The Need for Practice Grounds (or: The Outer Work of Inner Development)
I’ve been in multiple conversations lately with people who have recently discovered the regenerative movement, with its worldview of greater alignment with life. They feel drawn to bring living systems principles into their work with organizations. They’re...
Honoring the Stages of Regeneration
I speak and consult frequently about the practice of regeneration in contexts as wide-ranging as tourism, agriculture, community and business. And always, people want examples. Not only that, they want perfect, start-to-finish examples of best practices – a clear...
The Giving Field
I often see the emerging concept of regenerative tourism described as “leaving a place better than we found it.” In fact, the basic sentiment is widely shared even beyond tourism, in what Carol Sanford would call the “do good” paradigm. That’s nice, and necessary. But...
Regenerative Tourism: Elitist or Inclusive?
Tourism visionary Dianne Dredge, PhD and I were recently called out by name in an online opinion piece claiming that “regenerative tourism” is elitist. This is a common critique. Certainly, there are individual offerings and individual operators that are...
Beyond Fight or Flight
We all know about the “fight or flight” response to threat. Sometimes “freeze” gets added to the list. But rarely do we acknowledge that nature also offers the option to “flock.” This came up at a gathering this weekend hosted by...Page 1 of 9
