REGENERATIVE SOCIETY

Come work on understanding how these are invisible to us but the only place from which we can change our patterns and pathways:

• Biology as the Functional restraint — Reptilian brain activates wrong working of Moving center. What does it take to learn how to put the executive brain function in charge of the reptilian brain?

• Tribalism and Clan cultures as the Being restraint — The need to belong activates wrong working of Emotional center. What does it take to redesign work so tribalism and exclusivity don’t form?

• Paradigm Conditioning toward Lower Paradigm thinking as the Will restraint — Pervasive unquestioned mental structuring of human processes activates wrong working of Intellectual Center. What does it take to move to Living Systems Thinking?

December 8, 2021 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm PT.

Bring organizations and teams. $597 for 3 people (You will need a team since this is a workshop)

Why we escalate the degeneration of society by how we work on Regeneration— causing polarization, racism, and factions

The path to Societal Regeneration, and reversing Collapse, is dependent on EACH one of us understanding how living systems work. Misunderstandings about this underlie war and conflict, racism and inequality, genderism and violence, authoritarianism and injustice, habitat destruction and climate disasters, pandemics, and do good humanitarianism. All have the same source in human behavior - or more accurately, the paradigm and thinking that underlies the resulting behavior. Working “nodally” on this regenerative paradigm way of thinking is the place for businesses, organizations, and institutions to put their energies and position their change efforts to speed up the evolution of our society and institutions toward systemic outcomes.

It takes a lot of patience and tenacity to change the course of our endeavors. We need a lot of capability building for everyone - and unlearning of some myths, misunderstandings, and fabrications. We have as humans now had 400 years of bad education and conditioning on some subjects and over 2000 years of building cultures. Plus, we have had since early arrival of humans to instill the biological restraints. And when something has multi-generational affirmations from every place we live, work, and learn, it is hard to see the flaws in the messages. It takes a couple of years to dislodge the blinders and build new lenses to perceive and ultimately conceive of a different way of making sense of the world. The good news is that it can be changed.

There are enough test cases to know that working this way can bring great and deep change. Racism can be significantly decreased, resulting in higher equality. Authoritarianism can be displaced, thereby changing the patterns of injustice and even reduction of violence, coupled with redesigning systems that undermine tribal conflict. We must, each well-intended person, understand that we are part of the problem. Then we can use our businesses to foster the relearning and dislodging of fixed patterns on what we consider “ideal”. Only then can we speed up the change we all know we need.

The Challenge: We each have ideas and ideals about how human should behave and want to impose them on everyone. Even each of us well-intended folks. Yep! Me too! Yes, impose it as a benevolent answer to our miseries as a species on a planet. We hold tenaciously to our attachments about them in our missions, visions, values, purposes, and causes, thinking they are the role model. We join with others with similar ideals in the collaborations and associations in the fight for what is ‘right and good’. Our good intentions may be our biggest hindrance.

Come learn more about the sticking points of our current practices, missions, and values, all of which we identify with as being the ‘good guys’ and seeing the ‘other guys’ as the bad actors. Come ready to release attachments to your certainty and question what you identify yourself as and with. Maybe you fear letting go of those definitions, not knowing what to replace them with.

Plus: Why don’t people change? Could it be that the way we are working on them as well-intended people is ineffective and we don’t notice? Might our approaches be counterproductive and even escalating the problems we face? And… are we using the wrong measurements to assess our effectiveness in producing change? Do we have the wrong performance indices?

Join us for 6 hours, intended to turn your world upside down and give you a way to examine your responsibility, sustainability, circular economy, diversity, inclusion, and even advocacy programs. You will likely walk away with dozens of questions, but they will be new ones, not the ones you arrived with. Pogo said it 50 years ago. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Come and bring your courage but leave you defenses behind. This could change your life. And all of life!

Registration:

$597 for first 3 participants from a single organization; $199 for each additional participant from the same company. Minimum, one 3 participant ticket required. Bring 3-9 people with you. Meet other organizations who come to question themselves, rather than condemn the bad actors toward whom we normally point our finger.

Not appropriate for consultants. Make sure you are a good fit before paying. No refunds.