The Regenerative Life: Transform any organization, our society, and your destiny

At its worst, it can become coercive, with practitioners attempting to convert their listeners by convincing, persuading, influencing, or even conquering them for their own good. This is one of the reasons that do-gooders can become annoying or even alienating.

However, arresting disorder also severely limits our attention, creativity, and actions to fixing problems that have their origins in the past.

The Value Return Paradigm is useful in situations where we feel we need to limit the complexity or hazard that we are managing, such as undergoing training in return for learning a new skill or opening a savings account as a safe way to generate a little income.

Value Return Paradigm

When we make this shift, we’re able to enter into deeply respectful relationships, where the full expression of the unique potentials of others is our primary objective.

The Regenerate Life Paradigm focuses on how to build the capacity in people and other living systems to be self-determining in the world. At this level, we make a profound shift in perspective. We commit to seeking what’s essential in each person and every sort of thing that is the subject of our work.

When we collapse our vision, we lose our ability to see the full range of possibilities that lie hidden in plain view.

The irony is that when we are in this situation, we become victims of our own lack of perspective. We can see the merits of our own point of view, but we struggle to understand and accept the merits of the opposition’s.

When we choose this path, we function like a helpful virus, one that fosters the vitality and immune system of the host (for example, by supporting healthy intestinal bacteria) while at the same time protecting against harmful viruses.