An Act of Incredible Courage

and a new Substack to follow

On February 8, 2025, Gabrielle Feather began her Substack, Post-Growth Psychology Somebody restacked something which landed in my Substack feed and my attention was captured. Last year I was Overwhelmed in the SPACE, but here I go again, adding more subscriptions.

Her first post, Holding Both: As One World Ends, Another Begins has that liminal vibe that suggests she could be a Metamodern Wannabe.

But here’s the paradox. We need connection. We need to be seen, to belong. And yet, the platforms that once held us have started to harm us.

How do we hold both truths?

And now for her inspiring act of courage, How I Decided to Have Kids Even Knowing the World was in Crisis.

I ultimately left activism out of necessity and turned inward. Yoga, meditation, plant medicine, and long stretches of time where I wasn’t sure who I was outside of the fight. And then, in the middle of all that unraveling, I felt the call.

I suddenly, urgently wanted a child.

It is one thing to be in denial of the metacrisis and to have children as if times are normal. But to understand and proceed as Gabrielle Feather does, is courageous, meaningful, inspiring. And a reference in a later article tells me that her understanding goes deep.

References

Bendell, J. (2018). Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), Occasional Paper 2.

Her article today, This is Not Naïve Optimism or Toxic Positivity - There Really Will Be a New Earth, opens with an important point.

If you write about regeneration, healing or the possibility of a different world, people will inevitably accuse you of being naïvely optimistic. If you speak about grief, collapse or despair, they will call you fatalistic. The space in between, where both realities coexist, is strangely intolerable to many. But this is where I live.

One lesson I am slowly learning is to value the space between.

One of my teachers is Claudia Dommaschk. Yesterday she posted The Tiger Awaits - harnassing the liminal for transformation . Here is more of that liminal vibe.

But getting real doesn’t just mean “doing more.” It means showing up differently. It means recognizing that coherence is not imposed from the top down but is cultivated from the ground up, through trust within, between, and among us - through the relational fabric we weave together. It means embracing a way of being that is not merely strategic but deeply felt through a practice of embodied relationality that acknowledges our sovereignty and interdependence.

Another space with that vibe is Limicon 2025.

What is Limicon?

Limicon is a four-week, mostly online, "fan-made" open space convention dedicated to strengthening the growing ecosystem of communities spawned from the liminal web.

The three main goals of Limicon are to: 1. build connection and trust between members of the emerging field; 2. create engaging spaces for individual development and practice; and 3. nurture the field as a whole.

I wrote About Limicon 2024, posted April 4, 2024 in detail and hope to do so again this year. Limicon 2025 got off to a good start yesterday with opening ceremonies and with over 240 people registered and over 100 sessions already on the calendar. Interestingly, in his opening remarks delivered with great oratory skill, Lyman Pascal shared that the liminal web is dead and not dead.

I will soon be highlighting some of the sessions at Limicon 2025.