"It’s time to stop designing stuff, and instead redesign our underlying systems, structures and goals to be restorative and regenerative." - This! I think we need to take a deep step back from how we've been living and stories we have been enacting. Been there, close to a burn out. The way we treat our planet is the way we treat ourselves and each other. I personally still don't have a full picture, and starting slowly from "what energizes me and what drains me?". What curiosity pulls me? What meaning and purpose pulls me? I think our personal energy can get regenerated if we allow and support its flow to where it naturally wants to direct itself, rather than resisting our personal "nature" - of this body and this lifetime.
I want to approach this energy regeneration through simplicity, removing complication and building up from some ground truths and values. We spend very little time actually tuning into truth of body and intuition to reveal the energy. Funny enough yesterday I found Ken Wilber's book in our house. Looking forwards to read more into the integral theory. As well as to more of your writing. Happy to connect!:)
Rachel, thanks for this and your other posts. Very resonant and also uplifting! In case you are not familiar, my colleague Dr. Sally Goerner and I are working to advance the field of "energy systems science" (or flow networks) to do precisely what you are calling for - tap into "solutions" and alternatives that create regenerative flows, resilient structure, etc. This has both an academic side to it and an applied side that of course must be integrated. Here is a bit more on that if you are interested - https://interactioninstitute.org/getting-with-the-flows-net-work-as-change/. Thank you for your work, and for modeling regenerative practice (your last post that mentioned taking more time between postings because of the other things that have been coming up in your life).
"It’s time to stop designing stuff, and instead redesign our underlying systems, structures and goals to be restorative and regenerative." - This! I think we need to take a deep step back from how we've been living and stories we have been enacting. Been there, close to a burn out. The way we treat our planet is the way we treat ourselves and each other. I personally still don't have a full picture, and starting slowly from "what energizes me and what drains me?". What curiosity pulls me? What meaning and purpose pulls me? I think our personal energy can get regenerated if we allow and support its flow to where it naturally wants to direct itself, rather than resisting our personal "nature" - of this body and this lifetime.
I want to approach this energy regeneration through simplicity, removing complication and building up from some ground truths and values. We spend very little time actually tuning into truth of body and intuition to reveal the energy. Funny enough yesterday I found Ken Wilber's book in our house. Looking forwards to read more into the integral theory. As well as to more of your writing. Happy to connect!:)
Rachel, thanks for this and your other posts. Very resonant and also uplifting! In case you are not familiar, my colleague Dr. Sally Goerner and I are working to advance the field of "energy systems science" (or flow networks) to do precisely what you are calling for - tap into "solutions" and alternatives that create regenerative flows, resilient structure, etc. This has both an academic side to it and an applied side that of course must be integrated. Here is a bit more on that if you are interested - https://interactioninstitute.org/getting-with-the-flows-net-work-as-change/. Thank you for your work, and for modeling regenerative practice (your last post that mentioned taking more time between postings because of the other things that have been coming up in your life).
Thank you so much for reaching out and sharing.