By Robyn McLean
This podcast is a how to guide for transforming ourselves, our communities and society. Many of us have acknowledged the pressing need for change in the world - we notice the fear, the conflict, th
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The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful.
This episode is a spotlight on Tapestry Collective Co-op, with insights from all four owner members including host Robyn McLean. Learn about our innovative, heart-led approach to business, where blending meaningful work, nurturing strong relationships, and balancing visionary leadership with humble listening drives everything we do.
What we cover in this episode:
0:32 - Welcome and introduction
2:41 - What is Tapestry Collective Co-op? Describing what we do
9:07 - Celebrating Tapestry: Describing our recent commitment ritual
13: 53 - Why each of us are drawn to working with Tapestry
44:00 - Tapestry Operations: How our organization operates as a microcosm for the change we want to see in the world
1:01:04 - The Warp and the Weft: How Tapestry’s guiding principles help us navigate the inherent tensions in this complex work we do.
Warp: The vertical threads in weaving, providing structure and stability.
Weft: The horizontal threads woven through the warp, adding design and pattern
1:13:19 - Summary and Closing
You can find the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/MXZY9mldEu8
Links:
https://tapestrycollectiveco-op.com/ - Information about Tapestry Collective Co-op
https://weavingthefuture.net/ - Information about the podcast, courses and other opportunities to connect
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The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful.
This episode focuses on Working in radically different ways:
0:00 - Welcome and introduction
3:20 - What do I mean by “working in radically different ways”?
5:50 - Vision for working in radically different ways
8:21 - My journey with work
17:07 - Harmonizing statements
29:04 - Next steps
You can find the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/l3KOaVpQ5lA
Links:
https://weavingthefuture.net/ - Information about the podcast, courses and other opportunities to connect
https://tapestrycollectiveco-op.com/ - Information about consulting services of Tapestry Collective Co-op
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This episode focuses on the joys, challenges and importance of communal living (which we shifted to calling "shared living" during the discussion).
0:00 Intro
2:18 What do I mean by communal living?
13:58 - Discussion - Give us a snapshot of your journey with shared living/ communal living - we hear some incredible rich experiences and learnings from each of the folks that attended live
49:05 - Why communal living? Tying to a larger vision for the world
53:23 - Wicked questions related to communal living
- When there is tension, which is inevitable, there can be so much processing needed. How can we live in a communal way without getting bogged down by the processes?
- One of the responses - coming back into our animal bodies, for example through ritual
59:43 - What are we longing for? What does success look like in shared living? What are we longing to feel or experience in community, and if we can imagine an ideal community or shared living setting, what might that look like?
1:13:18 - Plan for Community of Practice for Shared Living
Link to the YouTube video for this episode: https://youtu.be/4MNeP5G7SVs
Links for Weaving the Future and Robyn McLean:
https://weavingthefuture.net/ - Information about the podcast, courses and other opportunities to connect
https://tapestrycollectiveco-op.com/ - Information about consulting services of Tapestry Collective Co-op
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The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. Every month, we start by taking some time to frame and get some shared understanding of a topic, followed by a group discussion centred around questions that are emerging, interesting or challenging.
This episode kicks off a regular monthly schedule of community discussions, which are also live recordings for the podcast and YouTube versions of these episodes. We focus on the questions: What would a different economic system look like? How would that look and feel different in our everyday lives?
I start by sharing takeaways from attending the Ownership Matters conference in Victoria, BC in early May 2024. The model of Community Ownership presented in this work presents one of the most exciting and promising ideas for how we might shift our economic system from something abstract into something that brings our hearts, everyday lives and sense of empowerment back into how we talk about economics.
We then had a group discussion focused on these questions:
- What is a vision for a different economic system?
- We do we want our everyday lives to look like? If we could create the perfect life for yourself and your community, what would that look like?
- What needs to happen to support this way of living? This includes the question of what economic system would support the everyday lives we are hoping for.
You can find the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/atZgl0Cc1ms
Links for Weaving the Future and Robyn McLean:
https://weavingthefuture.net/ - Information about the podcast, courses and other opportunities to connect
https://tapestrycollectiveco-op.com/ - Information about consulting services of Tapestry Collective Co-op
https://calendly.com/robyntapestry/weaving-the-future-initial-consult - Book a free initial consult to talk about what would support you to make meaningful change in the world
Links and resources for this episode, including a few examples of community ownership in BC and Canada:
https://ownershipmatters.ca/ - Report and resources about building community wealth in Canada, part of a larger research project of Royal Roads University and Scale Institute and is supported by funding from the Vancouver Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
https://www.propoliscooperative.com/bond-campaign - Chance to invest in a community bond campaign to build affordable green homes in Kamloops, BC. This is a community ownership project spearheaded by Tapestry team member Lindsay Harris.
https://www.communityimpactrealestate.ca/ - social enterprise property management company in Vancouver, BC. Income generated by the market-value leased units, allows leases to non-profits and social enterprises at below-market rates in exchange for the impact created through their services.
https://salishseaind.com/ - An Indigenous-owned and operated business in Victoria, BC, offering pile driving and dredging services.
