Your NameFaye Adams
Email AddressFaye.Adams@manningham.vic.gov.au
Cohort AssignmentAustralia 2023
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

To progress a more harmonious society and economy that constantly creates true value, naturally. Flows of value creation . . .much like nature.

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

I work in an environment team within local government as a Senior Sustainability Officer. I see my role as two-fold, one with an internal focus, the other an external focus that works with community. As an internal consultant, I help teams think collectively on strategic projects and sometimes I help them develop key strategies and action plans.

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

To be present to opportunities that arise to build regenerative capacity for people, teams communities nested in place.

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

Intimacy and vulnerability.

5. And for professional growth?

Creating co-creative spaces for all to grow and see greater possibility and to act, to begin the journey.

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

Lots of study into self organising systems, group processes, living systems theory, participatory action planning etc etc . . .. . that has informed my practice as I work on various projects across the organisation, with external stakeholders and community.

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

Living Systems Theory, Santiago Theory of Cognition, Communities of Practice, Dialogic Conversation, Open Space Theory, knowledge creation and innovation theory . . .. to name but a few 🙂
Also, my spiritual studies, my training to teach Yoga, and then teaching yoga for 13 years, part-time, one night per week.

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

That all is Spirit and humankind, and Gaia, are intimately link in a co-evolutionary dance. Every human re-incarnates, to love, be kind, and grow closer to their inner divine self.

Date CreatedAugust 5, 2023