The best nature stewards, David Sobel, MD, suggests, may be those who see themselves not as intruders and interlopers, but as a crucial part of the ecosystems that they wish to protect.

When groups demand excessive conformity they negate some of their greatest assets: dissenting views and a diversity of perspective. John Zada argues that successful group decisions hinge upon ‘cognitive diversity.’

Our human story proves we know much more than we think we do, but in a different way. As Sally Mallam argues, we need to reactivate and develop this faculty now.

Canadian writer and author Andrew Boden reflects on his understanding of the function and potential of stories, and storytelling.

Stanford University’s David S. Sobel, MD, recalls an how an unexpected crisis moment shifted his mental mode from one that was more linear, to more intuitive.

Humanity needs to move beyond its narrow, survivalist impulses that are more relevant to the past, and embrace a new mode of mentation that takes into account the bigger picture.

In the late fifties/early sixties my sister and I spent summer holidays in East Africa in what is now Tanzania. My father was a British Colonial Officer in the Tanganyika Forestry Department.