A Living Invitation into the Coralus Way
We set out to capture Coralus at a threshold moment—happens when people dare to build something that doesn’t yet have a map. But here’s the truth: you don’t capture emergence. You court it. You create conditions for it. You listen like your future depends on it and then, you let it surprise you.
Welcome to the first issue of _current
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries have already been breached. The current ways of working and being are not what’s needed and there is no returning to a status quo. What’s being asked of us now is nothing short of everything.
That’s why _current exists.
We tried to find one central metaphor for this issue. We failed gloriously! Because, of course, we are multitudes – releasing old stories, birthing new ones, watching what no longer serves fall away while something tender and luminous comes into form.
So we apprenticed ourselves to the process. We practiced what we might call coralizing, that way of working that embraces inner and outer worlds, syncs with natural rhythms, and weaves interconnection. This publication became another living experiment in that practice.
And this very very platform (Indiegraf), founded by Coralus Venture Erin Millar – has itself gone through the kind of breakdown and breakthrough that shapes what comes next. Her welcome piece “Full Circle: The Power of Story to Transform and Resist“ names why we need new platforms to tell new stories.
Inside This Issue
Jennifer Brandel’s feature “Of Coral and Currents” sets the frame: Coralus as a post-capitalist magnetic field where care moves like currency. You’ll meet leaders and ventures who are healing, regenerating, and transforming systems from the inside out; dismantling old structures; and building in ways unimaginable a decade ago. They are moving across boundaries that once felt impassable, not because they have the perfect blueprint but because the moment demands it.
We take you into “Mapping What’s Emerging” and its companion videos to see the living architecture here at Coralus. What happens when you map Ventures and Pods together? The patterns begin to resemble a breathing organism, revealing how Coralus operates as an interconnected ecosystem and practices the “interstitial” where information, nourishment, and possibility flow through the in-between.
“The Pods as Rehearsal Spaces” with artist-in-residence Kara Sievewright‘s visual poetry and “8 Archetypes Emerging at Coralus” uncover the deeper knowing that this era won’t be shaped by perfect plans but by how we attune, imagine, and practice the future together when everything else is shaking.
We explore the practical mythic in “Rise of the Business Magi” which illuminates how the artistry and skills for collective transformation include multidimensional perception, intuition, and a willingness to apprentice ourselves to emergence itself.
We share a moment that awoke the field: at the 10th Anniversary UnSummit, a spontaneous Māori karanga cracked open a portal between worlds. As Stacey Materoa-Roberts shares in The Portal in the Orchard, this process collapsed colonial time and reveals Coralus as a field of relations where land, cosmology, and people can cohere to move in wisdom to unknown futures.
As Danielle Cadhit, one of the maestros behind the publication says, it’s “a multimedia tapestry” and so here are beautiful companions pieces co-produced by Harley Francisco to inspire and provoke us:
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Audio:
- Our ongoing podcast, Ripples of Radical Generosity is an open door with Vicki Saunders into the inner rooms of Coralus, where honest conversations about transformation, rebuilding, and meeting this moment together will continue to unfold.
- Our practice space offers a Threshold Practice for the Full Moon from Patricia Garcia-Gomez, a ritual to listen for what’s emerging in your own life.
These pieces are invitations into a different operating system—one where the organizing framework we keep noticing in our field: Sense. Witness. Listen. Weave. Act becomes collective practice for navigating a world in transition.
Together they show how a community becomes a field—and how a field becomes a portal to the next economy already taking shape.
So here’s your invitation:
Take a sip or a gulp. Let these stories, images, and voices wash over you. Notice what nudges you. Notice what resonates in your own body, your own work, your own unfolding.
Welcome to _current—named for what moves beneath the surface, what carries us forward, what’s alive right now.
Welcome to the flow.
—The Coralus Editorial Field
THE CORALUS EDITORIAL FIELD
Danielle Cadhit, Vanessa Reid, Vicki Saunders and others from the field
with MJ Ryan, Sarah Cuddie, Harley Francisco, Hilary Van Welter, Catherine Woodiwiss, Azul Carolina Duque… and the Coralus community
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