Connecting Personal Decision Making to Planetary Stewardship

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PRINCIPLES AND PERSPECTIVES

PREPARED BY DAWNA JONES

Connecting Personal Decision

Making to Planetary Stewardship

Revolutionary Action

"We never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,

build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

– Bucky Fuller

Connecting personal decisions to planetary stewardship.

The Imperative: Ecological-Socio/Economic Collapse

Purpose & Intention

See invisible;Perceive the whole;Leveraging the

unseen to accelerate effective systemic change.

Visible; invisible.Top level; systemic/structural

Unavoidable Consequences

Environmental:

Economic

Social

Radical Shift in World View-Evolution of Consciousness

“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for

the better…. And the catastrophe towards which this world is headed – the ecological,

social, demographic, or general breakdown of civilization – will be unavoidable.”

Vaclav Havel, Address to US Congress in 1991

Revolutionary Action

Business as Usual

Doing Things Differently

From Disjointed to a Unifying Perspective

http://www.turistica.si/downloads/obvestila/NagradaJereLazanski/JereLazanski-NagrajeniPrispevek.pdf

Systems Thinking-Indigenous Perspective Evolution of Human Consciousness (Dr. Carl Calleman)

March 3,2011

Conscious Co-creation

Jan.5, 1999 Ethics

1755 Power

3115 BC Law & Punishment

100,500 BC Reasoning

2,048,000 BC Similarity /Difference

40,998,000 BC

Stimulus/Individual Response

819,998,000 BC

Stimulus/response

16.4 billion yrs ago

Action/Reactionwww.calleman.comConnecting personal decisions to planetary stewardship.

Evolutionary Arcs: Industrial to Present Separation to Interconnectivity-Integration

Perspective: Planetary Evolutionary Pushes

Single celled , organisms, Foundation for Life

Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Volatility Mature Complex Ecosystem

Signals in Business Signals in Governance

Stress-related illnessFailure to ‘execute’Conflict that dividesLow levels of

engagementHigh turnover in

GenXYEthical breaches

Oppression not acceptable

Social media forcing radical-accountability

Public expectations out of sync with past practice.

Perspective: Organizational/Business Signals to Replace Control with Cooperation

Perspective: Personal Daily Pressure to Evolve

Underlying Principles: Fractal Geometry Replicating Patterns-Self Similar Images

Benoit Mandelbrot recognized that the geometry of nature revealed a similar pattern regardless of scale. .. A reiterated pattern of structures.

Replicating Patterns-Self Similar Images

“In fractal geometry we find that the universe is actually built on self similar images

meaning if you can understand one level of organization, say the level of atoms or

molecules you can understand the next level: cells, people, organizations, civilization.

Patterns express themselves through each of these different levels. “ -Dr. Bruce Lipton

Implications: The Iceberg Effect

10% conscious; 90% subconscious

Personal: Conscious mind directs life’s results; Subconscious produces.

Organizational: Conscious intention; subconscious beliefs.

Evolution of consciousness applies to all.

2011-Principles of a Living System

“The power of the individual to self-organize as it strives to sustain itself; actualize its potential.

Balancing principle of interdependence: life cycles, feedback loops.

Diversity” Source: Profit for Life, Joseph Bragdon

Powered by Biophilia

“Innately (hereditary) emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.” E.O. Wilson

Nature’s Evolutionary Process

Non-linearRapid/RadicalInterconnectedAlways shifts to a higher orderUses crisis or disruption

Nature Re-building Community

Prime Minister Naoto Kan: eco-village. Take advantage

of green technologies-biomass fueled district-heating systems.

Create a regional society-highly resilient to the impacts of natural disasters.

Creation of a social system : people live in harmony with the environment.

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/rebuilding-after-the-tsunami-eco-or-transition-towns/

Disruptive Innovation-National

Increasing Number of Planetary Disruptions

Incoming In-formation from the Quantum Field

Lunar phases-solar flares and human activity: http://www.glcoherence.org/monitoring-system/commentaries.html

http://journal.borderlands.com/2000/sunspots-and-human-behavior/

Consciously Responding to Uncertainty

“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation

and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully

accessed… our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this

adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Perspective: Human Adaptive Ability to Transcend Adversity

Digging Deep to Access Deep KnowledgeDenying expression of personal power-creative ability

Scientific Principle: Personal to Planetary

Global Coherence Project and the Heart Math Institute

Resiliency in Humans – Immunity to Stress

Belief in “self-efficacy” — we are agents of change, earned through personal accomplishment in the face of a challenge.

