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Kinship: The Shift that Redefines how we do Business

Jannine Barron, regenerative business mentor, reflects on her experience of kinship with all life as a new paradigm, and how it is influencing the world of business. In the autumn of 2023, I found myself standing among the ancient stones of Avebury in the UK. The same stones that have held their place in the Wiltshire landscape for five thousand years. I had just said goodbye to the clients I’d been working with that day when something moved through me. Not a thought, not an

May 267 min read

River beginnings

Justine Huxley writes about the experience of weaving her heart and mind together with a river and all their tributaries. Today I am beginning something new. As I lie on my back by the river’s edge underneath a towering willow tree, it seems like a good day for new beginnings. The tree's curtains of wispy branches, with their slim, pale green leaves, fall around me, and stretch downwards dipping into the water. Breeze and movement create gaps in the curtain where the ea

Feb 265 min read

Town Anywhere: A day trip to 2035

Question: What do bendable willow whips, cardboard and clothes pegs have in common? Answer: They can all be used to build a town, anywhere, 10 years into the future when humans and more-than-humans are flourishing together. Sounds unlikely doesn’t it, but this is what Ruth Ben‑Tovim and Lucy Neal taught me when they hosted a workshop at the Kairos Club in London, called ‘Town Anywhere’.

Oct 28, 20254 min read

Cocreation with a living, intelligent Earth

Justine Huxley, Cofounder of Kincentric Leadership writes about the new kincentric toolkit and her route into this work: Image: Timothy Dykes About ten years ago, something happened that rocked my world. It involved a Lakota elder, an Irish conservationist, a South African wildlife communicator, two venerable Oak trees, an injured city pigeon, a proudly creative spider and a young, slightly demanding colt. Oh and an inquisitive house plant. What happened was that through

Oct 13, 20255 min read

Guided by Earth:Wayfinding from within the web of life

Justine Huxley reflects on natural navigation, instinct and the many fascinating ways that animals and non-human beings find their way. ...

Sep 13, 20256 min read

Fire vigil: Tasting an ancient experience

Justine Huxley writes about experiencing a Fire Vigil with Angharad Wynne as part of our recent Land Stewards retreat in collaboration...

Jun 2, 20254 min read

The planets are our ancestors; the stars our kin

It’s a simple concept that nonetheless still evades our modern, western understanding. “We are made of star stuff,” Carl Sagan famously...

Jul 5, 20246 min read

Kincentric leadership and the role of listening

Justine Huxley reflects on the role of listening and how it brings us into deeper relationship with the more than human world. The web...

Apr 14, 20232 min read

Launch of the Kincentric Leadership Project

The spark that became Kincentric Leadership was born in August 2022 at a gathering of researchers, practitioners and activists dedicated...

Jan 18, 20231 min read

Communion with the Wild: A portal to peace

Justine Huxley reflects on a recent retreat and considers the revolution of understanding in plant and animal consciousness, asking where...

Jan 3, 202310 min read

As we learn to translate the language of nature, there is more than mere astonishment at what we uncover; at the knowledge - nascent to science, ancient to native cultures the world over - of what trees feel and how they communicate, or of how other animal consciousnesses experience the world. There is magic - the realest, rawest form of magic we can access in an unsuperstitious world grounded in science but willing to soar beyond it, into other, non-materialist modes of perception.
- Maria Popova