Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

When the balance is off or chaos enters, elements of the ecosystem fail, life is harmed, relationships are damaged, sacrifices are made, new ways of being emerge. Nature makes shifts to resist, rebuild, restore, and create. It strives towards balance, wholeness by being in togetherness and harmony with each other.”

healing happens when a place of trauma or pain is given full attention, really listened to.

Adaptation reduces exhaustion. No one bears the burden alone of figuring out the next move and muscling towards it. There is an efficiency at play—is something not working? Stop. Change. If something is working, keep doing it—learning and innovating as you go.

process of dreaming and visioning and implementing that world. We have to recognize that a multitude of realities have, do, and will exist.

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

There are new strategies emerging, or being remembered—many would describe this as a shift from a masculine to feminine (or patriarchal to feminist) leadership. I see that, and I think it is also about something beyond all of our binaries—evolving in relationship with our hierarchical tendency.

Visionary fiction

skill set of being able to see what’s between, what connects the things that seem separate, the ever-present whole.

need transformative justice (TJ) to be framed as a part of emergent strategy so that we can acknowledge we are midwifes to a changeling—that TJ is mutable process with only its values set in stone.