Intentional Evolution

Living Wholeness is a pattern that has been sourced through the collaboration of Vanessa Reid, Maria Scordialos, and Sarah Whiteley and in partnership with the land of Axladitsa as a teacher and co-learner. Living Wholeness is a real time inquiry. It is not a concept, but rather a life practice of individually and collectively living our lives and our vocations as a legacy to future generations. A core question with which we work is:

"How do we bring together our purpose and the seeds we carry in our soul with the way we live and work in the world, so that living is an art form in service to a greater whole?"

The Living Wholeness Institute creates these containers by bringing together diverse people and contexts to create learning ecologies that catalyse the capacity to translate today’s deeply entrenched challenges into radically new forms and solutions. We build capacity through fusing established good practice with sources of new knowledge that initially appear ambiguous.

Specifically, we are action-researchers who offer consulting services, who initiate and host societal-level change initiatives, provide trainings and workshops, innovative depth-learning programmes and tranformational learning journeys. Our work builds the capacity for leadership of systemic change and transformation at local, national and international scales. These containers accelerate a quality of collective learning and transformation that we refer to as "intentional evolution".

Practice Leadership

Through our daily lives and through the work of the Living Wholeness Institute, we initiate and co-create spaces and initiatives where people can learn, co-create, practice, prototype, collaborate, experiment and live wholeness. At a more subtle level, we have been creating a container for a kind of collective re-membering of what it means to be in intimate and integrated relationship with oneself, with others, our natural environment and with the animus mundi, the soul of the world.  This relationship allows us to live life consciously - with what we can see and touch, as well as with what we sense is there but is not yet visible - in order to access a wider and deeper scope of intelligences.  Working with the invisible, or intangible, is one of the hallmarks of Living Wholeness.

LWI’s practice leadership combines working with self-organisation, emergence, transformation, social innovation, artistry and process design. Our approach works with the Living Wholeness Route Map which includes moving between the individual and the collective, the visible and invisible. This activates a wider range of intelligence to include the collective unconscious, the power of place, intuition and body wisdom and many other practices - both subtle and participatory - that catalyse new ways of living on earth for people and planet and generations to come.

A Glimpse of the Route Map

The Living Wholeness Route Map is our compass for working with the visible and invisible, the individual and collective. We travel through six key orientation points to create the conditions to travel to and from the visible to the “subterranean” or collective unconscious: 1) arriving and orienting, 2) building our learning ecology, a community of learners 3) communing with the wild soul (both the world’s and our own); 4) translating this into a new narrative, 5) transforming by giving form to our discoveries and 6) transporting what we see together to integrate into our own lives, callings, systems and places.