Soulprint
Real-world impact for our individual and collective prosperity—aligning the synergies of spirit and earth to revitalise both our shared world and ourselves.
3 years, over 1,000 scientific articles, unlimited passion. With 147 governments and the UN it is a story of the IPBES.
IPBES is an acronym for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services. These global science processes often analyse what we need to address and, instead, IPBES asked how do we do it? How do we meet our vision for flourishing, how do we deliver thriving world systems supporting us all?1
IPBES is outstanding. It includes statements endorsing vital realities for transformation such as “spiritual reconnection between humans and nature” and:
culture and ecosystems are integrated and co-evolving
collective imagining of fundamental changes in human-nature relationships... are powerful and effective when incorporating clarity, inclusion, creativity, flexibility
humans are part of and fully interdependent with nature2
We transform through bridging physical and inner action. What’s needed now is to speed it up:
To feel what it is like to create this future now.
To embody the paradigm shift IPBES represents.
To act from these up-levelled states of being.3
This is the genesis of Soulprint bringing together passion for nature, the new paradigm and our higher perceptivity. It’s for impact: our prosperity, flourishing futures and lives worth living for all species. It does this through 5 categories of action drawn from the science in the IPBES assessment:
Connectedness
Humans and nature are co-evolving. We’re interdependent beings as well as individual people. Cultivating these connections re-vitalises our lives.Get dirty
Social standards can rapidly change with passionate action. Wealth is shifting to privilege enterprises re-generatating and re-wilding our world & ourselves.Highest self
Re-awakening. We all step into flow states and acheive the extraordinary. We can ‘wire’ these capacities, shifting this to be our ‘enhanced’ awarenesses.Inclusive creativity
Simultaneously creating profitable change for ourselves and our planet. Nature-inclusive thinking and acting is key to this re-harmonizing.Integrating & co-creating
Our diversity, between humans and across species, is a strength. We can weave this together re-storing and re-invigorating our power.
Soulprint showcases multiple practices, from deep and free to paid and supported, letting us choose aliveness and create real world prosperity—interventions and programs you can do to support yourself, collectives and business.4
Connectedness: re-vitalising our lifeforces
As humans, we are collective beings as well as individuals. A deep vitality emerges from recognising these life-forces and reconnecting to the intricate webs of life.
Nature connectedness is not passive—it’s an active, transformative state that awakens care, responsibility, and belonging. Living as nature—not apart from it—unlocks a profound reservoir of wisdom, abundance and synergy beyond the self.
This draws deeply from Indigenous and local knowledge, which has long incorporated the interdependencies between humans, plants, animals and the living world. By integrating this, we cultivate sensory and emotional connections, honour distributed agency, and rediscover our active role within Earth’s dynamic living systems. In doing so, we not only remember our natural capabilities but also contribute to the regeneration of our shared world.
Nature connectedness acts as a catalyst… fostering a deep sense of care and responsibility.
Drawing upon the relational philosophies associated with many Indigenous and local knowledge systems and providing opportunities to live ‘as nature’.
Supporting recognition of interdependencies, sensory and emotional connections, spiritualities and distributed agencies in entangled webs of life between humans, plants and animals.5
Get dirty: re-generating & re-wilding us
Getting dirty engages us directly in regeneration. Globally there are a plethora of transformational programs and projects showcasing not only repair but demonstrating how positively connected environmental and social systems deliver flourishing shifts.
Our passion drives us and there’s far more to it than this. We’re redefining values and business. As Tim Jarvis AM puts it:
habitat restoration, environmental education and safeguarding rare native species is not only a critical undertaking but a viable, repeatable, and scalable social enterprise.6
This impacts far more than immediate areas:
Social norms, which define acceptable behaviour, can shift rapidly
Research… suggests that anywhere from 3.5% to 25% of the population can drive significant societal shifts7
What is a social norm?
Our economy is a value exchange. We value what helps us to survive and to feel good. We will, within certain boundaries and our own mindsets, pay for a product or service based on this. Consequently, as we increasingly value our global systems, understand the interconnections and feel what this actually means, regenerative economies can rapidly become the norm. What I buy and support has a quantum impact on thriving.
Highest self: re-awakening our power
Our Highest Selves are states we experience feeling far greater than the boundaries of our physical body. We tend to think of this as altered awareness however it is rather common with 40 to 60% of us reporting senses and times of profound at-one-ness.
