Resources
Emails
- First inhale, before 17th April
- First exhale, after 17th April
- Second inhale, before 1st May
- Second exhale, after 1st May
- Third inhale, before 14th May
- Third exhale, after 14th May
- Fourth inhale, before 3rd June
- Fourth exhale, after 3rd June
- Fifth inhale, before 12th of June
- Exhale after 12th June / Inhale before 19th June
- Clopening after 19th June
Listening practices
A dance with Not-Knowing
This podcast offers a guided practice aiming at body awareness. It is taken from the approach of Social Presencing Theater. While being given 10 minutes time to arrive from lying to standing up the practice invites you to pay close attention to what movement emerges out of the body - rather than following a mental concept. In this way it is supporting to dance with the Not-knowing.
Interview with Alex Nunn
...a Head of Movement Building at Action for Happiness, a contributor to Regenerative Culture in Extinction Rebellion and a Regional Community Builder in the Earth Holder Network, where he shares about what regeneration means to him and in the activism context, how Regenerative Cultures look like, and what resources and practices can support us to keep engaging, taking action and facing the reality of the crisis.
Loving Kindness Meditation
This practice can support us to cultivate feelings of kindness, care and compassion towards ourselves and all living beings. It can also help us open our hearts and increase awareness of interconnectedness and interbeing.
The Way of Council
Here you can hear about basic guidelines and soundbites for circle practice, use of a talking piece, place and intentions, including context and a little history as a source of the cross-cultural practice.
Sitspot
How to build an intimate relationship with a place in nature? Here you can find an introduction to the practice - where to find your sitspot, what to do there, what nature connection can bring into your life - and also guided sensory awakening exercise.
Awareness of breath
A stillness practice
Sustainable future visualisation
A visualisation designed to imagine a sustainable future and connect with your unique contribution.
Interview with Looby Macnamara
In this first conversation with Looby Macnamara, permaculture teacher and author, we are exploring regenerative approaches to the cultural crisis, and how we can engage in the world in a regenerative way.
Giving Birth to the New World
In the second podcast, we are looking at the relationship between childbirth and sustainability, and how we are becoming doulas of birthing the regenerative society, birthing the New World:
Wellness inventory
What is the quality of your personal wellness? This guided Wellness Inventory will introduce you to the six dimensions of wellness and give you the chance to explore them. It will help you to develop an awareness of the areas in which you are thriving as well as your areas for growth.
You can download and print this document: it will make the inventory a bit more visual, leading you to create your personal wellness wheel, but it is not strictly necessary.
Video recordings of the Inhale online meetings
Graphic harvesting
Articles and resources
The essence of Theory U
This TED talk by Otto Scharmer is a very good summary of the essence of Theory U:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJefS7s3lc
Summary of the Theory U
From Otto Scharmer, addressing the blind spot of our times
https://www.presencing.org/assets/images/theory-u/Theory_U_Exec_Summary.pdf
Presencing institute
The organisational home of the Theory U. Here you can find an overview of their background, their programs and their open resources.
www.presencing.org
A Theory U based exercise: The Stakeholder Interview
Designed for the initial phase of the U-journey!
Have a look at the description of the exercise that is basically an interview with a certain attitude and mindset. The prompt for the interview for this our journey could be: Ask a person who knows you well (friend, partner, family) about what they are perceiving your response to the current situation specifically, and in general to what is happening in the world.
https://www.presencing.org/resource/tools/stakeholder-interview-desc
Interbeing
A poem by Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3228751-interbeing-if-you-are-a-poet-you-will-see-clearly
Regenerative cultures
articles by Daniel Christian Wahl
https://medium.com/@designforsustainability
Inner Pathways manifesto
https://innerpathways.eu/manifesto/
Inner Pathways collection of stories
https://innerpathways.eu/blog/
Joanna Macy and the Work that reconnects
https://www.joannamacy.net/main
The Shambala prophecy
See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dbM93FALE
Satish Kumar
Peace activist, author and founder of the Resurgence Magazine and the Schumacher College. Bringing another perspective on values for the Life-Sustaining Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSLUd0veioU
Medicine walk
This is an invitation to spend some solo time outdoors.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pN0PkyiKJzJchmO7jPrMj4BzAXgNva5V/view
Pilgrimage
In this article, Satish Kumar offers his view on the nature of pilgrimage. For pilgrims, as he says, the whole Earth is sacred, as they recognise the intrinsic value of all life.
https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article2837-pilgrims-or-tourists.html
Cosmic eye video
https://vimeo.com/373772536
Introduction to presencing: what is at the bottom of the U?
We recommend this inspirational video with Otto Scharmer explaining what presencing, the bottom of the U means, reminding us to ask ourselves the question “what is the essence of our highest future possibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8-ur7glmYE
Activity: guided journaling
This exercise of guided journaling can bridge us with another phase of our common journey, prototyping. It is best done in a pair. So meet up with your buddy from the course online or someone else who can also meet offline. One is reading out the questions, the other person is journaling. Then you can switch roles. More detailed instructions you can find here.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Cultivating the mind of love
"As a gardener, we have to trust the land, knowing that all seeds of love and understanding , seeds of enlightenment and happiness, are already there"
