Living Systems
Leading for Evolution
We can’t force change.
This is a lesson I had to learn the hard way. We can’t force peopole, systems, organizations or politics to change. Neither is it our job, to offer the most sustainable solution to convince others of their wrongs. This approach will lead to burnout and is ultimately ineffective.
At times we feel paralized by the challenge of having to operate within a “business as usual” food economy that produces harmful environmental and social externalities and favours extractive management practicies in a race for power, market domination and the lowest price.
How do we evolve our current mode of “business as usual” to a new paradigm by working with the current system we have, not against it?
We need to shift our thinking.
I support leaders and teams to unlock new perspectives that allow them to see their unique contribution to the evolution of the whole system. Scroll down to find out more…
Our industry is divided by “the emergence” of regenerative agricutlure and competing sustainablity narrative and tools. Think twice before taking one side.
Instead: develop capacity to work regeneratively.
"Regeneration is a process in which people, institutions and materials evolve the capacity to fulfill their inherent potential in a world that is constantly changing around them". (Carol Sanford 2022, The Regenerative Business).
Developing our own capacity to constantly develop ourselves, and co-evolve our organizations and businesses with the demanding and changing circumstances of markets, ecosystems, politics, society - and life- is a challenge any leader is dealing with daily.
I’m supported and nourished in my own developmental process by a community, called reNourish Studio, based in the US. They source their work from the Carol Sanford Institute, Regenesis Group and the Regenesis Institute.
Are you working on systemic solutions to our global food crisis?
Do you want to help build new patterns and systems? If your answer is yes, what capabilities are you nurturning inside yourself and with your teams to enable your systemic effectiveness in our complex, alive and changing world?
Disolving old paradims for flow-state emergence.
Living Systems Thinking is a translation-technology to merge different ontologies of “connectednes” and “wholeness” with an applicable epistemology of how to think about, and understand everyday phenomenon as they occur in our private and professional lives.
As a Human Ecologist, diving deep into environmental philosophy and environmental anthropology in my early years, I’ve always felt drawn to holding complexity and different ways of “knowing the world”, from indiginous technology and scienece all the way to western. In 2013, I conducted anthropological field research and wrote my master’s thesis about this topic.
If you’re looking for the root-cause of our socio-environmental crisis, digging down several layers of “why”, you’ll reach the level of thought and perception. How we make sense of the world, how we form belief systems and opinions from that place, is the main leverage that determins everything we manifest on earth, including our current economic system.
Starting with our worldviews and the way we think, unlocks new potential for communities and teams who want to collaborate on positive change. Practicing Living Systems Thinking is a developmental approach to evolution. It is helping to grow our capacity to co-evolve with the systems we’re a part of, instead of forcing change upon others.