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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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“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
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...
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The Deep Why
It doesn't seem to come naturally for people to take the time to connect deeply with WHY. Despite Simon Sinek's best efforts, there's still a strong urge to jump to WHAT. But there's so much reward (clarity, engagement, energy, moral authority, creativity...) to be...
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This is an event I'm involved with. Please help spread the word. Regenerative approaches to soil draw down carbon to reverse climate change; prevent drought & flooding; improve food nutritional content & much more. There's not much that's more important than this conversation. https://t.co/rHEJnV8NT7
Many struggle w/the concept of thriving. Maybe we're 2 far removed from it or we believe we're not worthy of it. Healing seems 2 be universally accessible. Maybe it's more closely related 2 action. And healing always moves us in the direction of thriving.
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What is *your* synthesis of all this wisdom you've been gathering and generously sharing all this time, @janhoglund? Do you have any urge to bring your own voice out into the mix?
From hoarding an ever-expanding quantity of stuff to cultivating an ever-deepening quality of healing. From fear of never having enough to delight and curiosity in discovering what more is possible.
Let’s design for *that.*
https://t.co/BS4sBk9IRh
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.
https://t.co/BS4sBk9IRh
Such care and respect for a lone bee, as we learn the hard way how much our fates are intertwined. 🐝❤️ https://t.co/bKePalufTX
"Longing calls us forward in our lives, toward contribution, toward surrendering into a fuller relationship with what matters, toward fulfillment and connectedness."
—Doug Silsbee
Via Curtis Ogden
"The same human patterning instinct that has brought us to this precipice is also capable of turning us around and onto a path of sustainable flourishing. We have the capacity to build an alternative worldview around a sense of connectedness within the web of life—a sense shared by indigenous cultures around the world from the earliest times.
I’ve seen this idea disparaged as a New Agey, kumbaya-style mentality even by otherwise progressive thinkers. However, modern scientific findings validate the underlying connectedness of all living beings. Insights from complexity theory and systems biology show that the connections between things are frequently more important than the things themselves. Life itself is now understood as a self-organizing, self-regenerating complex that extends like a fractal at ever-increasing scale, from a single cell to the global system of life on Earth."
patternsofmeaning.com/2018/03/22/culture-shift-redirecting-humanitys-path-to-a-flourishing-future...
Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity’s Path to a Flourishing Future
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Published in Open Democracy | Transformation, March 20, 2018. It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness. What do all these ideas have in common—a tax on carbon…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 hoarding, what if we designed for healing?
The root of the word is “to make whole.” Healing as ever-greater wholeness, through care and generosity.
Healing our hearts and bodies. Healing our relationships with each other and with the Earth’s countless other species. Healing the soils and the waters. Healing our communities.
If we tune in, we all know intuitively where healing is needed and where we can contribute. We are wired to care, unless our belief system tells us we should not.
What would feel healing and nourishing to you today?
What if the next conversation you have with someone contributes to just a little healing? What would that look like? It might be as simple as a smile or a thoughtful question. Or it might be more profound.
What if our every purchase were guided by the opportunity to contribute to healing? What would you buy? How would you buy it? Maybe you would recognize that (as I wrote) “it takes a village to raise an entrepreneur,” and so you would buy something locally.
What if each meeting were designed as an experience of healing? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.
What if each company dedicated itself to offering healing to people and planet, in its own special way? Patagonia, Interface and others are leading the way. Regenerative farmers, too.
What if elected officials saw themselves most of all as healers, creating more wholeness for citizens and communities through connection, participation and maybe even play? The UK offers a pioneering example, not at a national level but in its local community efforts.
From hoarding an ever-expanding quantity of stuff to cultivating an ever-deepening quality of healing. From fear of never having enough to delight and curiosity in discovering what more is possible.
Let’s design for *that.*
[originally published at michelleholliday.com/from-an-economy-of-hoarding-to-an-ecology-of-healing/]
From an Economy of Hoarding to an Ecology of Healing | Michelle Holliday
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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 go..."You cannot take away someone’s story without giving them a new one. It is not enough to challenge an old narrative, however outdated and discredited it may be. Change happens only when you replace it with another. When we develop the right story, and learn how to tell it, it will infect the minds people across the political spectrum. Those who tell the stories run the world!
The old World, which once looked stable, even immutable, is collapsing. A new era has begun, loaded with hazard if we fail to respond, charged with promise if we seize the moment. Whether the system that emerge from this rupture are better or worse than the current dispensation depends on our ability to tell a new story, a story that learns from the past, places us in the present and guides the future."
George Monbiot - Out Of The Wreckage
via Michael Sillion
"The more that the changing climate forces us to help each other and to heed 'the better angels of our nature,' as Lincoln once said, the less relevant our differences may become. The more that nature demonstrates its undeniable power, the more reverence and responsibility we may feel for all life."
michelleholliday.com/silver-lining-dark-days/
The Silver Lining of These Dark Days | Michelle Holliday
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These are wildly encouraging times. (No, really, they are.) So many of us have been horrified to realize the extent to which bigotry and intolerance still exist - and currently drive the national agen...
