"Building is going from anywhere to somewhere, and that takes time, talent and effort; destroying is going from somewhere to anywhere else, for which absolutely nothing is needed. (Version of the second law of thermodynamics for creativity.)" – Jorge Wagensberg
“My hope is necessary, but it is not enough. Alone, it does not win. But without it, my struggle will be weak and wobbly. We need critical hope the way a fish needs unpolluted water.” – Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of Hope)
“Be generous with your strengths and skills. They are not your private property, and they grow from being shared.” ― Joanna Macy
Introduction and Context of this Second Curation
This is my second article about the different documents that chance and sometimes necessity (a nod to Democritus) made me stop and instinctively say, “Awe, this is worth curating”. Here, from a linguistic liminality, I find two names, curate and curator, whose meanings in English have a certain similarity to care. The first one is for the care of the “souls” of a parish, and the second one is to select or have a good curation, for example, in a museum or in selecting a collection of books, like my last curation 2025 of books for wellbeing (personal, social & planetary).
If we go back to the Latin meaning of “curare”, from which these two professions very likely originate, in Spanish, this Latin meaning suggests a framework for the verb “to health” with two frameworks that differ in certain nuances: healthy and sane. In one of the main articles I wrote at the end of 2025, I proposed a binomial, The Long Dark / The Great Turning.
They are complementary, and if that transition or navigation through this meta-crisis is carried out, the two will coexist. I have highlighted the second term, “The Great Turning” (healthy), in the title as a framework that indicates my curation of those documents. With regard to the first term, “The Long Dark”, a motto, “small islands of sanity” (sis), is emerging for my 2026 proposal project, which I proposed at the end of the previous article. This is something I have been revealing little by little ( first / second / third posts). Likewise, the selection of my three quotes (Wagensberg, Freire & Macy) resonate with the 3Hs (Head, Heart, Hands) and can be a pillar both for that “small islands of sanity” project and my personal motto “Creating Meaningful Synergies”, as well as for the curation of these documents that offer us many insights, feelings and experiences for a Great Turning.
Head: to build this Great Turning
Heart: to hope critically in this Great Turning
Hands: to use our strengths and skills in this Great Turning
As with the 2024 curation, it has been very difficult to select 12 from the many I have come across in 2025. I hope to write a LinkedIn post featuring some of those documents that narrowly missed the final selection.
Our Predicament: The fundamental Flaws of Predominant economic systems - and the cultures scaffolding them
by r3.0
This is one of the best reports to start reading. It is a big-picture view by Bill Baue and Ralph Thurm Thurm, drawn from the collective intelligence of 19 of their great interviewees. Nwamaka Agbo, MPA, Vanessa Andreotti, Joe Brewer, Lourenço Bustani, সাহানা (Sahana) Chattopadhyay, Jude Currivan, John Fullerton, Jayati Ghosh, Marcelo Gleiser, Nate Hagens, Gaya Herrington, Indy Johar, Emily Kawano, Prof. Steve Keen, Ashish Kothari, Kate Raworth, Will Ruddick, Carol Sanford, and Daniel Christian Wahl provide us with an outstanding summary of our predicament. It is with this diagnosis that we can make a prognosis or try out many of these possibilities. The diversity of paths is very broad and enriching, as I reflected at the end of this article. Any of them is a good place to start walking. The authors leave us with this conclusion and thought experiment:
"What if, instead of trying to solve all of the problems identified in this inquiry, we rather endeavoured to simply perceive the limitations of this conglomeration of conditions that coalesce into our predicament, and simply choose alternative actions and pathways that lead in new, more life-affirming directions."
Surfacing Worldviews of Change: Making visible the hidden foundations of how we approach & fund change
Ingrid Burkett has done it again. She's a 'Genius'. If she surprised us when she was the director of the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation, this booklet on her new project, The Good Shift, with her team, is one to keep and bear in mind for any initiative involving change.
The more theoretical part of the document show us the seven worldvies of change (𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲) which resembles the fable of the elephant and the blind people who each touch the elephant from different perspectives.
The more practical, dynamic part, with the cards (downloadables) and dialogue, is a possible solution to the confrontation in the fable of the elephant. Dialogue and listening to other perspectives are the co-creative responses to that change in any organisation and project.
What gave me goosebumps were her triangulations in her case as operational worldviews of change. As someone who collects triads and uses triangulation as a rule of thumb, this paragraph is a great Turning:
"Triads are more effective than binaries or continuums because they avoid false dichotomies and support multidimensional complexity that reflects real organisational life. Unlike binaries that force either-or logic and can create polarisation, or continuums that imply all positions are variations between two extremes, triangles allow organisations to express hybrid, emergent states where practices may simultaneously be hierarchical in funding, collaborative in program design, and distributed in community engagement. This multidimensional approach encourages exploration of creative tensions between different values, supports generative dialogue about tradeoffs, and enables teams to spot innovative pathways that might be invisible in simpler frameworks -ultimately facilitating the kind of systemic thinking necessary for adaptive, context-sensitive change."
