Toolkit for Life

So many of our tools these days are life-destructive. There are weapons of mass destruction, and there are massive, destructive weapons on all level and scales.

To dismantle these weapons, and to rebuild a life sustaining society, we need a new toolkit for life. Here are some tools I've come across in recent months that have given me hope and inspiration.

• Mind/spirit tools
• Mindfulness (Vipassana)
• Nonviolence (Gandhi, MLK)
• Intellectual tools
• Systems science
• Ecological literacy
• Activism/community tools
• Great Turning (Work that Reconnects)
• Service (ServiceSpace)
• Communications tools
• Nonviolence Communication
• Earth tools
• Permaculture

What these tools have in common, is a recognition that changes must happen at the mind/heart/soul/spirit level, which will then manifest through our actions and ways of being. These tools help facilitate the heart-shift, and enable us to tap into the deep interconnection to Life.

Will continue to explore and expand the toolkit for life, and dismantle the tools of death -- inside and outside.