Leo's file of Chat Links HR Day 523
Humanity Rising Day 523 July 19 – find below individual links to Kathryn’s resources
Values for the Coming Crisis
Join Kathryn Alexander to explore how ethics and values flow through our natural systems and can help shape the human future.
New times are perfect for re-evaluation, refreshing, and reconstituting how we think and how we see the world. Key to seeing differently and therefore acting differently will be gaining a clear-eyed understanding of our value systems and the role they play (or don’t) in building the new world we want to live in.
We are so used to seeing values as discrete things that this new awareness of living systems of values will showcase challenges and special situations you might have been unaware of previously. Discover, for the first time, how ethics and values flow through our system. Learn about the relationship between values, your authentic self, and the culture you swim in. Where is nature in all of this? You will begin to understand how your own clarity about yourself will impact your ability to live a strong, values-based life
Here the insight of science comes together with the wisdom of indigenous people to provide insight into how nature works and how we can support her efforts. The forgotten Prime Directive will become clear, and her 3.5 billion years of wisdom will become available so we can become her partners.
Presenter: Kathryn Alexander MA, Futurist, mystic, systems thinker, coach and author. Kathryn lives on the verdant fringe between science and the mystical. Propelled by the urgency of the times, the fruition of 20+ years of research and discovery is a joy to share. By honing her ability to see what’s present and to discern the intent of true reality, she welcomes the opportunity to help others gain that clarity and experience connectedness. Combining science, indigenous wisdom, and her intuition, she reframes our understanding of Gaia and our relationship, bringing forth the fruits of 70 years of spiritual exploration and over 20 years of Siddha Yoga meditation with Swami Muktananda. Previously on the faculty of the Sustainable Business Practices Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, Regis University and the Entrepreneur Community Online teaching strategy, organizational change, systems theory, business psychology, and work team development. Her published work includes articles in Vantage Point, Vision Action, Executive Excellence, and Taking AIM and her blog, Resilient Change, ::http://www.living-regeneratively.world/resilient-change:: ---blog
Kathryn has developed beautifully since the deep dive on values she offered the Afterchat community in our early days (Jan., 2021).
Recommended Reading (as listed at ::https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-523:: -- all titles available at: ::https://usa1lib.org/:: (except Patterns of Connection by Fritjof Capra 2021.) – see individual links below.
A formative book for Capra was ::https://usa1lib.org/book/1073947/47e6a6:: Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science by Werner Heisenberg 1958 EPUB, 149 KB)
- https://www.capracourse.net/:: $200 Spring 2023 (Fall 2022 is full)
Capra’s Online Course Lecture contents
1 Systems Thinking
2 The Web of Life
3 Order and Complexity in the Living World
4 The Systems View of Evolution
5 Mind and Consciousness
6 Science and Spirituality
7 The Systems View of Health
8 Life, Mind, and Society
9 Life and Leadership in Organizations
10 The Ecological Dimension of Life
11 Systems Thinking and the State of the World
12 Systemic Solutions
- https://www.capracourse.net/heart/:: (urgent video message by Fritjof Capra 28:59) Please share this video!
Four transformative actions are crucial to assure a sustainable future:
■ Shifting from quantitative to qualitative, inspired by the systems in nature.
■ Becoming ecologically literate in order to design sustainable communities;
■ Recognizing the nature of systemic solutions, with agroecology as an outstanding example; and
■ Adopting a new Earth ethics, such as the one summarized in the Earth Charter.
Download a useful 7-pp resource document (PDF): ::https://www.capracourse.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/info_Heart-of-the-Matter.pdf::
For info about Earth ethics, and the UN 2030 Agenda of SDGs:
Capra’s online Course is based on his textbook The Systems View of Life, coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi and published by Cambridge University Press. He has now taught the course for over six years. The alumni network has 2000+ members in 89 countries."
- https://usa1lib.org/book/3557702/87e8e9:: (The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi 2014 Cambridge University Press 510 pp EPUB, 3.32 MB)
- https://usa1lib.org/book/3504569/eb06cf:: (Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs 1993 EPUB, 3.38 MB)
::https://usa1lib.org/book/2858168/40ae2a:: (Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science by Andreas Weber 2016 EPUB, 4.22 MB)
::https://usa1lib.org/book/1165025/13ca94:: (The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra 1996 PDF, 2.58 MB)
Pattens of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades by Fritjof Capra 2021 cf.: ::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJAtSB51o9s:: 1:06:13 and others on YouTube (::https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Patterns+of+Connection::) | ::https://www.google.com/books/edition/Patterns_of_Connection/uh4-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0:: (100/489 pp preview)
::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGsJIY9K4Q:: Masterclass 36: Patterns of Connection - Morag Gamble in conversation with Dr Fritjof Capra
::https://usa1lib.org/book/21003561/a4b397:: (Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Kimmerer 2013 EPUB, 921 KB)
::https://usa1lib.org/book/2765426/7fa894:: (The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery 2016 EPUB, 698 KB)
::https://usa1lib.org/book/1956933/2b9c9b:: (Re-Enchantment of the World by Morris Berman 2011 [1981] EPUB, 2.43 MB)
::https://usa1lib.org/book/2882982/95b97e:: (Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown 2014 EPUB, 1.22 MB)
I like Capra's view: "Ethics is behavior for the common good of the human communities we share and the global biosphere, the community of life, nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. This is the essence of ecological sustainability." For more Google search: "Capra ethics common good" including Capra's review of Laudato si by Pope Francis. ::https://earthcharter.org/fritjof-capra-laudato-si-the-ecological-ethics-and-systemic-thought-of-pope-francis/::
ABSTRACT (Capra webinar) The major problems of our time are systemic problems, all interconnected and interdependent. To understand and solve them, we need to learn how to think systemically — in terms of relationships, patterns, and context. Such a systemic understanding of life has recently emerged at the forefront of science. The fact that our major problems are systemic problems means that they require corresponding systemic ethical solutions. Ethics is usually associated with philosophy or religion, but it can also be considered from a scientific perspective. Today we have the knowledge and the technologies to solve systemic problems. During the long history of evolution, nature has sustained life by creating and nurturing communities. Natural selection favors those communities in which individuals act for the benefit of the community as a whole. In the human realm, we associate such actions with ethical behavior. Ethics is behavior for the common good of the human communities we share and the global biosphere, the community of life, nature’s inherent ability to sustain life. This is the essence of ecological sustainability.