Systems – identifying natural and human-created systems and what distinguishes one from the other (intervention, intention to control, limitless growth vs oscillation towards default equilibrium) 

Sustainability – looking to nature’s wisdom can lead us to better planetary and (therefore) human outcomes 

Purpose – there is a default wisdom inherent in us all that allows us to recognize the power of thought and our ability to choose a different story

Systems – identifying systems archetypes particularly The Tragedy of the Commons and turning your classroom into the Triumph of the Commons

Sustainability – ensuring climate justice and wellbeing for all communities on Earth rather than the benefit of a few 

Purpose – Agency and collective Freedom 

Systems – complexity has been increasing since the creation of the universe with the Big Bang 

Sustainability – interfering with our own and other species’ natural creative evolutionary process defies Earth’s systems resulting in the lost opportunity for planetary and human adaptation

Purpose – hope resides in the idea that our human path and its impacts on other creative forms are incomplete, we are a species still in progress (as is everything else) 

Systems – everything is a system within a system, both macro and micro

Sustainability – Using our ability to collect data while also exercising imagination shows us how zooming out allows us to see ‘the story’ playing out over time, and to anticipate unintended consequences of our past and current actions

Purpose – this information can be used to design a better present and future