CHECKING IN BY THE BIG TREE
What can you see sense, smell, hear this morning?
Eco - CYCLE
The panarchy loop or eco cycle is a never ending cycle of life. Pan -- god of the wild and creative paradox -- and 'archy', meaning order or governance.
It's a framework intended as an aid to reflect on themes and natural rhythms in our lives, the lives of our communities, families and organisations.
Renewal to Birth: What is germinating, what seeds are sprouting? A time of innovation and potential
Birth to Maturity: What is rooting and shooting? A time of readiness and manifestation, vulnerable as not established
Maturity: What is mature and needs to be conserved? A time when things are strong and stable but vulnerable to stagnation
Maturity to Death: What needs to be let die? Creative dissolution, collapse, fallow endings and conscious closure
Death to Recycle and renewal : What lessons from the past can be taken forward into the new sparks of possibility ?
Participants were asked:
Which stages of the cycle feel more meaningful for you?
Where would you most like to see change?
What are you celebrating?
How would you like to go forward?
What from your past might teach you about the future or the present?
WALKING THE Eco-Cycle
SOME INSIGHTS
I'm working in a sector that's about death, it brings intense grief, but we don't see it or manage it well.
People who work in climate change don't manage their own mental health very well.
How could we complement each other and not collide?
This requires trust: where does the organisation and the personal overlap, how do we build trust?
How might we be more of a shared community of practice?
Between us we could help each other more,
In maturity it's easy to forget how much you care.
I often stop learning in maturity: if I'm not still learning, I need to figure out how to keep learning, or walk away.
The death process is hard, it almost destroyed us. If you kill passion, you kill will.
In our sector we go round and round this cycle a lot. Who is driving this?
People in our sector don't think about themselves much.
Death means I've done my job well.
Each stage just has different forms of energy that is needed.
I need to take more care of myself, make time for my own renewal.
I'm working in a sector that's about death, it brings intense grief, but we don't see it or manage it well.
People who work in climate change don't manage their own mental health very well.
How could we complement each other and not collide?
This requires trust: where does the organisation and the personal overlap, how do we build trust?
How might we be more of a shared community of practice?
Between us we could help each other more,
In maturity it's easy to forget how much you care.
I often stop learning in maturity: if I'm not still learning, I need to figure out how to keep learning, or walk away.
The death process is hard, it almost destroyed us. If you kill passion, you kill will.
In our sector we go round and round this cycle a lot. Who is driving this?
People in our sector don't think about themselves much.
Death means I've done my job well.
Each stage just has different forms of energy that is needed.
I need to take more care of myself, make time for my own renewal.
Taboo/Limiting Beliefs Café
"What are the taboos and limiting beliefs that, if spoken, could allow everything to change?"
StoryTelling For Change
Story is foundational; it's not just what we do after the work, story is the soil in which everything is planted. Telling stories about failure so we can learn from the past, laugh at our mistakes and potentially create some new stories together.