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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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It's a good time for more connective intelligence
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin@bethsawin.bsky.social |
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Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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It's a good time for more connective intelligence
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Martha Crawford
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I think of this as the intersection where palliation can increase the possibilities of healing through the alleviation of suffering. We can sometimes die while we work on eradicating an illness We can sometimes focus on alleviating suffering and end up creating the conditions for cure Both/and
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Where you can, follow their lead and lend you support (including money) to help sustain their work.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Scholars and activists who have been surviving in and struggling against the forces of domination and extraction for much longer than me. From the Global South. From marginalized groups at home.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Reliable leadership. Natural systems which teach about balance, about crises, about regeneration and creativity. Wisdom traditions that acknowledge interdependence.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Your learning stance. If the world is changing fast, what you've known won't always be enough, and you can't know yet what you will need to know. But you can call up the learning part of yourself. Try stuff, see what happens. Dust off your journal, think aloud, compare notes.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Clarity about vision and values. When you don't know what's coming you can still know what you stand for and where you are trying to go. You can have your compass ready when rapid change and destabilization might spin you around.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Even when time feels short, when you are worried and uncertain, you can find ways to slow your pace, to listen, to be curious, to offer help or ask for it. You won't know which connections will "matter" in whatever comes next, but more connections means more options to respond.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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The connections between us - our world is fractured and that limits collective intelligence and adaptive capacity. Whatever you need to do today you can do in a way that helps create the conditions for connections to grow.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Health of key systems - what can you do to keep yourself healthy, rested, nourished? What about your watershed, your community center, the pollinators, the healers? There are so many ways health is being eroded, but also ways to bolster it up. Be a bolster where you can.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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In moments of uncertainty I like to think about "good bets" -- choices and actions that seem most likely to be helpful no matter what comes next. Here are a few on my mind. What would you add?
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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OK I'd missed this one. There's too must too fast but @angryblacklady.bsky.social helped me catch up.
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Prisonculture
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the purpose of a system is not what IT SAYS IT DOES or what you want it to do but what it actually does.
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jon ben-menachem
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did anyone catch the protest-bashing line in gorsuch's homelessness decision? "It makes no difference whether the defendant is a person experiencing homelessness, on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building"
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Prisonculture
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people #onhere get so mad at PIC abolitionists on the regular and yet... our analysis is correct.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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In what ways can those organized around love and community, sufficiency and ecology, find advantages vs structures of consolidated power, under conditions of destabilization? No answers from me, but I think these are good questions.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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-How can your movements be more fit to the conditions of destabilization and collapse than the structures of consolidated power?
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Don't leave environmental collapse out of your analysis of democracy collapse. Some questions: - to what degree has premonitions of ecological collapse led to these power grabs? - to what degree will these power grabs accelerate ecological collapse?
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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I needed to stop scrolling so I went for a run. Recommended. Along the ways there was a turtle in the middle of the road, and I moved her to safety. Also recommended. So much needs help! Find a little way to help and do it. I also had a few thoughts while plodding uphill...
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Steen Comer
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This thread is worth a read.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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There are always things to be grateful for. What are yours? There are always things to fight for. What are yours?
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Not the first time @shrinkthinks.bsky.social
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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Saleem was a lifelong collaborator, mentor, colleague, friend. I’ve known him since 1997. The keynote lecture I delivered at the Royal Geographical Society this past week has video clips of interviews with him (and others). Video of my lecture & the panel discussion afterwards is here:
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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
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I can't know for sure, but I think this thread might be just what you need to read right now 🌱
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Reina (she/her)
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I agree. The feeling you mention isn't new to me. I try to listen to those who have been surviving. And, as best I can tell, being in community is the basis for strategies and surviving, and some of us don't have real community and it takes skill and practice and time to be in healthy community.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Yes indeed. And also grateful for those he mentored. @farhana.bsky.social
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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When the empty ugliness at the centers of power becomes clear to you, if that is a sharp, new, devastating feeling, a good thing to do is to follow the instructions of those far from centers of power who have been seeing, surviving, strategizing & surviving for a long, long time.
