Moral Imagineer, Founder and Director at Moral Imaginations, International Speaker, Edmund Hilary Global Impact Fellow, Scientific Advisor to the Inner Development Goals, Climate Activist
Come and join the Imagination Activist and the Barefoot Lawyer Patrick Andrews in the forest in Hazel Hill for two days exploring Wildness in Organisations. We have both worked with organisations large and small across the public sector and corporate sector on embedding the perspective of nature into governance, and will create a space for people to bring their problems, ideas and case studies to work on together. My journey with nature and what I call 'wild governance' started in 2017 when I was in New Zealand on a month-long trip to work on new forms of governance with the Enspiral network. While I was there, I took part in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) launch where we discussed the River Whanganui being granted personhood, something that had just made it into legislation that year. The gathering was co-facilitated and hosted by Maori elders, and the Maori worldview was at the heart of our conversations. In the closing session, an insight was shared with the group: if rivers can have personhood, why can't they sit on the board of organisations? A group of us came together to explore this concept, and how we could make it a reality. We worked together over the year of 2017, fleshing out the idea, with some of the group taking forward thinking about nature based tokens and economics and currencies, and others more focused on the cultural and governance aspects. Various projects emerged from this moment and thinking: Moral Imaginations was one of them, Earth Equity was another, and on the ground work with Maori communities and organisations in the region of Whanganui and Mount Taranaki. Since then, I've seen more and more 'nature in governance' thinking sprouting around the world. I met Paul Powlesland, the 'tree lawyer' and Brontie Maria Ansell here in the UK who started Lawyers for Nature and worked with Faith In Nature to appoint Nature onto the board. And out of that came the new organisation Nature On The Board which is helping other organisations follow their lead. There is a bigger group in the UK popularising and spreading 'Rights of Nature' thinking which we are a part of, and slowly, culture is shifting and the movement is growing. How do you bridge the wildness that exists in nature with the ways of being and doing and leading inside organisations? What are ways you could shift your practice, and your leadership, now? Find out more and book your place here: https://lnkd.in/gvE3S_Re If you can't make it but you would like to, get in touch because we plan to host more of these over the year. #TheImaginationActivist #Nature #Wildness
We need a leap of imagination to guide us, in any sort of healthy state, through the change humanity and the planet is going through. It seems most unlikely that such a leap will come from within our large institutions. Their workers struggle to free themselves from the worldview that enabled those institutions to succeed in the first place but now holds them, and us, back. If you want imagination to thrive, you need to create spaces where people feel free to be, to dream, to tune in, to connect with their inner sense of what is true, beautiful and good. As George Orwell said, “The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.” How can we cultivate wildness, in our organisations and ourselves, and let our imaginations run free? This is the question I will be exploring in a workshop in early October, held in a wild wood in southern England. I am delighted to be joined as a collaborator by Phoebe Tickell. Phoebe is a systems thinker and renegade biologist whose work uses imaginative practice to bring the more-than-human perspective into decision making. If you would like a chance to explore and play with your own inner wildness, why not join us? We still have a few places left. https://lnkd.in/es_d-TH3
This looks fabulous 👌 🌳
Steve Brewer
1y
He calls himself the barefoot lawyer does Patrick Andrews But I know he loves a good pair of colourful socks too 😊 Gosh this does sound interesting Phoebe Tickell Will go have a good read
Cynefin, complex facilitation and distributed ethnography. Narrative sense-making for decision and strategy support. I also dabble in voice over work. To listen to my showreel, send me a message.
1ythis looks incredible!