Seeds for a happy planet

that’s what Michael says, somewhere in this video… He talks about the need of relationships – in gardens, in nature, in communities. His organisation is called City Repair (Portland, Oregon) and they are doing incredible, artistic stuff!

Most of my readers might know the TED-talks, with tons of great and inspiring talks. Many evenings they are my private television screen. More and more, there are TEDx-talks all over the globe, yet another stream of great content.
I’m posting here one by Michelle Holiday in TEDx Concordia (no clue where that is), explaining what is essential in the living systems view. Great explanation – straigth to essentials…
I wish I could do it that way!

One of my friends of Women Moving the Edge, Cari, send a link to a TED video that she is enthused about. (many, many good video’s there! ) And I fully agree! It is a famous writer (which I didn’t know before…), Elisabth Gilbert, talking about the creative process and the role of the ‘daimon’ or ‘genius’.

This is the announcement on the TED page:

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

Cari wrote in her note to us: “… can’t help feeling just listening to it again after a while that she is talking about source. … I think what we (Women Moving the Edge) are working with a is a reliable, replicable practice to call on and be with and come from source such that the capriciousness that she speaks of (the maddening part of creativity historically) is diminished. Like a channel we are receiving stronger or evolving into hearing better, louder, clearer over time….

Over the last months and even years I have been writing down the learnings, insights and patterns that have come out of the 9 iterations of the Women Moving the Edge gatherings; and much is about source, sourcing and collective sourcing. I just started the process to let the manuscript be read by a few of my dear friends and co-creators in this experiment. Helen just recently, took one part of it, and turned it into a beautiful blogpost! Just read along!

This is a small video that I immediately repost after seeing it! It fits my recent, deeper insight that this is not about the new story, but about the next story, in an infinite ongoing bigger story.

This is to me a healthy and balanced way of thinking about our relationship with politics and politicians.
Enjoy!