PATCH: cultivate resilience through living networks

PLANT

Plant intentions with care but without rigid timelines...

Set intentions based on your values and current life season
Choose what to plant based on available energy and resources
Plant with hope but without attachment to exact outcomes
Plant with awareness of how your patch connects to other patches—in your community, networks, and systems

ADAPT

Adapt to changing seasons and unexpected conditions

Respond fluidly to life's unexpected events
Adjust approach while maintaining connection to core intention
Recognize that adaptation is growth, not failure
Adapt in ways that strengthen connections between patches, creating resilient networks rather than isolated solutions

TEND

Tend relationships (with self, the process, others, and outcomes)

Nurture your relationship with the intention itself
Maintain awareness of how the process affects you and others
Practice presence with what's emerging
Tend the edges where your patch meets others—these connection points are where healing spreads and systems shift

COMPOST

Compost what isn't serving or has completed its cycle

Transform "failed" attempts into wisdom and soil for future growth
Release attachments to intentions that no longer align
Honor what you've learned from challenges and setbacks
Turn old patterns, assumptions, and outdated goals into nourishment
Compost isolating patterns and competitive mindsets that prevent patches from connecting and reinforcing each other

HARVEST

Harvest what's ready when it's ready

Recognize and celebrate growth as it naturally occurs
Gather insights, skills, and outcomes that have ripened
Share the fruits of your intention with others
Prepare seeds for the next planting cycle
Harvest new connection points and successful linkages as templates for expanding the network of patches