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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.
Here’s how I can help.
Whether you’re an organizational leader, a community planner or just someone looking for answers, here are some ways I can help.
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Sharing deep expertise on what it takes for life to thrive in our organizations, our communities and our own lives
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Hosting meaningful conversations to navigate complexity collectively, creatively and joyfully
Creative
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Offering a comprehensive framework for designing and stewarding effective change
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Author
Mapping the opportunity in The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World
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Delivering thought-provoking keynotes, workshops and webinars, with warmth and interactivity
“We need to see ourselves more fully as active stewards of life’s unfolding process and as part of a larger living world.”
– The Age of Thrivability
Beyond Best Practices: How to Listen for Generative Threads of Aliveness in Stories of What Works
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When Warriors Try to Weave
Living Systems, Jung’s Archetypes, and the Fullness of What’s Needed to Cultivate Regenerative Community I recently participated in a nourishing 3½-day gathering of people dedicated to regenerative, life-aligned ways of living. Presentations and conversations swirled...
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A Living Systems Lens on Blockchain: The Promise and the Peril
I recently had my first encounter with an honest-to-goodness “blockchain bro” — a young white man enamored of blockchain and cryptocurrencies and eager to evangelize their potential to transform society. This was my chance to get a personalized tutorial in the...
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“Mmadu"- is the word for "Human being" in the Igbo language. Mmadu is the etymological union of "Mma" meaning BEAUTY and "Ndu" meaning LIFE. Put together, being human in Igbo cosmology is being the beauty of life. - Kenneth U. Obiakar
And conversely, when the mind (and body) play, the ego can sleep (or at least relax). https://t.co/cWlrxVPnIF
The only way to avoid dangerous levels of warming is ... extracting more CO2 from the air than we contribute. If emissions, by miracle, do rapidly decline, most of necessary carbon absorption could be handled by replanting forests & improving ag practices.
https://t.co/jrR9CoyDoM
"Unwrapping the Gift Economy" - @thrivability https://t.co/nZJuOtfdHt https://t.co/wy53GXkmdO
"Unwrapping the Gift Economy" - @thrivability https://t.co/PcScJQD5qt https://t.co/FThTx1vOFZ
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