Keep up the great work. Somehow we have some overlap of influences in this field. I’ve never been a journalist but I’ve searched out the greats to research for my book, The Impossible Conversation.
Your mention of Amy Westervelt starts a long list of those greats. I’m inclined to mention Dahr Jamail as well for his impeccable journalism delivered wrapped in heart and soul. Perhaps you’ve read his book The End of Ice?
Where we seem to overlap profoundly is in the realm of embodied coherence and healing.
Your inclusion of core distinctions from that work in your article about FF executives was like water on the desert for me.
I’ve been facilitating deep coherence ritual and healing work for 40 years. Nothing like the immense scale of Thomas Huble’s work but some important similarities.
While we did have occasion to work with corporate leaders, and their depth and healing was profound, when it came down to seriously shifting anything about their business model there was that stunned silence you relayed from Britt’s story.
I’ve known we are on a self-terminating path since the late 70s. Hence the name for my book.
But that doesn’t diminish my love of this work of heart and soul one iota. It is a calling I respond to without hesitation. I guess that love of the work comes from having almost 50 years to re ally let go of this self terminating culture and to work with others to reduce suffering some small way.
Wow, thanks for reading through all that and thank you again for your blend in your journalism and written sharing.
Dean, it's great to hear more about your own journey, and I am so glad we can be having this kind of conversation, (if not The Impossible Conversation!). It's tremendously meaningful for me when I receive this quality of resonance. I often struggle with questions over where I am in life (individually -- never mind the planet!) and I also feel some deep calling (mostly more like a whisper, but ever clearer, nonetheless) to the collective healing work. It feels so essential to me, in all the sense of that term, and so when there is a spark of recognition, it brings me not just relief but joy. So thank you for generously sharing, and looking forward to learning more about your work. Cosmic hugs from London!
"So yes, as journalists it’s absolutely our job to document perpetration and hold power to account. And it’s also our job to notice when we’re slipping into judgment and power-over mindsets — and thus replicating the dynamics of the systems we’re trying to transform."
This is a remarkable blend of leading edge healing work - and piercingly direct reporting on our self-terminating global culture.
Dean, thank you so much for your resonance! It's very inspiring to me to hear that what I'm writing is landing in some way, especially since it's such a departure from the conventional journalism I was schooled in. Look forward to further exchanges!
Keep up the great work. Somehow we have some overlap of influences in this field. I’ve never been a journalist but I’ve searched out the greats to research for my book, The Impossible Conversation.
Your mention of Amy Westervelt starts a long list of those greats. I’m inclined to mention Dahr Jamail as well for his impeccable journalism delivered wrapped in heart and soul. Perhaps you’ve read his book The End of Ice?
Where we seem to overlap profoundly is in the realm of embodied coherence and healing.
Your inclusion of core distinctions from that work in your article about FF executives was like water on the desert for me.
I’ve been facilitating deep coherence ritual and healing work for 40 years. Nothing like the immense scale of Thomas Huble’s work but some important similarities.
While we did have occasion to work with corporate leaders, and their depth and healing was profound, when it came down to seriously shifting anything about their business model there was that stunned silence you relayed from Britt’s story.
I’ve known we are on a self-terminating path since the late 70s. Hence the name for my book.
But that doesn’t diminish my love of this work of heart and soul one iota. It is a calling I respond to without hesitation. I guess that love of the work comes from having almost 50 years to re ally let go of this self terminating culture and to work with others to reduce suffering some small way.
Wow, thanks for reading through all that and thank you again for your blend in your journalism and written sharing.
Thanks
Dean, it's great to hear more about your own journey, and I am so glad we can be having this kind of conversation, (if not The Impossible Conversation!). It's tremendously meaningful for me when I receive this quality of resonance. I often struggle with questions over where I am in life (individually -- never mind the planet!) and I also feel some deep calling (mostly more like a whisper, but ever clearer, nonetheless) to the collective healing work. It feels so essential to me, in all the sense of that term, and so when there is a spark of recognition, it brings me not just relief but joy. So thank you for generously sharing, and looking forward to learning more about your work. Cosmic hugs from London!
Matthew, this article is brilliant.
"So yes, as journalists it’s absolutely our job to document perpetration and hold power to account. And it’s also our job to notice when we’re slipping into judgment and power-over mindsets — and thus replicating the dynamics of the systems we’re trying to transform."
This is a remarkable blend of leading edge healing work - and piercingly direct reporting on our self-terminating global culture.
Thank you.
Dean Walker
safecircle@gmail.com
Living Resilience: the inner work of collapse
Dean, thank you so much for your resonance! It's very inspiring to me to hear that what I'm writing is landing in some way, especially since it's such a departure from the conventional journalism I was schooled in. Look forward to further exchanges!
Thank you Matthew.
I look forward to reading more of your work.
I should soon be able to sign up as a paid member with you as well.
Be well.
Dean