Here are some films that have inspired me recently.
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I learned from this beautiful {{button class="new-window" link="https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2022
/09/08/taiji-grass-boat-ceremony/" nobtn="1" text="article" title="article"}} in the Deep Times journal of
the Anima Project, which honours the lives lost each year when dolphins are trapped and killed in Taija
Cove in Japan. This poetic {{button class="new-window" link="https://vimeo.com/727057531" nobtn="1" text
="video" title="video"}} is an inspiration to find suitable ways to honour our pain for the barbarous
practices and the loss of life that is inflicted on our brothers and sisters of all worlds, here through
honouring the dolphins. Deep gratitude to Leina, the initiator of this project.
Flore Vasseur is a woman who hides nothing. So natural, so frank, so courageous and straight-talking. I love
her life story and her response to her son of 7 years old who asks her: Mummy, what does it mean that the
planet is going to die?
Interview of {{button class="new-window" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjHhO-3Pyc&ab_channel
=Thinkerview" nobtn="1" text="Flore Vasseur" title="Flore Vasseur"}} on {{button class="new-window" link
="https://www.youtube.com/@thinkerview" nobtn="1" text="ThinkerView" title="ThinkerView"}}.
Some sweet-and-simple introductions to **non-violent communication**, in English, from the Dutch providers
{{button class="new-window" link="https://www.connecting2life.net/" nobtn="1" text="Connecting2Life" title
="Connecting2Life"}}.
{{button class="new-window" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdxyYyk2JU&authuser=0" nobtn="1" text
="Introduction to NVC" title="Introduction"}}
{{button class="new-window" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSGfqyhleUA&authuser=0" nobtn="1" text="TED
Talk" title="TED Talk"}}
Cyril Dion's 3 documentaries on Arte {{button class="new-window" link="https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/RC
-023143/un-monde-nouveau/" nobtn="1" text="Un Monde Nouveau" title="Un Monde Nouveau"}}.
And his 6-minute {{button class="new-window" link="https://youtu.be/6Si90Dvg_1I" nobtn="1" text="interview
with the Conseil de la Haute Garonne" title="interview with the Conseil de la Haute Garonne"}}, where he
gives pertinent advice for action.
{{button class="new-window" link="https://youtu.be/XinVOpdcbVc" nobtn="1" text="A Gathering of the Tribe"
title="A Gathering of the Tribe"}}
Powerful short film (9 mins) by Charles Eisenstein with John Hopkins (music) & Aubrey Marcus (producer)
{{button class="new-window" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh20IAM6Oks&t=32s" nobtn="1" text="Have
Humans F*cked it all up?" title="Have Humans F*cked it all up?"}}
is the co-creator of the **{{button class="new-window" link="https://workthatreconnects.org/resource/council
-of-all-beings/" nobtn="1" text="Council of All Beings" title="Council of All Beings"}}**, with Joanna
Macy and Pat Fleming
{{button class="new-window" link="https://choosingearth.org/video/" nobtn="1" text="Choosing Earth" title
="Choosing Earth"}}
is co-founder of the Choosing Earth project, someone sowing seeds for a more mature relationship with our
planet home.
{{button class="new-window" link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBgH8pjD1Q&t=489s&ab_channel
=PurposeGuidesInstitute" nobtn="1" text="Climate Change as Spiritual Practice" title="Climate Change as
Spiritual Practice"}}
This is an important video session in which Jonathan Gustin gives a presentation that summarises in 15
minutes the latest climate science, as of 14 June 2022. He then invites Joanna Macy to lead a Grief
Council to allow people to really open their sensitivity and let the information sink in.
The climate science presentation is from 19 minutes to 35 minutes into this video.
Joanna refers to the 6 Maxims for a Marginally Inhabitable Planet written by some bioethicists, David Schenck
and Larry R Churchill.
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video"}} was filmed on 27 June 2022, with Jonathan, Joanna and the two writers of the maxims, David and
Larry.
I find these maxims extremely important, as ways to prepare for the worst while putting all our energy,
intentions and our Active Hope into avoiding it and contributing to the creation of the world we would
profoundly like to see.