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Regenerative Leadership in Action

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Regenerative Leadership In Action It’s 2020, and it’s time to transform how we lead and operate in business and beyond. Join Giles Hutchins and Katherine Long for a unique 7-month Regenerative Leadership programme. Bringing together many years of combined expertise in the field, Giles and Katherine co-host a blended-learning programme specifically designed to bring Regenerative Leadership principles to life. Developing outer world application with inner leadership qualities, you will apply your learning to real-world projects in a supportive, cohort-based learning environment, with 1-2-1 coaching, and peer and action learning throughout the programme, and 3 deep-dive workshops at the magical venue […]

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A Guide to Regenerative Leadership in Practice

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A Guide to Regenerative Leadership in Practice By Giles Hutchins & Katherine Long The Context We Find Ourselves Leading In Since the military acronym VUCA was first coined in the late 1980’s, leaders and organisations have been waking up to a growing appreciation of the unpredictability and complexity of highly interconnected problems as the ‘new norm’. Yet whilst this is creating a growing appreciation of the nature of ‘wicked’ problems, and contexts of change that are volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, our observation is that the levels of thinking and behaviours required to address them has remained fairly unchanged. The […]

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Diversity and Inclusion a living systems approach

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Diversity and Inclusion a living systems approach 9th October, 2019 with Giles Hutchins and Katherine Long Katherine Long and Giles Hutchins personally invite you to this nature-immersion retreat; an opportunity for profound reflection on living systems thinking applied to diversity and inclusion. Together with other change practitioners (leaders, coaches, organization design and development practitioners, activists) we will explore : Why traditional D&I interventions may not be delivering hoped-for results, and sometimes create unintended consequences Why we need to re-imagine organisations as living systems to appropriately value diversity in the workplace How to redefine D&I as a key dimension of organisational resilience […]

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The New Regenerative & Ecosystemic Leadership Paradigm

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The New Regenerative & Ecosystemic Leadership Paradigm 19th & 20th September, 2019 with Giles Hutchins and Katherine Long   In a world of complexity and chaos, we need future fit leadership and organisational paradigms. Our collective new normal is revealing itself through multi-dimensional change-upon- change blended with systemic ‘wicked problems’. It requires the cultivation of ecosystemic and holistic sense-making amid diverse views, rich interdependent partner ecosystems, unfolding emergence and fast- paced turbulence. This invites an expansion of awareness within us; a shift that enlivens a latent ecosystemic capacity within us. To recognise this places us at the edge of the […]

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Connecting with Source, Self, System

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Connecting with Source, Self, System 5th September, 2019 with Giles Hutchins and Katherine Long Katherine Long and Giles Hutchins personally invite you to this unique nature-immersion retreat, an opportunity for profound reflection which will renew, re-energise and regenerate – a day that will support you to deeply re- connect with your sense of purpose, the wider systems you are a part of, and the future you seek to co-create. Together with other change practitioners (leaders, coaches, organization design and development practitioners, activists) we will explore questions such as: What shifts in ourselves, our work, and in our professional communities are […]

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Future Fit Business – Embracing the living-systems logic of Divergence, Convergence, Emergence

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As we face increasing systemic challenges, fast-shifting consumer patterns, complex global-and-local supply chains, and inter-connected wicked problems, we find the 20th century ‘organisation-as-machine’ is giving way to the 21st century ‘organisation-as-living-system’. With it comes a profound shift in how we lead, relate, partner-up and perform. There is much we can learn from the living systems of nature and its 3.8billon yrs of R&D. One over-arching principle is that of divergence, convergence and emergence. Divergence is a diversification, a celebration of diversity and difference. In practice this means opening up artificial boundaries between departments within the organisation and opening up stakeholder […]

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Business Attuning with the Rhythms of Life: Learning from Living Systems

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‘The purpose of life is to live in agreement with Nature.’  Zeno, Greek philosopher, c500BC ‘He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.’ Confucius, Chinese sage, c500BC ‘Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.’ Lao Tzu, Chinese sage, c500BC ‘There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.’ Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, c500BC Scientific research into the dynamics of living systems has identified four distinct phases of development: growth (G) conservation (C or K) […]

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The Art of Soul Business – Finding our True Nature & Letting it Flow

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‘There is a soul force in the Universe, which if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.’   Mahatma Ghandi, activist ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and the outer worlds meet’ Novalis, poet ‘The true ground of all being is the infinite, intangible, spirit that infuses all living beings’  David Bohm, physicist ‘This divine ground is within and all around us. We need to create a sanctuary within ourselves to listen to its guidance’  Anne Baring, psychologist ‘Beyond our day-to-day world, beyond our usual human experience, lies a vast and fathomless world. […]

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Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading

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Guest blog by Steve Jones, PhD I’m pleased to be designated Faculty at the Future Fit Leadership Academy. Allow me to introduce a concept that meshes well with the spirit and purpose of FFLA. As a forester and doctoral-trained applied ecologist, and a former university CEO, I am devoting my life to championing the cause of nature-inspired learning and leading. My ultimate intent is to enhance lives and enterprise success, even as my efforts sow the seeds for responsible Earth stewardship. FFLA has a parallel mission. Nature-inspired learning and leading accepts and promotes that every lesson for living, learning, serving, […]

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In these times of transition, what is a leader to do? Find the right questions…

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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. ~Albert Einstein It’s a big mess out there. In fact, it is probably several messes, all inextricably linked. How does a leader make sense of it all? How do you find a way to navigate through the mess and make reasonable, robust decisions? We are in the UK, yet the world is so interconnected […]