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Four lessons for the world from Dominica on our 44th Independence Anniversary

Our island of Dominica is part of the most complex and connected global civilization in history. Humanity moves billions of dollars of goods and services around the world every day, while war, climate disasters, eco-systems breakdown, and pandemics are becoming increasingly disruptive to our globalized...

Community, resilience

DAF News: Sept-Nov 2022

Hello, and welcome to a brief summary of what we’ve been up to at the Deep Adaptation Forum in the past few months. We plan to share this update periodically, as a ‘window’ into what’s been going on in the Forum for those who may not be active members on any of our several...

Community, CoreTeam, DAF, Forum, InsideDAF, NewDAFSpace, Q422, Volunteers

Deep Adaptation in local communities

by Alan Heeks Two of my current crumbs of comfort are a sense that many more people now recognise that we’re in a crisis, and that I hear the need for adaptation being widely accepted. Whilst I used to get annoyed that newer crises were distracting from the climate emergency, I now feel...

local communities

here with dirt beneath my nails, by Lorna Reay

Here with dirt beneath my nailsand sweat upon my heated brow,the sweetness of the Earth assailsmy senses with the sense of Now. And something in my heart eruptsand brings a tear into my eye –how dazzling, shaking and abruptthe knowledge that this person ‘I’is vaster than the universeand...

poetry

Falling into Place

“When I can no longer rise to the occasion, I find I can fall into place.” by Sarah-Jane Menato After an extended five year cycle of personal loss and bereavement, I came to a point where I could no longer rise to the occasion. Unexpectedly, I found I fell into place. As inner and outer structures...

inner work, loss, relinquishment

Anthropocene lullaby

A film poem by Janet Lees Janet Lees is a UK-based poet and lens-based artist, and voluntary poetry editor* for the Deep Adaptation Forum blog. In one way or another, all her work touches on what it feels like to be human in these unprecedented times. Her poetry has been published in...

poetry

One-Minute Practice: What’s Not Wrong?

by Constance Clare-Newman This is a practice I use when I notice that I am spiraling into negative thinking,tension or despair from seeing and hearing about terrible changes and suffering of people, animals and the natural world. It is a practice that I think prepares me to embody loving responses...

embodiment, resilience

Drowned voices

Going to work for me involves crossing a dam that makes up one end of a large, artificial lake. The dam was built nearly 150 years ago, during the Victorian era in Britain, to create a large reservoir. It is considered a masterpiece of engineering and is a major tourist attraction in the area. Over...

The evolution of coaching practice for deep adaptation: “We need heroes far less than we need coherent and adaptive communities.”

By Matthew Painton. Matthew Painton will be exploring the relevance of coaching in these times, in a live Deep Adaptation Q&A on 22nd September. Read more and register here. Let’s face it, coaching and (non-clinical) therapy are privileged modalities – it requires disposable...

Parachute

by Mark Causey Your parachute did not open. Don’t panic, it does not help. Don’t waste what precious time is left On anger and recrimination. At this point, what does it matter who’s to blame? It won’t change the simple fact that Your parachute did not open. You are flying,...

poetry, resilience