Conversations That Create Our Future

It’s far too easy to get swept into life-draining conversations. Every headline shouts about fear, war, climate collapse, polarization, political turmoil, unrest, uncertainty—you name it.

But that’s not the whole story. Beneath the noise, another current is running strong. Pause for a moment. Take a few deep breaths. Then choose to join—or spark—conversations that breathe life into you and others; conversations about transformational change, net-positive organizations, hyper-local community building, and climate resilience innovations.

Turn from the noise of collapse toward the dialogues of emergence.

When you turn away from the chaos and really listen, you’ll sense something radically different stirring. Old systems are unraveling. New possibilities are emerging. And here’s the truth: you have an essential role to play in shaping what comes next.

We co-create our social systems and societies through the conversations we hold and the meaning we make together. Across the globe, groups are gathering to explore how to co-create communities and organizations that generate life, deepen connection, nurture relationships, and seed a flourishing future.

🌍 Global Conversations to Get Involved With

• The Presencing Institute – pioneering work in awareness-based systems change.
• Next Economy MBA (Lift Economy) – reimagining business as a force for regeneration and justice.
• Global Regeneration CoLab (RCL) – a collaborative hub for climate action and systemic regeneration.
• Commonland Foundation – landscape-scale restoration through “4 Returns” frameworks.
• Capital Institute – advancing regenerative economics and finance models.
• Forum for the Future – futures practice for just and regenerative systems.
• Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) – building an economy based on wellbeing for people and planet.
• Inner Development Goals (IDGs) – cultivating the inner capacities leaders need to achieve the SDGs.
• Pachamama Alliance – bridging indigenous wisdom with global sustainability and social justice movements.

🏘 Local Conversations Taking Root

Just as important as these international initiatives are the grassroots conversations happening block-by-block:

• Food Security & Community Gardens – neighbors planting food forests, seed libraries, and CSA networks to reclaim sovereignty and resilience.
• Mutual Aid Societies – neighbors organizing rent assistance, ride-sharing, childcare swaps, and emergency support—solidarity over charity.
• Community Energy & Climate Resilience – solar co-ops, resilience hubs, and microgrids that keep power and safety local.
• Housing & Cooperative Living – co-housing projects and community land trusts where housing is a shared, affordable commons.
• Healing & Dialogue Circles – restorative justice, interfaith listening, and civic dialogue building trust and belonging.
• Maker Spaces & Local Economies – repair cafés, tool libraries, and TimeBanks that remind us: “we can make, mend, and trade right here.”

✨ Whether global or hyper-local, these conversations create pockets of possibility. They’re prototypes of a regenerative future—evidence that together, we already have the capacity to imagine and live into new systems.

The invitation is simple: choose your conversations carefully. Turn from the noise of collapse toward the dialogues of emergence. Listen deeply. Ask generative questions. And remember: every conversation you hold contributes to the future we’re co-creating.

 Shared by Cheri Torres, PhD. More and more I am sensing the emergence of new systems that will make the current chaos irrelevant. Join me. Let's listen and co-sense through conversations worth having. Let's co-create a world where every living being thrives.