Philosophy
Our mission: is the conscious intent to nurture and grow thrivable organizations. Organizations generative of holistic value. Social benefit organizations that are ecologically generative, financially flourishing and operating in a holistic way. Our purpose is to make our world thrivable through facilitating collaboration, fostering generative innovation, and encouraging learning and sharing.
Our guiding theory of change:
Principles
- We are a servant leadership organization creating flourishing, interconnected and resilient organizations and ecosystems.
- We embody the spirit and values of openness, diversity, utility, solution-focus, and community-driven/bottom up.
- We believe that nurturing change agents is best achieved through pro-active listening, information sharing, cross-pollination, and ongoing connection. (as we have tested through best practice coaching, social network analysis, and community development)
- We believe that engaging a broad range of leaders and influencers across thrivable-related networks encourages creativity, connection, and collaboration.
Context
Whether environmental, economic, political, organizational, or social, it is clear we do not live in a sustainable nor just world. While we have made great strides in the last 100 years, our current systems are in or nearing crisis, and we are entering an era of turbulence as we shift from one paradigm to the next.
What we have been doing isn’t working anymore. We need to consciously design our systems to be thrivable, and we believe that thrivability is generated from the dynamic interplay of the elements of the system.
It is all about how we measure success. The behavior of any system is defined by the way we choose to measure success.. We help bring alignment to our measures of success, so that you can build community, help our ecosystem generate abundance, and be financially successful. Profit is not the goal
A thrivable system is one that is generative of diverse, adaptive, innovative, holistic abundance. Biomimicry of nature.
Issues Addressed
Our current crisis are not inspiring nor are solutions interconnected.
Fragmented efforts hampering our thrivability: even well intentioned efforts fail to be fully thrivable because they’re not woven into a bigger picture.
Problem focus rather than solution focus – meaning that people try to address things with a limited perspective and with simple goals of ending the problem rather than creating something thrivable.
Core beliefs
- Thrivability is the enmeshing of open, pragmatic, community-driven opportunities with creativity, empathy, and positivity.
- Transformational philanthropy along with social capital committed to collaborative creative enterprises leveraging collective wisdom and working, with deep consciousness, toward “green” and “just” efforts will result in a thrivable world.
- Without consciousness, we can’t work together well, nor will we have social justice. And the planet isn’t worth saving if it is only for a select few. Consciousness->social justice->sustainability is a virtuous cycle.
- We alone cannot make the myriad transformations necessary, we must work with, for, and between others with similar aims. Social innovations from social entrepreneurship to social media, together we can do more.
Strategies/Programs
Co-learning Programs and Products:
- Webinars/workshops weaving across multiple domains with rotating leaders and ongoing online community conversation
- Unconferences
- Thrivability Cards, Workbooks, and other playful DIY co-learning materials
Consulting:
- Thrivability assessments
- Mapping of present and possible future
- Online community design and development
- Customized in depth analysis, advising, and nurturing
Coaching
Driving Assumptions
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“Act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference.” – Buddha
“What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann von Goethe
“And I have the firm belief in this now, not only in terms of my own experience but in knowing about the experience of others, that when you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors and where there wouldn’t be a door for anybody else.” – Joseph Campbell
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.” – Rosalind Russell
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’” – Brian Tracy
