𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 and would appreciate help in reaching organisational leaders that recognise the thoughtfulness, experience, and skills I bring to an organisation.

I spent a lot of my life believing that I'm socially shy and a bit introverted but it turns out that I just don't enjoy people talking over each other, people talking at me rather than to me, and meeting new people that only talk to people they already know.

We humans seem to be ecological creatures, living within an ecological universe, shaping & shaped by ecological beings and happenings.

Ecological enquiry is the living study of the relationship 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 living things and their environment and how living things 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 and 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 relationship.

The badgers and I are excited to invite you to join the first season of The Critical Badger Book Club, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗯 with a difference.

Read about the Critical Badger Book Club's intention, container, and hopes - and join us - at bit.ly/critical-bad...

Are you in Leeds, or nearby? So excited that a Wild Service festival is in the world and it's starting this weekend 😍

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New substack essay out now. Read 'An Enquiry Practise 'Of Us' here: bit.ly/enquiryofus

From ecosystems to social systems, technology to language, chemical reactions to biological happenings, ideas to language, histories to possible futures, the non-human to the more-than-human and the universe, all things seems to be entangled in relationship with something else (often, many things).

I've started attending a quaker's meeting. I don't resonate with their religious foundational beliefs but I very much resonate with their commitment to welcoming people into their meetings that don't, and I love their way of being together: sitting in contemplation and silence until moved to speak.

I have an ever-growing dislike for joining online events with a bunch of folk I've never met and then (without being offered an alternative) being placed in breakout rooms to discuss meaningful things and work together.

Sharing my latest essay on my free-to-all substack, Ecological Us, 'Leaving Traces: Remembering an ancient/new story of sacred responsibility'.

Read the essay here: annamarieswan.substack.com/p/leaving-tr...

I am awed by the human creatures that, finding themselves with so many logical and justifiable reasons for small and large unkindnesses, hatreds, bitternesses, arrogances, and greeds, instead look to have their days moved by love, repair, compassion, empathy, and self-attunement.

What if being with ourselves, is to discover that ourselves is not a singular, arranged self but an ecological re-arrangement of relationship to other? Self as me and...

Me and the grass beneath my feet, me and my beloved, me and the birdsong, me and the library walls, me and, me and, me and...

I have *genuinely* evolved into someone that can eat just a piece of chocolate at a time. I'm assuming this is the adulting that I've heard so much about. If it is, it's both a let down and a fricking spiritual event.

Perhaps it's through being really curious about ourselves as relationally complex ecosystems, whole and integrated but constantly being rearranged and dependent on so much, that we learn to love and appreciate the relational complexity we exist within.

Sharing Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, a free resource for organisational founders, stewards, and guides to help organisations become more ecological.

Download different formats and find lots of ecol. orgs. info here: bit.ly/ecologicalor...

Come join these low-cost 'ecological organisations' action enquiry circles, designed so that organisational founders and leaders can work directly with me, the author of Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens, as they start to run experiments within the organisation they're a member of.

It is with deeply felt tenderness and gentle excitement that I share Cellular Rearranging's first co-authorship ✮⋆

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