Episode Details

In this episode, you explore the interconnectedness of our planet’s ecological systems and the urgent need for a shift towards an ecological-based economy. Colin Smith, of Land Lovers, highlights the nine planetary boundaries that define the limits within which humanity can safely operate, emphasizing the critical state of our environment due to human activities. Our conversation delves into the concept of bio-regions, advocating for a localized approach to resource management and community resilience. By fostering a shared identity, equitable resource allocation, and inclusive decision-making, you and your community can navigate the poly-crisis. Welcome to The Gravity Well, where you break down complex ideas into manageable insights. Join us as we seek wisdom from diverse perspectives and work towards a sustainable and regenerative future.

Welcome and Recap

Alex:

Welcome to The Gravity Well, where we break down heavy ideas into small buckets anyone can handle. In our work and at play, we seek the wisdom of elders, individuals, and communities that share their knowledge and care for our water, air, land, life and resource needs caring for our homeland will be our guide.

Jenny:

Well, that sounded extra smooth today. Nice work.

Alex:

I just slowed down.

Jenny:

Yeah, thank you for being here, Colin. We’ll get to your introduction. We’re just going to take a few minutes and go through a little bit of what we’ve been working on in the last few weeks. I’ll go first. We started, as I said a few weeks ago, our first discussion, in which there’s a pin in the episode, at the top you can see what I’m referring to. We spoke with our positive intelligence network. Colin, I’ve worked with some coaches every week over the last year or so. We sought their advice in starting that. We set the intention of making sure that we are operating in a space of allows people to bring in different perspectives and be respectful at the same time.

I’m not going to go through the details of our community agreement today, but we’ve got that available on our social media so that people can weigh in. We want to know from people, does this community agreement sit well with you? Then the next week we spoke with a psychologist, his name is Brad Chapin, and the reason why we spoke with him was about overcoming fears. One of our concerns in this discussion is that we have to help people get past certain fears in terms of the overwhelming nature of being in a polycrisis if you will. We’re trying to make sure that people feel, number one, that they understand that we have a regulation system, we have a system in place that helps us stay calm and to tap into that and to also understand when we’re in fight or flight.

That’s a simple way of discussing those fight, flight, freeze or fawn-type places we can go to. And we are faced with fears, with things, say a challenge or something that feels like a threat. Again, just trying to get in this space where we can identify what our triggers are, and Alex and I have been working on that together. When we speak, we try and use a common language now so that we can help understand where each other is coming from. I’ll give an example, I said yesterday to Alex, our PQ coaches would say, or in that framework. We identify our saboteurs in that framework, and my top saboteur is control. Alex and I were having a great conversation yesterday and then I was saying something that was making, I could see he was frustrated with me and I said, I think my controller is coming out here.

I was able to point to something of myself so that we could look at it and go, what am I doing that’s not working right? Anyway, that’s the next week. Then last week I wanted to just touch quickly on our discussion with Regan Boychuk. We met with Regan because we wanted to talk about how we source good news and not good news, let’s say, “How do we source quality news?”