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What if we actually aimed for thriving?
Too often, we accept busyness and productivity as their own reward. Or we’re afraid to be bold, so we aim for something less than thriving.
As a result, we’re falling dangerously short of thriving in our communities, in our organizations and in our own lives.
So, what if we recognized the characteristics of thriving living systems in our organizations and communities?
And what if that were somehow simple and useful, opening up new insights and suggesting new ways forward?
What if our most powerful role is to act as stewards of life’s processes, actively cultivating the fertile conditions for life to thrive?
And what if this helped us achieve all of our other objectives more effectively?
This is the most important work of our times.
This is the practice of thrivability.
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“We need to see ourselves more fully as active stewards of life’s unfolding process and as part of a larger living world.”
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From Capital to Cultivation
cap·i·tal (etymology): Borrowed from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. Compare chattel, which also uses “cow”...
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Context and Complexity as Fertile Ground for Thrivability
[A version of this post originally appeared in April 2018 at www.realityseeker.org. It is my responses to a series of interview questions about complexity science, living systems, and the Age of Thrivability.] How would you describe the “context” that filters into and...
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Using a Shovel to Build a Bridge: Truth and Reconciliation in Quebec Archeology
[Originally published May 31, 2013] “I thought archaeology would be simple,” said one young woman. “I mean, I’m working with the dead. What could be complicated?” The roomful of Quebec archaeologists – and even the handful of representatives from various indigenous...
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Yes, contribution is a good, useful word. I went for "cultivation" - which is what read in your sentiment: "My value is the sum total of all positive synaptic connections I have a role in creating, in myself and in others." You're cultivating conditions for learning & potential. https://t.co/AEe6QKDU6h
The Limits – and Dangers – of the Metaphor of Capital ... and an exploration of alternatives https://t.co/r6MGoNeue4
In place of the term “capital,”we need a concept that enriches our understanding of complexity and invites wise, compassionate stewardship rather than commodification and thoughtless exploitation of the things we hold most dear. https://t.co/MHpu8R8UgE
What are we being called to do? "The call right now is to recognize life, to reconnect with life."
https://t.co/UeY5Hvq6MK
"For many years, I’ve resisted the trend to apply the economic term “capital” to various spheres of our lives, as in “human capital,” “social capital,” “natural capital,” and so on. As this trend approaches absurd proportions, however, it is clear that an appropriate alternative is needed – one that enriches our understanding of complexity rather than reducing it, and one that invites wise, compassionate stewardship rather than commodification and thoughtless exploitation of the things we hold most dear."
michelleholliday.com/from-capital-to-cultivation/
From Capital to Cultivation | Michelle Holliday
michelleholliday.com
cap·i·tal (etymology): Borrowed from Latin capitālis ("of the head") (in sense "head of cattle"). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction i..."The true purpose of capital is not simply to generate more capital, but rather to function as a fuel for individual freedom in the context of community and the Earth."
www.purposeofcapital.org
purposeofcapital.org
The pathway to sustainability is beauty because people preserve & care for that which feeds their spirit & heart". — Architect David Sellers
David Cooperrider lays out a powerful vision in this great article:
"Positive institutions are organizations and structured practices in culture or society that serve to elevate and
develop our highest human strengths, combine, and magnify those strengths, and refract our highest strengths outward in world benefiting ways leading, ultimately, to a world of full-spectrum flourishing."
drive.google.com/file/d/0B30i3w7ZW4ZMTVphVG1iNERpWEU/view?usp=sharing
