Your NameLizzy Smith
Email Addressservice@worksmith.com.au
Cohort AssignmentAustralia 2023
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

connecting the groups around me locally and practically supporting where I can ,
earning an income to support my family, keeping myself healthy

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

home keeper
Connector leader
keeping a loving home that is abundant and comforting
keeping the excitement and interest in our lives
creating and holding spaces for amazing things to emerge

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

be a person in touch with myself and how I can contribute
Value driven decisions and actions
Keep being challenged with local initiatives

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

I know I need to narrow down my interest s to be more effective or take
actions to make more of the impact I could make locally
maybe sustain a sense of confidence that I have a lot to offer (humbly) and not be seeking ...

5. And for professional growth?

I would like to move into more large scale project work with Permaculture or the other skills I can contribute. I feel the need to work at macro level but I am not sure why that is an urge.
For some time I have been making a more cohesive/connecting path for my broad range of skills and interests. I am trying to make sense of all my interests to serve more purpose and maybe have more impact? I keep moving fields instead of going deep over my career so I think I have lost my direction professionally

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

a lot of professional education and training in complexity, personal growth, permaculture, design
a change of paid employment for financial security
some sacrifice of time for family which doesn't always sit well.
some small scale adventure when I have had the freedom

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

my grandmother for resilience
In recent decade:
complexity Dave Snowden
living Systems. Carol Sanford, Fritjov Capra
buddhism ways of thinking - Tara Brach
life economics - charles eisenstein
myth and life - MIchael Meade
Permaculture - Dan Palmer, Morag Gamble, Dave Holmgren, Rosemary Morrow, Brenna Quinlan
Living design process - Dan Palmer and study groups
Regenerative design Joe Brewer

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

family and my local networks matter a lot to me so that inner circle.
peace/pacificist, passive activist
Values and principles -
a loving belief in the promise, creativity and potential of kindness of humanity

Date CreatedJuly 16, 2023