Beautiful work, Aude. Your invitation to see the commons as living relationships, cared for through daily acts of emotional presence, shared ritual, and reciprocity, resonates powerfully with me.
Your experience at the Dhome brings this vision into embodiment—showing how stewardship is not merely conceptual but rooted in how we consistently show up and hold space for one another and the land
It echoes profoundly with how #Quaker gatherings unfold (I'm not a Quaker so this view is from reading about it) —with silence, equal voice, deep listening, and mutual presence. Similarly, in our Value Exchange meetings, we endeavour to honour connection over agendas, allowing relational insights to surface rather than controlling outcomes. Your writing helps remind us that we’ve forgotten more than we remember about relational approaches—substituting judgment, disconnection, even violence, for reciprocity and reverence.
I especially appreciate how you situate the commons in the everyday practice of care—not as abstract ideals, but as lived, embodied disciplines. There's a clear contrast here to dominant cultures of extraction and measurement that still shape our institutions.
Thank you for tending to the memories and practices that make regeneration possible. This feels like an essential reminder—and provocation—for those of us investing in systems change: not only to design regenerative structures, but to live in them.
I’m moved by how you see the commons not as something “out there,” but as a living web of relationships sustained through care, presence, and ritual. Your reference to Quaker gatherings adds such a rich layer, especially the reminder that silence and mutual presence can be profoundly generative. There’s something vital in that slowing down... in allowing connection to lead the way.
Your description of your Value Exchange meetings is beautiful, honouring connection over agendas, yes. That’s exactly the kind of discipline I believe is necessary for systems change to truly take root in the relational soil we often overlook.
I’m especially grateful for your phrase: “we’ve forgotten more than we remember about relational approaches.” It captures so well the ache and the hope I feel when writing about this work. Thank you for seeing and naming that.
Beautiful work, Aude. Your invitation to see the commons as living relationships, cared for through daily acts of emotional presence, shared ritual, and reciprocity, resonates powerfully with me.
Your experience at the Dhome brings this vision into embodiment—showing how stewardship is not merely conceptual but rooted in how we consistently show up and hold space for one another and the land
It echoes profoundly with how #Quaker gatherings unfold (I'm not a Quaker so this view is from reading about it) —with silence, equal voice, deep listening, and mutual presence. Similarly, in our Value Exchange meetings, we endeavour to honour connection over agendas, allowing relational insights to surface rather than controlling outcomes. Your writing helps remind us that we’ve forgotten more than we remember about relational approaches—substituting judgment, disconnection, even violence, for reciprocity and reverence.
I especially appreciate how you situate the commons in the everyday practice of care—not as abstract ideals, but as lived, embodied disciplines. There's a clear contrast here to dominant cultures of extraction and measurement that still shape our institutions.
Thank you for tending to the memories and practices that make regeneration possible. This feels like an essential reminder—and provocation—for those of us investing in systems change: not only to design regenerative structures, but to live in them.
Thank you so much for this generous reflection.
I’m moved by how you see the commons not as something “out there,” but as a living web of relationships sustained through care, presence, and ritual. Your reference to Quaker gatherings adds such a rich layer, especially the reminder that silence and mutual presence can be profoundly generative. There’s something vital in that slowing down... in allowing connection to lead the way.
Your description of your Value Exchange meetings is beautiful, honouring connection over agendas, yes. That’s exactly the kind of discipline I believe is necessary for systems change to truly take root in the relational soil we often overlook.
I’m especially grateful for your phrase: “we’ve forgotten more than we remember about relational approaches.” It captures so well the ache and the hope I feel when writing about this work. Thank you for seeing and naming that.
Let’s keep remembering together.