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

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.

Frameworks have precisely the opposite purpose. Instead of programming us, they break our programming. They encourage consciousness, systemic thought, and careful consideration of what is appropriate in a specific situation.

I believe that in order to transition to a fair, just, and sustainable world we must raise the consciousness of all of Earth’s people.

philosopher Arthur Young, founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley.

For me, frameworks provide a structure that can help me manage all of the different dimensions and complexities of whatever I’m working on.

In other words, people can learn to see essence and potential and work together creatively to manifest them.

For these reasons, I believe we need a better theory of change, one that goes beyond the heroic and do-good models and that taps into, develops, and releases the inherent potential of every human being to live in ways that make meaningful contributions to the world.

Value Return Paradigm

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard …. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”