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Turn off your computer.
Put down your phone.
Pick up a feather, a leaf, a bone.
Marvel at a flower.
Plant a seed.
Take a walk.
Remember who you are.

Be generous with your love.
Protect someone.
Take a stand.
Make art.
Dance with strangers.
Find your courage.

Resist distraction.
Be present.
Articulate your dreams.
Act on behalf of the
next seven generations.
Sing to the stars.

Invest in what makes
you come alive.
Open to what is possible.
Decolonize your heart.
Thank your ancestors.
Bless the land.
Remember who we are.

KRISTIN ROTHBALLER
Whole Communities










Legacy to each must be
Me plus We
to equal three:
Past, Present, Future.”

SUSAN V. BOSAK
Legacy Project Founder,
7-Generation Strategist









You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you've touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It's every person you've harmed or helped. That's your legacy.”

MAYA ANGELOU
Poet and Essayist

 









The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

MURIEL RUKEYSER
Poet

 


Climbing the Mountain of Life
Climbing the Mountain of Life ©Shaun Tan from Dream by Susan V. Bosak

CONNECT, CREATE, CHANGE

This is y/our Legacy Project, and the Legacy Project of our time. Here's how you can Connect, Create, Change with us.

The world changes all the time – sometimes for the better, sometimes not. But deep change, in the form of transformation, is something different. In the words of Mark Twain, it's the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.

The Legacy Project's work empowers generations, grounded by the land, to #ChangeTheStory for the wellbeing of lives, communities, and the planet.

We all live our own life story, and those stories are rich and important. But we need to connect the dots. Too often we get stuck in isolated little stories that fail to sustain us or effect real change. At this moment in history, we need to bridge to a renewed, bigger story created across generations and in the context of our place in the world. #ChangeTheStory

The Legacy Project is a systems research, education, and innovation group. It is the core team working in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (GTB). Two decades of research and development have led to the 7-Generation Bioregional Earth work. This is deep systems complexity work, using intergenerational and place-based dynamics, for social regeneration (generations in community) and ecological regeneration (community in bioregion).

We're interconnecting people, places, and projects to each other for shared purpose; facilitating collective learning; fostering collaborations for systemic impact; and embodying processes and structures that build community resilience.

To create a pathway forward, we must move through dreams to legacy. Can dreams change the world? Just think of those four famous words, "I have a dream…" A dream is the front end of a legacy.

Legacy is a connection across time Legacy is not a trivial thing. As a profound connection across time, across generations, it can be either a burden or a gift. It's where the power is. Our legacy – the things we do and say and think and aspire to every day – is creating the future right now. We don't take that power/responsibility seriously enough. Legacy, fueled by dreams, is your ability to create meaningful, lasting impact.

LegacyCubed is about multiplying impact. It's legacy to the power of three…

Your Life in the context of the People and Place around you.

Your Generation, Three Generations Before you, and Three Generations After you for a 7-Generation perspective that sparks bigger thinking and action.

For Young, Old, and Everyone in between.

Bringing together Past, Present, and Future or, in other words, Memories, Opportunities, and Dreams.

Exploring Connection and Meaning across Time.

As the stylized letter "g" in the Legacy Project's logo suggests, blaze your Path, stay Rooted, never stop asking Questions.

Expand your ability to Believe and Do and Think.

Grow Information into Knowledge and ultimately into Wisdom.

Make the most of what you're Given, what you Bring into Being, and what you Give Back – for Yourself, Others, and the World.


That's legacy to the power of three – LegacyCubed. The Legacy Project empowers all ages to Connect, Create, Change.

CONNECT


Make the connections

Sign up for our newsletter – join spirited citizens of all ages around the planet and get timely Legacy Project intergenerational and bioregional news, resources, insights.

Find out more about Our Story.

Check out the Legacy Project In The News.

Check out Be an Elder – a call to be a support and steward of younger generations and our planet. And keep in mind: we're all elders-in-training.

Start bringing together generations in your community through the annual Listen to a Life Contest.

Join us around the Legacy Table at The Cedars for a learning workshop or dinner event.

We also have online events.

Our Table Talk blog keeps you up-to-date with both ideas and inspiration.

CREATE


Create it

Use our Resources & Books – some free online, others you can purchase.
Our bestselling books include Dream and Something to Remember Me By
(all purchases help support our community work with young and old).

You can find inspiration in a TEDx Talk by Legacy Project Founder, Susan V. Bosak.

Find out how you can get involved in the 7-Generation GTB Bioregional Learning Center we're establishing.

Write your own blueprint for living and making a difference using our life story review process Legacy Links.

Learn about creating a Legacy Project. The big idea is to translate what you're about into your own multidimensional "legacy project" that multiplies what you're already doing and gives it more impact.

CHANGE


Be the change

Listen to this message from global regeneration leader Joe Brewer to the generations in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion (GTB).

The 7-Generation GTB initiative, mobilizing intergenerational and place-based dynamics, is the heart of the Legacy Project's work. It's glocal – the local Greater Tkaronto Bioregion connected into the global. Based on earth systems science, a bioregion (not cities, communities, villages) is the smallest actionable scale reflecting the planetary system. If we can regenerate enough large-landscape bioregions around the world, we may be able to help regenerate the entire Earth. Organizing ourselves into bioregions may be the difference that makes a difference in terms of navigating an uncertain and changing world.

We have a selection of videos that are a great way to understand the big ideas underlying the 7-Generation GTB work.

Choose the 7-Generation GTB Circles of Activity that interest you.

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