Humility.
Humus.
Human.

Hello, Leader

We might be able to tell that you are a human
but are you being human?

hear me out…

Being in truth, rather than telling it, begins with being re-membered to being of the soil, of the earth, and not above it. Truth and trust slip away when being on top of soil replaces being of it.

Stories of being “better-than,” “separated-from,” or entitled to power over for the good of the soil have helped shape the conditions we now live within.

The Age of Human Exceptionalism has led you here. You may enter when feeling called to remember what it means to belong and lead NatureHumanly.

— Lohyk Ba-Ma

Clime·Scapes

/klīm skāps/ · noun–verb

clime — climate; inclination; region of the Earth
scape — a scene, view, or relational terrain

The relational climates through which attention, narratives, and ways of relating shape what a decision can become.

A practice of working with those living conditions while direction can still change.

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Ecological relations

Learn from living ecologies to understand the scape a narrative is moving through while a consequential choice is forming.

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A consequential decision

Bring a live choice into view and explore what is shaping its course.

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Decision formation · Living relation · Trustability

What is taking shape?

What you decide does not stay with you. It moves into the lives of others.

ClimeScapes helps you notice what is shaping your attention—and how that affects the direction of a consequential decision while it can still change.

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A living inquiry

Work with a consequential decision.

Decision Reach asks who and what this choice may implicate. Topography of Narrowing examines what is gaining authority in your attention. Trust Anchors support what the inquiry asks you to carry. These are three handles, not required steps.

Decision in view
A decision still taking shape
Trust Anchors

Choose what the encounter calls for.

Trust Anchors are resources for what a consequential choice asks you to carry. They include practices, a developmental track, temporal vehicles, and an integrative process with a live application. Choose what the situation calls for before, during, or after direction takes shape. They support how you live, carry, and enact what you have learned toward greater trustability over time; none selects the decision for you.

Drag a card to move it through the scape; tap one to see when it helps. The layout does not prescribe a path or certify a decision.

Resources in view

Use the arrows to reorder what you keep. On a large screen, you can also drop a card here.

The forming moment

What feels possible can narrow before you make a choice.

A choice can gain momentum through pressure or a familiar story while affected lives and conditions remain out of view.

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.

Narrative influence

What travels with your goal?

A goal can be clear while the story giving it force goes unnoticed.

The goal is what you hope to accomplish. Measures can show progress toward the goal. They cannot settle what the pursuit is asking other lives to carry.

Your quest asks what you are seeking through that goal—perhaps security, recognition, or a way of living with meaning—and how the pursuit is shaping you. A question that keeps returning may deserve attention for the personal meaning it has acquired, not because it is necessarily a problem.

N-otions are learned stories that travel with those meanings. They can nourish what you seek or give one route so much authority that other lives and knowledge lose their say. The inquiry follows how you have learned to live with them, rather than deciding beforehand what they mean.

Your orientation concerns what guides the way you author those n-otions and relate to their accompanying images.

Are those ways of relating keeping you from disengaging from your ecological belonging, or reinforcing that disengagement?

Educated foresight

Notice the forming earlier.

What are you protecting as one route gathers force? What becomes harder to hear, sense, see, or smell as attention narrows?

Direction may be more shaped than you realize when:

  • Your language pushes a desired aim forward while smoothing over key tensions.
  • Learned patterns and narratives are steering how you decide.
  • Different forms of pressure pull 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 your capacity to recognize these movements as they happen and widens your response-abilities: what you can stay with, imagine with, and let change your course.

C.E.O.

A human C.E.O. becomes recognizable in how they give direction and what can still move it.

ClimeScapes names its chosen orientation:

Living in an unpredetermined and uncontrolling way.

What ClimeScapes is practicing toward

Freedom inside responsibility.
Freedom within relation.

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.

What can change

A role, a definition of success, or your form of involvement can change. Responsibility need not bind you to the form your contribution once took.

The freedom

I do not have to keep becoming what previously made me successful or helped me thrive in the systems I have been in.

The responsibility

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.

The consequence-exposed leader

Influence can travel farther than the person deciding.

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 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.

The old challenge

Can I make this decision work?

The deeper challenge

Can I remain in relationship with the lives and conditions this direction may affect—and let what they reveal still change it?

Focus · Why trust?

Trust can be damaged much faster than it can be rebuilt.

Strategies can change.Careers can be rebuilt.Reputations can recover.Revenue can return.Trust may take much longer.

Trust Cost is the relational strain that begins when something important is not held with enough care while a decision is taking shape.

Trust Tax is what accumulates when that cost repeats across decisions, affecting participation, credibility, support, cooperation, and the relationships one depends on.

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.

— Lohyk Ba-Ma, drawing on Nate Hagens
Protecting what is difficult to rebuild by reconsidering a decision before its consequences become less reversible has never felt so timely.— Lohyk Ba-Ma
Decision Reach · Topography of Narrowing

What a live decision can reveal.

Decision Reach

What decision-formation does not hold does not simply disappear.

A consequential direction may travel through teams, families, users, communities, partners, institutions, land, water, other living beings, and future relationships beyond a leader's familiar matters of care.

The map is a beginning, not proof of understanding. What each ecology needs, knows, contributes, or may have to carry must be learned through its situated realities. Those realities can still change the form of a decision.

Topography of Narrowing

Not every narrowed perception feels narrow. Sometimes it feels like clarity.

A n-otion about success, responsibility, safety, or belonging may become so central that it shapes what a leader hears, senses, protects, or regards as possible. Familiar expectations, institutional rewards, histories, money, technical constraints, and emotional forces can support its authority. Some commitments deserve to endure.