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This episode was recorded back in June 2022. Happy to share it now, as we are rebooting this podcast.
We talked about starting from a belief that the system we live in CAN change, and staring with:
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Weaving the Future Podcast is a passion project birthed at the height of the pandemic, and the podcast episodes I released at this time are very close to my heart. They capture deep reflections on the kind of world I want to live in and my role in shaping it. The podcast has mostly been on hiatus over the past few years as I grappled with some massive changes in my life. In the background, I have actively continued to live the questions that have shaped this work.
In this episode, I reflect on the question of How can we live and work in radically different ways?
In particular, how do we move toward lives that are nourishing, just, compassionate, meaningful, sacred, joyful, sensual….? How do we return to a sense of belonging with ourselves, other humans, the web of life and the land?
I start with some deep and vulnerable storytelling about the last decade of my life, in which I have orchestrated some extraordinary transformation in my life and my approach to work. I share insights on living and working in radically different ways, emphasizing embodying deep love and nourishment for oneself over urgency and fear.
The episode ends with an open discussion inviting some of the people most dear to me who attended the live recording to share feedback, questions and suggestions for future episodes.
If you would like to learn more about me and my work, check out:
www.weavingthefuture.net
www.tapestrycollectiveco-op
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We are all craving lives that are more authentic, connected, wild, sacred, in touch with our personal power and expression, collaborative, joyful. Lives that are equitable, where we look after each other. Lives that have more ritual, dance, celebration, expression, compassion, stillness, sensuality, awareness, and alignment.
But where do we start? We will dig into this question together in a 3-part series of rich community conversations.
This conversation was recorded on May 11 at 12pm PST and focused on the Relationship level. This included talking about how relationships can transform, then discussing different aspects of relationship:
- Moving at the Speed of Trust
- Transformational Collaboration
- Living in Close Community
- Mutual Aid and Caring for Each Other
Check out the episode about where we start at the individual level on:
- Podcast website (https://www.weavingthefuture.show/
- Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zQh...)
Email [email protected] with any questions or if you are interested in working together.
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I’ll present a list of things to consider, to learn about, or to practice in order to help understand and work toward the change we need to see in the world. Honestly, I get frustrated when I see too much individual focus where there, but obviously our society is made up of individuals who all need to start somewhere? So what can we do?
Overall, I suggest the idea of living the questions, rather than trying to have all the answers.
In this episode, I offer the follow starting points for where to start:
Resources I mention:
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This is a guided visualization, meant to help our bodies, minds and spirits tune into a vision for society, connecting with others, expressing our inner voice and gifts, and the reflecting on what healing might be helpful for getting there.
This visualization came to me as a “soul download” after doing some breath work during a period that I was working on this project quite a bit. I was surprised, since I had been taking more of an intellectual approach to this work up to that point. This felt like a reminder that our hearts and spirits are integral to the world we are creating, and will be integral to the process of creating that world as well.
The beautiful background music was composed by our sound editor Dustin Zwaryck, including samples of sound healing instruments used by my partner and I for ceremony.
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I discuss some of the deep-seated mindsets that are at the root of our culture, along with what mindsets we might tune into in order to transform ourselves, our communities and our societies. Other terms that could be used here are assumptions, deep seated habits or paradigms.
I focus first on moving from the assumption that we are separate from the natural world and need to dominate it, toward the mindset that we are a part of the natural world, able to live in harmony and be regenerative.
Next, I talk about moving from a scarcity mindset based on fear to a mindset of abundance based on compassion, gratitude, and being “materially simple and relationally rich”.
Thirdly, I talk about moving from a place of favouring aspects of our being that are more traditionally masculine or yang and tuning into aspects of femininity or yin that we have been rejecting. This includes honouring and learning from emotion and observing and receiving rather than jumping to action.
Finally, I discuss moving from a more linear and causation-based mindset, toward one that embraces complexity and emergence.
Resources I refer to in this episode include the Water of Systems change from fsg.org, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sacred Economics by Charles Eistentein, This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein, Dancing with Systems by Donella Meadows, and https://www.kristenappenrodt.com/herstory.
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.