The Climate Consciousness Summit begins...

By Megan Lindow

StoryMoss is a small collective of StoryWeavers and StoryHealers in the Design School for Regenerating Earth. We are honored and excited to be collaborating in the upcoming Climate Consciousness Summit of the Pocket Project, happening 14-20 November in parallel with COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

You can join this free online Summit too - with this registration link.

Weaving with the wisdom of Thomas Hübl, Bayo Akomolafe, Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Nora Bateson, Francis Weller and many others, the Summit opens a powerful living field to explore the connections of inner and outer healing: the possibilities of restoring and repairing the nervous system and the biosphere.

As Thomas Hübl has said, we are nature. A recent Global Social Witnessing call with Pocket Project CEO Kosha Joubert and systems healer Louise Marra from Aotearoa made this wisdom experiential. Together on Zoom, we turned our focus inward to connect with the feeling of 60,000 miles of rivers coursing within us. We felt into all the electromagnetic and elemental living relationships that are unfolding all the time, within us, through us, between us, as our bodies exchange photons, air molecules, impulses and inspirations with a wider matrix of life.

The nervous system – or, as Marra prefers to call it, the alchemical system – is our dazzling, intricate and sensitively attuned inner / outer interface. It is our "Meadow-Verse" of communication and relationship (to borrow inspiration from Nora Bateson), constantly threading the pathways of perception and responsiveness through we meet ourselves and the world.

The alchemical nervous system holds exquisite relational intelligence. After our call, I take off my shoes and walk barefoot on the ground soft with composting pine needles. Feet exchanging ions with the mycelial networks of the soil. I feel resonance with the tree root lattices feeling down into the earth, and the towering branches reaching up towards the sky – these intricate structures of the tree body mirroring the branching patterns of my own alchemical nervous system.

In last year's conversation between Kosha Joubert and Thomas Hübl from the Climate Consciousness Summit, Hübl spoke of the nervous system as holding deep encoded layers of collective, global and ancestral information that we can tap into as the capacities of our nervous system expand. I experienced a powerful moment of this myself recently as I danced on the beach at the full moon, holding the egg pouch of a shark (a long distant ancestor), in my hand!

Trauma, on the other hand, contracts the nervous system. We freeze, or go into crisis mode. Losing our capacity to be in relation with the world, we cannot hear the beauty of its songs.

As Joubert observed, we are now more than 8 billion people around the world who are also biosphere, carrying the feelings of both oneness and separation within us. Given the constant alchemical fluctuations of our nervous systems, we may experience a wide continuum of these feelings on any given day, even from moment to moment.

As much as we evolved with the living world and are wired for nature connection, however, we have often collectively confronted ecological crisis from the stance of separation and reactivity, in the COP meetings and in other movements and forums.

It can feel almost unbearably painful to take in the mass deaths of coral reefs and forests, the extinctions of plants and animals. The melting of polar ice and tundra. The excruciating planetary toll of resource extraction, violence, inequality and war. The disappearance of local endemic species such as the maiden's quiver tree in southern Africa, as documented by journalist Leonie Joubert. The frightening collapse of ecosystems and acceleration towards planetary tipping points.

As Design School co-founders Joe Brewer and Penny Heiple ask, what would it take to bring humanity back into right relationship and coherence with how the Earth organises life?

With collective witnessing, bringing together healing, ecosystem restoration and climate movements, could we weave a larger intelligence? Could we seed new possibilities in our collective consciousness that would enable wider, more coherent and compassionate actions toward planetary repair?

Join us in exploring these questions at the Climate Consciousness Summit. You can sign up for free here: