As funding landscapes shift, the Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy continue as experiments in relational economics — resilience practiced in belonging and shared stewardship. A quiet funding invitation for those who feel resonance. substack.com/home/post/p-... #RelationalEconomics #LifeboatAcademy

Darkness doesn’t erase what matters. Fear is what narrows the field — tightening joy, flattening feeling. The Dusty Dimmer Switch invites a different posture: staying with intensity without trying to banish it. #BrenéBrown #DustyDimmerSwitch #EmotionalRange

Not all pain points to personal failure. It can be understood as shared information — shaped by collective conditions. In the spirit of the Dusty Dimmer Switch, the work here is easing intensity without fixing, and remembering we’re not alone. #BáyòAkómoláfé #DustyDimmerSwitch #CollectiveCare

This week’s anchor isn’t about shutting feelings down. It’s about learning the slow craft of turning the dial — noticing, pausing, loosening. Wisdom doesn’t erase intensity. It introduces space inside it. Read more at: substack.com/home/post/p-... #DustyDimmerSwitch #NervousSystemCare

Courage isn’t a solo act. It grows through relationship — through being accompanied, supported, and seen. Learning to unlearn includes letting go of isolation as a default and allowing shared steadiness to form. #BenKadel #LearningToUnlearn #Community

Panic can wake us up — but it can’t carry us very far. Courage grows more slowly, through steadiness and learning how to stay present without flooding ourselves. Unlearning includes knowing when urgency has done its job. #BenKadel #LearningToUnlearn #NervousSystem

Many of us live as if the world rests on our shoulders. The planet is carrying us. Learning to unlearn includes releasing the habit of solitary burden and remembering interdependence. #VandanaShiva #LearningToUnlearn #Interdependence

Modern propaganda doesn’t just mislead — it exhausts. When attention is constantly pulled apart, critical thinking erodes. Learning to unlearn starts with noticing how fatigue shapes what we accept as true. #GarryKasparov #LearningToUnlearn #MediaLiteracy

A quiet funding reminder. The Farmastery and Lifeboat Academy are continuing an experiment in relational economics — sustaining work through shared stewardship, not urgency. This is an open invitation to support the work, without pressure. Read "Courage In the Cracks": substack.com/home/post/p-...

Privilege doesn’t just give access — it shapes perception. When life is buffered, illusion and separation can start to feel like truth. Learning to unlearn begins by noticing where comfort has narrowed our view, and staying present anyway. #BenKadel #LearningToUnlearn

Even good ideas can become narcotics when we use them to avoid discomfort. Learning to unlearn starts here — loosening our grip on certainty so we can listen, adapt, and change how we act together. #CarlJung #LearningToUnlearn

Change doesn’t stall because systems are complex. More often, it’s because we keep carrying old habits — urgency, debate, half-cocked fixes. Learning to unlearn creates space for wiser rhythms to emerge. Read the article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/learning-to-... #LearningToUnlearn #SystemsChange

Living Fences Get Stronger, Not Weaker, Over Time 😎 #Hedgerows #AgroForestry #Permaculture #WNC

Many of today’s problems were created by ways of thinking that once seemed reasonable. Fair share ethics depends on recognising when those patterns no longer fit — and staying open to learning together, rather than repeating what’s familiar. #AlbertEinstein #FairShareEthics

Most damage doesn’t come from ignorance, but from certainty that’s stopped listening. Fair share ethics depends on humility — staying open, learning together, and adjusting as conditions change, rather than assuming we already know enough. #StephenHawking #FairShareEthics

This work isn’t about complexity for its own sake. It rests on a few simple practices: fair share, staying with tension, learning through experiment, and adjusting together. Simple isn’t easy — but it builds trust and flow. emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-e... #FairShareEthics #Farmastery

The work of re-making an economy that sustains life doesn’t happen alone. It happens through company — people choosing to stay, practise, and learn together over time. Relationship becomes the infrastructure. #BenKadel #FairShareEthics

Real resilience doesn’t leave us unchanged. Passing through transition reshapes us — humbler, leaner, more skilled, more connected to land and each other. Not better than before, but better suited to what’s real. #RobHopkins #FairShareEthics

We spend a lot of energy trying to name the moment — ending or beginning, collapse or renewal. Ram Dass brings it back to practice. The work doesn’t change: stay in relationship, ease what suffering you can, where you are. That’s the crossing. #RamDass #FairShareEthics

In times of breakdown, even help can feel like a threat. This isn’t about blame — it’s about what happens when fear, exhaustion, and loss of trust are already in the body. Fair share begins with attunement, not force. #OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics

This work isn’t about complexity for its own sake. It rests on a few simple practices: fair share, staying with tension, learning through experiment, and adjusting together. Simple isn’t easy — but it builds trust and flow. emotusoperandi.medium.com/fair-share-e... #FairShareEthics #Farmastery

Urgency is real — you can feel it everywhere. But speed isn’t neutral. Slowing down can be how we stay responsive, relational, and capable of choosing what actually matters. #BáyòAkómoláfé #BuildingTheLifeboat

Not knowing which way to go isn’t always a failure. Sometimes it’s the point where attention deepens — like a stream that finds its voice through resistance. #WendellBerry #BuildingTheLifeboat

Many people are already living between systems that no longer hold and futures that aren’t clear yet. This isn’t a call to fix or optimize. It’s an invitation to notice what life is asking of us here, and how we might respond with care. #BayoAkomolafe #InhabitingTheCracks #CollapseAwareness

