POWER, PARADOX & PRESENCE:
Source Patterns Intelligence™
FORESIGHT IS NOT PREDICTION; IT’S RELATIONSHIP
Ada doesn’t predict the future, she listens to it.
As an artist, ecologist and systems thinker, she treats the future as a field of relationship, not a forecast.
Prediction is extraction; it tries to control time.
Ecological foresight is listening for the subtle patterns that move through soil, data, bodies and breath.
This approach grew from years of working across technology, ancestry and consciousness, and from guidance with Majé (female Brazilian Shaman) A-yá Kukamíria, whose teachings root her practice in the elements of life.
Through the TERRA Framework, Cyborg Shamanism™ and Source Patterns Intelligence™, she helps leaders and creators cultivate the same relational intelligence that guides living systems.
Rather than asking “What will happen?”, the work asks “What wants to happen through us?”
Foresight is not prediction. It’s participation, with time, with technology, with the living Earth.
THE TERRA Architecture
The TERRA Framework™ translates five elemental fields into lived intelligence for navigating complexity with coherence.
Through 26 technological paradoxes, TERRA helps leaders embody ecological intelligence, turning foresight into felt practice and strategy into stewardship.
Each element represents a field of intelligence, ways of sensing, moving and creating that nature has perfected over billions of years.
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The space that holds all systems. Sensing what connects technology, ecology and consciousness into coherent wholes.
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The breath of questioning and curiosity. Listening for what wants to emerge before it becomes visible.
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The heat of transformation. Learning to burn bright without becoming ash, to create without consuming.
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The capacity to flow and adapt. Building systems that nourish relationships, not extraction.
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The ground beneath everything. Rooting decisions in what will sustain life seven generations forward.
THE 26 TECHNOLOGICAL PARADOXES: A LIVING CARTOGRAPHY
Every technology carries paradox, tensions that can’t be resolved, only held consciously.
These 26 paradoxes map the threshold between innovation and wisdom, efficiency and care, progress and regeneration.
They are not fixed. They evolve.
As society shifts, new technologies emerge, collective consciousness changes, and crises reshape priorities, the paradoxes adapt. What felt urgent in 2020 may have transformed by 2024. What surfaces now may dissolve or deepen by 2027.
This is what it means to be a relational ecologist rather than a traditional futurist.
The work isn’t to create a permanent framework. It’s to stay in conversation with what's emerging, to sense the tensions that want attention now, to name what's shifting beneath the surface.
These paradoxes were first mapped during the writing of Leadership Legacy. They have already evolved since the book went to press. They will continue evolving as long as humans create technology, as long as society breathes and changes.