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Lisa M. Bradley
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Great thread!
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Nobody else can add my drop of change. Nobody else can add yours.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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All of it is tiny. But also all of it can only be done by me. That talk, that meeting, those seeds. Someone else will do another talk, but not that talk. Not that particular weird accidental hybridization of spinach varieties, adapted to this valley, last year's weather.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Also on the plan, deliberately, care for the system of me - not a luxury, but an investment for tumultuous times. I will exercise. I will drink lots of water. I will read for pleasure and for new ideas. I will cook a simple dinner and eat it with my husband on the porch.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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I'll try, but who knows? It's a complex system, thunderstorms on the horizon, yesterday the dog got skunked, who knows what today will bring, but I have my direction. Focus on the direction.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Things I will try to do today: offer a listening ear to someone having a rough day. Label the spinach seeds drying on the table. Write a talk about how #multisolving builds adaptive capacity. Plan for a community meeting. Pick berries. Water someone's plants as promised.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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So..what are you doing, today, this week, to tend, to mend, to prepare, to link up, to be something that doesn't compute in the algorithm of the extractive growth machine?
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Doing nothing because you can't do everything, saying nothing because you aren't on CNN, that leaves you feeling small and powerless and misses opportunities to add droplets of change to a complex system.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Paralysis and overwhelm don't disrupt dangerous systems. That's one reason I believe even little actions that disrupt domination patterns and support life-sustaining patterns are important. Not because of their size but because of their direction.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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When an economic-media-governance-legal system is not fit for purpose within a complex system that is in existentially threatening overshoot of earth's limits you get the debate we got last night.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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One good thing about waste is it that fixing it leaves a lot more room to share. (If your worldview shift towards efficiency includes sufficiency and equity too).
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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If you find yourself leading or participating in conversations about complex systems & wish there were a way to "get on one page" come check out FLOWER designed to help integrate knowledge and perspectives to take action with a whole systems perspective. bit.ly/FLOWERimmersive
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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It will never stop astonishing me how beautiful medicinal plants are and how medicinal beautiful plants are. Pretty good set up here on planet earth if we (re)integrate into it. What kinds of medicine do you see here? What kinds of beauty? (And there's some food too)
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Katie Mack
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Even for those who currently have no medical vulnerabilities, or who don’t mask regularly, wearing a mask should be as simple as using an umbrella when it rains or a bandage when you’re bleeding. You can protect yourself from flu season or smoke, or others from your cold. Easy, practical, courteous.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Join @multisolving Engagement Manager Kelsi Bowens to learn how to use the FLOWER tool to engage people in multidimensional thinking that includes health, climate, jobs, well-being, equity & more. 2 hr session so there's time for reflection & conversation. bit.ly/FLOWERimmersive
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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It's a path, not a result. It's a way & the will to follow the way.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Wanting to multisolve but not having time for listening & learning is like wanting to run a marathon but not having time for jogging. Or wanting psychological wellbeing but not having time for therapy or mindfulness.
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Kashana
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“We could ban the guns.” “Nah, let’s turn 8 year olds into amateur EMTs.”
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Join @multisolving Engagement Manager Kelsi Bowens to learn how to use the FLOWER tool to engage people in multidimensional thinking that includes health, climate, jobs, well-being, equity & more. 2 hr session so there's time for reflection & conversation. bit.ly/FLOWERimmersive
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Forget GDP. A measure good governance would be the joyful decibels of bees, birds, and children who know peace.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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The hummingbird feeder sits full, unvisited The elderberry, which bloomed so well - the one we planned to make medicine from - is almost berry-less in this bee scarce year. We plant flowers We build wild bee homes We keep on, uneasy
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Maybe it's time to ask if there's another way.
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