| Your Name | Caresse Cranwell |
|---|---|
| Email Address | caresse@wicked-elephants.coop |
| Cohort Assignment | Australia Online, Winter-Spring 2024 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Supporting people and organisations, through coaching and facilitation, to live in dynamic partnership with the evolving life world |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I am writing a book called 'Living Ecology:practices for an evolutionary partnership with life'. I see my role as facilitating this perceptual and experiential shift away from separated individualism to living within an embodied, emergent, evolving ecology. To deepen the sense of 'being ecology' rather than 'doing ecology', to explore our organisations and communities as social ecologies, bringing living systems design into the way we organisae ourselves and live with purpose. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Finish writing the book. create retreat and educational experiences around it. work with businesses and organisations to work within a regenerative mindset and practices co-creating eco and regenerative organisations, to earn a living doing so! |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Being team lead in building regeneration into core business of our facilitators coop. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Languaging around regeneration to get business and organisational buy-in to working with our coop as consultant facilitators. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I hold a PhD in eco-philosophy, a certificate in Transpersonal and Experiential psychotherapy, numerous courses with Animas Valley, Pacific Integral, Business consultants. Quite a bit |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Thomas Berry |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | The framework of my cosmology can be summarised as 'evolutionary ecology'. Ecology is a fundamental paradigm for the way in which the world comes into being through inter-being. We, humans, are ecology who live and evolve within ecologies-eco-social and cultural. Engaging with different others, with challenges to our ecological balance, produces evolutionary growth, emergent novelty. |
| Date Created | July 9, 2024 |