Your NameKate Rudd
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Cohort AssignmentGreat Britain & Ireland Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Devon, Spring-Summer 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

I am an interdisciplinary researcher, facilitator, and writer working at the intersection of bioregioning, regenerative economics, sustainable food systems and inner development. My journey is driven by a passion for catalysing positive transformations, empowering organisations to contribute to social and ecological regeneration through insight, strategy, and innovation.
I am currently supporting the Bioregional Learning Centre in Devon as a research, innovation and learning consultant, where I am supporting the development of action learning initiatives focusing on bioregioning as well as facilitating a process of brand evolution and organisational change. Additionally, I am collaborating with the UNDP’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance as a Local Food Systems Leadership Consultant, where I am facilitating the collaborative development of a curriculum to catalyse the inner capacities to build regenerative food systems.
Beyond these roles, I'm deeply committed to research into social innovation and inner development for systems transformation and will be starting a PhD exploring the role of Philanthropy in Biodiversity in September. As part of the CoFSA Food and Farming and IDGs research circles, I explore critical issues and seek innovative solutions to drive progress in these areas. I serve as a guest curator and contributor for the regenerative development think tank, Third Horizon Earth, fostering collaboration and driving forward-thinking regenerative initiatives.
In my spare time, I lend my skills to regenerative nonprofits undertaking research and communications projects to amplify voices and catalyse positive change on a global scale, including business incubation and content creation for grassroots initiatives promoting regenerative agriculture in Africa, Europe and Latin America.

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

Pattern-spotting: connecting the dots, making sense of complexity, reflecting and bringing clarity.
Boundary spanning: working across silos to bringing together diverse and disparate perspectives to drive innvoation and forge new connections.
Facilitating: the hospicing of the old system and the midwifing the new.

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

I would like to to learn how to excel in all of the above areas; how to see, understand and work with my blind spots and harness the potential to catalyse regenerative and positive change on the ground.

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

I aspire to cultivate new levels of personal consciousness to enable me to be more present, of greater service and bring more joy to others, in all aspects of my life.
I hope to be able to realise untapped potential in both relationships and experiences; to be able to take fresh perspectives and a find a renewed sense of awe and creativity. I would like to learn to feel more confident with uncertainty and well as to extend out to new collaborations and communities.

5. And for professional growth?

I hope to expore regenerative development in in particular the design aspects of it much more deeply, to gain tools and insights that can elevate my professional practice. Specifically, designing for learning and innovation, designing research and participatory processes and designing funding ecosystems.

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

Everything I have 🙂

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

Psychology, Neuroscience, New Economics, Philosophy, Agroecology, Systems Thinking, Complexity Theory, International Relations,
David Bohm, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Kate Raworth, Henri Bortoft, Vandana Shiva, Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, Pat McCabe, bell hooks, Jason Hickel, Daniel Wahl, Jeremy Lent, Frank Geels, Flor Avelano, Karen O'Brien, Johann Rockstrom, Van Der Kolk, Donella Meadows, Paolo Friere

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

The Pluriverse meets the implicate order: we are one.

Date CreatedMay 22, 2024