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Note: to read this posting on a calm presence see a conscient rethink

a conscient rethink

What needs to be said? Who needs to say it? Who wants to hear it? How does it help? 

February 16th, 2025, on th…

Note: I wrote this facebook posting this morning (February 11, 2025) that I’m repurposing as a calm presence essay and as a bonus episode of conscient. 

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Hi,

We need social media spaces that are non pr…

• What triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability cri…

prepare, bend, sustain

what I learned in the first 3 weeks of surviving the future 2025

Note: the original posting on my a calm presence Substack is here. 

Sarah Heynen, Executive Director of the Canadi…

• What's starting to interest me is stories of resilience for a post-carbon world. What are we going to need for our emotional well-being? It's going to be a different world, not long from now. If we d…

A bonus episode in between seasons 5 and 6, featuring my new year’s 'a calm presence' reflection on hope with writings and stories by Peter Schneider, John Crier (as told to Vanessa Andreotti), Richa…

Note: this is the audio version of my 'listen and co-create' posting on 'a calm presence'. 

On September 23, 2024, while driving in Victoria BC to record a conversation with educator and musician Azul…

flowing through

opening ever-new vistas through listening and conversation 

I received an email from composer Hildegard Westerkamp, about ego, and set Hildi’s words to  sound. 

• The time seems right for …

Below is my reading of an executive summary of my ‘letter to the arts community about the ecological crisis - let’s put the climate emergency back onto our agendas’. I invite you to read the complete…

Welcome to the conscient podcast season 6 trailer

I’m Claude Schryer, the host and producer of both conscient podcast and its french equivalent balado conscient. 

I’m speaking to you from unceded Algon…

• My interest in science is quite poetic. The things that I find the most interesting about science are when it can be woven into a story that makes sense and I think that's kind of artistic in a way: …

• The planet's not dying. Our place and our version of it may be dying. So how do we deal with that? How do we accept and live with the knowledge that our version of it is dying. It's not something to …

• ​​I think if we can reimagine what matters to us and pursue that, then perhaps there's a chance that we can stop this truly self-destructive pursuit of infinite more, and in material terms, become ha…

• In the face of destruction, we should create. In the face of hurt, we should heal. In the face of hate, we should love. That's my feeling and figuring out how to do that is everybody's job.

I’ve known…

gliding towards a crash

reflections on this moment 

Note: This bonus episode is from my ‘a calm presence’ substack about ‘short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art…

• I'd like to use art more as a tool to get people thinking, get people involved, especially young people, and hopefully, help them process the emotions of climate change and move towards a space of ac…

• All artists have to be aware of climate because otherwise it's not art (and that's going to piss some people off - Claude Schryer). I think it will. Climate infuses all our responses to everything, t…

• We're going through a crash, the sixth extinction, climate collapse, geopolitical collapse, economic collapse, all types of overlapping, interlaced cycles of destruction. And like on planes, what you…

• I believe that we are all connected by these invisible threads, the shared sinew amongst all living things, that includes humans, plants, animals, what have you, and that what art is, is the lighting…

• I really think art is one of the most important things to help tackle issues and create social change. There's that quote from Maya Angelou that goes something like ‘people will forget what you say o…