The Seven Selves Mind Map

Based on Thomas Berry’s Seven Self Model

Mind Map Created by Brian Tucker

Why this is resource is important – The study of Thomas Berry’s Seven Self model—Earth as self-emergent, self-propagating, self-nourishing, self-healing, self-educating, self-governing, and self-fulfilling—is absolutely essential because it provides the fundamental, non-anthropocentric instructions for navigating our current planetary crisis and ushering in the Ecozoic Era. This powerful framework—featured in our recent Deep Time course “Earth’s Seven Selfs as a Pathway into the Ecozoic” and championed by leaders such as Sister Maureen Wild, Jennifer Morgan, Dr. Orla Hazra, and Brian Tucker—has become central to our shared work. It is now serving as our primary reference point for discernment and decision-making at the personal, community, and bioregional levels.

How to engage with this resource – Finding your allurement(s) in this model – Ultimately, the most beneficial area for your involvement in the 7 Self’s Model is where you feel the greatest sense of deep inner prompting of what’s right and what ignites a creative response and action within your own bioregion—the specific place where you are called to “wake up to the dream of the earth”. If you can align your professional or community efforts with any of these Earth instructions, you will be fulfilling the mission of the Deep Time leader.

To enter the mind map model, click on the blue button top right and enter as a Guest.