Pioneering Pathways E-Book

Alexander Schieffer

• Herausgeber: Home for Humanity Press
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 129

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Pioneering Pathways: 88 Integral Leaders and Changemakers from 43 countries across diverse cultures, backgrounds and ages, from 7 to 91, associated with Home for Humanity, respond to the question: From your personal perspective and experience, and looking from your own current cultural and societal context: What are the most effective ways to transform our divided world into a home for humanity, and nurture the paradigm shift towards a regenerative, inclusive, just and peaceful Earth Civilization?

Leseprobe

Pioneering Pathways88 Integral Leaders and Changemakers from 43 countries across diverse cultures, backgrounds and ages, from 7 to 91, associated with Home for Humanity, respond to the question:

“From your personal perspective and experience, and looking from your own current cultural and societal context:

What are the most effective ways to transform our divided world into a ‘home for humanity’, and nurture the paradigm shift towards a regenerative, inclusive, just and peaceful Earth Civilization?”

CONTENTS

How do we Pioneer Pathways to a Regenerative Future: A Co-Arising Story Line

FOREWORD

Time to Co-Author Our New Story............................................................................Jean Houston, USA

Pooling Our Wisdom as Integral Leaders.................................................Youssef Mahmoud, Tunisia

INTRODUCTION

Introducing Pioneering Pathways...Alexander Schieffer & Rama Mani, Germany-India-France

Navigating Pioneering Pathways: The Integral Compass

Guiding Pioneering Pathways: The Humanity Charter

HUMANITY

Stop Wars, Listen to the Other..............................................................Pauline Tangiora, Aoteaora/NZ

Let Us Live Freely in Our Own Home Countries.............................Anna Sezanov, Ukraine-France

Treat Everyone as Equals: Red, Black or White.................................................Enzo Ikah, DR Congo

Women Leaders Will Save the World from War..........................Munera Yousufzada, Afghanistan

Create a Global Bottom-up Humanitarian Movement............................................Nour Saleh, Syria

Awaken All Through Integrated Development.......................................Vinya Ariyaratne, Sri Lanka

Embrace Kindness, Celebrate Diversity, Release Potential...........................Zeina Sahyoun, Jordan

Fight for All Voices to be Represented and Active...................................Pilar Alvarez-Laso, Mexico

Everything Must Become New for Each and Every One.............Thomas Schneberger, Germany

Recover the Feminine, Awaken the Soul.......................................................................Anne Baring, UK

Trust Our Human Connection..........................................................Nyima Sauser, Tibet-Switzerland

Love!.........................................................................................................................................Aleka Vial, Chile

Heal Together.....................................................Mora Neustadt Gonzalez-Echague, Argentina-Spain

Take the Bullets Out of that Gun....................................................Arjuna Hiffler-Mani, India-France

NATURE

Adopt the Indigenous Worldview......................................................Four Arrows, USA-First Nations

Learn to Live in the Living Universe...........................................................................Duane Elgin, USA

Be Guided by Nature’s Way to Transformation..................................................Dhan Ribiero, Brazil

Don’t Hurt, Don’t Break, Don’t Violate.............................................................Samaneh Shabani, Iran

Keep Living Your Call....................................................................................Mayyada Abu Jaber, Jordan

Start Now, Start Small.............................................................................Maxime Bertocchi, Switzerland

Look for Authentic Regenerative Solutions..........................................Louise Maunoir, Switzerland

Reconnect to the Matrix of Life.................................................................................Dahvii Shiva, Brazil

Uphold the Dignity of Every Species.....................................................................Esther Shebi, Nigeria

Give While Growing............................................................................................Helen Eriksen, Denmark

Weave Together the Web of Life...........................................................Marie Agnès Gauthier, France

Awaken to the Magic and Generosity of Mother Earth................................Irena Ateljevic, Croatia

CULTURE

Choose the Indigenous Path to See the Future...............................Pops Mohamed, South Africa

Draw, Don’t Shoot.....................................................................................William ‘Bill’ Kelly, Australia

Unify, Not Divide........................................................................................................Karen Gulden, USA

Preserve Culture to Seed Happiness and Peace.............................................Loten Namling, Tibet

Imagine, Collaborate, Create...................................................................Maysoon Pachachi, Iraq-UK

