggregate being, the collective consciousness, in ways that could rapidly spread. Limbic resonance, emotional co-regulation, and peer-influence are all extremely powerful effects.
In speaking with Julia Kim this week (with thanks to Charles Homes) she said "we are finding each other." And her efforts speak volumes about what is possible when working from such a holistically deep inner/outer perspective. As to us finding each other -- with that kind of peer network organically forming across and between organizations, perhaps there will be new models of collaborative leadership, moving and leading from fundamentally different value sets, mindframes, ways of being in and as the world.
The system will be disrupted, is being disrupted, radically by Gaia herself. We no longer have to push that, it is happening of its own accord. We can be there with alternatives to offer those who are ready to try something new. We can be there with open arms, with deep imagination, with ways of sitting with and even loving uncertainty as part of the promise of truly healing all our traumas -- those we have wrought upon ourselves, upon others, upon the land. We can remember we are full human bodies alive as part of Gaia. The journey of Reconnection begins with each of us, one at a time.
Yes, we are finding each other!
My software DNA modified your small wins concept into scalable small wins. If we could find those small wins and spread those to other people, regions, governments, then we could get lots of small wins creating more momentum. Part of the beauty and magic of creating a movement and giving that movement a roadmap.
Great article as always! And hopeful and persistent which is what we need.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." This familiar phrase from the 60's is catchy and indisputable, but I have never quite known what to do with it. Thank you, Adam, for Issue 23 which provides us with the context, dare I say 'permission', to "bring forth change" with "our natural gifts and proclivities".
Adam to support the points you are making in this issue, I would like to offer the following poem by Jane Hirshfield; it was part of my event last Saturday and generated great exchanges on the same topic of "small wins vs. big victories". Enjoy!
(NO WIND, NO RAIN) BY JANE HIRSHFIELD
No wind, no rain,
the tree
just fell, as a piece of fruit does.
But no, not fruit. Not ripe.
Not fell.
It broke. It shattered.
One cone’s
addition of resinous cell-sap,
one small-bodied bird
arriving to tap for a beetle.
It shattered.
What word, what act,
was it we thought did not matter?
Thank you Adam for the balm for us nomads of organizational life. I've tried the radical approach and, aside from the failure, felt that it could not work for me. Largely, as I later came to realize, my 'radical' approach brought about (or perhaps was trigger by) a disconnect...it broke a bond between my soul and the earth. Having worked to renew that bond, I feel ready to renew my nomadic organizational path as a 'tempered radical' (love the term). And I now realize that my own path of transformation must include relationship (within, with others, with the earth) or it will not bear fruit. I can also now see that part of this transformational journey is actually one of listening/watching for and then jumping into the jet stream of transformation which already there, all around us. Many (including me at times) are just not listening. -Mike den Haan