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Awe Exchange

A journey towards leveraging the power of awe to inspire collective action for a better future. Welcome to an exploration of awe-based changemaking and feeling into the beautiful, complex systems we're entangled with.

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The case for compossibility (no that's not a typo)

Not everything that's possible can exist together. There's a word for that.

An invitation to our writer's retreat in Hội An, Vietnam.

"To write is an act of optimism." - Zadie Smith

The paradox of 'Life-Centered' and why I’m lying about being an Impact Strategist

Living systems have centers (they just won’t stay still)

What a couple dozen people in Morocco taught us about awe (and why we've been thinking about it wrong)

Download our free guide 'Awe in Action' - How Designing for Awe Can Deepen Impact at Gatherings

Questions, Gratitude, and the Gift of Shared Imagination

A heartfelt thank you from the IMAGINE book launch

The Book about Climate Solutions That We Never Wrote

And the book about imagination that we created instead.

When Teachers Become Ancestors

A love letter to Joanna Macy and Andrea Gibson, two teachers who showed us how to stay awake to wonder

The Im(possible) Vows

What I learned about promises while writing my wedding vows and curating a book about chaos and possibility during a planetary emergency.

What Systems Thinking is Missing

How Systems Feeling accesses another intelligence between us.

After the AI answers

Why epiphanies still happen in the shower

Feeling Before We Fix: Why Awe Matters in a Time of Polycrisis

Mapping the Journey from Awe to Changemaking.

Where do awe and loneliness meet?

A surprising match.

On the Gaian Self with Molly Young Brown

Dissolving the boundaries between self and nature.

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A total eclipse of the “I”

United by awe-some events.

Awedacious Ideas: musical plants and night skies.

A weekly round-up

Think Outside the Human Box: Interspecies Creativity

In awe of nature as our creative partner.

On more-than-human collaboration with Shane Mendonsa

If a plant grooved in the forest and no one was around, would it make a sound?

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Awedacious Ideas: a case for death, a case for yearning and a case study

A weekly round-up

Doulas for Dying Systems

Facilitating the End of Linear Economies

On death with Paul Simard

Does anyone truly know what it’s like to die?

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