What does that authority help the leader remain with, and what is losing its ability to matter? These patterns participate in which knowledge and affected lives can influence the direction taking shape. A real constraint may remain while its familiar interpretation can still be questioned.

Trustability

How a decision takes shape—and what follows.

Trustability is not a label a leader can award themselves. It concerns whose knowledge can matter while direction forms, what affected lives may be asked to carry, and the responsibility that follows.

There is no promise of a perfect decision. The work is to learn from affected ecologies, mitigate the severity of harm, and support conditions in which they can retain or regain vitality and continue unfolding. What those lives actually experience may still call for a change of course.

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?

Practice can sharpen attention; it cannot certify trustability. Across decisions, a leader’s trustability as a member of the communities their influence reaches becomes discernible, especially under pressure: how they exercise disproportionate influence, what they allow to influence their pursuit, how they give direction through difference, and what they remain prepared to answer for as consequences unfold.

A scape of engagement.

Within those relational climates, the scape is a relational and imaginative ecology. What a leader notices, cares about, and relates with begins shaping the direction a consequential decision takes.

A leader engages through the scape.

How they engage shapes what is encountered, stayed with, and worked with—and whether the forming direction can still change.

The six parts below act together and can be revisited; they are not stages.

Energy Exchange, Diversity and Multiplicity, Decay and Renewal, Change, and Relationship are active across every ecology. Some may become more evident through a particular relation; none belongs to one ecology alone.

Ecological relations

Different scapes make different kinds of knowing easier to think with.

Illustrated layers of cave, wooded, aquatic, and arid terrain

Life does not unfold in the same way across a cave, meadow, arid desert, or reef. Their particular inhabitants, materials, movements, and relationships carry different kinds of ecological knowledge.

An image or sensation arising as you live with a n-otion may lead toward another living ecology. Learn how its knowledge carriers actually live, what sustains them, and what you had not expected to encounter. This may help a familiar narrative decompose or be lived differently without assigning the ecology a fixed psychological meaning or asking it to prescribe a decision.

Four of fourteen working ecological illustrations are open here. Each offers one possible inquiry, not everything that ecology can contribute. Select one, or see the other ten by name.

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The wider ground work

Ten more by name.

The current ground work of fields of wonder includes broad ecological contexts, particular expressions, and relations that cross more than one ecology.

Forested

  • Old-growth boreal forest floor
  • Equatorial jungle

Water-mediated

  • Wetland
  • Delta

Open land

  • Plains
  • Steppe

Cryospheric

  • Cryospheric zone

Across ecologies

  • Riparian zone
  • Mycelial ground
  • Migration path/corridor
P.A.R.D. Attentional Scape™

How are you relating with what reaches you?

Four relational dynamics can take form anywhere across a ClimeScape. They are not personality traits or stages; all four may be active in the same consequential situation. Each can be read through any ecology; no ecology belongs to only one dynamic.

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Permeability

When something affects you, can it change how you understand what is happening and the direction you are considering—without shutting it out or letting one influence decide everything?

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Resilience

Can you stay with what has been stirred or remains unsettled so your relationship with it can change, without burying it or forcing a quick conclusion?

03

Dexterity

What relationships, perspectives, practices, materials, and other knowledge carriers are changing how you understand and work with what is here?

04

Agility

When what you learn changes what the situation calls for, can that change how you proceed?

Ecoformmating™

Reading consequence while it is still forming.

Ecoformmating reads how attention, narrative, emotion, ethics, care, and power participate in the direction a decision takes.

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.

Ecoformmating Flow brings this process into a live decision. It does not replace Topography of Narrowing; it follows what happens to influence as it is taken in, worked with, and begins shaping direction.

ClimeScapes · One possible decision encounter

Return to the choice while it can still change.

These six cards offer one way to explore a consequential decision within ClimeScapes. The numbering follows this illustration, not a required sequence. An Ecological Field of Wonder or a Trust Anchor enters when the inquiry calls for it.

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From capstone to real settings

The ClimeScapes Communal Lab.

A curated development ecology where selected readers of my doctoral capstone help test how the ClimeScapes work shared here can take form in real settings.

They may be researchers, practitioners, designers, strategists, ecological thinkers, organizational and cultural leaders, facilitators, or institutional thinkers who see an overlap with their own expertise or fascinations.

What does ClimeScapes need in order to enter the environments it is meant to serve?

Fidelity

Read the capstone closely and help name what ClimeScapes must preserve as it takes new forms.

Translation / Relational Credibility

Help make the work clear and credible in your field—through language, design, or facilitation—without flattening it.

Application / Real-World Relevance

Bring a real consequential decision or setting where we can test what the work helps people notice and do.

Commercialization

Bring experience building offerings or partnerships that can sustain the work without letting the market write it.

For those readers: Where do your fascinations, expertise, lived experience, or trajectory meet this inquiry? What might you help ClimeScapes reveal, strengthen, translate, test, or protect from dilution?

People gathered among forest roots, connected by winding lines
Illustrated portrait of Lohyk Laurent Ba-Ma seated in a vivid ecological landscape
About the founder

Lohyk Laurent Ba-Ma

Practitioner of Ecological Psychology Applied to Leadership & Identity
Catalyst for Ecological Orientation
Climate-Shift Educator in Human Behavior

Lohyk’s work weaves ecological psychology, symbolic literacy, and climate-shift practices to help leaders, communities, and alive beings reconfigure the moments of relating—the climates—that shape participation and trust.

Return to the forming moment

A world regenerates every time a human remembers how to relate.

Begin where a consequential decision is already taking form.

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