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a field terminal for the
Great Turning
The work that is only yours.
EcoDharma reads you through several lenses and reflects back where your particular gifts meet what the world needs — and one small move you could make next.
eco@dharma:$ reading --begin
eco@dharma:$ open ~/field-manual
⊢ 9 domains · 10 gifts · 29+ trim-tabs ⊣
Three ways to help — after Joanna Macy’s Great Turning
01
Holding Actions
The work of slowing the damage and protecting life right now, through resistance, advocacy, defense, and direct relief. It buys the time that everything else needs.
02
Life-Sustaining Systems
The work of building what comes next, the everyday alternatives the future will stand on: regenerative land and food, cooperative economies, shared self-governance, open tools, and knowledge held in common.
03
Shift in Consciousness
The inner and cultural ground beneath the other two: the change in how we see, from separation toward belonging, that makes the new systems possible and keeps the holding actions from repeating the harms they oppose.
The framework
This is a general map of how a person can take part in what Joanna Macy called the Great Turning: the slow, shared shift away from a way of living that uses up the world toward one that lets life keep going. It treats you not as a fixed type but as a living mix of gifts, and it shows where those gifts are most needed across three kinds of work that all matter at once: slowing the harm being done now, building the fairer and more local systems that come next, and changing how we see ourselves and each other. Every gift has a bright side and a shadow side. And where one of your gifts meets a real need in the world, a small, well-placed first move can set a much larger change in motion.
In the lineage of Joanna Macy · R. Buckminster Fuller · Joe Lightfoot · Thich Nhat Hanh · Charles Eisenstein · framework v3.0.0 · CC BY-SA