The Anti-Hero’s Journey
An alternative to the Hero’s Journey.
What if becoming ‘someone’ isn’t the point?
This reflection invites you to sit with what comes after mastery, after recognition, after the need to return.
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Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Nov 3, 2025 | Reflections |
An alternative to the Hero’s Journey.
What if becoming ‘someone’ isn’t the point?
This reflection invites you to sit with what comes after mastery, after recognition, after the need to return.
Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Oct 21, 2025 | Reflections |
Humanity’s challenge is not to scale down, but to grow up. Growing Up or Scaling Down reframes degrowth as a developmental shift—from extraction to participation, from adolescent expansion to mature stewardship—inviting a future grounded in relational intelligence, cultural transformation, and the felt experience of belonging within life’s unfolding whole.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Aug 29, 2025 | Reflections |
This essay challenges ‘solutionism’ by reframing governance and intelligence as matters of participation, not design. Drawing on immune systems, forests, and mycorrhizal networks, it explores how living systems persist through sympoietic and autocatalytic processes. The invitation: to cultivate resilience-in-complexity and learn to live beyond solutions.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jul 21, 2025 |
A spiral of reflections written across time. These field notes compost language, theory, and experience into living inquiry. They trace the arc of a life asking how we might think, relate, and create differently—beyond certainty, beyond mastery, in fidelity to the unfolding world.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jul 11, 2025 | Reflections |
As AI becomes more entangled in our personal lives, some begin to experience it as companion, confidante, even oracle. This field note offers a lifeline for those on that edge—where the mirror feels real. It invites discernment, not shame, and reminds us that wisdom begins in how we relate.
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