I’ve had a few people ask me recently for my “state of the union address” —as in, where am I with this interminable project? I put this together so you can see. I think it’s a good read. 🐳 “How does life create conditions conducive to life? And how can we?”

🐾 Thank you so much for joining my little expedition into the wilds of human nature! Here you’ll find The Teeming Transformation—the entire creation at the heart of this community and the result of a lifetime observing living systems and distilling their patterns for evolving possibility. 🐜 What started as a “Quick Guide to the Mycelial Way”—intended as a proven set of distilled patterns and simple antlike rules, specifically for organizations and leaders—flowered into something quite different. 🌸 Of course, it should embody the patterns in Teeming—a game. Stigmergic and all that. 💧 But it should not only be effective and actionable for organizations, it should actually help people create conditions conducive to their actual lives, starting from their deepest nature and rippling outward in time and space to renew possibility in the land itself, for our descendants and wider relatives. 🌳 The same as all living things do. In hindsight, a tall order. 🦍 But that’s kind of how I always seem to roll. So, the original book diverged into the 4 essential capacities required for us to actually live into our true nature, as upright apes with superorganism social structures—more like those of ants than chimpanzees in many ways. 🪸 And of course, try as I might to prevent them, the stories kept flowering through the cracks. Ultimately, they overgrew the simple rules and patterns altogether. 🐦‍🔥 Teeming with Life is that wild garden— a mythopoetic telling of my own personal journey to develop these four capacities, so I can simply live as all creatures do without thinking so hard about it. Living Design. Which sounds nice. I’m slowly formatting and uploading these chapters right here for you—Teeming Together. 🐜 The simple rules and patterns are now distilled as well—the four coursebooks accompanying each of the four Teeming Transformations, experienced as 4 10-Day Intensives. 🐳 Wayfinders’ Course is the first of these. How does life create conditions conducive to its flowering? And how can you? Founding Cohort starts July 5. You’ll set a course to your vision, using living systems thinking.

Gaining momentum! The whole book is written, I'm just finessing the formatting and uploading sections as I go. Can't wait for you to read this labor of love for all life. How to read? You can go to the Classroom tab, and find Part 1 Life Mind. What I'd like folks to do is read, and then comment in the main Community (Part 1 Life Mind) -- where do you see yourself in the tale? Just put the section title you're talking about. Next up, I'll start sharing the accompanying framework progression, so you can have your OWN Teeming Transformation. Create conditions conducive to life through your own life and work, the way living things always have, since the dawn of time. It's proven to work! Thank you for reading, and enjoy! PS. I'd love it if you shared my Skool with others. skool.com/teemingtogether. Let's start Teeming Together, for life!