Writings from the Cellular to the Whole

The Big Waves Journal

The Power of Not Knowing
Joanne Kerrigan

I’m learning to crab walk. I decided to try something new to combat my reduced…

Four silhouettes of people sitting on a lake looking at multicoloured planets in the sky
The Monsters in the Curtain
Brook Thorndycraft

Systems came out of the imaginations of people and are created through millions of everyday…

A chalkboard has written on it "don't overthink it" and "over" is stroked out with "under" written above it.
Don’t Underthink It.
Joanne Kerrigan

Knowing what we hope for in any given situation – or undertaking, or conversation, or…

Dialogue for Equity: Orienting to a Distant Star
Brook Thorndycraft

We can build the skills to have the kinds of uncomfortable conversations that allow us…

The Urgency Audit.
Joanne Kerrigan

The organization may stop encouraging or rewarding needless urgency, but if it hasn’t mapped out…

Picture of two metal torches. The one on the left has an open flame. The one on the right has smoke coming out of it.
Leadership Behaviours For Regenerative Power
Brook Thorndycraft

Power is not in and of itself a bad thing. However, in social change spheres…