It's best if we befriend all our parts.

Buckminster Fuller asserts that "Nature has one comprehensive coordinating system."

Meaning: systems self-organize according to the same principles at every scale of creation.

• An atom is a discrete whole composed of various parts — protons, neutrons, electrons. 
• A single cell is a whole entity composed of many parts — nucleus, cytoplasm, cell wall.
• Your body is a coherent whole composed of interconnected parts — muscles, bones, heart, brain.
• Planet Earth is one whole being composed of infinite different parts — plants, animals, ecosystems.
• The solar system is whole unto itself and composed of observable parts — planets, moons, asteroids.
• The human species is a singular whole composed of eight billion parts — victims, perpetrators, saviors.
• Your psyche is a unified whole composed of individual parts — protectors, rescuers, exiles.
  
  

What defines a system as whole is the pattern of relationship between its parts.

In an ecotone, the pattern gets scrambled. Confronted with changing conditions, parts are forced to reorganize

Nature demonstrates a miraculous capacity for spontaneous self-reorganization. Plants and animals and whole ecosystems are remarkably adaptable in real-time.

Humans are a bit more stubborn, aren't we?

We are slower to notice or acknowledge changes in our environment. We tend to resist significant transitions in favor of temporary comfort, nostalgia or thinking we know better.

We often require a shock of overwhelming, irrefutable power to rattle us out of our habitual ways of being — a hurricane, an illness, a divorce or war— before we begrudginly adjust our attitude and trajectory.

But what if we were proactive?

What if we studied the pattern language of Nature and became fluent in the native tongue of organic evolution?

Well then, we could evolve alongside our more-than-human kin, navigating this transitional time on Earth with relative grace, courage and curiosity.

How much more quickly could we recalibrate — individually and collectively — and reset the relationships that define our system(s)?

This is the work of Ecotone Academy.

We study living systems in order to embody the ability to dynamically adapt to our ever-changing environment — internally and externally.

We cultivate the self-awareness and subtle skills needed to guide all our parts into more harmonious relationships so that we can show up and serve the world as our whole selves.

We practice active pattern recognition in order to first know then enact our individually appropriate roles in this Great Turning and ensure that the whole truly becomes greater than the sum of all its parts.

No big deal.

We're just busy remembering to remember that we are intimately, inextricably interwoven within the web of all beings and cannot be otherwise.

The laws of Nature behave exactly the same way within us as they do all around the cosmos, but humans are uniqely blessed with the burden to choose whether or not we act accordingly. 

Therefore, we exert conscious effort to self-organize in a way that accurately reflects the natural majesty of the big Mystery.

We remain perpetually inspired by the possibility that one day all our parts might just click into a divine equilibrium and we'll get to remember what it is to feel whole and holy.