BOOK — Make it Better

At Make it Better we suspect that ubiquitous social fragmentation, our delusion that we can live as if we are disconnected from each other and the environment, is fundamentally what is wrong with the world we have created for ourselves. Could it be that the pathway to integration, to wholeness, would be enriched by learning from the oldest living cultures on earth, cultures whose understandings of community and country are provocative and healing for us. We think so. Our First Peoples have lived here sustainably for tens of thousands of years. The rest of us arrived recently and have taken over with our so-called civilised society. But our culture and its institutions are breaking if not already broken. And we can’t seem to find a way to connect across differences, to agree on pathways out of this predicament of multiple crises defining our time on earth.

At Make it Better we are not even sure our efforts to make the world better will be successful, in fact, we are sober in our expectations. But we are fiercely committed to being and doing what we understand to be the ways of love and wisdom as we support people who have given their lives to work for positive social change. And because none of this work happens anywhere other than on aboriginal land, we honour and thank the Elders of our First Peoples for their example and acknowledge their courage, resilience and grace.