I have been observing 2022 as the Year of Transition and the Year of (Re)Connection. I commented to a colleague that it was also the Year of Recalibrating – or at least the Year of the Eve of Recalibrating. “What does recalibrating mean?” she asks. I suggest that recalibration is the experience that [...]
As we further contemplate the significance of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II we explore other perspectives (than previously published here and here and here ) on this event. I have been curious about what others might see unfolding beyond the power structures (or intelligences) that Queen Elizabeth II represented in her role and [...]
As we further contemplate the significance of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II we explore other perspectives (than previously published here and here ) on this event. Canada was the country that Queen Elizabeth II visited most in all of the Commonwealth. She reputedly called Canada "home". The Government of Canada held a [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Place When the 4 Voices come together, we create conditions to wake them up and grow them up, as a city that is able both to “placecare” [...]
During her lifetime Queen Elizabeth II was the queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. Her affinities were clearly joined to Britain internally and externally. At the same time, her 70 years of power, authority and influence gave her a natural position of “overview”. She had a sense of not only her [...]
The Park Ecovillage Findhorn (TPE Findhorn) enjoyed another co-creation from Laura Pasetti in early 2022 – this time on a very large scale. Laura is the initiator of EcoTheatre – theatre performed in outdoor ecologies; Processions – theatre performed by walking around; and 7 Directions Theatre – theatre from the East, South, West, North, [...]
Early in the lockdown, leaders in the community realized that we needed a Volunteer Action Group (VAG) to keep in touch so that we knew people were okay behind their closed doors. Quickly VAG conversations imagined a “modern” version of the Town Crier. Laura Pasetti, TPE Findhorn’s very own animateur of EcoTheatre literally [...]
Where were you in summer 2020, when you realized that you could only associate with the people in your household and when outside the home you were required to wear a mask and distance yourself 2 meters??!! How could The Park Ecovillage Findhorn (TPE Findhorn) survive the impact to our economic life – [...]
After two and a half years of personal devotion to leading Taizé singing online, David Robinson has decided to step back a little from conducting a global choir 3 times a week, to continue hosting the Tuesday morning sessions. Thankfully, Gloucester-based Elyn will assume Thursday leadership – and Annelise from Leeds has come forward [...]
The Economist headlines. Guardian bulletins. BBC News Flashes. Tweets quoting Zelensky to the UN. Angry videos. Toxic propaganda. I feel bombarded by the day-to-day, often hour-to-hour and sometimes minute-to-minute experiences of the Russian-Ukraine war. But the geography has seemed far away from my Scottish ecovillage. Until last week, when it got very close [...]