“Profound questions emerge during times of crisis, and deep down, we all have ideas about what matters. For many people, what matters is being alive, feeling connected, and sensing that we are significant and that our lives are meaningful. We share an innate longing for equity, dignity, compassion, and love.” – You Matter More Than You Think, p.2.
You Matter More Than You Think is part of an initiative we call The Quantum Leap initiative. The aim is to provide a space for generating new conversations and support and inspire practices and paradigms that generate transformative change.
In the pages below you can explore how scientists, artists, and writers have engaged with ideas of connection, entanglement, potentiality, complementarity, and more. You can learn about those who are already showing it is possible to make a real difference in our world and to “matter”, in areas such as politics, activism, education and more. It is also a place for you to share your own ideas on mattering, and how we can contribute to a thriving world for all.
These pages are emerging over time, and we encourage you to send us examples of initiatives and people who inspire you in a deep and meaningful way.
When responding to issues such as climate change, our perspective on relationships is often expressed in terms of individual change versus collective change, bottom-up versus top-down change, or local versus global change. If our goal is to transform systems at a global scale, understanding the relationship between individuals and systems is critical.
Read MoreArt provides unexpected, compelling and novel ways of viewing the world. We may be able to perceive, and even imagine, ourselves and our world differently through making or engaging creative work.
Read MoreTransformations to an equitable and thriving world will not happen through wishful thinking and hope. In fact, action and agency are essential to realizing desired outcomes and to manifest the quality and depth of changes called for in times of crisis. It is not just agency, but the quality of agency that is important when it comes to scaling transformative change.
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