REGENERATIVE SYSTEMS
Now is the time for leaders and coaches to learn about Complex Systems. We are entering an era where we must embrace exponential change in life and in work. Insights into living systems and human ontology will help us adapt and thrive in a more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (VUCA).
This section of the website explores a regenerative approach to personal and collective change. It will expands your capacity to communicate across cultural boundaries and apply new relationship and conversational practices. The focus is on observing patterns of thinking and action. More effective ways of being and interacting in a digital world is urgently needed.
You are introduced to some new concepts and paradigms that will offer you ways of thinking, being and doing things differently to have an impact. You can explore leading-edge practices to avoid breakdowns, potential chaos and procrastination. You will see how a regenerative mindset enables you to blend complexity theory and daily practice to achieve a coherent and holistic view of ecosystems and dynamic change that can be applied to personal and organisational transformation.
Regenerate your capacity to learn and potential to grow as a person.
NEW WAYS OF BEING
THINKING HOLISTICALLY
Insights come from an understanding of how a whole system can connect with a bigger ecosystem.
TRANSFORMING RELATIONSHIPS
Culture has a strong influence over how we experience the world and our relationship with our environment
DEVELOPING CAPABILITY
Capability is about managing ourselves, and others, with respect, integrity and accountability.
DEEPENING AWARENESS
A change must deliver an ongoing improvement or insight that serves a bigger purpose.
“Regenerating living systems is a process of aligning one’s own way of being, one’s adaptive actions, with ways of communicating and being in relationship with the wider pattern of life.” Daniel Christian Wahl
Active learning and adaptive action
CHOOSING THE NEXT BEST ACTION
Leadership and coaching are not simply about creating closer and mutually respectful relationships to help people resolve mutual concerns. We are always dealing with what emerges. When the future is volatile, unknown, complex and ambiguous, deeper questions are needed to find the next best action. This diagram explains the process.
The diagram above combines the work of Sharon Varney (Leadership in Complexity and Change), Glenda Eoyang (Adaptive Action) , Robert Keegan (Everyone Culture), Sameer Dua (Become) and John Whittington (Systemic Coaching).
2. INTERPRETATION
Exploring hunches, ways of thinking, and questioning to make sense of reality, insights, paradoxes, intuition, perception, and blindspots. We reflect to resolve the tension in differences and similarities to find connections.
3. TAKING ACTION
We can own and take responsibility for a better outcome by choosing better actions and intentions. Synergy in relationships can deliver a shared purpose, one where that all parties can commit to and care about what they promise.
4. ASSESSMENT
Looking to understand current patterns of relationships to decide what should be done to shift the conditions and rules operating to relieve tension and find complementarity in the dynamics of relationships.
We become what we care about
BODY AND SPIRIT
Like a computer, if left in a stable mode, life can get stuck, adopting the same habits and thoughts. This leads to a default future of more of the same. Alternatively, we can regenerate our hopes and intentions to take action and moves us towards a more satisfying, life-enhancing existence. It’s about choices. If we don’t take responsibility for leading our lives, life will lead us into a less fulfilling future. Consider how you could regenerate:
Going beyond the rational
TIMELESS WISDOM
Wisdom manifests itself in many ways, such as seeing the bigger picture, having emotional control, showing compassion, adopting a broad perspective, embracing spirituality or avoiding either/or thinking.
There are times when knowledge comes from deep feelings and quiet reflection. Answers can come as intuition, insights, synchronicity, realisations or a heightened awareness.
Humans have been in tune with nature’s rhythms, seasons, dynamics and healing properties for millennia. Ancient wisdom is systemic and mystical. It focuses on the spiritual and material relationships and patterns of connection observed in human interactions.
THE KNOWING AND BEING OF EXISTENCE
Solomon Islands
LIFE WITH THE KWARA’AE PEOPLE
The Solomon Islands are located in the Western Pacific Ocean, that extend from the south coast of New Guinea. The Kwara’ae People live on the island of Malaita.
