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Martijn Moret's avatar

Great article, B. I guess every organisation needs to look at this and prepare for an even more volatile and uncertain world. Monitoring and classification of changes will be a big opportunity.

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Sherry@theresnobodytoblame's avatar

My goodness you are so rich with information and skills. I feel so connected even a sense of alignment to your writing. Not sure how to apply your knowledge to continue my own regeneration and yet i feel the pull to do so.

My background is in social work. My work has always been about people learning to listen to their intuition in balance with thoughts. To trust and risk taking imperfect actions. I feel you. And, my hope is to integrate your thoughts into my own journey. A network of sorts i suppose.

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Dr. Lissette Alvarez-Holland's avatar

This is wonderful. Thank you for your work on this. It makes me hopeful that you are targeting organizational revamps as that is where most people with the more immediate resources to do the most damage (or positive contribution) are.

I see a lot of intertwining with my cultural and personal reframes which lean a bit more to build the person, specifically the woman, with the healthy, sustainable capacity to take you and I up on executing and on reclaiming the power, of the collective —-instead of just the individual.

I too can see the other side yet, If you are anything like me, we have been seeding it and trying to fertilize the ground now for sometime.

I can also see so many of the conduits through which this regenerative ecosystem will take root are tired. We really need other networks who have been maybe more risk averse watching. We need them to move from fans and advocates into activists willing to start their shift in the fields.

That is where I come in. Hopefully together we can make sure there are healthy, wise leaders ready to take that shift, along with the resources to give that first round of farmers that planted the seeds some brave space and financial power to safely rest.

The real challenge right now is that we are in a domestic civil war inside the long time model of community gone wrong.

To be really regenerative we must figure out how to have a simultaneous cycle of recovery built in for the activists. Those first wave seeders who prepared the land are currently still in recovery. They need provisions for being who they need to be in order to keep connecting the roots that hold up one another. This must be simultaneous, not different phases, with those able to maintain the supplies. Both groups must be taking some of the load of social risk so that these ecosystems are making the consistent, compounding investments as well as actually nurturing the new growth that will soon pop up.

You are correct, it will take a network of interconnected networks already outlined in these overlapping frameworks.

I look forward to growing these ideas into the plants that bear the fruit we will need with you. 🙏

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