connecting personal decision making to planetary stewardship
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The DAVOS call for revolutionary action signals collective awareness that it is time to plug personal/professional decision making into how we collectively reinvent our relationship with the planet. Scientific principles serve to inform what systemic changes must take place, and how each can contribute including government, community, business and personally. A radical shift in worldview is required so we explore perspective that can, frame by frame, create a unifying view to guide our vision for what humanity can do when faced with adversity. Cocreating becomes a means for survival following nature's principles as a guide and teacher. This slide set was inspired by the participation of change innovation expert, Dawna Jones on the Systems Thinking group on LinkedIn.comTRANSCRIPT
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
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The Imperative: Ecological-Socio/Economic Collapse
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Purpose & Intention
See invisible;Perceive the whole;Leveraging the
unseen to accelerate effective systemic change.
Visible; invisible.Top level; systemic/structural
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Unavoidable Consequences
Environmental:
Economic
Social
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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
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Business as Usual
Doing Things Differently
From Disjointed to a Unifying Perspective
http://www.turistica.si/downloads/obvestila/NagradaJereLazanski/JereLazanski-NagrajeniPrispevek.pdf
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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.
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Evolutionary Arcs: Industrial to Present Separation to Interconnectivity-Integration
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Perspective: Planetary Evolutionary Pushes
Single celled , organisms, Foundation for Life
Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Volatility Mature Complex Ecosystem
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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
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Perspective: Personal Daily Pressure to Evolve
Underlying Principles: Fractal Geometry Replicating Patterns-Self Similar Images
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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
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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.
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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
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Powered by Biophilia
“Innately (hereditary) emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.” E.O. Wilson
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Nature’s Evolutionary Process
Non-linearRapid/RadicalInterconnectedAlways shifts to a higher orderUses crisis or disruption
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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
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Increasing Number of Planetary Disruptions
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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/
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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
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Perspective: Human Adaptive Ability to Transcend Adversity
Digging Deep to Access Deep KnowledgeDenying expression of personal power-creative ability
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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
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Humanity’s Way Nature’s Way
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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.
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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
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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
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Nature’s Principles: Decentralized
SW Airlines
Manage by Means
Networked
Open
Frugality
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Application: Company Culture
http://www.management-issues.com/2009/4/3/podcast/leading-to-a-future-with-hope.asp
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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
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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
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Nature’s Principle-Networks
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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/
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Internet Money Your Body’s Immune System
Complex Flow Networks
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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.
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Disruptions in the Monetary System – B. Lietaer
145 banking crashes since 1970
208 monetary crashes72 debt crashes. Structural issue:
Monoculture
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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
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State of the Nations: Resilience through Complementary Currencies
USA + Canada
UK
Benelux
Germany +
Austria
Other Europe
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Argentina
Elsewhere
Japan
Other Europe
Italy
Germany +Austria
France
Benelux
UK
Australia
New Zealand
USA + Canada
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How Every One Can Help – Awareness, Knowledge, Action
Personal
Small –Med Biz
Medium to Big Biz
Volunteer
Government
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Personal-Inner Work
Align thinking with feelings & action. Regulate emotions
Act on inspirationRaise consciousnessSelf-actualizationFollow the JoyMaintain balanceUse adversity for growth;
expansion
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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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Goal: Eliminate the Gap between Rich & Poor
Profit as the Sole Aspiration
Wealth-Abundance for All
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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From Insight to Action ….
©2011 Dawna Jones: Change Maker (Biz-Personal) Expert
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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