Our news and political system present the headline as the problem – and with this, it's easy to think that if we just fixed this particular policy, stopped that one person, raised more money, developed more technology, toppled that toxic party, pushed a little harder, win the next election - we'll be okay.

But the deeper causes of these crises are woven into the foundations of our modern world.

For change to be authentic and lasting - for it to be a form of healing, liberation or transformation - it must be accompanied by the right container, the right skills and the right conditions.

The Scintilla Way: developing the skills and wisdom for impactful change.

John Paul Lederach suggests that central to change is the idea of critical yeast… these few improbable and persistent people, who through their quality of relationship create the conditions for new possibilities to emerge, shifting and transforming generations to come.

Language shapes our understanding of the world - for each sentence we read we unconsciously absorb layers of meaning behind it. Language that separates us is a symptom of the disease, and fails to understand the level of healing we actually require: an end to the paradigm of separation.

Seeing the water is a practice. It’s a skill we can develop through deep listening, community engagement, studying histories of resistance - and, of course, asking better questions.

Without limits, we don’t know what is enough, where we are safe, where to stop, and how to recognize consequences for going too far.  Gracious limits, by contrast, let us know the playing field, the boundaries that give us security to know that within the recognized limits we can move freely and without worry or anxiety.

Hope is the willingness to live in a story that is not yet complete. Explore 5 practices you can cultivate to practice hope amidst collapse and despair.

Radical Acceptance and the path of the Third Way in changemaking. Using the wisdom of Buckminster Fuller and Donella Meadows to explore the transcendance of paradigms.