Your NameVanessa Rothschild
Email Addressvanessarothschild86@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentEurope with In-Person Intensive in Lisbon, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

My primary work is to start my creative project in my local area, a space with the intention to bring people in connection with, soil, themselves and eachother, a space designed for creativity focused on regernative agriculture and permaculture principles, art and wellbeing.

A second part of my work is to serve as board member to help companies drive an integrated and strategic sustainability agenda.

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

My role is to clearly define the scope of this project, get relevant finacing and follow it through with the right team.

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

Create a project within regenerative practices, that can sustain itself and contribute to the community of people in the village and around.

Create a place where people feel they can regenerate themselves, learn and be inspired to live a regenerative lifestyle.

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

Find my internal balance after a period of burnout, — regenerate my energy through nature, creativity and enriching relationships.

Build a Sustainable financial situation for myself.

5. And for professional growth?

Identify and build a financing solution for my project.

Identify and build a team around me to fulfill the project of the baron perche (working name of my project)

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

An education in business, deepened with MIT course Developing business, society and self (theory U)

A life with international movement and travels

A big amount of personal development through therapy and alternative medicine, meditation and yoga, to understand family dynamics and ”my programming”

A career in sustainable fashion on global level, hard work to drive the circular agenda

Moving to the mountains in Switzerland to be in nature and in a community of artisans.

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

Sustainable business- circularity and climate (Ellen Mc arthur, Johan Rockström)

Theory U- Otto Scharmer

Mindfulness- Joe Dispenza, John Kabat Sin

Non-violent communication- Marshall Rosenberg

Creativity -Rick Rubin

Architecture- Mother Nature, Peter Zumthor

Art- Ruth Asawa

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

I believe we have the capacity to affect and define our own lives. I believe our role as humans is to harmonise our life with earth, ourselves and eachother.

Date CreatedFebruary 3, 2024