Regenerative Culture

 

To create creative, wise cultures, quick solutions need to be replaced by asking good questions, questions that spark creativity, collective intelligence and transform how we see ourselves, our relationships and how we choose to act.

Start by asking Why?

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For a regenerative culture we need to ask what is our relationship with “Nature”, the provider of all abundance we depend on as humans.

What is the ecological purpose of humans?

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To create resilience we need to create diversity, redundancies at and across multiple scales, which collaborates symbiotically, creating abundance. Scarcity is a lack of cooperation, leading to competition, which creates scarcity, feeding more competition.

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The current economic system destroys resilience by creating monocultures, that increase efficiency for competitive advantage. These monocultural systems may be easy to predict and control in the short term, in the long term they are unpredictable and fail due to not being resilient. The current economic system privatise profits and externalising costs of the social and environmental damage done in the manufacture distribution and disposal of the product. what kind of economic system would create resource sharing, cooperation, biologically regenerative resource creation, biodiversity locally regionally and globally?

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For a regenerative culture we need correct relationships, to become conscious co-creators with life. We need to ask how our culture and education system shape our world view and value system? Does it challenge assumptions? encourage lifelong learning? Personal development? Integrative ways of knowing? Radical responsibility for all life?

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By paying attention to the systemic relationships around us, we can learn how to participate correctly instead of trying to predict and control.

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Some useful questions from regenerative cultures book (see references page):

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1. Since people themselves are the real wealth of our communities and societies, how can we invite them to contribute their skills knowledge and passion to meeting community needs?

2. How can we value work differently so that we can acknowledge the importance of what people do to raise families look after others maintain community health and cohesion, and to promote social justice and good governance?

3. How can we promote reciprocity and generosity giftism, giving and receiving, as pathways to deeper trust and mutual respect between people?

4. What are our new indicators of success, new ways of monitoring progress, and how can we shift what is valued by the market?

5. Which relationships and power structures need to be transformed for systems change to occur and how will we go about this?

6. How can we most effectively keep the big picture in mind and take small realisable steps that can offer feedback and learning locally?