| Your Name | Steffen Maschmeyer |
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| Email Address | steffenmaschmeyer@gmx.de |
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| Cohort Assignment | Europe Summer-Fall 2023, Cohort 2 |
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| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | + Co-create a regenerative coaching and consulting business; that is
… empowering people and organizations to work regeneratively
… inviting people to remember how to participate in nature: to lead as nature, to co-create as nature
… going beyond sustainability: going deeper; focusing on essence, adapted to context and modern times, focusing on thriving
… going beyond the bubble: pathways for not having to break away or escape from the market, society, etc.
+ Co-create regenerative communities, that
… go hand in hand with regenerative livelihoods
… foster aliveness and are in service to life
… deeply rooted in place and in a culture of deep connection
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| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | + Explore pathways for regenerative work, supporting people, communities and businesses
+ Bridge pathways: exploring pathways of regeneration, bringing together paradigms, people, practices; connecting learning, prototyping
+ Pioneer new practical approaches and projects
+ Share my gifts and being of service to life
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| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | + Create coaching/consulting business
+ Create my approach/methodology
+ Build a regenerative livelihood
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| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | + Empowerment: self-efficacy, autonomy, resiliency
+ Self-Love: healing, trust, care
+ Time for action: doing, daring, trusting
+ Being regenerative: walk the talk, bridging work and life/create synergies, being nature
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| 5. And for professional growth? | + Doing = small steps; prototyping
+ Build partnerships
+ Creating = my business; my approach
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| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | + Exploring pathways of regeneration
a lot of training (on the subject matter of regeneration, on process design and facilitation)
a lot of volunteering, practicing
growing into different roles (operational work, project management, process facilitation, consultancy, research)
exploring different contexts
+ Exploring self
exploring my wounds and gifts (who am I and how am I here to serve?)
exploring my relationships (self, community, nature)
finding my place (with has entailed saying no to security and comfort; at least so far!)
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| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Permaculture design, cultural emergence
Regenerative development, regenerative leadership,
Transformations/sustainability transitions research, transition management/transition governance, transformative science/action research
Rewilding, ancestral lifeways/the circle way, neo-aboriginal lifeways, primitive skills/bushcraft
Deep ecology, shamanism
Daoism, zen buddhism
Process design and facilitation: Theory-U, Generative Coaching, co-creation/living labs, design thinking
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| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | We all participate in nature. We all co-create with nature. We all are nature.
By becoming our natural selves, we can create and hold space for humans and more-than-humans to co-create and thrive together.
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| Date Created | August 28, 2023 |
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