Against the cold running down we call entropy, life is the energy that runs up,
finds a way, expands into every possible crack, raises up a generation beyond itself.
Life goes on. And it goes on in any of your or my short, peculiar and particular span of years.
Yet we mostly pay attention to “death” — what harms, damages, or kills us.
What if we were to focus at least as much on life?
The “Leading Causes of Life” sets out to do that ...
... paying attention to what's generative for us personally and in relation to others and our world.
finds a way, expands into every possible crack, raises up a generation beyond itself.
Life goes on. And it goes on in any of your or my short, peculiar and particular span of years.
Yet we mostly pay attention to “death” — what harms, damages, or kills us.
What if we were to focus at least as much on life?
The “Leading Causes of Life” sets out to do that ...
... paying attention to what's generative for us personally and in relation to others and our world.
Click for Leading Causes of Life: Statement
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The five 'causes' of life are an innovative, dynamic, concretely relevant way of thinking differently about ourselves and our practices, organizations, institutions and societies.
Each 'cause' interacts with the others. Together they help us grasp the rich complexity of human action, and where and how to act in life-giving ways. |
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LATEST NEWS!
EL PASO GATHERING OF LCLI FELLOWS April 16-19 at the University of Texas in El Paso SOON WE WILL BE THERE ... Some 40 of 60 LCLI Fellows will meet in El Paso, including some from South Africa & elsewhere! We meet at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP), where we will be hosted by Prof Arvind Singhal and his "Positive Deviance" (PD) team. It's an "UnConference" - serious and intense but open, interactive, engaged - to explore the interface between LCL and PD in the context of many key issues of our time for which El Paso may genuinely be regarded as iconic. Those coming will also have the chance to learn something in El Paso itself from local people who are acting in hope for justice at a fraught time in our common history. Watch for communications! Life is what it is about
I want no truck with death. – Pablo Neruda A wonderful example of emergent, dynamic complexity unexplained by inorganic or linear logic, only by life.
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