Hi everyone 👋 Greetings from Arcos de Valdevez in Portugal! Today, our desk is set up in Northern Portugal at the regenerative farm of our community member, @Maria do Céu Bastos. Nadene and myself arrived on Monday evening to spend a few days helping Maria on the farm, cooking together, and exploring how inner development meets the land. Yesterday on our 'Virtual Farm Tour event' we had planned to have a thoughtful conversation about resilience and life skills. And then, life handed us the real thing. Shortly after arriving, wildfires broke out in the hills just northeast of the farm. Yesterday, flames were visible from the house, thick smoke rolled into the valley, and Canadair firefighting planes roared overhead scooping water from the river. When an aerial tower burned down, our internet went completely dark. With emergency bags packed and the cats carrier ready, our conversation turned from abstract concepts to what resilience actually feels like in our bodies: - The More-Than-Human Grief: Waking up in the middle of a smoke-choked night, unable to see, hearing an owl call out in the dark—and feeling the deep ache for the trees, wild animals, and mountain cattle living through this. - The Fiction of Hyper-Independence: For years, society told us to "do it on your own." But when disaster approaches, online followers can’t hold a hose or bring dinner. Last night, it was Maria’s local neighbors who checked in. Real physical community is our truest safety net. - Emotional Resilience in the Disconnect: When Maria didn't immediately reply to phone calls from her family, panic quickly crept in for loved ones trying to reach us. It was a sharp reminder of how reliant our nervous systems have become on instant replies—and how vital it is to cultivate the inner capacity to stay grounded in uncertainty. Yet amidst the smoke, the grounding rhythm of the farm carried on: picking sweet grapes straight off the vine, simmering pasta sauce with garden tomatoes and beans, and gathering quince. Rather than dreaming of escaping to bunkers or private islands, real resilience is about showing up right here—for the land and for each other.

I'm working on a 'Human(e) AI Creed' and crowdsourcing some feedback in different communities and thought I'd share here too. It starts like this: 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. AI is something we use, not something we become. 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩. Nothing leaves our hands without passing through our own voice, our own judgment, our own care. We are accountable for what we put into the world, AI-assisted or not. 𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰. Some things are ours to do, not AI's: telling our own story, deepening our values, doing our inner work, and building real relationships. Human maturity becomes the competency of the future. 👉Here's the rest of the Creed. What's missing? Especially related to Inner Development? You can comment directly in the doc or put your thoughts in the comment section. Also, I thought this video is interesting about envisioning a positive AI World.

Incredibly proud to share a massive milestone for our local community and the global movement! 🌏🌱 Adelaide Climate Action Week (#ACAW2026) is officially integrating the Inner Development Goals framework into its entire 7-day program this July - making it the first climate event in Australia to do so! Instead of treating the IDGs as standalone academic theory, as part of the awesome ACAW organising team, we are seamlessly embedding the 5 dimensions directly into the operational infrastructure of the festival. We are calling it the "Root to Fruit" strategy: activating the relational and cognitive inner skills (the root) to drive measurable, collective climate action on the ground (the fruit). What this looks like in practice is multi-dimentional interactions Connect, Reflect and Contribute. Momentum to here has been built through the stewardship for embedding the IDG that I've doing with national women's organisations and climate networks in Australia. ACAW is a huge step forward in shifting the climate narrative in Australia from individual anxiety to collective, human-centred agency. Deep gratitude to everyone in the IDG community who is championing the IDG which collectively adds the ripples that makes milestones like these possible. Much love to you and all, Wx 💞 https://acaw.org.au/

I’ve been an avid reader of Le Courrier International for a long time as it takes news from global sources and publishes them in French. This morning reading about global politics I discover UNHEARD and am quite surprised and pleased with their work. Please share your recommendations on news worthy sources as we need to read and hear unbiased (if that still exists) coverage. Thank you 🙏

We had such a rich conversation today exploring the intersection of AI, the heart, and the mind — sparked by Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. His premise: the future belongs to the human capacities that logic can't replicate. Which feels urgent now that AI has the left-brain stuff pretty well covered. So we asked: what do we bring that's irreducibly human? What came up in our discussion: 🌍 Context and culture — AI generates content, but humans understand why this story, for these people, right now 🌸 Embodied and feminine knowing — Nadene named it: AI was largely built without women at the table. That shapes what gets captured and what gets flattened. 🤝 Presence — touch, laughter, tears. We can't prompt for that. 💡 Forward thinking + emotional connection — imagining futures we haven't lived yet, holding space for what's unspoken Pink also named six human skills for the AI era, I've added them in visuals below. The question we're sitting with: how do we cultivate these capacities in ourselves and in the leaders we work with? What's your answer? What do you bring that AI can't? 👇