Leading from within the web of life
Co-creation with the More than Human World
Monthly online learning series....coming soon
There is a surge in interest around how we engage with, represent or involve the more-than-human world in human decision making.
With this surge of interest comes an expanding community of practitioners, some of whom are new to the topic, while others have been engaging with this theme for many years.
An increasing number of people have expressed a desire to connect, collaborate and learn from each other - and the growing application of different approaches allows for an expanding pool of inspiration that we can draw from.
Kincentric Leadership in association with Renilde Becque of The Repatterning Collective will be kick-starting a monthly learning series this spring. The series will be a 'sandbox' - a place for experiential learning - where participants can explore and experiment with concepts or ideas, and cross-fertilise.
The current disruptive and liminal times are asking for innovative, creative and novel approaches that tap into the full range of knowledges and intelligences available on our planet. We’re asking the question – what if all beings are enabled to contribute their insights to how we design for our collective future and make decisions in the present?
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If you have themes you are keen to explore with us in this community, or would like to suggest cutting edge speakers, or put yourself forward, get in touch!
Series host
Renilde Becque is a highly experienced sustainability professional with strong international experience, breadth & depth of knowledge. She loves innovative systems thinking and diving into the compelling narrative and business case for transformative change towards sustainable development. Renilde has worked in a broad range of countries on consultancy projects covering sustainability & climate change, environmental planning & management and integrated urban development. In recent years she has lived and worked in Australia, Beijing and Hong Kong, while originally hailing from the Netherlands. She holds an MSc degree (1999), is a LEED AP and BREEAM-NL Expert (green building schemes), and currently an MBA candidate with the University of Bradford/UK – Triple Crown accredited business school – for their world’s first MBA on ‘Innovation, Enterprise and the Circular Economy’.
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"The most creative and profound solutions to the most serious, knotty, systemic problems that we face can only be addressed through the application of radical cognitive diversity: the entrainment of the widest possible range of embodied viewpoints and experiences that we can muster. We must also recognize that cognitive diversity extends beyond the human, that it inheres in the intelligence of non-human animals, the organization and agency of forests, fields and fungi, the vibrant efflorescence of slime moulds, gut bacteria, and even viruses. To exclude such entanglements from our political decision-making and problem-solving processes is not merely to maintain our practice of extractivist violence and speciesist totalitarianism towards other forms of life, with devastating consequences for our own survival. It is to wilfully ignore the wildly creative,
evolutionary lessons of randomness itself. " (James Bridle)