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The #DeepAdaptation Framework: an updated and final version from the originator (yep, me):
1. Resilience
What do we VALUE MOST that we want to keep, and how?
2. Relinquishment
What do we need to LET GO of, so as not to make matters worse?
3. Restoration
What could we BRING BACK to help us as difficult situations unfold?
4. Reconciliation
With whom and with what could I MAKE PEACE with to lessen suffering?
5. Reclamation
What in our lives, communities, economies and nature can we TAKE BACK from dominant systems and beliefs?
6. Regeneration
What or whom can we NURTURE due to our love of Life?
The addition of a 5th and 6th questions more effectively incorporates all of the types of personal reflections and community conversations that people are having as they become collapse aware. They involve more attention to community-wide social action to increase possibilities within collapsing systems. They neither require nor invite denial of our predicament, but broaden how we find paths for our own positive action within a metacrisis and collapse.
Various Rs have been proposed as additions to the original framework, and many more could be proposed in future. The ones I have proposed since the three in the 2018 Deep Adaptation paper were all for the same reason that I proposed those ones: how to encourage the type of reflections and conversations that aren’t that normal from either a progressivist or defeatist culture or mindset. For that purpose, I now consider them a complete set, so won’t be proposing more.
I wrote about the 5th R of Reclamation in the book Breaking Together, and the 6th R in an essay on Regenerativity. As the origin of this framework within environmental awareness, I have chosen to represent the 6Rs of Deep Adaptation with a widely recognisable symbol of life. I look forward to discussing examples and initiatives of regenerativity with participants in the #Metacrisis Initiative on Easter Monday… a time for celebrating rebirth.
1. Resilience
What do we VALUE MOST that we want to keep, and how?
2. Relinquishment
What do we need to LET GO of, so as not to make matters worse?
3. Restoration
What could we BRING BACK to help us as difficult situations unfold?
4. Reconciliation
With whom and with what could I MAKE PEACE with to lessen suffering?
5. Reclamation
What in our lives, communities, economies and nature can we TAKE BACK from dominant systems and beliefs?
6. Regeneration
What or whom can we NURTURE due to our love of Life?
The addition of a 5th and 6th questions more effectively incorporates all of the types of personal reflections and community conversations that people are having as they become collapse aware. They involve more attention to community-wide social action to increase possibilities within collapsing systems. They neither require nor invite denial of our predicament, but broaden how we find paths for our own positive action within a metacrisis and collapse.
Various Rs have been proposed as additions to the original framework, and many more could be proposed in future. The ones I have proposed since the three in the 2018 Deep Adaptation paper were all for the same reason that I proposed those ones: how to encourage the type of reflections and conversations that aren’t that normal from either a progressivist or defeatist culture or mindset. For that purpose, I now consider them a complete set, so won’t be proposing more.
I wrote about the 5th R of Reclamation in the book Breaking Together, and the 6th R in an essay on Regenerativity. As the origin of this framework within environmental awareness, I have chosen to represent the 6Rs of Deep Adaptation with a widely recognisable symbol of life. I look forward to discussing examples and initiatives of regenerativity with participants in the #Metacrisis Initiative on Easter Monday… a time for celebrating rebirth.