A common thread is connection with nature. For example, people experience timelessness, senses of intense interconnection while watching a sunrise from a mountain. Or step into a flow-like state walking through an old growth forest, bringing extraordinary clarity and insight to circumstances that felt stuck.
We can curate this, help ourselves to wire access to our highest selves. This is a key for our effectiveness in work and personal life.8 These are:
practices reflecting interdependencies with nature or ways of ‘living as nature’
revealing a radically expanded perception of the world and realizing the unitive nature of reality9
Inclusive creativity: re-harmonizing agency & action
The stories we tell ourselves are powerful. Where I place my attention is where I place my energy. As long as I believe I am separate from everyone and everything I play to the rules of the dominant culture around me.
Reharmonizing our agency and action with nature shifts ourselves into active witnessing and wisdom. Reconnecting, going from a narrow focus to a broad focus, changes us dramatically. We take our attention into more coherence: hold space for the realities of our world simultaneously with the thriving futures we are co-creating, now!
This is our:
ability to envision and create alternative futures
empowers individuals to shift deeply rooted perspectives and values
Learnings are harvested through reflective practices… integrated into strategic… impact10
Integrating and co-creating: re-storing intuition & diversity
The present moment invites us to step beyond the predictable future, and the familiar past, into the richness of now. Here, we enhance our intuition, draw on our multiple intelligences, letting vibrant diversity, the warm chaos all around, reinvigorate us.
By weaving diverse knowledge and reality systems, we integrate inner and outer dimensions of transformation into radically practical action. This means trusting our unique experiences and the wisdom of the more-than-human world, while treating this lightly and actively looking for other truths.
Techniques include:
Strategies that integrate inner and outer dimensions of transformation in culturally appropriate, scientifically robust and ecologically viable ways.
Intuitive interspecies communication to facilitate inclusion of more-than-human knowledge.
Readiness for collective, ongoing partnerships overcome relations of domination forged in colonial era and now pervasive in modern societies.11
Photos: Festina Lentívaldi, (be) Benevolution. Reuse: Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 US except #1 Scarlett Macaw, freestock & #2 Long billed black cockatoo, connected.
Loosely you can think of IPBES as a biodiversity equivalent of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The how do we do it report is know as the Transformative Change Assessment report here> (TCA for short. Full name is >20 words long). I am a contributing author.
IPBES (fully Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) quotes in this substack article are from the report’s Summary for Policy Makers and Chapter 5, particularly section 5. These are the parts that are especially relevant for Soulprint’s focus: what emerges, greater than the sum of the parts, from our inner awarenesses meeting outer physical actions.
New paradigm. The IPBES assessment was finalised / endorsed in Namibia, December 2024. It’s a tough process—the 147 participating governments can line edit what’s there. Governments typically act from values that are around the average of society, a little past a ‘socialised’ worldview. This is a level of perspective taking that privileges safety, rules and order: third person perspectives. However, to recognise spiritual reconnection, co-creation and so much more requires encompassing other ways of seeing, in this case more than fourth person perspective taking. It means we’re holding capacities for curiosity, vulnerability and courage around other’s mindsets, internal motivations, cultural empathies and more.
That’s to say people were able to hold at least the values that are implicit and explicit from the science and are outside of usual accepted social norms and viewpoints. And simultaneously be aware, to an extent, of how to champion this and justify it to their peers, supervisors and/or relevant political heads of department.
There’s a passion apparent too. We care about nature. We feel it. When given the opportunity, and a structure through which we can value this, we’ll choose it. More on this: We are in a portal>
And some of the analysis here comes from
’s brilliant Core on our developmental capacities.Please reach out for more, email>
This is substantially informed and inspired by Quantum Social Science and Action Research Practice. For more on quantum social change see
’s fabulous substack. E.g. The Message that Matters. Karen is one of the three principle authors for the IPBES TCA.A little on Action Research and species is
and my A love and purpose story.These are significant capacities. Think of a time you achieved far more than you expected. This is (partly) about shifting that to be your, far more available, enhanced capability.
Starting soon and featured in Soulprint: Bayo Akomolafe, Kosha Joubert, Thomas Hübl's Global Social Witnessing: https://soulprint.space/global-social-witnessing-facilitator-training/ . "presence becomes a transformative force for healing and change" yourself, ourselves and biosphere.
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