Source: http://www.bnet.com/blog/harvard/how-navy-seals-build-immunity-to-stress/11518?promo=713&tag=nl.e713Connecting personal decisions to planetary stewardship.

Change Agents Participating at all Levels

Personal: Volunteer, Living life

CommunitySmall-medium

businessBig businessGovernmentInstitutional Agencies

Humanity’s Way Nature’s Way

E.g. Spider’s silk: 6 kinds, room temp, 5 X stronger than steel, biodegradable.

Waste is food. Diversity creates resilience.

Inter-connectivity creates adaptability, efficiency, efficacy.

Advanced technology-highly adaptive.

Learning from Nature: Doing Things Its Way

Heat-Beat-Treat-WasteHeavy reliance on

petroleum resources for fuel and food.

Waste ‘disposed’ as waste. Alt: view as resource.

Monoculture=low resilience.

Nature’s Principle-Interdependence

“The success of the whole community depends on the success of its individual members, while the success of each member depends on the success of the community as a whole.”

Source: Web of Life by Fritjof Capra

Application: Business Leadership – Radical Transparency

Living Asset Stewardshipwww.lampindex.com “..firm operates as a living organism

dedicated to value creation rather than a profit making machine.

It’s a biocentric world view where the firm sees itself as integral to the web of life not separate from the web or above it. “

Interview with Jay Bragdon, January, 2009

The Results? Businesses Committed to a Higher Level of Leadership

“In 2009, the Global LAMP Index, returned 44.56%, far surpassing returns on the S&P 500 (+26.46%) and the MSCI World Index (28.01%). Over the past decade the Global LAMP Index returned 98.03% while those

other benchmarks lost money.” -Joseph Bragdon, author Profit for Life

http://www.management-issues.com/2009/1/26/podcast/recreating-capitalism.asp

Nature’s Principles: Decentralized

SW Airlines

Manage by Means

Networked

Frugality

Application: Company Culture

http://www.management-issues.com/2009/4/3/podcast/leading-to-a-future-with-hope.asp

Nature’s Principles - Cyclical

“All organisms in an ecosystem produce waste but what is waste for one is food for

another so that the ecosystem as a whole remains without

waste.”

Source: Web of Life by Fritjof Capra

Application: Gain Efficiency

“Improving efficiency is primarily about cutting the quantity and intensity of energy , waste, and materials.”

Walmart cut 5% of its packaging materials in its supply chains to gain savings of $3.4 B by 2013

- Embedded Sustainability: Laszlo//Zhexembayeva

Nature’s Principle-Networks

Application: Networks of High Performance

Social biology research in Hewlett Packard: http://www.management-issues.com/2010/2/8/podcast/how-to-deliver-phenomenal-results.asp

Non-profit example: http://www.reamp.org/

Internet Money Your Body’s Immune System

Complex Flow Networks

Emerging Properties from CFN (Lietaer)

Efficacy: (capacity to

process volume)

•Diversity•Interconnectivity

Resilience: (Adaptive

ability)

•Diversity•Interconnectivity

Structural Variables

Application: Stabilizing the Monetary System

Current system based on 17th Century assumptions. Assumptions we can change.

Disruptions in the Monetary System – B. Lietaer

145 banking crashes since 1970

208 monetary crashes72 debt crashes. Structural issue:

Monoculture

Building Resilience: Complementary CurrenciesDiversity-Flow-Interconnectivity

WIR: Switzerland-1934 with 16

Now 65000 small-medium biz in network

C3 to National Currency

www.lietaer.com

State of the Nations: Resilience through Complementary Currencies

USA + Canada

Benelux

Germany +

Austria

Other Europe

84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Argentina

Elsewhere

Other Europe

Germany +Austria

France

Benelux

Australia

New Zealand

USA + Canada

Graph used with permission of Bernard LietaerConnecting personal decisions to planetary stewardship.

