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The Script for Transformation

 

Historic Kilauea Lighthouse. Kilauea Hawaii

Transitions leading to transformation continue to exceed imagined speeds, both globally, and locally. Sometimes it occurs like we are all collectively dancing the “Cha-Cha” or “Tango” going backwards to thrust forward, in a rhythm created by the tension of opposing forces, coming to one. A triune perspective, like the wholeness of the Yin-Yang symbol, helps temper the warming-heating contrast to go forward with momentum needed to better build movement and strengthen a collective consciousness of being in a myriad of crises, on this one Planet Earth.

Aligned in the depths of the mission and vision of what started as a Call for a “World Team” and morphed from Team World Corps, non-profit, and ultimately residing in our named registered; “World Team Now,” says the words of the visions’ priorities.  What if all in the world worked together as a team? Taking action together, teaming-up? The vision was to change the perspective of even divided hemispheres, the Global North against the Global South, but instead a real whole, World Team that united for our collective survival of all species in harmony with one another. Then what would be the goals?  WHO do we play against? What is the equivalent of a global race or game, that needs to be won for our future?  This movement is organically unfolding with little help from the mysterious ways that come from higher up.

Opening plenary, SDG Action Weekend 9/16/2023

The United Nations (UN) “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) — yes, in one’s brain the acronym tends to get confused with a contagious disease.  The UN speaks the language of acronyms, and this one gets a laugh or cry as we’ve learned when sharing about the goals publically most recently in Kauai, Hawaii USA. World Team Now’s systems solutions work on island resiliency and for the health of waters, especially the Ocean with a curriculum.

Bi-location is something many of us wanted to master, but now the team was growing to have at least one of us physically representing at the UN, and one on an island.  The beauty of these times is we can have a virtual and actual physical presence. Now there are so many people with the common vision each going forward in their own creative way at the United Nations and especially on islands to hold the light for a future.

The ironic laugh or cry in the corridors inside plenaries of the United Nations meeting rooms, on the home island of Manhattan is more about the seriousness of the situation we are in collectively with natural resources to be reprioritized. The Global Goals, targets and indicators to be achieved by 2030 are ambitious.  “Pie in the Sky,” is a remark I heard along the journey of World Team, too, but it is important to have values to aim for, however like regions of the world boundaries divided what divides us can limit us until the division is united by us people.

SDG Media Zone at the SDG Action Weekend & Summit

This Sustainable Development Goals Summit that preceded the 78th UNGA (United Nations General Assembly) was to take a look at our progress and set the tone for the work towards much needed transformation— action, beyond the bureaucratic siloed approach that has contributed to the crises we face, in the effort to aid. The perspective is what was called to check, at this half-time point since in 2015, and how to engage all people.  It is becoming more clear as what was falls away and becomes beyond the future we want, is the future that is Divinely inspired to become us all to remain being human here

Thankfully, these thoughts contemplated over 5 decades ago, are becoming a collective priority, expressed in myriads of diverse ways of action, played out creatively.  Next year more of the movement will play out in the public sphere to inspire all to participate. Out of the opposing tension of contrasting views, beliefs, and values in civil society, governments, corporations, and institutions, births an opportunity to see the light of peace collectively.

Especially prioritized in the hearts of youth today— peace in creative collective action is being demonstrated.  Youth armed with indigenous wisdom passed forward, innovative science and pioneering technology to lead with a Call for “All People”….

All People, those words remind of the lyrics of a beautiful song written by souls called “Voices of the World” gifted to us to use from brothers and sisters, a family of a common Call, as each individual made it to the Earth Summit / Global Forum in Rio Di Janiero for World Team decades ago that forged a bond over the years continuing to build on the collective movement.

Sunset North Shore Kauai

Here is where the Biodiversity Treaty, Law of the Sea, the annual Conference of the Parties COP, and other globally carved out efforts to meet and take on collective global environmental and social challenges rooted in the hearts. Many of these documents of global public policy roots were in those grounds of RIO or Rio+20, and now getting ready for COP28.  So many individuals committed to the long journey to show a resilient world with net zero energy and renewed systems coming back to respect an intimacy for nature-based solutions, for the next generation— for a regenerative future!