Pause, Breathe, Dissolve the Barrier of Private and Public......................Jonathan Chadwick,UK

Reconnect to Land and Roots............................................................................Raghda Butros, Jordan

Create Patterns of Healing.......................................Ama Nyarko Jones, Uganda-Ghana-Germany

Enable Cultural and Social Rights for All.................................Cholpon Kainazarova, Kyrgyzstan

Relieve the Suffering of the World Through Art...............................................Julia Leyris, France

Believe in Your Wildest Dreams.................................Victor ‘Vikash’ Morgan, Switzerland-Spain

Craft a Renaissance through Evolutionary Artistry........................................Lisa Longworth, USA

EDUCATION

Reshape Education through Regenerative Campi.............................................Thais Corral, Brazil

Renew African Indigenous Knowledge and Healing Systems................Anselm Adodo, Nigeria

Assess our Presumed Knowledge.........................................................Josephine Böllhoff, Germany

Educate with Heart, Art and Earth........................................................................Lara Sabella, Jordan

Think Critically, Create Agency...........................................................Sonali Wanigabude Sri Lanka

Share the Quest for (R)Evolution.................Marc L’Eplatennier & Romain Losey, Switzerland

Combine Education and Empathy..........................................................Amber de Smedt, Belgium

Strive to Understand......................................................................Muziwanele Ngwenya, Zimbabwe

Educate through Community Engagement.........................................Laila Abdul-Majeed, Jordan

Unleash Human Potential through Integral Learning.................Pius Leutenegger, Switzerland

Listen to Inner Knowing, Moment by Moment.............................................Kajsa Liedén, Sweden

SYSTEMS

Stop Colonialism and Adopt a Single Standard.........................................Zahira Kamal, Palestine

Shift the Paradigm from ‘Jobs’ to ‘Livelihoods’..............................................Irene Banda, Zambia

Engage with Structural and Intergenerational Justice...........................Susan Thieme, Germany

Build Communities on Real Collaboration................Xamam Alba Maria Nunes Santos, Brazil

Work Equally on Self, Society, Structures & World.....Konstanze & Helmy Abouleish, Egypt

Reclaim Your Power Within, Power With and Power to.............M. Shaikh & R. Gaware, India

Empower Grassroots Women Leaders to End Patriarchy...................Sujatha Khandekar, India

End All Violence Against Women and Humanity................................Homa Alizoy, Afghanistan

Champion Collective Community Leadership................................................Ghazal Andalib, Iran

Take Small Steps to Build Bridges to Real Justice................................................Chris Martin, USA

Repurpose Polarization into Greater Unification.................Anneloes Smitsman, NL-Mauritius

Transform Society via Conscious Use of Technology...................Premie Naicker, South Africa

HUMANITY-IN-UNITY

Enlighten and Be Enlightened for Future Generations.......................................Haifa Najjar, Jordan

Co-Create a Gaia Culture..................................................................................Marco Pogačnik, Slovenia

Awaken in the All-One-Ness..........................................................................Rico Paganini, Switzerland

Cohere Around a Higher Dream....................................................Ozioma Egwuonwu, Nigeria-USA

Attract More People to Bring the Vision Down to Earth..Max Abouleish-Boes, Egypt-Germany

Be A Visioneer to Renew Civilization.................................................................Tatiana Speed, Canada

Come to My Home, Open Your Home................................................Driss Aloui Mdaghri, Morocco

Kindle the Spirit of Humanity as a Global Family........................Jóhanna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Iceland

Host Dialogues in Humanity for Earth Citizens..........................................Geneviève Ancel, France

Co-Create Homes for Humanity - in the Spirit of Ubuntu........C. & D. S. Taranhike, Zimbabwe

Tell Our Common(s) Story................................Eda Elif Tibet & Cihan Elci, Turkey and Kurdistan

Call Upon All Changemakers in the World...................................................Paulina Jantos, Germany

Start Over from Zero and Redo Everything!.....................................Children of Valromey, France

EPILOGUE

Let Us Harvest Collective Intelligence to Craft Our Common Story..........................Earth Family

Let Us Co-Create Home on Earth, as Earth Citizens.......Alexander Schieffer, Germany-France

…and Keep Building an Earth Civilization for All Life............................Rama Mani, India-France

Let Us Imagine Our Future into Manifestation......................................................Jean Houston, USA

EARTH FAMILY CONTRIBUTORS

BEYOND THIS BOOK: THE STORY CONTINUES

Time to Co-Author Our New Story

Foreword by Jean Houston

"Humanity is spinning out of control. Unconscionable wars, the desecration of the planet, the loss of meaning to so many, and the sense that we are skirting around the Apocalypse.