How Every One Can Help – Awareness, Knowledge, Action

Personal

Small –Med Biz

Medium to Big Biz

Volunteer

Government

Personal-Inner Work

Align thinking with feelings & action. Regulate emotions

Act on inspirationRaise consciousnessSelf-actualizationFollow the JoyMaintain balanceUse adversity for growth;

expansion

Personal-Outer

Grow own foodParticipate Cut consumption Support diversityCross-generation collaborationEat lower on the food

chainFairmont Hotel Vancouver saves an estimated

$10,000 per year by growing herbs on its roof.

Organizational-Business

Sustainability Drives Strategy

Raise consciousness of leaders: existing and emerging

• 7 Levels Value Creation

• Networks

• Whole Scale Redesign-Shift Consciousness

• Societal & Community Initiatives

Value Creation

B 2 B Currency

Self-Actualized Leaders

Social Innovation-Environmen

tal Stewardship

http://www.sourcemap.org/ Transparent supply chains

Inspired Innovation-Leveraging Partnerships

A soccer ball that stores and generates power. North-South http://youtu.be/u5gqoYkL8To

The Power of Ecopreneurism: Entrepreneurial/Consumerhttp://www.management-issues.com/2011/5/10/podcast/the-power-of-eco-preneurism.asp

Unilever: Cleaning up the Brantas River with Partners-Corporate/Community http://www.unilever-fwa.com/sustainability/casestudies/economic-development/cleaning-up-the-brantas-river.aspx

Societal Power-Collective Consciousness

Societal - Cooperation

Sectoral

Citizen lead Action

Government

Non-profit

Estimated # of voluntary social-non-profit orgs dedicated to societal/environmental action=1 million (Laszlo)

Nations – 7th Level of Consciousness

“Work with other nations to build regional and global alliances that support humanity and the planet

by focusing on human rights, social justice, future generations, the global environment and the

Earth’s ecology. “

Build constructive relationships that support sustainable

objectives.

Source: Richard Barrett-7 Levels of Consciousness

www.ValueCentre.com

Goal: Eliminate the Gap between Rich & Poor

Profit as the Sole Aspiration

Wealth-Abundance for All

Water, Energy, Food, Diversity: 10 Rules of Complex Mature Systems

Use waste as a resource: Novo Nordisk, Canon, BMW, Diversify and cooperate to fully use the habitatGather and use energy efficiently: Energy 4th RevolutionOptimize rather than maximizeUse materials sparinglyDon't foul their nests: Waste managementDon't draw down on resources: Alternative fuel-food prod Remain in balance with the biosphere: support

biodiversityRun on information: Stay open to changing conditionsShop locally.

Source: (Janine Benyus-Biomimicry)

Biomimicry: What would Nature do?

Purifying Waste Water, Efficient buildings, Stewarding Oceans

Energy Alternatives: How do leaves generate power?

Food: Agriculture: from mono to diversity. Manufacturing systems: Mimic nature’s

technology. Community: cooperation & collaboration. Frugality-Respect for Resources. Restoration-RemediationFlow of services (P.Hawkens)

The Bridge from Here to a New World

“The task of leadership is to create an alignment

of strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”

– Peter Drucker

Global Leadership=Rapid, gentler, peaceful transformation

The Vision

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Einstein

Credit to:

Dr. Bruce Lipton: www.brucelipton.comDr. Rollin McCraty: www.heartmath.comJoseph (Jay) Bragdon: www.lampindex.com Chris Laszlo: www.EmbeddedSustainability.com Bernard Lietaer: www.lietaer.com Richard Barrett: www.valuescentre.com Anne Murray Allen-Dennis Sandow-Nick ZeniukDr. Carl Calleman: www.calleman.comAnd many others on

http://Management-Issues.com/provocateur.asp

From Insight to Action ….

With gratitude to the Linkedin Systems Thinking Group for inspiration/instigation

www.FromInsightToAction.com http://Management-Issues.com/provocateur.aspContact re: speaking, workshops

or collaborating. http://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones

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