Category: socio-ecological systems
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Reconnecting through land-based crafts and skills in socio-ecological systems
Where I reflect back over this weeks two events, the first of our safe-to-fail ‘experimental’ initiative Land Skills for Wellness and Sustainability introducing crafts, skills and nature based learning to students, faculty and staff at UWaterloo for wellness and sustainability benefits. With a bit of complexity and flow theory thrown in. Connecting to the Land…
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Working in Complexity (with another visit to the Schoolhouse)
A few weeks ago I began a course called Complexity Inside Out taught by Chris Corrigan and Caitlin Frost of Harvest Moon Consultants. I have followed Chris’ blog for a few years now on the recommendation of my friend and mentor Ron and the insights he offers to those of us working with complexity and…
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Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth
This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…
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Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.
I let my intuition explore connections between shifts in seasonal farming patterns, Graber and Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, Tai Chi and Panarchy, and the importance of metaphors, stories and narratives in understanding and action.
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Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)
In which I carve spoons , listen to podcasts and take a brief, meandering walk through post-pandemic society via ‘”doomer optimisim”, situated cognition, Cynefin, beauty and the on-going wonderful experiment at Mount Wolfe Farm. I spent a lovely few hours yesterday making carving billets from a bit of sugar maple and roughing out an eating…
James T Jones 