How did we get here? We now face the utter destruction of all the beauty and order built up over millions of years of evolution on our home planet.

Where are we now? We are caught in the great chasm between the end of one world and the early beginnings of a new one. Either nearly all is destroyed, OR this is the time for another order to emerge.

But who are we? We are the ones who can make the difference and help co-create the new story. Many of us, perhaps you who are reading this book, are proclaiming the need for a deeper story, one that helps us understand what is really happening.

We need an alternative: if not this, then what?

We need a narrative that people everywhere of all cultures, backgrounds and ages recognise as their deepest longing. We need a narrative that can evoke and inspire.

For right now, there is no lure of becoming, there is little for people to move towards.

The daily diet on television of bombs and wildfires, death and denial, does not serve, and yet…

This is the open moment! This is the time to turn the page of history, each one of us individually and all together, before it is blistered and burnt beyond repair.

This is when the strategic yearning for a new, reinvigorated world must be met – by us!

This is a time for deep imagination. This is the time for going beyond the familiar confines of what we know and have known.

This is the time to awaken our capacity to imagine, envision and create the sound, shape, and feel of hope, and of the potential new world that works for all.

This is exactly what Pioneering Pathways offers: the first chapters of our new story. This is OUR story, with each page, each chapter, co-authored by all of us, people everywhere who yearn to explore and believe that there is a new world coming and they are a part of it.

In the fullness of our purpose, our passion and our potential.

This world-creating book shows us the extraordinary power of our individual and collective possibility to transform destruction into regeneration, as we follow the lure into full Earth Citizenship. It incites us to convene Earth Agoras to unleash our collective imagination.

Pioneering Pathways moves us a step closer to the emergence of an inclusive Earth Civilization, one in which we all embody the social artistry of creative partnership with the living universe.

Take this book for what it is: an urgent invitation to each of you who reads it to add your page to this collective story, and to recognise yourself as co-author and co-creator of our future."

Prof. Dr. Jean Houston

Chancellor of Meridian University

Founder of Social Artistry

Co-Originator of Human Potential Movement

USA

Co-Chair, Home for Humanity

Pooling Our Wisdom as Integral Leaders and Earth Citizens

Foreword by Youssef Mahmoud

”The unfolding war in Ukraine has brought a brutal end to peace in Europe. Its human, geopolitical, geoeconomic and geodigital ripples are being felt almost everywhere. For many, the war is a requiem for a dying global system that has visited untold suffering on people and planet. As a result, the world appears to be in crisis, unmoored, in disarray. Those who controlled the narratives about how this world should be ordered, polities governed, and nature harnessed are finding it hard to accept the end of an era and the dawning of a new one.

Nothing concentrates the mind more than a crisis. It is in times of crises that collective consciousness flourishes and the mettle of leadership is forged. Crises serve as a crucible for the emergence of a new order where alternative common futures for all find a home. And we are seeing blossoming around the globe a community of change pioneers who are transforming an emerging human awakening into initiatives to heal the wounds of division, make peace with nature and lay the foundations for a united, regenerative, just and peaceful future for all living beings.

Home for Humanity serves as a nurturing platform where these pioneers come together to pool their wisdoms and co-design integral ways to scale up their initiatives for the benefit of fellow earth citizens everywhere. The ‘Pioneering Pathways’ publication before your eyes offers their illuminating journeys. Each compelling contribution is a building block towards a common vision of a human community that no longer suffers from the apartheid of abundance, the scourge of otherness, and the wounds of painful pasts that continue to stain and strain our human condition.

"Stand in contemplation under my branches and you will learn about regeneration and peace," said the Olive Tree.

