Welcome!
I’m glad you’re here.
We have
important
work to do.
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.
Thrivability
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Sharing deep expertise on what it takes for life to thrive in our organizations, our communities and our own experience
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Guide
Hosting meaningful conversations to navigate complexity collectively, creatively and joyfully
Creative
Strategist
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
Changing The Game of Life
The most important thing we can do right now, individually and collectively, is to change the game we’re playing. “The game we play” is another way of thinking about the story or worldview we’re living out. Adopting a new game (or worldview) changes the conversations...
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From an Economy of Hoarding to an Ecology of Healing
Our economic belief system is designed around hoarding - accumulating ever more stuff, in constant fear of not having enough and especially of not having as much as our peers. And look where that’s gotten us: to the edge of extinction, among other ills. In place of...
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Evolving Growth
"Don't grow if it will make you sick." This is what the “mother” had told them. My client was a small, dynamic company that produced kombucha, a natural fermented drink believed to have significant health benefits. The group had asked me to help them figure out how to...
read more"Love what is, even as you create the conditions for it to change. This is one of the many paradoxes of stewarding living organizations. And as my friend Tolu Ilesanmi says, 'It takes a different kind of thinking.'"
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Postcards from Thrivability Camp: The Paradox of Transformation | Michelle Holliday
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Last week, I wrote about a story I shared at the opening of Thrivability Camp. According to the story, leaders can be seen as "keepers of the fire," a powerful symbol of transformation. Though this is..."I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." - Joseph Campbell
via Simon Robinson
Getting back to the roots of what it means to be an entrepreneur, what it takes to support one, and why that should matter to everyone.
"Consider the very word 'entrepreneur.' Those with some knowledge of French may assume that it means 'take between-er' or middleman. In fact, the word comes from the Latin 'inter prehendere,' which means to take hold of something with both hands in the interest of both responsibility and mastery. There is a sense of adventure in the full etymology. There is craftsmanship implicit in such an endeavor. And there is also generosity. The entrepreneur undertakes something on behalf of the community, in service of the common good. This is the spirit of the relatively new concept of 'social entrepreneurship,' but the social implications are, in fact, baked into the word 'entrepreneur' itself."
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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur | Michelle Holliday
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Like the African proverb that it takes a village to raise a child, I would also say: it takes a village to raise an entrepreneur. We have this myth of the lone, heroic entrepreneur. And certainly, the..."Life's patterns and processes offer universal design principles we can use to help organizations, communities and ecosystems thrive."
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Life's Universal Design Principles
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The patterns of thriving living systems and why we need to align with those patterns in work, in learning, in community and everywhere in between."Instead of beating down all the other players – and all other forms of life – the winning strategy in the game of Thrivability is to cultivate the fertile conditions for all life to thrive, as an ever-expanding, ever-evolving practice."
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Changing The Game of Life | Michelle Holliday
michelleholliday.com
The most important thing we can do right now, individually and collectively, is to change the game we're playing. "The game we play" is another way of thinking about the story or worldview we're livin...
