The Lifeboat Academy
@lifeboatacademy.bsky.social
Our mission is to support the creation of a fleet of "lifeboats" - place-based resilience networks that share information, resources and aid as we collectively navigate social and economic collapse.
“If imagination can create the dead-end crises of our time, it can also create the doorway through them.”
Our way forward won’t come from fear — it will come from imagining differently.
With honesty, courage, and new possibilities.
#ImaginationAsPractice #BillPlotkin #LifeboatAcademy
Our way forward won’t come from fear — it will come from imagining differently.
With honesty, courage, and new possibilities.
#ImaginationAsPractice #BillPlotkin #LifeboatAcademy
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“If imagination can create the dead-end crises of our time, it can also create the doorway through them.”
Our way forward won’t come from fear — it will come from imagining differently.
With honesty, courage, and new possibilities.
#ImaginationAsPractice #BillPlotkin #LifeboatAcademy
Our way forward won’t come from fear — it will come from imagining differently.
With honesty, courage, and new possibilities.
#ImaginationAsPractice #BillPlotkin #LifeboatAcademy
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Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
Bullies, Stooges, Lackeys and the Rest of Us
Everything you need to know about global politics you learned in elementary school
emotusoperandi.medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
“Make trouble. Stir up potent responses. Settle troubled waters. Rebuild quiet places.”
Some trouble is necessary — it wakes us up and clears space for repair.
This week’s practice:
Respond to harm, and tend what needs rebuilding.
Both matter.
#GoodTrouble #donnaharaway #LifeboatAcademy
Some trouble is necessary — it wakes us up and clears space for repair.
This week’s practice:
Respond to harm, and tend what needs rebuilding.
Both matter.
#GoodTrouble #donnaharaway #LifeboatAcademy
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Make trouble. Stir up potent responses. Settle troubled waters. Rebuild quiet places.”
Some trouble is necessary — it wakes us up and clears space for repair.
This week’s practice:
Respond to harm, and tend what needs rebuilding.
Both matter.
#GoodTrouble #donnaharaway #LifeboatAcademy
Some trouble is necessary — it wakes us up and clears space for repair.
This week’s practice:
Respond to harm, and tend what needs rebuilding.
Both matter.
#GoodTrouble #donnaharaway #LifeboatAcademy
“We protect what we fall in love with.”
Love roots us.
It steadies us.
It gives us the courage to stop looking away and start tending what matters.
This is how we show up: not from fear, but from devotion.
#EarthHeart #WeProtectWhatWeLove #LifeboatAcademy #robinwallkimmerer
Love roots us.
It steadies us.
It gives us the courage to stop looking away and start tending what matters.
This is how we show up: not from fear, but from devotion.
#EarthHeart #WeProtectWhatWeLove #LifeboatAcademy #robinwallkimmerer
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“We protect what we fall in love with.”
Love roots us.
It steadies us.
It gives us the courage to stop looking away and start tending what matters.
This is how we show up: not from fear, but from devotion.
#EarthHeart #WeProtectWhatWeLove #LifeboatAcademy #robinwallkimmerer
Love roots us.
It steadies us.
It gives us the courage to stop looking away and start tending what matters.
This is how we show up: not from fear, but from devotion.
#EarthHeart #WeProtectWhatWeLove #LifeboatAcademy #robinwallkimmerer
A lot of what looks like “chaos” is just playground logic scaled up: bullies, stooges, and too many people staying quiet.
But silence isn’t neutral.
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
Integrity needs presence. Safety needs all of us.
#ShowUp #CollectiveIntegrity #LifeboatAcademy
But silence isn’t neutral.
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
Integrity needs presence. Safety needs all of us.
#ShowUp #CollectiveIntegrity #LifeboatAcademy
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A lot of what looks like “chaos” is just playground logic scaled up: bullies, stooges, and too many people staying quiet.
But silence isn’t neutral.
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
Integrity needs presence. Safety needs all of us.
#ShowUp #CollectiveIntegrity #LifeboatAcademy
But silence isn’t neutral.
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
Integrity needs presence. Safety needs all of us.
