I can respond in two ways: what I do as a commodity of living, and what I am actually doing as a purpose of living. In everyday life, I am primarily working in consulting for culture and behaviour change. As a business analyst, I support projects for organizational transformations related to sustainability, climate and equity. To complement business structural change in sustainability, my team brings forward people-centric offerings; building context to embed environmental protection in enterprise purposes, aligning leaders for climate strategic priorities and designing stakeholder engagement plans to raise ecological awareness. This sounds very utopic, and it surely is... since this is not what I do at all. Truthfully, I am at the bottom of the consulting firm's human chain, getting automatically "staffed" at full capacity to a sold project of any shape in form. While the partners are responding to business motives, most of the time is exclusively to delivering work for fast-paced technological implementations. The reason why I accept this placement is to hope the words of my professional development coach are promisingly true "Trust the process and be open to try any kind of work for the benefit of the firm and yourself, you can do sustainability on the side in the meantime". And so the story goes, I am overworking in my free time to bring up to speed my colleagues on the environmental agenda, trying to build capabilities and sell myself to the projects I was supposed to be hired to do. In trying to do the purposeful, primary work, I can see the patterns of consulting and how the good intentions to bring more green projects into the practice are side-parked and replaced with the more lucrative tech-savvy response to proposals. At this early stage of my career fresh out of undergraduate studies, what I do see doing, is to be an actual observer of the place. I am learning every day in this challenging, confusing, consulting world where surely one truth remains in my experience: the practice being the connector of humans, processes and organizations. This space allows me to gain a holistic and external eyesight, where I can have a better sense of where entire industries and executives are leading and where influential narratives can shift entire mindsets.

I can see my role to be the connector of my consulting practice with truthful approaches in prioritizing systems of change for environmental resilience. In this world under pressure by daily noise such as team meetings, performance snapshots, and sales pursuits, there is little room to take a step back and look at the potential of what our work could truly be if we took the highway in sustainability, climate and equity. But I do not want to restrain myself and lose energy in a spiral firm. I can see this eye-opening role in the outside world as well. I have always been fascinated by observing behaviour, psychology and ethnoecology. Sharing this knowledge with communities to create more strength, clarity and alignment with all living beings is ultimately my role to play as a continuous learner.

When interacting with the business sphere both during my recent bachelor of commerce and in my new grad job, I can see how the green transition focus is much more on sustainable infrastructures: operational remodelling, regulatory compliance, and carbon offset metrics to achieve net zero. My goal would be to help shift the approach by prioritizing the ecological awakening of the individuals behind those infrastructures.

Personally, I have to rewild myself first before thinking of rewilding other people. This is an ongoing process I consciously started to practice in August 2022 after being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. As an academic overachiever, my mental capacities were always my biggest asset for scholastic results; never would I have thought I could be categorized as mentally ill one day. Although to me, this eating disorder is not a definition of a state, but an opportunity to acknowledge on a whole health basis that our Western societal construct is not made for me to thrive. My next areas for personal growth is now. As I am recovering, I have practiced rewilding within myself. I started by reconnecting with my old roots and integrating more playfulness, joy and creativity into my life. Sailing, singing and forest trail exploring have increased my blood flow, my heart rate, my senses, and my hunger. I have this unique opportunity to fully renew my stem cells, rewiring my brain to new ways of being.

I want to take this rewilding experience within my professional practice, aligning myself with what actually feels good in the workplace. I feel inspired and reenergized when I think of coming back into academia and realizing observations in environmental psychology. Abandoning the grade and certification, and fully devoting my studies towards developing nature-based solutions for vitalizing the way we act, achieve and regenerate business. In the end, I want to demonstrate how regeneration can be achieved from the bottom-up: through the behavioral change of employees' relationship with nature, an organic shift will occur in an organization to operate.

But the time is urging for us to act, and so I am still in the process of thinking about where my professional growth could best serve this greater purpose of serving climate resilience and the regen movement. The purpose of taking this course is to get inspiration for my own shift for the greater reconciliation with the natural world.

Since the past year, I have been interconnecting both my personal and professional aspirations with the pursuit of sailing expeditions. I first started sailing along the St-Lawrence River, the place where I was born. My undergraduate studies took place at the beginning of its channel, in the land of the Algonquin-Anishinaabe people. I found clarity in the gray waters by taking additional courses in Latine ecofeminism, social psychology, climate justice and Algonquin language. My true, environmentalist self was awakened by coalescing interdisciplinary theories with management. The indigenous land-based education inspires me to dissect their behavioural way of moving from eco-conscious to eco-driven. To end my degree, I completed the Sustainable Futures program of University Technology Sydney. Diving deeper into regeneration, ethnoecology and health project management, my horizons opened. My learnings were aggrandized into practice by helping the restoration of my urban host. After completing the Bareboat Skipper Certification in Australia, I acquired the courage to go at sea for the past four months. Living on a boat not only contributed to my personal healing, but it also began a journey of exploring regenerative ways of living. In the Pacific, I participated in passages and travels across remote islands where I observed native communities interacting in coalescences with nature. From a coral restoration project in the Philippines, to seaweed farming in Papua New Guinea and organic cacao cultivation in Hawaii, I have seen the commonalities of the "islander mindset". This time invested in multidisciplinary studies, travelling and volunteering on a sailboat and community space made me realize that the answers I seek to respond in the academic and consultation space are fundamentally emancipated out there.

The fields of learning more fundamental to the development of my positionality can be all drawn within multidisciplinary fields in regeneration: Latine ecofeminism, social psychology, climate justice, Algonquin language (land-based education), health project management, philosophy and environmental science. Along my student pathway, many thinkers have contributed to shaping and unshaping my worldview. Polly Weissner, American anthropologist, studied the Enga people for two decades and has inspired me to make similar observations in Papua New Guinea to understand the organizational ways of cooperation in communal survival. Jean-Martin Fortier is a French Canadian farmer and author for ecological, human-scale, and economically viable sustainable agriculture. He was an important figure in my ecological awakening when it came to breaking the myths of profitability and the fertility of soils. Michèle Audette, Indigenous politician and activist was appointed as one of the five commissioners responsible for conducting the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She has been influential in my education on Indigenous injustice, reconciliation pathways and matrimonial activism.

Life is a cluster of energy that harmonizes elements in a balanced ecosystem. Humans are one element, having the equivalent role as all other elements to harmonize in sharing energies. The act of sharing energy is through a spirit. Humans seem developed senses to access awareness of their spirit, their transmitter. With awakening concepts such as time, number, measure and words, these living beings have shifted their role in the hierarchy between themselves and the rest of the ecosystem. But life, this cluster of energy, will still be above all elements and seek a natural balance. Humans would then face the uncontrollable reaction of their spirit sharing back energy. And so the cycle continues.