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Let me introduce you to the new teleseminar series of interviews I have just started at A Whole New World. It’s a series about being a new culture maker, co-creating a new culture which reflects the Whole New Humans we’re becoming.
A Whole New World is a resource for the transition to a more peaceful, sustainable soulful world and part of a movement for conscious evolution emerging around the planet. Our mission is to be a catalyst within this movement, growing a community of common understanding and a common language, by providing maps, practices, forums for conversation and models of new culture making.
Even while the old systems, like the banking system and unsustainable agriculture, are in a cycle of decline and destruction, there is a new culture emerging all around the world. As the old culture cracks and strains apart, little green shoots of inspired innovation are shooting towards the light and activating a new vision for humanity.
At A Whole New World, we know from experience that being a new culture maker isn’t always easy. It’s a creative process which uses every bit of who we are, challenges us every step of the way to let go of what is inauthentic and outworn, and to step into the unknown, the only place from which transformation is possible.
The intention behind this TRUE WEALTH series is to inform, inspire and encourage you to actively participate in new culture making. We’re providing a forum where together we can pursue an inquiry and identify some of the questions which may help us to move forward into a more resilient new culture.
Here are four of the ingredients we need as new culture makers at this time:
Information: in this time of transition from the old world to the new, we need to know what is really going on so that we can respond consciously and appropriately.
Inspiring role models who have experience, wisdom and skills to share help us to move through doubt, fear, confusion and inertia and move into our highest visions of what is possible.
Encouragement is so welcome, whoever we are and wherever we are on the path, because being awake and becoming a change agent or new culture maker takes courage, commitment and stamina.
Curiosity and an experimental mindset is very helpful because creating a new culture can be a slow process of experimentation, trial and error, working against the odds, feeling you’re a lone voice crying in the wilderness. When we stay open and curious and experimental we transform what can seem like a heavy, dark situation into a light, playful and exciting experience.
As the title TRUE WEALTH suggests, having a strong and focused purpose grows you as you engage it, and a purposeful, inspired, creative life which brings you into community with like minded others, is a very rich and fulfilling path. It’s a huge privilege and an exciting adventure to evolve beyond our limitations and contribute to the forward and upward movement of our human community or culture in a way that is life giving and life renewing and which serves the essential interconnectedness of life. It’s about getting beyond our own little self concern to serve that something bigger which is the source of inspiration and life renewing energy itself.
The speakers in this series have been working in their chosen field over many years, or over a lifetime, and they have a rich treasure trove of wisdom and skills to share. They are creating down-to-earth and life renewing ways of living together which help to build community, empower individuals and stimulate the flow of prosperity. These include alternatives to the mainstream economy in the form of complementary money systems; Transition Towns; permaculture, or the conscious design of ecosystems for sustainable food growing in harmony with nature; ecovillages, holistic education, and a host of other initiatives, all springing from the same fertile ground of positive change .
To find out more and to subscribe go here:
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Rose Diamond, February 10, 2012
Congrats, dear friend and a whole new world conspirator on a beautifully articulated introduction to your new series, True Wealth. I so look forward to listening in and hope these special interviews will find a berth for easy listening at awholenewworld.net. They are indeed:
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After listening to all of the first week’s interviews in Rose Diamond’s Series called True Wealth: seeding a resilient new culture together, I continue to be impressed by a certain New Zealand quality in each of them. When I try to narrow down what that is, I’m drawn to three elements in particular. The first is a dark green grounding in Nature and bringing a sense of the sacred to that. In other countries, this is more limited to Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists, artists and poets. In NZ, this seems mainstream. The second outstanding element I believe I see is a more superbly developed sense of community membership and participation, as is more common in an agrarian and pastoral settings of other courntries. The third quality I repeatedly see is what seems like a more responsible and balanced integration of and integrity with self, others, and our beautiful planet. Is there also a common feeling of being privileged to live there? I felt this way about living in Colorado.
Loved this 5th interview with Theresa Carter in Ireland. I don’t know how you can follow each other, you’re both so language quick. Know my very green ex in permaculture in Colorado would resonate deeply to all the two of you have expressed in this amazing interview.
What a true wealth of dialogue on display here. I celebrate you both for such a lovely conversation of people building the new culture we so desperately need.
Thank you, Theresa, Rose.