This piece is heavily influenced by the field of Regenerative Design and Development, the modern expression pioneered by amazing people like Carol Sanford, Ben Haggard, Pamela Mang, Bill Reed, and the rest of the Regenesis group. I’m currently 2 weeks into their Regenerative Practitioner program and it’s been an incredible…

One of the fun things to do as part of understanding trends is to go deep in the sense of inquiry, to uncover the deep narratives that we hold about society. I like a specific version of this, called Causal Layered Analysis (CLA). Why would we want to do this? …

Industrial Revolutions The focus on these interactions helps us to look at how systems change as changes in any of the subcomponents. The original Industrial Revolution would be a clear example of these changes — the adoption of steam technologies led to the reorganisation of society and economy in the United Kingdom. …

Assumptions connect with intentions, and that connects with design. This is why causal layered analysis might be an important tool that ought to be more connected with design. Causal layered analysis (CLA) is a framework that enables people to think through the myths undergirding structures and issues that we see…

Exploring Facilitation and Facilitative Leadership as core organizational capability to thrive in the VUCA world — “The crisis of our time isn’t just a crisis of a single leader, organization, country, or conflict. The crisis of our time reveals the dying of an old social structure and way of thinking, an old way of institutionalizing and enacting collective social forms.” ~C. …

Networks based on self-organizing principles have come a long way in recent years to becoming true alternatives to working in more traditional organizations —from locally based or online communities, coops, freelancer collectives, “Neo-Guilds” or DAOs. …

Swivel to Sustainability: a Guidebook to Full Systems Business Transformation is now available to purchase as a digital ebook (with the physical book being available in a few weeks). Today I’m launching my new guidebook as part of a new initiative Swivel Skills! It’s taken me a year and a…

This is part 1 of a series of Medium articles on r3.0’s newest Blueprint, released on September 6, 2022 at the 9th r3.0 International Conference in Amsterdam and online. This first part serves as the Executive Summary. The full version of the Blueprint can be found here. Context and Purpose Proposals for systemic…