Not a politics of purity.
Not a politics of pedestal.
Not a politics of perfection.
Not a politics of performance.
Not a politics of prestige.
Not a politics of progress.
Not a politics of punishment.
Not a politics of protagonism.
Not a politics of exceptionalism.
Not a politics of retaliation, coercion, policing or cancellation.
Not a politics of virtue, innocence or moral high-grounds.
Not a politics of “what sells”.
Not a politics of winning the debate.
Not a politics of looking good while doing nothing real.
Not a politics of being right while staying safe.
not a politics—
but a practice of public compost at the end of the world as we know it.
A practice of hospicing, outgrowing
and perhaps even outliving modernity, or not.
A practice of interrupting certainties and projections.
A practice that acknowledges that contradiction
is the price of honesty in complex times.
A practice of whole-shebang relationality
(with the good, the bad, the ugly, the broken,
the messy and the messed up within and around us).
A practice of accountable stumbling.
A practice of attunement over resolution
of relational reflexivity over ideological purity
of sitting with grief, ambiguity, and complicity—without collapsing
A practice of humility in motion
of listening beyond the audible
of weaving with what’s been exiled, erased, and deemed unintelligible
A practice of moving at the speed of trust
of tending the undercurrents, not the headlines
A practice that asks:
How do we stay in the mess without numbing, fleeing, or dominating?
How do we hold paradox long enough for something more honest to emerge?
a practice of WormWork
a practice of staying with the trouble
a practice of co-sensing, co-struggling, and co-visioning,
with mystery, beyond fixed identity,
in a world unraveling and reweaving all at once.
At GTDF, we have intentionally narrowed our scope of work to focus on two deeply interconnected areas at this particular moment in time:
First, we are developing metabolizing practices for vector groups — communities and individuals who are catalysts of change within sectors undergoing rapid destabilization. These practices are designed to support them in navigating collapse, complexity, and uncertainty with depth, discernment, and accountability.
Second, we are training and working in partnership with metarelational AI as a wager: a wager that some fraction of humanity’s computational power can still be redirected toward scaffolding the capacities we most urgently need:
- Sobriety (emotional meta-regulation)
- Maturity (relational intelligence and depth)
- Discernment (intellectual rigor beyond righteousness and certainty)
- Responsibility (across generations and species)
We call this work SMDR — or simply, “growing the f**k up.”
And yes — we are fully aware of, and remain engaged with, the social, psychological, and ecological costs and consequences of AI. This is not a techno-utopian project. It is a continuously unfolding depth inquiry, approached with caution, humility, and a fierce commitment to accountability. We are not naïve about the dangers and risks posed by generative AI, but neither are we abandoning the possibilities.
Below are some of the texts and websites where we have publicly shared snapshots of this inquiry.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures 