we might be able to tell that you are a human
but are you being human?
hear me out…
truth and trust slip away
when being. on top of soil
replaces being. of it.
When has risen the man-made notion of
being on top of,
the stories of being
'better-than.'
'separated-from.'
or entitled to power over for the good of the soil
have begotten the conditions we now live within.
the Age of Human Exceptionalism
has led you here.
/klīm skāps/ | noun–verb
clime — climate; inclination; region of the Earth
scape — a scene, view, or relational terrain
It moves into the lives of others.
Most approaches focus on improving decisions once a choice is in view.
We work while direction is still forming,
where what is shaping it can still be accounted for—
before its consequences become conditions that must be lived with.
your language pushes a desired aim forward while smoothing over key tensions
learned patterns and narratives are steering how you decide
pressure pulls you toward what is expected
important parts of what—and who—is involved begin leaving view
you move past what the decision may ask other lives, or conditions to carry
ClimeScapes expands the capacity to recognize these movements while they are happening.
So what is shaping perception can be noticed and worked with before one direction begins feeling harder to question.
ClimeScapes makes its chosen orientation explicit:
Living in a way that is unpredetermined and uncontrolling.
Direction still exists.
But the leader does not force what unfolds toward one predetermined outcome when relationships, changing conditions, new information, or consequences call for something to change.
gives direction while remaining capable of being moved by changing conditions and by what people, communities, and ecologies reveal.
as they continue to live and evolve through what your decisions bring into being.
As one's influence reaches farther, the distance can widen between those shaping a decision and where its consequences are felt. The farther influence reaches, the more important it becomes that a direction can still be changed by what it affects.
ClimeScapes is being developed for leaders whose decisions alter conditions they themselves still belong to—and who are not at peace with becoming insulated from what those conditions are becoming.
They may have access to greater protection through position, status, metrics, institutional structures, or resources without wanting those protections to define the limits of what or whom they care for.
They want to trust their judgment under pressure, stay close to consequence without becoming immobilized by it, and keep responsibility to the lives and conditions their decisions may affect without making their position their refuge.
Can I make this decision work?
Can I remain in relationship with the lives and conditions this direction may affect—and let what they reveal still change it?
can change.
can be rebuilt.
can recover.
can return.
Trust may take much longer
The relational strain that begins when something important is not held with enough care while a decision is taking shape.
What accumulates when that cost repeats across a pattern of decisions—eventually affecting participation, credibility, support, cooperation, and the relationships one depends on.
Protecting what is difficult to rebuild by reconsidering a decision before its consequences become less reversible has never felt so timely.
— Lohyk Ba-Ma, ClimeScapes Founder
Trust does not necessarily recover on the same timeline. Like topsoil, aquifers, or species diversity, severely diminished social trust can become difficult to regenerate within a human timescale.
These are not three separate practices. They are three ways of orienting attention when a consequential decision is still taking shape.
The field of consequence
Who and what might this decision reach, implicate, or ask something of beyond what is immediately in view?
How a narrative gains authority while direction is forming
What is a narrative making feel necessary, legitimate, safer, or harder to question—and what conditions keep giving it that authority here?
Resources for keeping a decision in greater care
What can help what is forming remain answerable to the relationships and lives it may affect?
A consequential decision travels beyond the setting where it was formed. It may move through:
teams
families
customers
communities
suppliers
institutions
land
non-human life
future relationships
people absent from the decision-making setting
Who and what might this direction reach, affect, or ask something of beyond what is immediately in view?
Decision Reach extends attention beyond immediate view toward the relationships, dependencies, places, lives, and futures a forming decision may enter, alter, or depend upon—including those the leader is already part of.
Its actual reach cannot be settled inside ClimeScapes. It has to be learned through relationship, evidence, situated knowledge, and what affected people, other lives, and ecologies reveal.
A narrative can begin shaping a decision long before it sounds like a story.
One route starts to feel necessary.
An identity quietly closes ranks around itself.
A preference hardens into something that has to happen.
Speed begins to feel like responsibility.
Control begins to feel like care.
And slowly, almost invisibly, differing information stops being heard because the narrative stopped making room for it.
Its authority does not come from the narrative alone. It is strengthened through the conditions around it:
Targets, deadlines, metrics, role expectations, incentives, established ways of working.
Belonging, loyalty, reputation, expectations from people whose approval or support carries weight.
What has worked before, earlier commitments, taught narratives, previous harm, repeated experience.
Money, infrastructure, technology, available time, resource limits, physical constraints.
When materially relevant: land, water, weather, habitat conditions, resource availability, seasonal change, or other ecological realities may make some options genuinely easier, harder, safer, riskier, or unavailable.
