How can a culture of care and solidarity be brought into pressurised negotiations and how can it help? Here, Luea reflects on how a culture of care and solidarity is crafted in the work she does with the Youth Negotiators Academy at each year’s UNFCCC Conference Of the Parties (COP) and how she’s seen this culture bloom across people, spaces and into the negotiations themselves.

What is of the essence now?

What is there for us to allow?

What is essential to nurture and foster?

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What’s ours to lean in?

What are we called to nurture right now?

What is essential for this moment, these days, these couple of weeks?

We went on a journey, exploring different sides and crevices of this inquiry — from joy, to an inner resource, to the capacities that are available to each of us, to truth, challenge and to the space between or the unknown. Each element has its own character, a message, and something to teach us about how we might better navigate in these complex times.

In this post, we consider how the lessons from an ancient Chinese tale can help us — collectively and individually — to acknowledge, reflect on, support and heal the imbalances, disorders, and disharmonies facing our societies and planet today.

In this post, we share some insights on the capacities required to navigate the complexity of systems change, and reflect on the challenges and sensitive areas we’ve encountered and experienced on our own systems change journeys, covering both inner and outer dimensions.

Asynchronous or “async” constellations is an adaptation of a systemic constellations practice that allows a group of people to inquire into shared topics asynchronously, at their own pace and in different time zones.

Want to better understand systemic constellations and systems sensing? In this post, we provide a foundational understanding of the practice of systemic constellations — including its unique capacity to bring clarity to challenging situations and complex issues — and discuss how the approach continues to evolve.

Loss has many layers, flavours and shapes. Loss seems to touch each of us directly or indirectly and is omnipresent. This blog invites us to acknowledge grief from four perspectives: as a journey; as a being; as an act for life; and as a community process.

Dedicated attention to a personal and ongoing practice is more of a necessity than a luxury in these times of navigating unprecedented changes. In this blog, we share a 5-fold approach to personal care in order to nourish our inner wellsprings and maintain a sense of groundedness and calm.

This blog highlights how to create trust-filled, brave and authentic spaces for online gatherings, retreats and meetings. We focus on creating spaces that invite honesty, vulnerability and the whole self to be present in order to create a deeper sense of connection.

How well we care for ourselves individually corresponds to our ability to stay centered and respond appropriately to any given situation.

In times of crisis, it’s essential to know how to find our centre and come to a point of stillness.

Imagine coming into a symphony hall as the lights fade and silence settles in. You hold your breath. Out of nothingness the first voices appear…you have dived into a field of coherence.

Collective Transitions is bringing the tools of the subtle and nature-based wisdom traditions into the world of systemic change, social innovation, and business.