antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:11 am on March 1, 2022

Systems View of Life with Fritjof Capra and Jeremy Lent – March 5, 9am PST

What happens when we bring together two great thinkers of Systems Theory and Deep Ecology in emergent conversation?Join us on Saturday, March 5at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT
for Systems View of Life. Fritjof Capra, author of many books including The Systems View of Life and Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning and The Web of Meaning will discuss three of the foundations of WTR – patterns, systems and deep ecology – and how we can use these theories to support our practices as activists, facilitators and change-makers. Together we will explore how evolutionary biology, history and spirituality interact and provide answers to the challenges we now face.
March 5: Systems View of Life with Fritjof Capra and Jeremy Lent

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:48 pm on March 6, 2022

Their follow-up message, with recordings:

For those of you who were not able to attend, you will find the recording here: https://workthatreconnects.org/webinar-and-conversation-cafe-series/ and here: https://vimeo.com/685079930/a42c2dd4d3.

I have also compiled some of the unanswered questions and comments from the chat (see at the bottom).

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Some resources as requested during the webinar:

To learn more about the WTR:

· Join an event by one of our 200+ facilitators around the world: https://workthatreconnects.org/events/

· Get Active Hope from your local library: https://workthatreconnects.org/resource-type/books/ or take the free online course: https://workthatreconnects.org/event/free-online-course-active-hope-foundations-training/2022-03-19/

· Get “Coming Back to Life” book from your local library and start facilitating in your community: https://workthatreconnects.org/resource-type/books/

· Watch Joanna training videos: https://vimeo.com/channels/workthatreconnects

To learn more about Fritjof Capra work and learn along with him:

· Join the Capra Course: https://www.capracourse.net/about/ or their newsletter: https://www.capracourse.net/

· Take any of these books from your local library: The Turning Point, The Web of Life, The Tao of physics, the Systems View of Life.

To learn more about Jeremy Lent’s work and ideas and learn with him:

· Take any of Jeremy’s books from the library or access them in PDF, audio or paperback: The Web of Meaning, The Patterning Language

· Join Jeremy’s global network: https://deeptransformation.network/

· Join the upcoming Deep Transformation course at Gaia Education: https://www.programmes.gaiaeducation.uk/deep-transformation

· Jeremy’s article on ecological civilization: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/what-does-ecological-civilization-look-like

Some resources shared by participants or mentioned by the presenters:

· Braiding sweetgrass book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass

· The other others: https://anchor.fm/tyson-yunkaporta/episodes/Processes-of-Emergence-e1b4g1g

· Adaptive cycle: https://www.dropbox.com/s/023v6nenx53wh4x/We-Can-Do-This-Adaptive-Cycle.pdf?dl=0

· Lean logic: https://leanlogic.online/

· Positive news: https://www.positive.news/

· Yes magazine: https://www.yesmagazine.org/

· Rebeca Solnit’s article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/05/world-is-unpredictable-and-strange-climate-crisis-ukraine

· Video from historian Yuval Harari on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQqthbvYE8M

· Book “Entangled life”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52668915-entangled-life

· Surviving the future: https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future

· The Change handbook: http://www.mim.ac.mw/books/The%20Change%20Handbook.pdf

· Parenting resources: https://raffifoundation.org/child/the-covenant/

· Sociocracy for all: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/

· Fair share commons: https://graham-boyd.biz/fairshare-commons/

· Book: hospicing modernity: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57425775-hospicing-modernity

· Doughnuts economics: https://www.n2k.world/doughnuteconomics?utm_campaign=0180b9d6-2734-4b6d-ad29-ebefa358b96e&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=365009f4-a190-4f94-9a25-929c180fdee7

· From “what if” to “what’s next”: https://www.robhopkins.net/

· The wild curator: https://www.thewildcurator.com/

A few nuggets of gratitude from the live session:

“What a tremendous conversation/inspiration this conversation with FC and JL has been.
Thank you from my heart for organising it and for both being there….it is a privilege.” (Participant from Australia)

“We are not alone! Thank you all”

“Thank you Fritjof, Jeremy and WTR Network for a wonderful event!”

“I am so grateful to be able to connect with networks who are bringing forth this world view. With deep gratitude and hope!”

“So wonderful to be with these wisdom keepers and our burgeoning community all together here. Ubuntu & agaya”

“Thanks for a wonderful gathering – wonderful to be able to share these wonderful ideas” from South Africa

“You have acknowledged each of us in our own space, thank you”

“Deep gratitude to all who have made this happen and to the wisdom of Jeremy and Fritjof.” From US

“So grateful for this conversation. Making sense of what is happening now is invaluable.”

“Magnificent words, Jeremy! So encouraging for us to continue doing our work for a new world connected to others.”

“Much gratitude and fullness of heart for this gift! Worth getting up at 4.00am” (from Australia)

“Inspired and encouraged”

“Huge gratitude! What a community!”

Unanswered questions that may find their way in future webinars, community forums or courses:

“How to find out what is really the common good?”

“How to deal with the people who impose their definition of the common good that in reality is a common good of the elite?”

“How important is it to address social justice issues such as racism in regard to systems thinking?”

“Do you have any thoughts on Theory U and the work of Otto Scharmer in regard to emergence?”

“According to complexity theory, abrupt and change can occur at any moment without any deterministic predictability. Does this help you to maintain hope with regard to the climate emergency?”

“Where does mass civil disobedience as in nonviolence nonparticipation come in?”

“As someone living in a developing country with diverse cultures, I often find these kinds of discussions quite distant from where the majority (?) of the people exist in day-to-day life – in survival mode.”

“How can we be more inclusive in our journey to systems thinking and “systems living”? Is there something we can learn from people living differently to ourselves?”

—
Silvia Di Blasio, WTR Network Coordinator
Email: silvia@workthatreconnects.org
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