Beloved Futures Aubrey Morgan Yee

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He is the founder of a community in the jungles of Costa Rica - Brave Earth: A Center for Applied Cultural Transition. He is also Co-director of Transition Resource Circle, Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs and co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: The healing of wealth in the time of crisis.


Most of all he is my hanai brother and dear friend. A person I turn to when I need to untangle my thinking about the world and my place in it. He is a guardian of the futures and a mystical anarchist, a philosopher and mythopoetic truth teller. A rare being, always becoming into a new version of himself. He is someone I am deeply grateful to be woven with in this lifetime… May this conversation move you to lean into your own becoming, so that your life becomes a prayer of purpose to the unfolding of the ages. May we all be useful to these times. 
Links:
Brave Earth
Rewording Fellowship
Transition Resource Circle
Rojava - Autonomous Community


Books:
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World - Ailton Kranek
T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey
Designs for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar
Tiokasin Ghosthorse - Various writings
Sophie Strand - Various writings
Bayo Akomalofe - Various writings
Less is More: How Degrowth will save the world - Jason Hickels
Sociology of Freedom - Abdullah Öcalan 
Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble - Stephen Jenkinson
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Linguist, author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day.
She is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies.
Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness’. Other publications include ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’.
Helena is also the producer of the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’.
Educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London and with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning almost half a century, has received the support of a wide range of international figures, including Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.
From 1975, Helena worked with the people of Ladakh, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. She was the first outsider in modern times to become fluent in the language.
She has helped to initiate localization movements on every continent, particularly in South Korea and Japan, and co-founded both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.
Helena is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (aka the “Alternative Nobel Prize”), the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”
Helena has lectured in seven languages and appeared in broadcast, print and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She has written numerous articles and essays, and her work has been the subject of thousands of articles worldwide.
Most recently, Helena was profiled in The New York Times, titled ‘What if Local and Diverse Is Better Than Networked and Global?’. Download the article: NY Times – Helena Norberg-Hodge Profile (PDF)



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Hi beloveds,

I’m trying a new thing that’s a little out of my comfort realms, a solo cast to share some of the thoughts that have been moving through me as I feel my way through these turbulent times. I hope it brings you a feeling of connection, of being seen and held. We are woven and weaving.

Always.
I love you.
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Ebyän is a visual storyteller and poetess of Somali-Italian descent. She is the founder of Mother Tongue and teaches at the intersection of decolonization, eco-sensuality, and feminine mysticism. Ebyän’s offerings are deeply inspired by the animist spirituality of her Nubian ancestral heritage, weaving us closer to the enchantment that is available in all Life. She is my dear friend and I am so grateful to her embodied wisdom in these times of the great unraveling. 
Join us for a potent conversation about decolonization, the dark feminine, art in activism and finding your voice in the midst of collapse.
https://www.mothertongue.earth/
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@the.mothertongue


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Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher. I am so blessed to know her as a dear friend and earth traveler. 
She traverses clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole. She is a co-steward of the Earthrise Collective, a gathering of wisdom keepers sharing devotion to earth.
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Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu. He is also my dear friend, and a fellow seeker of peace within and with-out. We met at Brave Earth last year during our time in the Reworlding Fellowship. Together we tackled the wetiko mind-virus within, delving with vulnerability into places of authenticity and truth in our shared quest to birth more Beloved Futures for the planet.
Anu is a sought-after expert in breaking bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), entrepreneurship, mindfulness, and compassion. He has worked with over 200 companies reaching over 20,000 professionals. He has logged over 10,000 hours of meditation and developed "BE MORE wth Anu” - a science-backed, compassion-based approach after conducting decade-long research on the causes of and solutions to racial and gender inequality. He has spoken about this work at TED, SxSW, and the Oprah Conversation. And has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge, and BA in International Relations & Islamic Studies from NYU. You can follow him on Instagram @mindful.anu.


Links:
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@mindful.anu
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