Your Name | Tomi Winfree |
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Email Address | anthroenviro@icloud.com |
Cohort Assignment | Australia 2023 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | My work is focused on inspiring and building individuals’ capacity through creating connections between diverse groups towards a better future. I focus on systems thinking to identify the parts that aren’t working or could be improved by reimagining what’s possible for implementation. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Listener, initiator, convenor, facilitator to lead others in the co-creation of our future. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Creating a place based Hub for my region to support people to come together to identify opportunities to collaboratively create the future we want. The aim is to start with the UN Sustainable Development Goals as an integrated global guiding framework. Then to use tools like circular economy, doughnut economics, impact investing and social enterprise toward the regeneration of our place aligned with individual and collective purpose. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Learning into integrate regeneration as a foundational principle in my daily practices. |
5. And for professional growth? | Learning into integrate regeneration as a foundational principle in my daily practices. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have invested daily since college with all my decisions and actions going towards where I am now. I invested in education, self discovery and growth, my time and money. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Regenerative Practice - Bill Reed, Daniel Christian Wahl Concepts like Project Drawdown, fair trade, story of stuff, systems thinking, life centred design, etc. Many eastern & indigenous philosophies & religions like Buddhism & Taoism, but also Roman ethics like Epictetus and natural cycles & celebrations like paganism and Native American cultures. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Humans are a small powerful part of an integral system with the ability to positively and negatively contribute, but the system holds the power. We have been here for a short time in the development of the cosmos and it will exist long after we potentially become extinct. However, we are here now and have the agency and responsibility to learn from our past to co-create the present and future in harmony with what exists around us. Understanding these relationships is essential to our mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. |
Date Created | July 17, 2023 |