Mindsets of Transformation
A time warp across 7 years and what emerges from that strife, in the now. Plus audio to help us go into our biggest selfs and assist change.
It’s 2019 in Santiago and the city is exploding. Millions of citizens are marching, for days. The subways are being torched, water cannons now rumbling down all the main avenues, pepper-chilli added to the water (incase the blast doesn’t do enough) and tear gas is descending across the city.1
Unsurprisingly, you can’t get a plane out, I’m stuck.
Surprisingly, a 7 year adventure is beginning.
While I don’t recommend tear gas and capsicum for inspiration, what it does do, very viscerally, is tell me to pay attention to my body!2 That is gloriously reflected seven years later as our Mindsets of Transformation journal issue — born in that eyes burning, breath clogging, air-is-fire haze — is about to publish.
For transformation
The embodiment and action, from that time in 2019, is emblematic. It reminds me to stop treating knowledge as a possession of my mind and embrace it as events in the field — we are co-generating with Earth, time, and sentient species as we engage in any intervention.3
This post, and the Mindsets issue, takes that into sensing, intuiting and feeling across wide territories of experience. It brings our underprivileged, intelligent 75% — these three modes of contact with reality — to prominence alongside our rationality.4
All of your needs met
That’s supported by audio: handrails helping us step beyond limiting conventions. Hence this post. The voiceover’s first meditation-integration practice is at the 2 minute mark — an invite into experiencing flourishing futures right now. This is an invitation to engage with life as a characteristically non-linear journey — a catalytic thread of realising flourishing futures in the now — by holding for yourself.
Cultivating our own gentleness
The voiceover’s second practice is at the 5.15 minute mark — to reengage again with a sensory journey, enhancing the awareness of our experiences. Our times call for us to go beyond our acceptable frames and come into relationship with our mindsets. To stretch our readiness for what may be. Do we desire control and/or spaciousness? Can we cultivate our own gentleness and not knowing; love, devotion and peace?
Please experiment for yourself with the integration-meditation at the 5.15 mark of this article’s VoiceOver.
Ripples
I can tease a little more on the Mindsets issue right now: nutrients and nourishment; ripples amplifying an embodied call; practically engaging with ourselves, others and a coherent, responsive world. This follows when it’s published.
In the meantime, please go with any calls you notice: twinges of awe and wonder; resonances, joy. Take such contact points with reality as true, alongside the rational. The Mindsets of Transformation issue will support you for more of that.
Pictures: Santiago and leaving Santiago 2019 by Festina Lentívaldi, (be) Benevolution. Reuse: Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 US.
See Chile: https://be-benevolution.com/tag/chile/ for more
Ok, maybe some inspiration in the pepper gas: This is brilliant, from Minneapolis:
Mindsets of Transformation is a Special Issue of the Action Research journal. It publishes in the first quarter of this year, 2026
Carl Jung, Psychological types.