Berry steps around the question of success entirely. The work isn’t about whether we’ll prevail — it’s about responding to what this earth asks of us, now. #WendellBerry #BuildingTheLifeboat

This line doesn’t flatten difference or inflate obligation. It names a simple ethic: do what you can, from where you are, with what’s actually available. #WangariMaathai #DoingWhatWeCan

The cracks aren’t waiting. Lifeboat Academy is a circle of courage and care. Contribute, collaborate, or simply stand alongside us: substack.com/home/post/p-... #CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #ReturnOnRelationship #RelationalEconomics #NextEconomy

This line doesn’t romanticize participation. It points to something simpler and harder: the kind of response-ability that only exists when people actually show up. #BuildingTheLifeboat #ShowUp #Kimmerer

Resilience isn’t something we arrive at later. The lifeboat takes shape through practice — showing up, acting, reflecting, staying in relationship. What’s already happening counts. #BuildingTheLifeboat #PracticeIsThePoint emotusoperandi.medium.com/building-the...

Urgency trains us to move first. This line lingers at the moment before that — where practice actually starts. #HomelessInTheAgora #PracticeIsThePoint #sylviaboorstein

At the solstice Berry offers this image: a body moving through cold and danger, sowing clover anyway. Not denial. Not optimism. Just tending life in season. Happy Solstice, steady, present. #WinterSolstice #HomelessInTheAgora #WendellBerry

The agora trains us to think in individual terms. Living systems don’t. Flourishing happens in relationship — shared, mutual, interdependent. #HomelessInTheAgora #MutualFlourishing #RobinWallKimmerer

Some relief in this: change is real and necessary — and it was never meant to be carried by one person alone. Shared problems ask for shared presence. #HomelessInTheAgora #CollectiveCare #NaomiKlein

Collapse touches us all. Lifeboat Academy is a living experiment in courage and care. Step in, contribute, collaborate: substack.com/home/post/p-... #CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #RelationalEconomics #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship

In a culture shaped by speed and extraction, attention is no small thing. Real attention alters a space. It slows things down. When it’s offered without agenda, the room changes. #HomelessInTheAgora #Attention #SimoneWeil #LifeboatAcademy

Not all wounds come from conflict. Some come from what we adapted to, stayed inside, or learned to endure. #HomelessInTheAgora #fernandopessoa #BodyMemory

If “business as usual” feels unbearable, your body may not be broken — it may be discerning. The agora has always been a place of extraction. No wonder we long for oikos: care, land, belonging. emotusoperandi.medium.com/homeless-in-... #HomelessInTheAgora #Oikos

Mutual aid is the heartbeat of communities that thrive. Relational justice is jsut people supporting people without waiting for institutions to act. This is how we break isolation and build what can hold us. #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy

Individual action is too small. Government action is too slow. But community action — neighbours, groups, circles — might be enough, just in time. Hopkins reminds us this is the scale where real change can land. #CommunityAction #LifeboatAcademy #RobHopkins

To create anything real, we have to question what we’ve stopped seeing. Myles names it clearly: creation begins with interruption — with asking whether the reflex is actually ours. Wetiko hides in the unquestioned. The shift starts with a single pause. #WetikoHabitus #LifeboatAcademy

Wetiko makes everything feel personal — every discomfort, every limit. Pratchett cuts through the noise: Personal isn’t the same as important. Not every reaction deserves centre stage. Some things just need space to pass. #WetikoHabitus #LifeboatAcademy #terrypratchett

Collapse touches us all. Lifeboat Academy is a bubble of care and courage. Step in. Collaborate. Support. substack.com/home/post/p-... #CourageInTheCracks #Farmastery #RelationalEconomics #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship

In dark times, the point isn’t cheerful denial. It’s honest sound. Brecht reminds us: we don’t sing to escape the dark — we sing about it. Naming what hurts keeps us from shutting down or going numb. Stay with the real. #DarkTimes #LifeboatAcademy

Wetiko hides in excess — the moments when “more” becomes a way to avoid what’s real. Power, ego, fear, comfort. Even the good stuff can turn numbing when it goes past enough. The practice: Notice the extra. Feel the itch. Don’t feed it. #WetikoHabitus #LifeboatAcademy

Wetiko starts as a feeling — the inner itch under our crises. Ben uses the Indigenous term for the reflex that says: avoid, numb, repeat. We feel it before we think it. The practice: Don’t scratch the itch. Apply the salve. #WetikoHabitus #LifeboatAcademy emotusoperandi.medium.com/the-wetiko-h...

“If imagination can create the dead-end crises of our time, it can also create the doorway through them.” Our way forward won’t come from fear — it will come from imagining differently. With honesty, courage, and new possibilities. #ImaginationAsPractice #BillPlotkin #LifeboatAcademy

Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up. This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance. Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo... #ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience

“Make trouble. Stir up potent responses. Settle troubled waters. Rebuild quiet places.” Some trouble is necessary — it wakes us up and clears space for repair. This week’s practice: Respond to harm, and tend what needs rebuilding. Both matter. #GoodTrouble #donnaharaway #LifeboatAcademy

“We protect what we fall in love with.” Love roots us. It steadies us. It gives us the courage to stop looking away and start tending what matters. This is how we show up: not from fear, but from devotion. #EarthHeart #WeProtectWhatWeLove #LifeboatAcademy #robinwallkimmerer

A lot of what looks like “chaos” is just playground logic scaled up: bullies, stooges, and too many people staying quiet. But silence isn’t neutral. Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up. Integrity needs presence. Safety needs all of us. #ShowUp #CollectiveIntegrity #LifeboatAcademy