Okay, here we go! The Teeming Transformation is now open! I’ve been holed up working on this for a long time, and for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been telling you about the Living Design Lens—and asking what you’re trying to bring to life and where you’re getting stuck. Now I’m ready to actually do this with you. I’m opening 12 spots to work directly with me for four months on your own burning vision. The Teeming Transformation is a four-month Living Design intensive for people working to bring a big vision to life. A business. An initiative. A project. A place. A change you’re trying to lead. We’ll take it through my nine-framework Living Design Lens. What’s possible? What’s necessary? What’s in the way? What connections, leverage points, and untapped capitals have you missed? Then we’ll develop an evolutionary strategy for bringing your vision to life—one that works more like water flowing downhill than pushing a boulder uphill. The Teeming Transformation begins October 15. Four months. 12 people. 12 big visions—and all the challenges that come with them. Investment starts at $1,297. A limited number of partial scholarships may be available through the Biocultural Institute for Living Design, a 501(c)(3), subject to application. If you’re carrying something big, and you’re tired of pushing it uphill—I’d love to hear about it! What are you trying to bring to life?

You're here because you're bringing something into the world. A vision. A venture. A body of work. A team. A community. A place. A new chapter of life. Or perhaps you simply know something is missing. We can't know the future. But fortunately, life has never depended on prediction. For nearly four billion years, living systems have continually found their way— by creating the conditions from which new possibilities emerge. That's what we do here. Through evolutionary biology, beautiful stories, practical frameworks, and a toolkit called Living Design, you'll learn to see, cultivate, and renew the hidden conditions from which possibility grows. Everything in this community is built around one question: How does life create conditions conducive to its own flourishing—and how can we?

I appreciate the meter, I believe it helps communicate things in the way you might say them, rather than the reader filling that part in. Many parts of this remind me of my past and/or worldview. I dont know which native American story the intro came from but I know it was one, the characters are familiar and I have studied that mythos. At times I had to take a break because the story of what happened to the natives is so horrible and ugly that I couldn't stand it. My partner's grandma walked the Trail of Tears. The disenchantment, the striving for a change of scenery and answers. I used to leave the library with a book stack as tall as I could carry, and I probably angered a few librarians due to eating cheetos while reading lol There was an orchid tree in my back yard and if I was anywhere, I had climbed it and was reading a book among the boughs. Climbing a tree and playing in the ocean are some of my favorite memories. My first car was a vw bug. It was really hard to learn to drive but i wanted it so badly I muddled through it :)

🐾 Thank you so much for joining my little expedition into the wilds of human nature! Here you’ll find The Teeming Transformation—the entire creation at the heart of this community and the result of a lifetime observing living systems and distilling their patterns for evolving possibility. 🐜 What started as a “Quick Guide to the Mycelial Way”—intended as a proven set of distilled patterns and simple antlike rules, specifically for organizations and leaders—flowered into something quite different. 🌸 Of course, it should embody the patterns in Teeming—a game. Stigmergic and all that. 💧 But it should not only be effective and actionable for organizations, it should actually help people create conditions conducive to their actual lives, starting from their deepest nature and rippling outward in time and space to renew possibility in the land itself, for our descendants and wider relatives. 🌳 The same as all living things do. In hindsight, a tall order. 🦍 But that’s kind of how I always seem to roll. So, the original book diverged into the 4 essential capacities required for us to actually live into our true nature, as upright apes with superorganism social structures—more like those of ants than chimpanzees in many ways. 🪸 And of course, try as I might to prevent them, the stories kept flowering through the cracks. Ultimately, they overgrew the simple rules and patterns altogether. 🐦‍🔥 Teeming with Life is that wild garden— a mythopoetic telling of my own personal journey to develop these four capacities, so I can simply live as all creatures do without thinking so hard about it. Living Design. Which sounds nice. I’m slowly formatting and uploading these chapters right here for you—Teeming Together. 🐜 The simple rules and patterns are now distilled as well—the four coursebooks accompanying each of the four Teeming Transformations, experienced as 4 10-Day Intensives. 🐳 Wayfinders’ Course is the first of these. How does life create conditions conducive to its flowering? And how can you? Founding Cohort starts July 5. You’ll set a course to your vision, using living systems thinking.