The Critical Need for Self-Care When World Building
emergent by design, 21 February 2012
There’s a lot going on right now.
I’m in the process of federating with a large number of people across the globe to form a new kind of living systems organization, and lay down infrastructures that we intend will lead us towards a desired socioeconomic paradigm and human operation system. We’re pioneering practices in cultural design, systems intelligence, and coordinated creative action at scale.
It’s really, really hard.
It would seem that if one wants to engage in real transformation in the world, a shift has to take place, which is expressed through culture, but begins within.
Here’s an experiential exercise you can try, to simulate how I see it:
First, take your index finger, and point it away from you, and out into the world.
This is what all of us are familiar with doing, in some way. It’s identifying all the problems out there that need fixing. And there are many, many things, aren’t there? If only people would listen, things would finally change.
This is life from the bleachers.
Now, slowly redirect your index finger to point towards yourself, and bring it in until it’s touching the center of your chest. Perhaps you say out loud, “I AM.”
This is life on the field.
This is what world builders are doing.
It can be seen happening across every corner of the planet, with millions of people beginning to play. We’re witnessing it through uprisings, Occupy, and communities everywhere becoming self-aware.
As people awaken to what we really want and what we care about, then compare that against our fragile and crumbling systems that no longer serve these values or intentions, we begin to make choices. We decide that we are not interested in propping up old paradigms that are not life-enhancing and abundance producing.
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