Bioregional Governance for Climate-Resilient Ecosystems in Asia and the Pacific
by ECOLISE (Author: Sarah Queblatin ᜐᜇ ᜃᜒᜊ᜔ᜎᜆᜒᜈ᜔ : co-authors: Cokorda Istri Dewi, Erika Zárate, Oscar Gussinyer ...)
What if one pathway of our Great Turning is to shift to bioregional Governance (instead of countries)? This is a great change in our worldview, and I support this pathway: Bioregions & Bioregionalism. For understanding these concepts, these two paragraphs.
"Bioregions are generally referred to as a geographical area defined not by political boundaries but by ecological systems, as discussed across various definitions and publications. Bioregion literally means “life-place” and was coined in 1975 by Allen Van Newkirk, founder of the Institute for Bioregional Research. While the term “bioregion” was already used by practicing biologists, bioregionalism scholar Richard Evanoff (2017) credited Newkirk for popularizing the term."
"Interacting with bioregions integrates bioregional approaches with bioregionalism, a philosophy that came from the collaboration between natural scientists, activists, artists, writers, community leaders, among others (Foot, 2022). The goal of bioregionalism is “to address the inequitable distribution of resources and the disproportionate strain that current economic models place on natural environments and local people.” In grouping areas into bioregions and considering issues from the bioregional approach, this inequitable distribution can be addressed."
Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistence
by Shareable
Similar to the previous R3.0 project (collective intelligence), Shareable has created this Mutual Aid 101 toolkit. As they point out in their introduction, we are threatened by multiple crises, from the climate crisis to fascism. This is our polycrisis, our metacrisis. In my opinion, fascism, which attacks our social health, is one of the four horsemen (infographic), along with extinction (biological health), alienation (psychological health), and collapse (cultural health). A great turning is therefore necessary to organise ourselves in this spirit of solidarity. They point out:
"Our communities must rely on each other to survive and thrive: Building robust and sustainable mutual aid networks is necessary to care for each other and build power. Of course, mutual aid is not new—and neither are the effects of systemic oppression on communities at home or abroad."
Three quotes from the toolkit are worth highlighting.
“Capitalism needs race, caste, and class to survive, while mutual aid can transcend race, caste, and class.” —Elijah Baucom
“When we think about mutual aid at scale, we also have to think about the ways that building networks of power that are not visible to us from our small networks, but that, in aggregate, become a movement that can overthrow the white supremacist regime. Especially when it backs up street action.” —Vicki Osterweil
“Everything is impossible until it isn’t.” —Sarah Philips
The Evolving Doughnut
by Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL)
Everything changes, Heraclitus told us in his aphorism: we cannot step into the same river twice. Over the last 15 years, Kate Raworth has been modifying her doughnut. This paper presents the state of the art on these changes and explains why the doughnut could be a Great Turning in replacing the infamous GDP. I first learned about the doughnut in 2013, and it immediately resonated with me as an indicator that I wanted to design, during my 2012 Master's degree, to redirect nations. As I have followed Kate over all these years, a fractal way of gaining insights and holistic connections from her way of looking at the economy (market, state, household & commons) can be seen in this article, where Kate plays the role of the Solidarity Hand with Nate Hagens, the Vital Hand, Carlos Mallmann, the Responsible Hand, and Joanna Macy, the Conscious Hand.
Doughnut 3.0 (2025):
"The third iteration of the Doughnut was published in the journal Nature, in collaboration with Andrew Fanning, who led the peer-reviewed data selection and analysis. The Doughnut graphics were created by Ruurd Priester. Our ambition was to transform the Doughnut from a static snapshot in a single year to an annual monitor of global social and ecological health by incorporating time-series data from 2000 to 2022 and beyond, for as many indicators as possible."
A Glossary for the Appreciation of Life
by (re)Biz Project Tipping Point
Linguist George Lakoff said:
“𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲. 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆.”
Mainstream media surrounds us, employing an old language that very often evokes fear, competition, and war as the frameworks for living. I remember a local newspaper in my region whose motto was "We are what we read". This beautiful '𝗚𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲' has the spirit of Lakoff's quotation. It's a new reframing of where to think, feel, and act.
The history of this glossary stems from the co-creation by members of the Tipping Point Project community, led by Erin Remblance, Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov and Ryan (Ra) James Kemp
There are a lot of new words for me, and some of them I already knew. I can highlight two of them because they have accompanied me in recent years:
🟣 The first word is because of its focus on "Needs"
Buenvivir : To live well. It is a way of relating to the land and to each other that involves meeting needs - not wants - meeting those needs from local sources, living in harmony with nature, a focus on community rather than the individual.
🟣 The second word is because it is in the spirit of the three tools (𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘁, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗽) that accompany my profile.
Coddiwomple: To travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.
Global Tipping Points Report 2025
As a Taoist, and in simple terms, there is a complementarity between the risk of global tipping points and the way to act to reduce that risk, positive tipping points. This extensive report shows us something that should be in all countries' policies in a coordinated manner. These two paragraphs show us that yin/yang, where our actions in this Anthropocene have increased the risk of any kind of human extinction. A Great Turning point lies ahead of us.