#ShowUp #CollectiveIntegrity #LifeboatAcademy
Reposted by The Lifeboat Academy
Diversity United by Fernando Sánchez Castillo, 2020 (5000 bronze figurines of August Landmesser refusing to salute in a crowd of Germans, 1936)
#augustlandmesser #fernandosanchezcastillo #art #artinstallation #bronze #fightoligarchy
#augustlandmesser #fernandosanchezcastillo #art #artinstallation #bronze #fightoligarchy
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Diversity United by Fernando Sánchez Castillo, 2020 (5000 bronze figurines of August Landmesser refusing to salute in a crowd of Germans, 1936)
#augustlandmesser #fernandosanchezcastillo #art #artinstallation #bronze #fightoligarchy
#augustlandmesser #fernandosanchezcastillo #art #artinstallation #bronze #fightoligarchy
Collapse is here. Our work at the Lifeboat Academy matters now more than ever. Support, collaborate, or connect—every bit counts.
#CourageInTheCracks #RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#CourageInTheCracks #RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Courage in the Cracks
An invitation to the work of re-making an economy that sustains life and living things
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Collapse is here. Our work at the Lifeboat Academy matters now more than ever. Support, collaborate, or connect—every bit counts.
#CourageInTheCracks #RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#CourageInTheCracks #RelationalEconomics #Farmastery #NextEconomy #ReturnOnRelationship
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Noticing is a practice of integrity.
When we choose to see what’s actually happening—inside us and around us—the whole landscape shifts.
Complicity thrives on inattention.
Liberation begins when we look directly.
#Noticing #Integrity #CollectiveCare #LifeboatAcademy
When we choose to see what’s actually happening—inside us and around us—the whole landscape shifts.
Complicity thrives on inattention.
Liberation begins when we look directly.
#Noticing #Integrity #CollectiveCare #LifeboatAcademy
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Noticing is a practice of integrity.
When we choose to see what’s actually happening—inside us and around us—the whole landscape shifts.
Complicity thrives on inattention.
Liberation begins when we look directly.
#Noticing #Integrity #CollectiveCare #LifeboatAcademy
When we choose to see what’s actually happening—inside us and around us—the whole landscape shifts.
Complicity thrives on inattention.
Liberation begins when we look directly.
#Noticing #Integrity #CollectiveCare #LifeboatAcademy
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
Bullies, Stooges, Lackeys and the Rest of Us
Everything you need to know about global politics you learned in elementary school
emotusoperandi.medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bullies only win when the rest of us don’t show up.
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
This week’s anchor: choosing integrity over avoidance.
Full article: emotusoperandi.medium.com/bullies-stoo...
#ShowUp #CollectiveCourage #Resilience
Octavia Butler reminds us that change is never one-way:
“All that you touch, you change.
All that you change changes you.”
A gentle cue toward reciprocity, presence, and moving through the world with care.
#Interbeing #MutualBecoming #FieldNotes #OctaviaButler
“All that you touch, you change.
All that you change changes you.”
A gentle cue toward reciprocity, presence, and moving through the world with care.
#Interbeing #MutualBecoming #FieldNotes #OctaviaButler
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Octavia Butler reminds us that change is never one-way:
“All that you touch, you change.
All that you change changes you.”
A gentle cue toward reciprocity, presence, and moving through the world with care.
#Interbeing #MutualBecoming #FieldNotes #OctaviaButler
“All that you touch, you change.
All that you change changes you.”
A gentle cue toward reciprocity, presence, and moving through the world with care.
#Interbeing #MutualBecoming #FieldNotes #OctaviaButler
Crowfoot reminds us what “The Myth of the Bottleneck” taught last week: when life narrows, don’t grip harder — choose what’s good.
Even a handful of earth is enough to carry you through.
#HoldOn #BottleneckWisdom #Crowfoot
Even a handful of earth is enough to carry you through.
#HoldOn #BottleneckWisdom #Crowfoot
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Crowfoot reminds us what “The Myth of the Bottleneck” taught last week: when life narrows, don’t grip harder — choose what’s good.
Even a handful of earth is enough to carry you through.
#HoldOn #BottleneckWisdom #Crowfoot
Even a handful of earth is enough to carry you through.
#HoldOn #BottleneckWisdom #Crowfoot
What if you saw something familiar as if it were brand new?
Sometimes the world feels stuck because we've stopped noticing the small shifts.
A pause can bring the landscape back into motion.
#LookAgain #FreshEyes #EverydayWonder #NoticingMatters #SlowSeeing #RachelCarson #SeeingWhatsAlreadyMoving
Sometimes the world feels stuck because we've stopped noticing the small shifts.
A pause can bring the landscape back into motion.
