| Your Name | Philip Lowndes |
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| Email Address | mrlowndes@yahoo.com |
| Cohort Assignment | Europe with In-Person Intensive in Lisbon, Winter-Spring 2024 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | To bring together my work and life experience and apply it to a new map being drawn for a new world that we are struggling to understand |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Educator and facilitator in projects. Build on my experience in working with complicated systems and organisations and apply it to regenerative work |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To develop the skill set to present the case for a regenerative approach to those who are struggling to understand what they can and should do to support the generations of humans that will follow us |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | To develop my ability to be comfortable with vulnerability |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Become a facilitator and steward to a regenerative approach |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | To not avoid what I come across in my path and lean in to those in difficulty. Engaging in fierce conversations. Allowing myself to feel vulnerable and comfortable with not knowing. Deep thinking even when the conclusions you gather are difficult to own. Being prepared to be unconventional, a student for the rest of my life and admit that for many years of my life there was something I could not, or dared not, see. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Atheists. Evolution and Darwin and especially his later writings on earthworms. Poetry. Classical and Eastern philosophy. More recent years..... Tim Flannery - Here on Earth. Robin Whall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass. Daniel Christian Wahl - Designing Regenerative Cultures. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | To understand and accept that we are the takers, we can not do photosynthesis. That we are in the unique position of understanding our own footprint on the planet and we should fulfil our evolutionary potential and take responsibility for it. We should take only what we need and remember we may need to come back to the same place to take again. When humans develop a solution to a problem they create a problem for which they can not provide a solution. |
| Date Created | February 6, 2024 |