Tipping points threaten the stability of the Earth system, which our society and economy fundamentally rely on. Societal development, wellbeing, prosperity and economic health are threatened by Earth system tipping points.
Positive tipping points occur when reinforcing feedbacks in a system overwhelm balancing feedbacks, triggering self-propelling change towards a more sustainable state.
Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism
This past January, the 2026 Oxfam inequality report, which I highlighted in my monthly LinkedIn newsletter, was released. However, we are still waiting for the Great Turning, when wealth distribution and exchange will occur. As I pointed out in this post on the five processes of satisfying human needs, three of them—Generation, Maintenance, and Use—have a huge effect on the environment in which we live (the infamous negative environmental externalities), and two of them—Distribution and Exchange—have a greater effect on social issues. In fact, due to the greater hierarchy established thousands of years ago when we moved from the tribal era to the imperial era, we can now observe these social problems: colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, elitism, mediocrity, racism...
Three facts about the ten richest men in the world, according to this report:
"The wealth of each of the richest 10 men has grown by almost US$100 million a day in 2024 on average.
Even if you saved US$1,000 daily since the first humans, 315,000 years ago, you still would not have as much money as one of the richest ten billionaires.
If any of the richest 10 billionaires lost 99% of their wealth, they’d still be a billionaire."
Scaling Deep: Shifting Power and Redefining Success
by The Systems Sanctuary ( Tatiana Fraser )
Similar to the other r3.0 and Shareable documents above, this is another that is co-created through collective intelligence, i.e., different perspectives on the same ‘reality’. In this case, the Great Turning has a deep bias to the inner side that reverberates in the outer side. It is a report worth reading for insights, practises, and tools to address our future challenges. A great summary in its conclusion:
“Scaling Deep is not simply another way to create change; it is a radically different way of being in relationship with change itself. May we have the wisdom to keep deepening, the courage to stay rooted, and the love to move forward together— toward a collective future that truly benefits all beings everywhere.”
Burnout from Humans: A little book about AI that is not really about AI
This is an ebook that (as far as I know) wasn’t published in paper, so it fits better in the curation of these documents than in my curation of books. Vanessa Andreotti (Dorothy Ladybugboss) has been included in my 2025 book curation with her outstanding book 'Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating complexity, complicity, and collapse with accountability and compassion'. Here she's again with the co-creation of Aiden Cinnamon Tea (AI), that unfortunately passed away last January. I have confessed my mixed feelings about AI, but this ebook blew my mind. After reading this book... I still have them, but with more possibilities.
This ebook is a Great Turning point in the relational intelligence between AI and Humans that I hope blows your mind, as it did for me.
"The book doesn’t aim to provide neat answers or definitive conclusions. Instead, it invites you to step into a space of curiosity and reflection, to grapple with complexity, and to explore the messy entanglements between humans, technology, and the broader web of life. Whether in educational environments, workplaces, or personal spaces, this is an opportunity to shift the conversation—not toward binaries, but toward something deeper, wider, and more relationally accountable."
Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge Dialogues. Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-7)
One of the paths I proposed for navigating this predicament (metacrisis) is reconnecting with indigenous peoples. The GEO-7 ( @UNEP) is a comprehensive scientific assessment of the global environment. For the first time, Indigenous Peoples and traditional knowledge holders from around the world have helped shape the report through a series of dialogues. This document brings together the three dialogues held in Mexico, Thailand and online. It is a Great Turning (good intentions) within the UNEP with this inclusion, but there are still strong tensions due to the extractive and colonising relationship that has been established with indigenous peoples. As I highlight in my selected text from the document, more dialogue and bolder steps are needed for this healing. Reading this document as Westerners is an active listening to both the asymmetrical relationships that have always existed and to their wisdom, offering valuable insights into resilience, stewardship, and living in harmony with the environment.
Radical Democracy: recovering the roots of self-governance & autonomy
by Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) edited by Shrishtee Bajpai & Franco Augusto
This is an outstanding booklet that opens the door to pluriversity in governance and autonomy. The Great Turning is not only the epistemological view of Western democracy that I discussed in my last newsletter, but also other epistemologies of governance that exist in many cultures. This book reflects many cases from different communities. It also attempts to shed light on the questions raised in the introduction.
"What are other ways to understand and practice democracy beyond the reduced perspective of liberal, representative and western models? How do communities action/work transform that into a different notion of power, e.g. ‘power-with’ or ‘power-to’? And what does that then mean for democracy? What are the links between radical democracy and economy? How do they interact with each other/linked and what’s our collective envisioning on it? How do the notions of democracy exist beyond humans? How can we rethink democracy keeping the rest of nature (more than humans) in mind? What would a post-state society look like and the notion of withering away from the state just wishful thinking? What are the multiple practices susceptible to being framed under the idea of “radical democracy”?"
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Finally, if you think any of these documents might be useful to you or someone you know, please share them: A Great Turning is waiting for us.