#LookAgain #FreshEyes #EverydayWonder #NoticingMatters #SlowSeeing #RachelCarson #SeeingWhatsAlreadyMoving
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
What if you saw something familiar as if it were brand new?
Sometimes the world feels stuck because we've stopped noticing the small shifts.
A pause can bring the landscape back into motion.
#LookAgain #FreshEyes #EverydayWonder #NoticingMatters #SlowSeeing #RachelCarson #SeeingWhatsAlreadyMoving
Sometimes the world feels stuck because we've stopped noticing the small shifts.
A pause can bring the landscape back into motion.
#LookAgain #FreshEyes #EverydayWonder #NoticingMatters #SlowSeeing #RachelCarson #SeeingWhatsAlreadyMoving
Soil is a reminder that life moves long before we can see it.
Care, patience, and steady tending create the flow we depend on.
Sometimes the work is happening underneath our feet.
#Grounded #SlowWork #RegenerativeCulture #wendellberry
Care, patience, and steady tending create the flow we depend on.
Sometimes the work is happening underneath our feet.
#Grounded #SlowWork #RegenerativeCulture #wendellberry
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Soil is a reminder that life moves long before we can see it.
Care, patience, and steady tending create the flow we depend on.
Sometimes the work is happening underneath our feet.
#Grounded #SlowWork #RegenerativeCulture #wendellberry
Care, patience, and steady tending create the flow we depend on.
Sometimes the work is happening underneath our feet.
#Grounded #SlowWork #RegenerativeCulture #wendellberry
Real movement in any project often starts with something simple: people meeting each other.
Connection brings things back into flow.
#lifeboatacademy #margaretwheatley
Connection brings things back into flow.
#lifeboatacademy #margaretwheatley
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Real movement in any project often starts with something simple: people meeting each other.
Connection brings things back into flow.
#lifeboatacademy #margaretwheatley
Connection brings things back into flow.
#lifeboatacademy #margaretwheatley
In nature, nothing is wasted.
What looks like a mistake often becomes the thing that carries the work forward.
Compost is part of the process — not a detour.
#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #RegenerativePractice
What looks like a mistake often becomes the thing that carries the work forward.
Compost is part of the process — not a detour.
#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #RegenerativePractice
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In nature, nothing is wasted.
What looks like a mistake often becomes the thing that carries the work forward.
Compost is part of the process — not a detour.
#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #RegenerativePractice
What looks like a mistake often becomes the thing that carries the work forward.
Compost is part of the process — not a detour.
#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #RegenerativePractice
Sometimes the bottleneck isn’t the calendar — it’s the breath you’re holding. This week’s piece is about patience, pressure, and the small exhale that changes everything.
emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
#Patience #SlowWork #Leadership
emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
#Patience #SlowWork #Leadership
The Myth of the Bottleneck
Because patience isn't passive
emotus.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sometimes the bottleneck isn’t the calendar — it’s the breath you’re holding. This week’s piece is about patience, pressure, and the small exhale that changes everything.
emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
#Patience #SlowWork #Leadership
emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
#Patience #SlowWork #Leadership
Kimmerer’s reminder lands softly but precisely: restoration is empty without relationship. What lasts is the reciprocity we build with place — the ongoing, living exchange that outlives any single intervention.
#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology
#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Kimmerer’s reminder lands softly but precisely: restoration is empty without relationship. What lasts is the reciprocity we build with place — the ongoing, living exchange that outlives any single intervention.
#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology
#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology
Correctness can feel like clarity, but it often narrows our vision.
This week’s article explores how to see movement again in complex work — even in white-out conditions.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti points to the doorway: complexity, context, compassion.
#Complexity #Context #Compassion
This week’s article explores how to see movement again in complex work — even in white-out conditions.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti points to the doorway: complexity, context, compassion.
#Complexity #Context #Compassion
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Correctness can feel like clarity, but it often narrows our vision.
This week’s article explores how to see movement again in complex work — even in white-out conditions.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti points to the doorway: complexity, context, compassion.
#Complexity #Context #Compassion
This week’s article explores how to see movement again in complex work — even in white-out conditions.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti points to the doorway: complexity, context, compassion.
#Complexity #Context #Compassion
Reposted by The Lifeboat Academy
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Even in wounded times, the world keeps offering small currents of orientation.
Here, we’re paying attention to what’s already moving — the quiet signals that help us find our way again.
