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Cohort AssignmentAustralia Online, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Facilitating learning and development for adults to be more able to communicate with each other, generate resilience in themselves, wider their perspectives to embrace differing perspectives and a more world centric and planet centric view, be kinder, more compassionate and care deeply about all living creatures.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

as a designer of and facilitator of learning

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

to work with organisations and individuals keen to shift their world view and practice to create a regenerative earth practice

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Generating resilience in self and team to continue our/my work in a complex marketplace with competing personal demands.

5. And for professional growth?

Meeting a network of similar practitioners in Australia. Understanding and utilising a new set of frameworks and skills and stepping up and doing this work

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

A lot of education, both academically and through years of courses, programs, coaching circles. Invested funds to set up the Co-operative we operate from and finally lots of time and energy to bring our vision and work into reality, which to date has been partially successful (in terms of uptake)

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Integral theory Ken Wilbur, Diane Musho Hamilton
Integral Coaching Canada accredited and Advanced Facilitation course with foundations in Integral and Zen teachings
Buddhism- mainly Insight
Systems Thinking
Bohm Dialogue
Presencing Institute Otto Scharmer
Social Ecology
Joanna Macy

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

IMHO
Humans currently play an overblown role of command and control over all life on earth and it does not bode well for the future for all life on earth including our own.

I long for a lived philosophy and practice of interconnected care and love and deeply connected intergenerational and interspecies communities as our underpinning.

I believe we are all one but this has been smashed out of us human beings over time and I too at times find it hard to not sit alone in separateness and despair.

Date CreatedJuly 11, 2024