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“My theory of change is to be” I have just had the immense privilege of spending the last week in the Yarra Valley on a Global Optimism Climate Leaders' Retreat led by Christiana Figueres - for six years the world's top climate negotiator as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - and the abbott and a dozen monastics from Plum Village - the Vietnamese Buddhist tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. I do not intend to attempt to explain what we did and learned. But here are some reflections on how what I experienced relates to my research - to my readings, of Hannah Arendt and of decolonial scholars and writing on ecological agency and on transformation as against transition, and to my evolving questions around how we situate ourselves in time, how we perceive our agency, and how we imagine and practice freedom. And hooooooo is there a lot! Link to full post in comments. For those not yet signed up to receive my blogletter in your inbox (hint hint). https://in-between-days.ghost.io/my-theory-of-change-is-to-be/