Grappling with Our Own Power
Every Tree Wants to Make a Forest: Choice, Togetherness, and the Maternal Gift Economy
Visionary Functioning: Shifting Resource Flow Systems from Incentive to Willingness
(An edited excerpt from the “Resource Flow Systems” learning packet)
Our modern forms of engaging with resources are based on a deep-seated belief about human nature that is so pervasive that it almost never gets said explicitly: that we are only motivated by self-interest, narrowly defined, and that we won’t …
As Things Get Worse
For the last hundred years or so, significant portions of the population within so-called liberal democracies in the global north have known comfort, ease, and personal liberties that have been unprecedented since at least the patriarchal turn. It’s not a new phenomenon for some people within a stratified society to …
Flow, Decision-Making, and Conflict
States, Collective Wellbeing, and Our Future
The Practice of Mourning Challenges: an Example from a Visit to Israel
Mourning is an act of softening. It supports us in softly closing the gap between what we want, envision, or long for, and what actually exists. In the absence of mourning, we are likely to try to do it with some degree of force: either by trying to force ourselves …
How Children Learn About Others’ Needs
In contemporary, patriarchal societies, mothering often leads to mothers giving up on their own needs, because of the lack of a communal context of togetherness and support. One of the results of this is that, as children, we don’t learn about the needs of others as an organic limit we …
Needs Choreography and Mutual Influencing: Decoding the Flow of Interdependence
“I would like to end this conversation now and focus elsewhere. Is there anything else you want to share before I do that?” This is a simple question, so simple you may wonder why I would start a blog post with it. I chose to start with it, because it …
The Trouble with Mourning