Although not from the present vantage point predictable, the 17 SDGs, aka the Global Goals, are for the higher possibility of what we each could be individually or together for the future transcending our past patterns and systems of organizing life on planet earth, ideally beyond one country.

In each breath, there is a choice to make a difference, in 24hrs/1Day, and/or a lifetime, sometimes we each have a choice of what to prioritize, and we all have in common a capacity to love. How do we make our place where love could be the priority for all by how we live?

SDG Digital, to accelerate the SDGs by digitization Sunday, Sept 17, 2023, UN SDG Action Weekend

With our roots in intercultural New York, state of mind, and at the UN SDG Summit, as world leaders have come together, and with our feet still in the sand, for resiliency in Kauai, Hawaii; bi-location would be of value, as we grow this team.

Holding the vision for World Team amidst a myriad of ways to “organize the world” through crises, allows for something organic to emerge. When not floating on the Ocean, teaching, advocating, and working on the curricula for certification we are virtually building out a World Team.  We hope to show you more soon.

Ocean Float

With the Ocean-Float Skate-Roll we are growing a way to represent and engage our communities in different places to experience more intimacy with the earth, land (A’aina) and Ocean waters (Moana, Kai). We are excited about the Ocean-Float curricula; clear the past out and join us in the Ocean, for the OCEAN, and YOU, and us all.

We have donated some sessions for Ocean-Float and Skate Roll to the auction now taking place virtually to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary CK Chu Tai Chi, in New York, NY USA.  The studio has not only helped transform us, but the neighborhood, and the island of Manhattan.  It is remarkable to witness the energy contributed to Times Square, NYC, where Ck Chu Tai Chi is based, and all who Teamed-up for the transformation of the heart of the city.  Team-up for transformation is key. Hope you can join us in this next chapter of island Ocean advocacy works teaming-up for us as One Body starting with one body— or all parts of us.  Along with one’s mind and spirit and soul there in, we practice being one with all within and throughout.

North Shore Kauai with ideal ocean conditions for Ocean-Float

World Team Now’s approach to the Sustainable Development Goals is like a sampling of small-scale systems solutions organically coming from the island innovation discovered, that is nature-based and rooted in the heritage of indigenous culture‘s wisdom, augmented by technology to boost our capacity to scale.

We are working to pilot systems solutions, consciously chosen.  For example, with transportation, Bertrand Piccard of the Solar Impulse shares the overview of that system vision here.

The action-oriented Summit for the Future, comprising a chapeau and five chapters on sustainable development and financing for development; international peace and security; science, technology, and innovation and digital cooperation; youth and future generations; and transforming global governance.

Specific measurable results with a “Common Agenda” for multilateralism are explained more here.

Together for environmental and social justice, as ONE, as in One People, ONE Ocean, One Body, One Earth. Teaming-up so literally, as the UN slogan goes so “no one gets left behind,” but we become one in the future.

SDG exhibit at the UN Sculpture lawn

Ocean “Day”, Ocean Decade- The Ocean Tide

May Ocean day, today, now become a tide of change.

A time of reflection, of new choices a season to rearrange

Can time be measured by counting merely one-day’s actions?

When it is a tide coming to change mass movement not small fractions

Is Doomsday the keeper of the ocean in humanity’s time?

United Nations Ocean Decade, judgement to be counted as sublime

Humanity’s peril existences blaring sound, sea level rising, revolt and alarm

To move beyond prioritizing fossil fuel habits, farmed fishing subsidies and geo-political harm

Oceans forgiving font of injustice abuses greedy power of humanity’s nuclear folly and plastic fears

Higher wisdom applied, timeless nature, transform age, enlightened minds stretch tides past years

Depths, resources, resiliency incomprehensible wealth amasses coming of a treasured tide

Could not all fall in love with the rich fluid, unchartered territory of wondrous loving waters to abide?

