Network Vision

The New Visions Working Group in Victoria wrote the vision for the WTRN:

• A vision is a destination, a place in the mind that can be made present on this Earth
  
  • We humans are present in this vision

In this coming reality:

• Humans have become the healers of nature by healing ourselves and each other
  
• The power of agreement in communities transcends the power of corporate decisions
  
• We stay awake and conscious in the discomfort engendered by the absence of fear
  
• The economy has come to service the needs of humanity- not our conditioned cravings and desires
  
• We are not producers or harvesters of wood, but participants in the ecology of the temperate rainforest.
  
• The tyranny of language is overcome by reflection, analysis, discussion and agreement
  
• The power and effects of money are shared by agreement and design.
  
• The forest is valued for all of its services, not only its products, and is kept intact.
  
• Our participation in the forest is a component of the forest; intrinsic and belonging

The leaders of this new vision…

• L - listen
• E - evaluate
• A - act
• D - deliberately
• E - empowering
• R - respect
  
• Enabling through a holistic approach, the multi-generational survival of the world’s temperate rainforests

Future Directions

Future directions are both technical and philosophical, and operate on both short (urgent!) and long (transformational) time scales

Among these are…

• Supporting local peoples’ self-empowerment and action
  
• Growing alternative, non-capitalist forest economies
  
• Revealing the special places to decision-makers and to forest workers
  
• Establishing connections for awareness of national and cultural system relations- (eco-literacy, popular education etc.)
  
• Practicing ecological forestry based on a changed vision of what a forest is.
  
• Rejecting enclosures and privatization of resources
  
• Taking actions for healing the earth, and including/recognizing spiritual leaders (shamans and healers)