Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff

11/18/20 • 57 min

Greta Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to be changed’. This is self-evidently true, but that leaves us with the question of what rules could we create that we could all live by. Polly Higgins has the Earth Protector law, but Shelley Ostroff has gone one step further with her Codes for a Healthy Earth and the World Water law. Together, these rules spell out our connection with the More than Human world, and leave us with agency, initiative, and a sense of genuine flourishing.

Shelley Ostroff (PhD) is a planetary activist, leadership consultant, social architect, mystic and writer. She is the founder of www.togetherincreation.org, www.7days-of-rest.org, www.codes.earth and other initiatives dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants. Concerned by the suffering and devastation humans cause each other, other species and the planet, she dedicated herself to exploring whole-system systems dynamics and integrative healing wisdom from diverse disciplines and traditions. She has worked with people from all walks of life, from different sectors of society and across continents as a therapist, consultant, mentor, and creative partner in cultivating individual, collective and whole-system wellness. Through ongoing research and practice, she has developed a unique holistic approach to human and whole-system healing and transformation that includes evolving blueprints for a new form of holistic health-oriented global Eco-Governance.

Links:
Codes for a Healthy Earth https://www.codes.earth

Together in Creation: www.togetherincreation.org

Seven Days of Rest https://www.7days-of-rest.org/

Accidental Gods: https://accidentalgods.life/

Links:
Codes for a Healthy Earth https://www.codes.earth

Together in Creation: www.togetherincreation.org

Seven Days of Rest https://www.7days-of-rest.org/

Accidental Gods: https://accidentalgods.life/

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