Your Name | Nancy Picard |
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Email Address | nancy.picard@ecotransition.ca |
Cohort Assignment | Americas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | In the 6 years since taking the TRP, my primary work has shifted from "doing" projects in a more regenerative way to that of catalyzing collectives of friends in the work to figure out ways of making conditions conducive to regenerative work. I'm still an actor downstream, involved in trying to reduce the negative impacts of new buildings, but now also upstream helping promotors understand how they can design and develop in regenerative ways. In the near future, I will also offer workshops for professionals and city officers, introducing systemic thinking, which I hope to follow-up on with the french TRP. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I very much like the expressions "you can't unsee or unhear what you've seen or heard". That's how I felt after hearing Bill Reed's talk in Montreal in 2012 => the process of regenerative design and development resonated a truth that compelled me to move towards it. That is perhaps the central role I see as mine to play, along with applying the capabilities I have evolved these past 6 years to accompany promotors and city officials on a regenerative design and development path for their projects. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Reaching evermore people and holding spaces for us to evolve together in the work. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Both in deepening my understanding of this work and in taking on the role of a resource. |
5. And for professional growth? | They align with personal and can be expressed in projects, in workshops I'll be holding as well as conferences I will start giving. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | More than anything, it feels as though I've invested in what truly feels right. I've invested money, time and deep trust in this work, as well as time sharing this knowledge over the past couple of years. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | David Suzuki, from as long as I can remember, from The Nature of Things program, to all the incredible work he's brought to people's attention regarding living systems. As mentioned Bill Reed's conference was pivotal for me in 2012. Since 2018, all faculty at Regenesis, Carol Sanford, Vandana Shiva, Tyson Yunkaporta, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Fritjof Capra, so many more, not to mention fellow graduates world wide. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Life, in all its shapes and forms, has always been amazing to me. Reverence to this incredible phenomenon of life, all life, is how I feel. Humans have been outstanding stewards of life for thousands of years, turning away from that role just in the few last hundreds. |
Date Created | January 28, 2024 |