Links to the monthly themes we are offering for the Circle Sharing Process.
The team here in NZ wish you well in this time of disturbance and change. As the corona virus is roiling our societies and our conceptions of how things should be, we are simultaneously being challenged to face up to a wide range of inequities that shape the very basis of our modern, interconnected world. 

From the outrage that the Black Lives Matter movement is stirring, to the huge levels of debt employed to neutralise the effects of the pandemic, we are in the process of gifting our children massive unknowns in terms of expectations and legacy effects.
This month we offer the theme of asking, "How well are we meeting the needs and expectations of the next generation?"
 
They will have to deal with the results of choices we have made and continue to make. This is no different from previous generations coming into their power, but now there are immediate planetary consequences for all living beings tied to the decisions made.

Is it possible, in the tsunami of the myriad challenges we face, to express a message of kindness and inclusion that will inspire our future decision makers to make more wholesome choices for the world?

ARTICLES
  • RAISING MY CHILD IN A DOOMED WORLD
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.html  

      OR HERE IF NY TIMES WON’T OPEN FOR YOU
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5x617mzq2i53qlw/Opinion%20_%20Raising%20My%20Child%20in%20a%20Doomed%20World%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf?dl=0

  • WHAT’S POSSIBLE BY EMBRACING MODELS THAT HELP THE PLANET RATHER THAN HINDERING IT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/enough-climate-nightmare-paint-dream-inequality

VIDEOS
  • OSCARS QUEST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhlzXlVUm9E

  • SANDCASTLE
https://youtu.be/MzyOSAUHvE4
This month we are offering a smorgasbord of resources that explore aspects of economic understanding. 

At this time of challenge, as we in NZ move down the levels of restrictions towards more freedom, the question “what is Clear Vision?” arises strongly in the minds of the 2020 Team.
Embedded as we are in our relationships…family, friends, society, culture, planet, we can lose sight of wholeness by making distinctions based on our preferred comfort levels, our experience of “us” versus “them”.  Clear Vision expresses this dancing wholeness, arising from the unimpeded, empty nature of mind, primordially compassionate and wise.

COVID-19’s challenge has unified most of the world in learning how to protect its citizens.  This collective willingness now presents the opportunity to consider “the normal” — how our societies have evolved, been modelled and manipulated. From turmoil comes the opportunity for change — do we really want things to “get back to normal?”

Do we want our new “normal” to value people and the environment?  How are we to meet the challenges of climate change, wealth inequality, rising threats to ecological and human health without deeply questioning the structures and attitudes that brought us to this place.  Is economic growth and monetary profit the best indicator of whether a society and the planet is doing well?

We are offering a number of resources that we consider to be interesting and engaging. Pick and choose according to interest and if you want to explore some of these ideas further go to the website under the “Social Challenges” sub-heading in the "All Resources” page:  https://www.2020ayearofclearvision.com/all-resources.html

VIDEO
  • Seven ways to transform 21st Century Economics -video and text combined 
https://evonomics.com/seven-ways-transform-21st-century-economics-economists/

  • Doughnut Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BHOflzxPjI

  • How Should Global Wealth be Distributed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPy00O0-Uqg&feature=youtu.be

TEXT
  • Humans are not Resources. The democratisation of work.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/15/humans-resources-coronavirus-democratise-work-health-lives-market

  • 16 Teachings from Covid -19
http://www.dailygood.org/story/2485/16-teachings-from-covid-19-marian-brehmer/

  • Nipun Mehta: Gift Ecology
http://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=614

  • The Coronation - Exploring the possible longterm effects of the corona virus.    Eisenstein
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/

  • Declaration of Interdependence
https://ourinterdependence.org
  • TIWAIWAKA: A message from Rob McGowan sharing the principles of Maori healers on healing the land in order to heal ourselves.
www.climatekaranga.org.nz/uploads/9/6/7/3/9673741/tiwaiwaka-ebook.pdf

  • FOR CALLING THE SPIRIT BACK FROM WANDERING THE EARTH - by Joy Harjo, Jan 03, 2020
http://www.dailygood.org/story/2447/for-calling-the-spirit-back-from-wandering-the-earth-in-its-human-feet-joy-harjo/

  • 1990 movie introducing the Kogi people to the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgTtrQOiR0&feature=youtu.be

  • Aluna is the 2012 followup movie made by and for the Kogi to actively try to move the western world on a path of sustainability.
http://www.alunathemovie.com
The theme revolves around the question of ways to help rebalance our experience with the world.  There are also many supporting articles around this theme on the website.

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6_cY3-J3o&

Photographs of our amazing world:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/12/17/lose-yourself-in-our-planets-beauty-with-the-winners-of-wiki-loves-earth/

Two written articles about nature and how our language helps to shape how we experience that relationship.

http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=8312

https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/the-lost-words/
Deep Adaptation

The Paper: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

The Video: https://youtu.be/DAZJtFZZYmM

Translations of the paper in various languages may be found here: 
https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/