Thriving life is about
more than sustainability.

It is time for us to move beyond the mindscape of doubt and the systems of control, and into the actual possibility of a thriving Earth.

It does not take a scientist to deduct, or a poet to evoke, that our planet and our human lives woven within it, are in grave danger. Our unconscious interactions with, control of, and extraction and desecration of Earth, have crossed a line— and all of our lives are becoming simply an act of survival.

Somewhere along the way, as our minds and our hearts — our intellect and our creativity — have been severed, we lost our capacity to generate responses to “sustainability” problems that actually support life on our planet. The visionaries have lost the tangible leverage points to affect change, and the scientists have lost the possibility of a truly thriving world, and it's imperative that we find one another again. Our lives depend upon it.

Returning to the landscape of life is asking us to first set aside our well-intended sustainability research, our best laid plans, our libraries of academia, our lofty idealism and —

listen, witness and serve the living principles of our planet.

If you've arrived here, you're beginning to meet the upper limits of your capacity to continue “work as usual” in sustainability and —

• you can feel that the systems and structures of the dominant paradigm are failing to make change
• you feel like the “heart” of why you entered this work is lost, and your time and energy are spent in calculating metrics, compromising to make profit, chasing concepts and possibilities that never seem to lead anywhere satisfying
• you are exhausted of living your own life in your mind, and are ready to bridge your intellect with the visionary capacity of your heart and the power of community
• you are burned out on corporate culture or academia and recognize that both, rather than nurturing life, are breaking it down

Or, you're a deeply passionate healer, artist, community organizer, wisdomkeeper, or philanthropist and—

• you long to deepen your capacity to affect actual change in the world by bridging your heart with the science of generative earth principles
• you need to ground your spiritual and creative context for collective thriving in down-on-the-ground research, science, and historical paradigms for Earth-tending
• you want to move beyond vision and possibility for a thriving Earth, into an actual system, structure, and pathway through which you can serve Earth
• you feel exhausted and unfulfilled by the constant visioning of dominant spiritual paradigms and long to take action in the present that affects change in your community