#joyoverdespair #seeingmovement #lifeboatacademy
Here, we’re paying attention to what’s already moving — the quiet signals that help us find our way again.
#joyoverdespair #seeingmovement #lifeboatacademy
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Even in wounded times, the world keeps offering small currents of orientation.
Here, we’re paying attention to what’s already moving — the quiet signals that help us find our way again.
#joyoverdespair #seeingmovement #lifeboatacademy
Here, we’re paying attention to what’s already moving — the quiet signals that help us find our way again.
#joyoverdespair #seeingmovement #lifeboatacademy
In complex work, stillness isn’t failure — it’s an invitation to look closer.
Momentum often appears only after we slow down enough to notice it.
This week we’re tuning into the subtle shifts already carrying the work forward.
#SeeingMovement #ComplexWork #LifeboatAcademy
Momentum often appears only after we slow down enough to notice it.
This week we’re tuning into the subtle shifts already carrying the work forward.
#SeeingMovement #ComplexWork #LifeboatAcademy
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In complex work, stillness isn’t failure — it’s an invitation to look closer.
Momentum often appears only after we slow down enough to notice it.
This week we’re tuning into the subtle shifts already carrying the work forward.
#SeeingMovement #ComplexWork #LifeboatAcademy
Momentum often appears only after we slow down enough to notice it.
This week we’re tuning into the subtle shifts already carrying the work forward.
#SeeingMovement #ComplexWork #LifeboatAcademy
Certainty locks us in place. Curiosity loosens something gently inside us — a doorway, a breath, a shift in how we meet the world. Autumn teaches that making space is a kind of courage.
#Curiosity #LifeboatAcademy #EmotionalEcology
#Curiosity #LifeboatAcademy #EmotionalEcology
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Certainty locks us in place. Curiosity loosens something gently inside us — a doorway, a breath, a shift in how we meet the world. Autumn teaches that making space is a kind of courage.
#Curiosity #LifeboatAcademy #EmotionalEcology
#Curiosity #LifeboatAcademy #EmotionalEcology
Progress isn’t just money—it’s the flows we notice. Map trust, attention & curiosity, and start seeing what’s already moving.
#CollectiveChange #FlowNotFunding #OrganMapping #lifeboatacademy
emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and-m...
#CollectiveChange #FlowNotFunding #OrganMapping #lifeboatacademy
emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and-m...
Maps and Money
Learning to see what's already moving
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Progress isn’t just money—it’s the flows we notice. Map trust, attention & curiosity, and start seeing what’s already moving.
#CollectiveChange #FlowNotFunding #OrganMapping #lifeboatacademy
emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and-m...
#CollectiveChange #FlowNotFunding #OrganMapping #lifeboatacademy
emotus.substack.com/p/maps-and-m...
We like to talk about change.
But facing the thing itself — that’s where the real work begins.
#JamesBaldwin #ChangeWork #CommunityCare #HonestyAsPractice
But facing the thing itself — that’s where the real work begins.
#JamesBaldwin #ChangeWork #CommunityCare #HonestyAsPractice
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We like to talk about change.
But facing the thing itself — that’s where the real work begins.
#JamesBaldwin #ChangeWork #CommunityCare #HonestyAsPractice
But facing the thing itself — that’s where the real work begins.
#JamesBaldwin #ChangeWork #CommunityCare #HonestyAsPractice
Collapse has reached our sector, and Ben names it clearly.
Farmastery + Lifeboat Academy need companions now.
Two key supports:
• contributions
• referrals for Ben’s consulting
Read + share if it resonates: [link]
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#reciprocity #postcollapse #careeconomy
Farmastery + Lifeboat Academy need companions now.
Two key supports:
• contributions
• referrals for Ben’s consulting
Read + share if it resonates: [link]
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#reciprocity #postcollapse #careeconomy
Courage in the Cracks
An invitation to the work of re-making an economy that sustains life and living things
substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Collapse has reached our sector, and Ben names it clearly.
Farmastery + Lifeboat Academy need companions now.
Two key supports:
• contributions
• referrals for Ben’s consulting
Read + share if it resonates: [link]
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#reciprocity #postcollapse #careeconomy
Farmastery + Lifeboat Academy need companions now.
Two key supports:
• contributions
• referrals for Ben’s consulting
Read + share if it resonates: [link]
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#reciprocity #postcollapse #careeconomy