How to see the ocean a new, from large ocean states perspective and view

Open hearts to remind there is so much to do, to keep ocean in focus and not go askew

Majesty knows no bounds body freely floating in the ocean

Breath of life aligned one primal penultimate flowing motion

Bringing life force through body, spirit and renewing mind

Calibrating to universal order priorities, beyond the world to find

Nexus in atmosphere unifying source of life for us all

Boundaries of no division open beyond one’s rule, laws or Call

Oh but the healing powers, the body effervescence, can we embrace the intimacy coming of life force

Rejuvenating spirit keeper of most reflective powers above and below growing humanity’s new course

To apply respect, scientific knowledge navigate a transformed way, led by nature and the ocean of life

The solutions, based within natural forces will present like a husband coming in union with fertile wife

None other can birth captivate like ocean’s infinite sparkle to cleanse and reflect

Sun’s golden rise, moon’s face on full life force sets sail universal truths to eject

Preservation of species, marine protected areas, renewed policy for sea and shore

Next gen to live love of ocean, youth in action to core lasting solutions evermore

© 2022 Suzanne Maxx

World Water Day 2022

Lake Tekapo New Zeeland Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0

© By Suzanne Maxx

Water, being essential for life, ebbs and flows with a tide as does this World Water day that initiates the season of renewal with rituals as diverse as all the ways spirituality and religion are practiced in different parts of the world.

Regardless of belief, water is the most fundamental practical essences of life here on earth.

Let’s hear more about Water from WTN board member Walter Andrews, who has a wealth of experience, knowledge, and expertise on water from being a Charter Member of the EPA since founding and serving over 50 years.

Thanks for listening.

World Water Day was adopted at the United Nations Conference in Rio de Janeiro UNCED called the Earth Summit in 1992. The Earth Summit and Global Forum were life-changing experiences to participate in during the beginning years of the World Team journey, before founding our non-profit World Team Now. For many of us committed to the environmental social movement greater teamwork for the earth of the next generation began then.

1993 began World Water Day’s annual water day themes. Here too was the beginning of the journey to the UN’s ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals – with water now in SDG’s #6 Clean Water and Sanitation. Every year, there is a new theme for World Water Day whose tide seems to go from the 20th-23rd of March every year.

Let’s all do our best for the water and earth every day. For me growing up every day was actually was World Water Day when my mother came home from work at EPA where she was an environmental scientist, let’s all be citizen scientists for our earth Mother, and protect our common lifeblood, Water.

Please let us know If you are interested in the Water Themes World Team Now is exploring: drinking water purification, distribution, water sanitation, desalination of saltwater to freshwater, water from the hydrogen fuel cell, water for energy, as in tidal, and wave energy, water for transportation, and water for cleansing, birthing, exercising, healing and rituals.

Are there any other water themes you are interested for us to explore?

If you are interested in helping with any of our water programs, especially the ocean curricula, please let us know.

Please feel free to add ideas, share, or join us reach out to us at contact-us@worldteamnow.org or me,  Suzanne Maxx

#Water #groundwater #WorldWaterDay; #SaveWater; #waterday; #groundwater; #WaterIsLife;  #newjersey #Aquifers #RainwaterHarvesting; #USVI; #VirginIslands #WorldWaterDay2022 #sdg6 #worldteamnow #WaterDayEveryDay

 

Wisdom for Peace

© By Suzanne Maxx

Especially knowing today that if women ruled the world, and had the freedom of choice, war would be impossible.

We, as women, embody a creative nature and by nature the care and love of one another is organic.  We nurture love to grow, within and throughout, the best we can in all.   This is true where the Divine feminine can grow.

Last week’s “Ash Wednesday,” began a season, with the kind of tide I can appreciate rising.  Unlike the sea level rising and the stresses on the ocean/atmosphere hurricane and cyclone season.

Thankfully, Ash Wednesday was not like 2020’s when I looked up from the music, singing in a choir, to end up in the ER with ashes in my eyes.