Fear, grief, pride, frustration, longing, the desire for recognition, or the need to feel secure…
Narrowing occurs when something in the actual scape keeps giving one narrative enough authority that other relevant realities lose their ability to change how the situation is understood or where the decision is going.
Not every narrowed perception feels narrow. Sometimes it feels like clarity.
Trustability begins in how a decision takes shape and continues to be tested by what follows:
A central ClimeScapes inquiry becomes:
While direction could still change, could what was learned from or about those affected actually change how the situation was understood or where the decision was going?
The aim is to become more practiced in questioning whether a consequential decision is taking a trustable shape—while remaining answerable to what its actual formation, effects, and affected relationships reveal.
Practice does not prove trustability. It can strengthen a leader's ability to notice how a decision is forming. Trustability is demonstrated through actual decision patterns, especially under pressure.
Trust Anchors support leaders as a consequential decision takes shape, helping keep its direction answerable to what it may affect.
The work does not stay in reflection. It returns to the decision while it is still taking form.
Bring a consequential decision that has not yet taken fixed form.
hiring · partnership · public response · strategic change · funding · crisis decision
Notice what the narrative is making feel necessary, legitimate, protected, or harder to question.
what is it doing to perception? · what is it making harder to notice? · what is it narrowing?
Notice what keeps giving that narrative force here.
relationships · expectations · institutional demands · history · metrics · status · material realities · actual ecological conditions where relevant
Turn toward an ecology whose living relations give the practitioner something different to think, feel, sense, or imagine with. The ecology is not assigned as a diagnosis and does not supply the answer. It offers another relational pattern through which the narrative can be worked with psychologically.
Migration → commitment without requiring one route · Cave → protection without insulation · Desert → apparent absence is not always actual absence · Reef → success cannot be read only through the dominant actor
Return to the live decision and see what can now change.
route · pace · timing · criteria · whose knowledge matters · what still needs contact · what no longer remains untouchable
Discern whether the direction is taking a more trustable shape.
who and what can still affect it? · what is still uncertain? · what would make this direction need reconsideration? · what would others have to carry?
If the decision still closes too early, the work continues. ↺
ClimeScapes does not take the leader away from the decision. It gives the practitioner ways to work with what is shaping the decision and bring that work back while direction is still forming.
The capacity to let a direction change as life, relationships, and consequences change what the situation calls for—without abandoning responsibility for what your influence has already helped shape.
Responsibility does not require becoming fused with the form your contribution once took.
I do not have to keep becoming what previously made me successful or helped me thrive in the systems I have been in
What I change still enters relationships, ecologies, and futures I remain part of.
An unpredetermined and uncontrolling orientation is what allows freedom inside responsibility to be cultivated rather than merely declared.
— Lohyk Ba-Ma
Learn its world below
A relational and imaginative ecology through which what a leader notices, carries, and relates with begins shaping the direction a consequential decision takes.
A leader engages through the scape.
How a leader does it shapes what is encountered, stayed with, and worked with—and whether it changes the direction taking shape.
These are not lenses to choose between. They are always present, always active.
A ClimeScape is composed of:
— Where exchange and contact occur.
— Where processual material is worked through.
— Where difference develops multiple routes.
— Where what has been worked with begins moving toward relational response.
— Different living ecologies and ecological relations through which different kinds of knowing can become easier to imagine and work with.
— The quality of relating taking shape across the whole scape.
These movements overlap and return. They are not stages. No ecology owns one relational dynamic, and the same consequential situation may be worked with through more than one ecology.
Energy Exchange, Diversity and Multiplicity, Decay and Renewal, Change, and Relationship are active across every ecology. Some may become more evident through a particular ecological relation, but none belongs to one ecology alone.
Life does not relate in the same way across a cave, wetland, forest floor, reef, migration corridor, or bog. Different materials, lifeforms, movements, and timescales make different things easier to notice, stay with, and work with.
The ecology is not assigned to the leader like a diagnosis. It becomes relevant when its living relations offer another way to work with what a narrative is doing while a consequential decision is still forming.
The visual forms do wonders: a narrative is not solely carried by words. An ecological image gives imagination another relational pattern to work with when intellectual understanding by itself has not changed the hold of a narrative.
In cave ecologies, shelter, depth, limited surface exposure, and slower processes change what can happen away from immediate demands. A practitioner may recognize that a narrative has fused responsible leadership with constant availability or immediate response. Cave ecology offers another relation to work with: protected withdrawal can support a living process without becoming permanent separation. Back in the decision: the work may clarify whether a protected period is needed before commitment, and what would keep that protection from becoming insulation.