And if you think I am a dreamer of a world that will never be, I happily plead guilty. I find no solace in the one in which I am living. And I dare you to read this publication and still claim you’re the same indifferent, dreamless human being you were, before taking up this challenge.“

Dr. Youssef Mahmoud

Former UN Under Secretary-General

Head of UN Peace Operations in Central Africa

Tunisia

Co-Chair, Home for Humanity

Introducing Pioneering Pathways

From Planetary Emergency to Earth Civilization

How do we respond to the monumental toll of suffering, grotesque global inequity and planetary emergency, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, and its devastating consequences for our future?

Pioneering Pathways - From our Destructive Present to a Regenerative Futureis a joint response of 88 changemakers from 43 countries, aged 7 to 91, to this burning question of our times.

Pioneering Pathways is the cumulative outcome of multiple Earth Agoras, convened by Home for Humanity, online and onsite, between 20 December 2020 and 20 December 2021, the International Day of Human Solidarity. Earth Agoras were conceived by Home for Humanity as creative open forums for concerned Earth citizens to imagine and co-create our shared future. This book aspires to inspire multiple such Earth Agoras worldwide, where each participant adds her/his response and page to our common story.

The contributors of this book constitute a diverse group of changemakers who have come to realise, through their own life experiences, and the crises in their own communities and countries, that this planetary state of emergency is a clarion call for collective emergence. This book is not written by an ‘eminent expert panel’ or academic research council, which deliberates, analyses and provides a definitive ‘best’ answer, or plan of action. Nor is it a collection of utopian dreamers, removed from the horrors of what is happening in the world. On the contrary, this book features a multiplicity and diversity of contributors, who are all engaged in the reality of life, and committed to make a contribution to our shared future, whether long-term established leaders or young aspiring agents of transformation. Together, they exemplify the manifold, participatory, innovative and eminently practical ways in which Earth citizens show up as integral leaders and future builders – at once locally relevant and globally resonant.

Each of the 88 contributors featured here is a collaborator, co-creator, ally or friend of Home for Humanity: a growing movement of agents of transformation, ‘homes for humanity’ and home-initiated organisations who pioneer ecological, economic, cultural and societal renewal. They share an integral philosophy rooted in the interconnected wholeness and unity of life. They are united by a collective vision, expressed in the ‘Humanity Charter’, of transforming our divided world into a united and regenerative home on Earth. They are part of a wider, growing ‘Earth Family’ of people worldwide who feel a sense of kinship with and commitment to life on Earth, and who collaborate with Home for Humanity.

The integral compass, depicting this philosophy, serves to navigate the book, and the Humanity Charter guides us, chapter by chapter, through the contributions of the book. Both are presented in the next pages.

While each contribution expresses its distinct particularity, the diverse contributions jointly surface a quintessential ‘meta-pathway’: a shared experience of the ‘birth pain’ of a new story that is labouring itself through all of us; the imperative of starting with inner transformation of ourselves to achieve global transformation; an intense love for the Earth and all its inhabitants; an urge to transcend all that divides and limits us and change the paradigm; and a motivation to unfold our social artistry for world-making to build a regenerative future for all life. This meta-pathway is represented beautifully in the collective harvest of all the individual pathways, which is featured in the Epilogue of this book.

Pioneering Pathways is Home for Humanity's gift and open invitation to all concerned Earth citizens to pool our ideas, cross-fertilise our initiatives, and accelerate our efforts to transform our unliveable present into a life-affirming future.

We hope that this cohesive kaleidoscope of images, intentions and initiatives you now survey, at once concrete and evocative, expressed with such immediacy, authenticity and originality, will arouse your interest and support your own conscious co-creation.

Alexander Schieffer & Rama Mani

Conveners, Co-Editors and Curators

ofPioneering Pathways

Co-Founders, Home for Humanity

Gift and Gratitude ... as this book is a miracle of co-creation and dedication

It has taken only three months from the conception of Pioneering Pathways, on 20 December 2021, the World Day for Human Solidarity, at our annual year-end Earth Agora, through its monumental process of gestation, to its birth on 20 March 2022, the World Day for Happiness. Please forgive any imperfections, while savouring it.

This book is a labour of love, a gift from Home for Humanity to all Earth citizens.

It was undertaken from start to finish without funding, sponsorship or financial support, impelled simply by our desire to contribute in this painful time to our emerging future. It was made possible by the engagement of all our collaborators and the dedication of the core Home for Humanity team.