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I’m trying to understand. I don’t agree. But I’m beginning to see it.
Why facts no longer work - on nervous systems, polarization, and the meeting that might heal
 • Anna Branten
For Those Who See What Others Don't Yet
On the pathfinder, the sequence, and why you can't carry change alone
 • Anna Branten
You are not meant to be whole
On the group that broke apart and how we might navigate the polycrisis in new ways. Part 3/3.
 • Anna Branten
The collapse of communication
On the words that stopped landing, the body that still knows, and the language that has yet to be named
 • Anna Branten
The birds that changed the way I see
On finding a ground to stand on when everything feels unmanageable.
 • Anna Branten
We Were Never Meant to Be Complete
On why individualism is collapsing, how we became strangers to each other and the need to build communities of complementary beings.
 • Anna Branten
What are you willing to lose?
On the art of shifting positions, letting go of the roles that hold us captive – and daring to stand where change truly needs you
 • Anna Branten
The Starting Point
The Starting Point
Exploring how we live, work and relate in times of transition - where the personal meets the systemic and the visible meets the felt. Writing from the in-between, where the things I’m not supposed to say often become the most honest.
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