We know several things:  1) We have more opportunity now, than in our lifetimes to shape and bring about systemic change.  This is true with any major crisis is that crisis and opportunity go together. The center begins to fall apart, dissipating the energy of failing strategies.  2) This transforation will be largely self organizing by we the people as no politicians can lead us where we need to go.  3) We can only do this by working together.   That’s why I am so excited by the upCreation offering which will begin on July 20 and continue for seven moons.  We will meet formally seven times on the day of the new moon. In between will be personal work, journaling, and small team interactions.  

Why is it that we are so willing to accept bad news? What keeps us from believing we are worthy of good news? These questions are vitally important to consider as we go about creating a world that works for all of us… to design our collective well-being by design, not default.

This is my first journal entry that features another project. I find Michaels project so compelling and aligned with my beliefs.  It models our axiom "You can't get there from HERE but you can get HERE from there.  In other words, today is too full of baggage, fear, frustration, and talk of what we don't want. Leaping out and having the courate to create a "new world" is the only way to go.  While I have every person, every client  I work with learn to do  backcasting and gain an ability to play with the future, to design possibilities and potential, to explore the natural emergence that will erupt and disurpt our thoughts, making room for viable fresh ideas that can create a better future.  

Another one of the MG Taylor axioms is "The future is only rational in hindsight" rings true. This is why any robust project like 2030 needs to attract people to come together and model preferred future. Together we have tremendous energy and know how to work with ideas, to mix and match, to integrate, and explore how to procede with the least negative unanticipated consequences.  

I'm looking forward to how Tomorrow Makers can play a role as an organization and as a tomorrow maker.  Together, we can help 2030 be rich and vital for all species.  This is going to be quite an adventure!

In assembling complexity the bounty of increasing returns is won by multiple tries over time. As various parts reorganize to a new whole, the system escapes into a higher order.   Ilya Prigogine

 There I am reading along when suddenly I read

 ‘In assembling complexity the bounty of increasing returns is won by multiple tries over time. As various parts reorganize to a new whole, the system escapes into a higher order.” — Ilya Prigogine

Its like I’ve fallen into the white rabbit’s hole and the entire universe changes shape.  I first read these words in the late 90s and to this day, it still speaks to me as fresh and wondrous as the first time I read it.  These 30 words speak from the heart of the universe and can teach me more than some of my university semester-long courses…

The list below was one of the first set of assumptions that Matt and I created together when we first met in 1976.  We have used and evolved it over time. It defined many of the first principles we used in creating our way of working.   It is form these shared beliefes that we proceeded to created our process and method.  While it seems painfully simple today within the midst of a dying, fighting paradigm, and our radical either/or mentality, to me it still holds true.  I've shared this list before along with the URL about "We the people" being the second super power.  Both, along with my recent posting for what is a Tomorrow Maker, I think I have the bare begining of a form for engaging others in the creation of a healthier world.  We can't afford to merely tweak the existing infrastructures and cultures and expect to transform ourselves or others.  While we are building on ten thousand- or more - years of history, ours is a new story, one just being born.  Our history will be reframed from within the anthroposcene era.  We won't throw it away, nor do we let it control how we design, decide, and create....

"Funktionslust means the pleasure of doing, of producing an effect, as distinct from the pleasure of attaining the effect or having something. Creativity exists in the searching even more than in the finding or being found. The word enthusiasm is Greek for filled with theos – “filled with God”." Quote from the book Free Play: Improvitazation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch.

People ask me "What is up creation?" For me it is a word that says a lot. It has hundreds of stories hidden within it. It teases, appeals, speaks a rhythm and a pattern. It speaks to infrastructure, frameworks, culture, and sets me toward a long view, a big hope, and an audacious task.