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Explaining Biomimicry for business, Theory of Change Model and everything in between.
Delve deeper into our key theories, look for inspiration to get you in the Thrive Mindset and start collecting building blocks that will enable you to build your pathway through today’s challenges.
The kete combines a fresh look and shows the sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. Resilience is a process, not a goal; resilience requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and resilience starts and ends with the people living in a community.
Global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduction in inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by figuring out our ‘respondability’ at and activate our optimism at the community level.
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Understanding impact leadership
Impact leadership is not just about having a vision or an idea, it's about taking action to make that vision a reality.
The Untapped Value of Neurodiversity in a Climate Crisis
Neurodiversity is a concept that recognises and embraces the natural variation in human neurology, including differences in the way people think, learn, and process information.
Theory of Change
The Theory of Change is a framework for creating transformational change. It is a process that helps organisations to articulate their goals, develop strategies to achieve those goals, and measure their progress.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges—and find hope
Further Reading
Essay: John Michael Greer, “The Religion of Progress,” (April 2013).
Book: Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations (Free Press, 2003)
Cora Jane Voyageur, Brian Calliou, Laura Brearley, Restorying Indigenous Leadership: Wise Practices in Community Development (Banff Centre Press, 2013)
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (New York: Anchor Books, 1996)
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living (New York: Anchor Books, 2002)
Joanna Macy, Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Ourselves, Our World (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1998).
Humberto M. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Boston: Shambhala, 1992).
Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (White River, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008).
Margaret Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (San Francisco: Barrett-Kohler Publishers, 2005, 2007); Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006).
Chellie Spiller, Wayfinding Leadership: Ground-breaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders (Huia 2015).
