Thread by @ResWellbeing

Wow!! One of the most outstanding books I’ve ever read.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

A great recommendation for these days!!

Thanks Tyson Yunkaporta. Your book is a gem to be discovered: #wisdom #values

textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk

A few years ago, I wrote a post about the #philosophy of Good Living or Living Well from Indigenous People
academia.edu/6528305/_Good_…

I talked about #biomimicry, learning from Nature with humility, and then we could also learn from the wisdom of indigenous people

I've decided to start a month-long project where I'll tweet a “wise” tip about "Sand Talk" every day during April. 30/30

#WiseBoomerang #1 This will be the 1st one.
It's about #humility the antonymous of #hubris. #Communication #DialogicalEthics #Connectedness

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #2
Aboriginal people have no words for safety or risk. There is no agency in safety, however, they have plenty of words for protection.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #3

Another great lesson about the changes we live by. We should be the custodial species(#health of the system) and not accumulate (#economics)

Experiencing the awe of #Nature & web of #Life

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #4

It's interesting to know that in our path towards a more complex society we can stuck in a job.
#education #wellbeingatwork #economics #work

What is valuable in our life/job?

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #5

I designed the #ResponsibleThinking medium.com/age-of-awarene…

and we also have #5waystowellbeing medium.com/age-of-awarene…

but their outstanding #5waysofthinking has lasted generations.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #6

An interesting observation of Nature. The system of butterflies, ants and bush working together.
#Biomimetics for #sustainability or in #economics, #circulareconomy

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #7

The #PrecautionaryPrinciple is probably in all cultures. #Sustainability.

In this quotation, we have an important tip about #CloudSeeding, #geoingeneering.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #8

Albert Bartlett said: “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

but the best way is to see an example

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #9

One of my strengths is #Loveoflearning & this paragraph show us 3 keys:

-Learning for the sake of #learning (Joy)
-Theory and Reality
-Connectedness #transdisciplinarity

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #10

The principles below are embedded throughout Aboriginal culture. #systemsthinking #sustainability

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #11

Our perception of #reality is different according to the structure (oral or printing culture).
The first one has lasted thousands of years and the second one only a few.
#ThinkingOuTLoud

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #12

Kinship moves in cycles so,
"Every 3 generations there is a reset in which your grandparent's parents are classified as your children, an eternal cycle of renewal." #sustainability

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #13

(Monologues are rare in Aboriginal culture unless a senior person is telling a long story or an angry person is airing grievances.)

The importance of #Yarning (#DialogicalEthics)

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #14

I'm just reading "Civilized to Death" by @ThatChrisRyan and this paragraph could fit in it.

Shameless #westerncentrism & #ethnocentrism

Cultural myopia. From hubris to humility...

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #15

These are the cosmovisions of the nature of reality and the basic laws of existence for First Peoples and Second Peoples.

What do you think is better to apply for #sustainability?

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #16

Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Story Thinking & Pattern Thinking are key for Aboriginals. Here some tips about our environmental crisis.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #17

Paragraph on his yarn with Larry Gross, author of Post-apocalyptic stress syndrome (PASS). It could be relevant to our present culture & #postcovid.
Link (theory) shiftingborders.ku.edu/presentations/…

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #18

The process -- Respect, Connect, Reflect, Direct (in that order)-- an appropiate way of coming to #IndigenousKnowledge and working towards sustainable solutions.

#Sustainability

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #19

An interesting paragraph touching issues like #Nature, #PrecautionaryPrinciple or "playing with fire".

It's the Natural Law of #Change.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #20

Another interesting fact about the confusion of the "Hunting and Gathering" division of labour between sexes.

Hunting women? & Gathering men?

#gender #equality

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #21

This is about #power and he points to the most remarkable thing about western civilization; its ability to absorb any object or idea, alter it, sanitise it, rebrand it and market it

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #22

If the citizens of the World had a flag this would be the Earth flag. #EarthDay

The responsible and sustainable meaning of the Aboriginal flag presented below

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #23

"The damage of #violence is minimised when it is distributed throughout a system rather than centralised into the hands of a few powerful people and their minions.”

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #24

In my post about "responsible thinking", I pointed the importance of narratives, metaphors and paradoxes. medium.com/age-of-awarene…

Here the metaphors...

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #25

The author say that "The most intelligent part of your body is actually separate from your central nervous system." It's #your gut that has its own independent nervous system.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #26

From a #systemsthinking perspective it's interesting this paragraph about the relationships among Justice, punishment, transformation, learning and truth.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #27

Different perspectives, different cosmologies...

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #28

Some instructions for #PatternThinking

Big picture (#systemsthinking)

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #29

Indigenous Knowledge in sustainable ways.

Sand Talk: How #IndigenousThinking can save the World

#WiseBoomerang #30

Finally, the last tweet of the thread.

#genderequity

Among the main steps for a sustainable World, we can find the #innerrevolution and the women's revolution. Go for both of them.