A quiet celebration...
I'm delighted to share that my new book, Con Viv: Learning to Live with Life, is now available through the Living Earth College website.
This book was born from a simple but profound question: What if the greatest barrier to addressing our environmental, social and economic challenges is not a lack of knowledge, but the way we have learned to perceive the systems we participate in?
Con Viv invites a fundamental shift in perception. It asks us to move beyond seeing the world as something to manage, optimise or fix, and instead to recognise that we are participants in living systems, at home, in our communities, in our workplaces, and in the institutions we create together.
This is not simply a book about changing individual lifestyles. Nor is it only about reforming governments or organisations. It is about transforming the relationships between self, community and institutions, recognising that each shapes the other. We are not separate from the systems we wish to change; we are active citizens, practitioners, leaders, neighbours and colleagues who recreate those systems every day through our choices and practices.
The book gently challenges the ways governments, councils, schools, businesses and community organisations work, not to criticise them, but to illuminate another possibility. What if community wellbeing, climate resilience and local economies were no longer treated as separate policy areas, but as living relationships to be cultivated together through everyday practice?
This is an invitation to move beyond strategies that remain on paper and towards practices that bring life into the centre of decision-making. It is about learning to work with life rather than on life, whether we are growing food, designing policy, leading an organisation, teaching in a classroom or caring for a neighbourhood.
My hope is that Con Viv encourages a quiet but profound revolution….not one of ideology, but of perception. Because when perception changes, practice changes. And when practice changes, the systems we create together begin to change too.
This is not only deeply fulfilling work; it is practical, joyful and, I believe, economically transformative.
Welcome to Con Viv: Learning to Live with Life.
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