In 2022, when I began writing to fill the blank pages of a brand new gifted journal, it would become my #69 handwritten book, with a beautiful cover of a 3D color Owl.  In the morning, I began to fill up the journal with not just my mind’s ideas, but also the spontaneity of inspired heart and soul of what became a great gift; I have come to appreciate the “present” as upon contemplation and reflection it calls forth the vision, to the future. This Wednesday was no exception.

I stretched out my body,  held in the air, my limbs kissing the tree limbs holding my weight under the canopy of a great pine tree whose wispy green needles’ tent hid me entirely under its branches. Our eyes locked gazing into one another’s core essence for what felt like an eternity, I could feel Owl’s wisdom penetrating beyond gender, species, boundaries, and borders.

We both seemed to echo “Words of wisdom beyond sound or writing!”

The kind of silent reverence, equality respect, and curiosity exchanged, as I too was lying  bowing underneath on trees bough, communing in the shared safety of nature’s grip away from the development of the world,  at least for a few moments, the noise of the city was gone. In my mind, I answer Owl’s query of “WHO?”

“If not US, then Who?  Who will defend nature, or at least find peaceful harmony?”

I hear beyond the whisper of words, the soundless syllables, and the owl’s wise plea.

True to the owl totem, the dark of the night is when the work gets done, not in daylight. Thus the miraculous encounter. The Owls eyes were wide open in the light, and willing to meet my eyes!

Even though now night, maybe somewhere in the world, it is still International Women’s Day.  Or maybe Women’s Day is every day, for every species?

#InternationalWomensDay, #Owl, #OwlTotem, #InterspeciesCommunication, #BeyondGender, #BeyondBoundaries, #TransformationTide, #WorldTeamNow, #WoldTeamProject, #UNCLOS #Writing #NaturesLove

Clarity of Vision 2020

 

 

 

Clarity of Vision 2020

Yes, the sea level is rising and so are we,

Us, people, we remember what we can be,

 

Not just the indigenousness, refugees, women, and youth

But the scientists, the teachers, and all researching for truth

 

We look to nature, grappling to understand our own humanity

Aware of decisions embracing natural systems learning biomimicry

Being beyond illusion with human frailty, in perceived reality,

Embracing opposing forces and organized complexity

 

Machines living with humans gain a symbiotic path

True wealth shifts beyond banking on the numbers the logic or the math

 

Out of the smoke, the flames, the ashes, disease, and war

In our interdependent world, we wonder what we can endure

 

Will new priorities change our ways and our hearts?

We do have a choice and can begin again with new starts

 

This lives true, not just for some, but now for us all

To think of the earth, nature, our common home like a call.

 

Can our differences a wealth of diversity together withstand the night

In awareness, balance, compassion–doing what we think is best and maybe right.

 

Our roles in this big global world yielding to a smaller tribal community

Uniting beyond Nations, living Earth Day-every day, we can realize Laudato Si

With a step, an action, a charity, Cause- truly it’s what we each can BE

 

it is us all together and what makes this Divine

Is awakening to the gifts beyond words, thought or rhyme

 

It’s time for action with Movements of societal, and environmental transformation

To make good use of data, resources, not just for money, but for public education

 

To respond to this New Year, decade, in 2020 vision gaining clarity of sight

To reach global goals here on earth, with justice, peace, living love and light

 

Maybe we can live and be like a World Team Now

It’s a mystery to know when, and fine details of how

 

Beyond summer or Winter Solstice, your shortest or longest day of light

May 2020 yield the clarity of vision good health and perfect sight

 

For equality and freedom within the Northern or Southern hemisphere

Where all people realize one home and appreciate human nature on this sphere

 

To navigate the stars, sail through the ocean to the Hero’s journey lives the dream,

With youth from around the world coming together, we can all make World Team.

 

Beyond the money, there is a greater wealth

Wishing you, and all on our planet optimal health

 

Of justice, truth, joy, and love,

For our home on earth, not just above

 

 

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