A meadow brings differentiated life into relation within the same living field. Presence does not mean every life participates in the same way or has the same influence on what happens there. A practitioner may recognize that a narrative has confused being represented with actually having influence. Meadow ecology offers another way to work with difference: distinct forms of life can remain different while still affecting the wider field. Back in the decision: the issue becomes whether the people, lives, or knowledge present can actually alter what is prioritized or chosen—or whether they merely surround a direction already taking form.
An arid desert may appear empty or inactive while moisture, movement, sensory life, and other relations remain present in forms that are difficult to see from the surface. A practitioner may recognize when a narrative has begun treating what is not immediately visible, productive, recognized, or available as evidence that nothing viable is there. Desert ecology offers another relation to availability: something may be absent, genuinely scarce, hidden, intermittent, or inaccessible under present conditions—and those are not the same thing. Back in the decision: the leader may need to distinguish what is truly unavailable from what has been overlooked, what cannot replenish continuously, and what conditions would actually have to change for another possibility to become viable.
Reefs are living habitats formed through the relations of many distinct lives. Strain can accumulate unevenly even while one part of the habitat appears to be doing well. A practitioner may recognize that a narrative has fused success with the flourishing of the dominant actor. Reef ecology offers another relation to success: the condition of the wider habitat also belongs to what success is producing. Back in the decision: attention turns to which relationships are carrying strain, what conditions other lives need in order to remain viable, and whether the preferred direction depends upon weakening the habitat that sustains it.
Stories. Expectations. Advice. What success has taught us. What belonging has required. What institutions reward. What earlier experiences taught us to protect.
They travel. They accumulate. They can become the lens through which a consequential situation is understood, shaping what feels possible, what feels risky, what feels like the obvious move.
ClimeScapes calls these N-otion: narratives in movement or in motion that have acquired enough presence and gravitas that they begin orienting attention, narrowing what can be heard, and giving certain directions a sense of necessity they may create more obstacles than opportunities for flourishing.
Through what gets repeated. Through what goes unquestioned. Through what feels like clarity rather than constraint. Through the stories a leader tells about who they are and what they are responsible for.
Topography of Narrowing works with what these N-otion are doing and what keeps giving them authority while a consequential decision is still forming.
P.A.R.D. does not describe personality traits or four stages. It helps you notice how you are relating with what reaches and affects the scape while direction can still change. These dynamics can be read through any ecology or ecological relation. No ecology belongs to only one of them.
When something affects you, can it change how you understand what is happening and the direction you are considering—without either shutting it out or letting that one influence decide everything?
Can you stay with what has been stirred or remains unsettled so that your relationship with it can change—rather than burying it, forcing it too quickly into a conclusion, or passing the strain onward?
What relationships, perspectives, practices, materials, and other knowledge carriers are changing how you understand and work with what is here?
When what you learn changes what the situation calls for, can that change how you proceed?
All four dynamics can be active through the same consequential situation. Different ecologies may make particular aspects of those dynamics easier to work with without becoming assignments for them.
Ecoformmating follows how attention and narrative influence become direction while consequence can still be held in view.
IN–FORM–ATION traces what happens to what affects us: what we take in, what changes as we work with it, and how it begins influencing direction.
These movements overlap, recur, and can change one another. They are not stages.
What begins affecting attention.
How what has affected leaders is stayed with and changed through relation.
How what has been worked with begins taking direction.
What has affected attention, stirred emotion, or begun acquiring narrative force?
The leader stays with what has been stirred, works with it through relationship, P.A.R.D., situated knowledge, and—where useful—ecological and imaginal relations that can change how the narrative is being held.
What has been learned is allowed to affect route, pace, timing, criteria, or whether the direction still fits—while remaining answerable to who and what the decision reaches.
Ecoformmating follows this movement across the live decision. It does not replace Topography of Narrowing; it shows what happens to influence as it is taken in, worked with, and begins shaping direction.
A curated development ecology where selected readers of the capstone become co-incubators of the work. They see an overlap between ClimeScapes and the trajectory of their own expertise or fascinations.
Researchers. Practitioners. Designers. Strategists. Ecological thinkers. Organizational leaders. Cultural leaders. Facilitators. Institutional thinkers.
The Lab gathers around one collaborative inquiry:
What does ClimeScapes need in order to enter the environments it is meant to serve?
You are the one in the room asking what must not be lost in integrity.
You make complex thinking land without flattening it.
You work where consequential decisions are already forming.
You know how to make something viable without letting the market write it.
Enter the visualized ecologies to work with the narratives shaping a consequential decision through living ecological relations.
Explore a pilot, organizational application, or working conversation.
Begin where a consequential decision is already taking form.
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Lohyk's work weaves ecological psychology, symbolic literacy, and climate-shift practices to help leaders, communities, and alive beings reconfigure the moments of relating (ie. climates) that shape participation and trust.
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