Really Regenerative CIC

There are many kinds of technology but we tend to only think about technology as digital or mechanical, or scientific. The technology of living systems has lasted longer than any other kind of technology on the planet. 3.8 billion years. At Sustainable Brands KL, our founder Jenny Andersson alongside Mila Aliana will share the technologies of living systems with attendees, and host a workshop on the technology of systems constellation. #otherwaysofknowing. https://lnkd.in/ePKq3x2a

Beyond Polarisation - Regenerative Reconciling was borne as a response to some questions that came up in stakeholder and community engagement processes. If you find polarised attitudes in the work you do, this programme offers different approaches that also create renewal - beyond the processes of compromise and conflict resolution. Starting on Monday 23rd September at 3.30-5.30pm (UK time), our Autumn Beyond Polarisation programme is available for registration. The earlybird registration offer is 20% at £300.00+VAT and is open until 1st August 2024 at 6pm UK. Join us to discover a world of potential beyond conflict resolution and compromise! Please share in your circles - for anyone who might be interested Angela Crane Ruth Pineda Ninian Stuart Katharine Beer Roy Hobson Sarah-May Revaux-Hall #regenerative #community

This week in Power of Place we've begun looking at systems and urban acupuncture. We are learning together to think and act nodally. What are the critical nodes in a living system where an intervention can make a significant ripple effect for evolutionary change across a whole system? As it happens today worldwide, we've seen how critical IT security software can be when a failure of Crowdstrike update has taken down multiple different industries. It begs the question how secure a global economic system can be when it becomes over-reliant on single large suppliers for multiple different industries across the world. https://lnkd.in/eE_Fm4TJ

In our four years of running our signature learning journey on regenerative design, Power of Place has hosted practitioners on their quest for transformative change from 27 different countries around the world. From as far as Australia to Argentina, Chile, Canada, Thailand to Turkey, UK to USA, Portugal, Peru, Malaysia, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Czechia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, SwitzerlandSweden and Ethiopia. The cultural richness of the contributions from such diversity has been rich indeed. And though we have often thought of running national cohorts, where running in the first language rather than having to do it all in Engllish, we have prized and valued that diversity. We are now hopeful that advances in AI can allow us to hold onto such diversity through simultaneous language translation in 2025. We are seeking funding to support that transition, so if anyone knows of funders who are interested in international and multicultural regenerative education, please let us know.

Dissent is a challenging thing to deal with but it is vital if we are to create genuinely regenerative cultures. There has to be room for dissent and disagreement, but so often, such an expression is not an expression of opposition but one of uncertainty, doubt and reservation. If that cannot be expressed, there is almost never an opportunity of a future 'yes' from any stakeholder. Be wary of any organisation that ejects dissent and closes it out from its orbit of influence. It is hard to engage with dissent. It is time consuming. But it is so necessary and important. The act of exclusion as a form of punishment for dissent and disagreement shuts down all moral debate, creativity and innovation - which spring from the well of constraint. Dissent can be a very valuable source of creativity and contraint. Unless - it arrives in the form of disingeniuous dissent, which we can describe as 'denial' - climate deniers are obvious examples but so too are the 'but-ers', the data demanders - these are more invisible forms of denial. "we need more data before we can move....." is a common form of subtle denial. Or the form of rebellion which devolves accountability and responsibility to some other party. Or resignation, which is a form of cynicism, giving up, and disengaging that allows people to simply abdicate any form of engagement in challenging and difficult tasks.

“The work of change has now begun” - Steve Reed - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs One can only feel optimism at the announcement of the top priorities of the new govenment’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Cleaning up rivers, lakes and seas - Roadmap for a zero waste economy - Supporting farmers to boost food security - Ensuring natures recovery - Protecting communities from dangers of flooding Finding pathways forward into the future that supports all of these goals will require reconciling multiple different tensions in policy, in action, and in community building. The capacity to reconcile these tensions is an important part of enabling change and core to a regenerative approach. If you would like to learn more, take look at our short programme in regenerative reconciling - https://lnkd.in/ebpVUGsZ. #regeneration #future #naturerecovery

So excited about the programme WE have put together at GO Falkland 2024. It's only 2 yrs since I attended inspiring Groundswell Agriculture festival, and with Johnnie Balfour began to work with the amazing Cherry family to design a first GO Falkland in July 2023. This surpassed all of our expectations - with a clarion call for more. Since then the support of partners has been amazing. See the resulting talks and sessions https://lnkd.in/eX8R_qRT Call to ALL - If you're interested in the potential of regenerative farming, food, forestry & fibre, please share with your networks, so no-one misses out. No time to lose. #farming #food #regenerativefarming #sustainability #regenerativeplaces #future #groundswell #Fife #Scotland Grateful to all those we're partnering with for the sake of the future: Soil Association The James Hutton Institute NHS Fife Fife Council AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Pasture for Life Rare Breeds Survival Trust The Woodland Trust Really Regenerative CIC

Interconnection and collaboration are fundamental living systems dynamics which we learn about on our signature Power of Place learning journey - which flows through three stages: understanding the story of place process; the art of regenerative stakeholder engagement, what we call convening fields of energy. When you invite people to convene around a shared purpose which is meaningful to them and to the place they inhabit, you help to bring field of energy into being that may be capable of withstanding the challenges of long-term change.    Creating the conditions for multi-stakeholder groups to sustain collaboration over the long term always demands a constant process of harmonzing as a group and project evolve and develops together. Reconciling and harmonising diverse perspectives is one of the most valuable ways in which regenerative practice addresses the paralysis that often occurs when we confront complex challenges together. Our Beyond Polarisation - Regenerative Reconciling programme seeks to help convenors with practical reconciling techniques that offer new approaches beyond compromise and conflict resolution - that work. Our next six week introductory programme starts in September. #regenerative #community #stakeholder #collaboration https://lnkd.in/ebpVUGsZ Please do share to any in your networks who you feel might be curious 🙏 Eve Toomey Caroline Mason Oliver Riley Sonia Teruel Ruth Pineda

One of the reasons we called Really Regenerative, 'really' Regenerative is because we are always asking ourselves the question 'is this really regenerative?' Holding ourselves in a mode of curiosity helps us to remain open to constant learning and adatation - like a healthy living system. As we have learned there are core qualities and characteristics that we find really stand out in those leaders we find have really embodied what it is to be regenerative. One is radical curiosity. Being able to remain open to the idea that 'your' way might not be the only way - or even as you believe deeply in the efficacy of your own path and work. They are almost always peole who don't hold to a 'one ring to rule them all' pathway. It's a very hard thing to do when you've worked so hard to find ways that help to catalyse genuine systemic shifts. There is almost naive joy to their spirit that seems to work as a strange attractor. Another is a radical generosity of spirit. Somehow - in a world where being very focused on driving your vision, message and role across - these people always find time to share the work of others. Particularly those who have influenced them, from whom they have learned a great deal. The acknowledge the contribution. They pass on opportunity to learn, grow, work , develop to others. They are the opposite of hoarders, natural-born sharers of community wealth. Perhaps they are not regenerative practices at all - just human ones. And that the doing of regenerative practice, simply encourages us to find our humanity again. And fall in love with the potential of the human spirit to embody the values prized by philosophers like Socrates. What do you find shifts in the humanity of people as they develop their regenerative practice?

A first brilliant example of a bioregional financing fund brought into being by Joe Brewer and Penny L. Heiple in Colomia.