Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of the Past - Free Zoom Webinar
Wednesday 26th February 7.00 – 8.30pm.
The bottom of the Earth’s oceans and seas are littered with shipwrecks of all shapes and sizes that literally go back thousands of years. The oldest known boat dates to about 10,000 years ago.
All in their time were seaworthy and some, like the most famous wreck of all The Titanic, were even regarded in their day as being unsinkable.
Yet when The Titanic hit an iceberg on that fateful day in 1912 it suddenly found out that it too like all its predecessors wasn’t.
Ships are like relationships. And relationships are like ships.
They must be, as the word Relationship ends in SHIP!
They’re great whilst they are afloat and heading safely into the future with everybody on board literally, but when they hit stormy weather, rocks, icebergs or 40-foot waves crashing onto to the deck, all hell breaks loose.
If the relation(ship) starts to sink, then some abandon ship, others choose to go down with it whilst others try and cling onto what is left of the wreckage and hope that someone or something will save them.
Then come the arguments and recriminations as to who was to blame for the ship’s sinking and who gets salvage rights over wreckage.
Whilst the analogy can be easily seen for personal relationships, the same principles apply for example to our relationship with our Host planet, Mother Earth. Or Spaceship Earth as Buckminster Fuller called it as it, and we its passengers, sail through the waves of the Universal oceans of time and space towards an unknown, uncharted and uncertain future.
Yet we humans seem to be on course for making our planet uninhabitable by turning it into a polluted and toxic wreck. Our preferred solution to this “problem” seems to be to maybe decamp to an even less habitable planet than this one and wreck that one too!
This planet has everything we need if we can work out how to have a sustainable and mutually beneficial relationship with it rather than the largely parasitic one we have with it at the moment. The same principle applies to our personal relationships too.
Can we find therefore sustainable ways of making relationships work and also sustainable ways of dealing with them when they don’t?
In this free Webinar we will explore how we can salvage the most important thing possible from the wreckage when relationships go wrong – the future.
To do so we do not need to recover what’s left of the wreckage of the past in order to survive. We need to build the Ark of the Future so that all people, plants, animals and planets involved in those relationships can not only survive but thrive.
The future is after all an evolution towards something better, not a revolution against something wrong.
This Webinar forms part of an ongoing series on Building Sustainable Relationships and Resolving Conflict.
All are welcome and hopefully it will be an interesting and revealing engagement with some light bulb moments along the way.
Facilitator: Tony Kearney
Tony grew up in New Zealand where he trained as a solicitor. He then worked as a solicitor in London for over 20 years before moving to Ireland in 2006 to further his work around building sustainable relationships into the future. This includes planting a forest on the farm where he now lives and acting as a Mediator in workplace, community, schools, family, and commercial disputes. He also runs training and other events and is the author of five books.