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How did we lose our way & how do we get back?
About
Finding Right Balance
How can human beings evolve to a place where we can heal and reclaim our connection with mother earth, other species, and one another?
The purpose of this website is to offer a platform for discussion and interchange of ideas.
I hope that others will add articles, books, reviews of articles and books, links to videos and pod casts, and in general participate in discussion of the compelling issues facing our present time in history.
The motivation for this platform comes from asking myself the question – in the midst of the climate crises, political crises and moral crises of our times – what would it take for humans to change sufficiently that we can accomplish what Joanna Macy has called the “Great Turning”?
What is wrong with the human condition that we have so ignored the well-being of all, that we have come to be run by “power-over” dynamics and “Othering,” that we have harmed Mother Earth, other species and our fellow humans?
And what can be done to change the ways that we think and act, so as to turn toward a healthier way of being in the world?
About
Our Vision
That humanity “wakes up” in time to save our planet. That we are able to open our hearts and minds in order to heal our disconnection from mother earth, each other, and our whole selves.
About
Our Mission
To provide a platform and forum to explore and exchange thoughts and ideas regarding the current complex challenges that humanity faces.
About
This Website
The goal of this website is to offer a platform for discussion and interchange of ideas regarding the compelling issues facing our present time in history. We have curated and contributed to articles, books, reviews of articles, videos, podcasts, and other resources with the hope that it will start the conversation, and invite others to add and participate in the discussion. My hope is that in some small way, this website and the community that will grow around it, can use this platform to address questions such as what do we as humans need to do, need to learn, and what can we open our minds and our hearts to – that can allow us as a species to heal enough to NOT become extinct, and to NOT destroy the planet and the other species.
How do we understand the problem?
What went wrong?
And why?
Whose wisdom can we draw from?
“Where” do we need to listen, who do we need to listen to? What “organs” of our own heart and our own experience do we need to listen to – in order to get different guidance, so as to move forward in a better way?
What needs to be (in Joanna Macy’s terms) “The Great Turning”?
What does such change entail, and how can we get there?
How can humans’ minds and hearts become open to doing so?
About
Finding Right Balance
My premise is that we first need to be coming from a place of personal “Right Balance,” with more accurate self-appraisal within ourselves, that we next need to develop the interpersonal skills needed to meet the Other with fairness and equal respect, mutuality and reciprocity, and that only with those skills in place can we bring our minds and hearts to bear on the issues facing us with regard to overall “Right Balance” systemically. The website is divided into three areas of “Right Balance”...
INTRAPERSONALLY
Finding right balance within oneself is a matter of our tuning into, acknowledging, healing, and relating to the many various aspects of ourselves...
Interpersonally
Relates to how individuals in a dyad connect with one another, attune to one another, and care about the well-being of both dyad members to honor the common good.
Systemically
How do we create systems and societies that bring us back into harmony with humanity as a whole, and with nature itself?
“It seems (to me) that we have done a lot of harm thus far, to the planet, to the resources that were held in Mother Earth, to other species, and if we do not MAJORLY turn our beliefs and our behaviors around, life as we have known it will be over.”
Deborah Brenner-Liss
About
The Founder
DEBORAH BRENNER LISS, PhD
I am a clinical psychologist, in private practice for over 40 years, and while my primary focus for much of my career has been on individual, family or couple relationships, the current climate crisis has asked of me a larger overview.
The motivation for this platform comes from asking myself the question – in the midst of the climate crisis, political crisis and moral crisis of our times – what would it take for humans to change sufficiently that we can accomplish what Joanna Macy called the “Great Turning”?
What is wrong with the human condition that we have so ignored the well-being of all, that we have come to be run by power-over dynamics and “Othering,” that we have harmed Mother Earth, other species and our fellow humans?
And what can be done to change the ways that we think and act, so as to turn toward a healthier way of being in the world?
The way I conceptualize it, our having ruptured the I-Thou relationship between ourselves and Mother Earth, between ourselves and one another, between ourselves and other species – has fractured our world in a way that imperils us all.
It seems (to me) that we have done a lot of harm thus far, to the planet, to the resources that were held in Mother Earth, to other species, and if we do not MAJORLY turn our beliefs and our behaviors around, life as we have known it will be over. The climate crisis scientists give predictions for how that will happen, unless we can profoundly change our habits, and come into more right alignment with Mother Earth and our fellow species…
Finding right balance within oneself is a matter of our tuning in to various aspects of our lives, and “listening” with all our senses, to what feels right energetically, what feels right personally, interpersonally, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually…
My premise is that we first need to be coming from a place of personal “Right Balance,” with more accurate self-appraisal within ourselves, that we next need to develop the interpersonal “Right Balance” skills needed to meet the Other with fairness and equal respect, mutuality and reciprocity, and that only with those skills in place can we perhaps bring our minds and hearts to bear on the issues facing us with regard to “Right Balance” systemically.
I have assembled bodies of thought, articles, webinars, podcasts, and an assembling of references to like-minded people – so that those of us passionately invested in this compelling quest can have others to discover with, discuss with, and explore with what needs to be done. I welcome and invite additional resources, comments, and suggestions from the global community…
I invite you to explore the blog, sign up for our newsletter, check out our existing resources, and join the conversation!
Ultimately I hope to have many moderators, many blog posts, and many contributors to this “think tank” project…
Contact Me
Address: 3195 California Street, Suite #E, San Francisco CA, 94115
Phone: 415-608-6307
Email: AptedSF@aol.com
Resources + Reading
From the Blog
Explore a few of the recent posts and join the conversation…
Jennifer McLean
We are moving from "mine" and materialism, to humanitarian efforts, less top-down economies, more grass roots efforts, and deep authentic sharing.
The David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation, founded in 1990, (https://davidsuzuki.org/) has as its guiding principles:
One nature. We are nature. All people, and all species.
We are interconnected with nature, and with each other.
What we do to the planet and its living creatures, we do to ourselves.
We don’t deserve this planet
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A New Earth
by Eckhart Tolle
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