Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations

Our sense of self-identity shifted from seeing ourselves as a part of nature to seeing ourselves as separate from nature. This heightening ego-awareness helped us gain a stronger sense of self and increased our self-agency and self-empowerment. It helped us survive heavy storms and harsh temperatures. And with this self-development we cultivated im

The Middle Ages, with its embedded cultural norms, gave way to a new worldview: God and Man were viewed as divorced from Nature and Woman.

Both our outer and inner landscapes are under great strain.

It may be easier to continue doing what you’ve always done, and it may seem sensible amid all this uncertainty and volatility to stick with what you are comfortable with. But in the long run it eats you up inside, weakens you and undermines your organization’s vitality and its stakeholder ecosystem.

He noted that if you, “see the world around you as mindless and therefore not entitled to moral or ethical consideration, the environment will be yours to exploit…If this is your estimate of your relation to nature and you have an advanced technology, your likelihood of survival will be that of a snowball in hell. You will die either of the toxic b

We have created production systems that are based on a linear, take-make-waste approach focused on immediacy and dehumanization. We have created financial systems based on short-term profit maximization that ignore life and debase human integrity. Our organizational systems are dominated by hyper-competition, power-and-control hierarchies, and risi

This widening separation and near complete severance of connection to our natural environment and our feminine essence caused us to turn our back on hundreds of thousands of years of deep integration with nature’s ways and equality between the genders. Within a matter of decades, both women and nature came to be seen as wild and devilish, in need o

Life thrives in myriad ways, largely through networking, partnerships, and collaboration. Ruthless dog-eat-dog competition is actually not the norm. However, in recent centuries, we have conditioned ourselves to see life in a certain light, one which undermines our human potential to connect and coexist.

“We are now entering an Age of Unreason, when the future in so many areas, is there to be shaped, by us and for us – a time when the only prediction that will hold true is that no prediction will hold true; a time therefore, for bold imaginings in private life as well as public, for thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable.”