TRP with In-Person Intensive in Lisbon, Portugal, Fall-Winter 2024: Participant Questionnaire – The Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice

Your Name	Jessica Groopman
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Cohort Assignment	Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in the Bay Area, California, Fall-Winter 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?	Encouraging and accelerating the Tech sector towards regeneration. As a long-time technology industry analyst, I have deep context on the extractive nature of the Tech industry and how digital economy has adopted the same industrial playbook as the physical economy. Despite widespread recognition that modern technologies have created significant societal harms (yet are billed as transformative solutions,) "regenerative tech" is not yet part of the discourse in the Tech industry. My work is to bridge these worlds, and help technologists, investors, and the rest of us "users" design tech in service to life.
2. What role do you see as yours to play?	My role is a dot-connector, facilitator, communicator, and permission-giver. I am not an engineer or data scientist. In fact my background is in anthropology. Thus I think my role is connecting people to help consider tech and its interconnectedness!
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?	I am launching The Regenerative Technology Project this fall. One big goal is to get this off the ground and into the world, with a clear funding + business model. Another goal is to bring regenerative technology into business innovation groups-- and to expand the aperture of "innovation" beyond digital transformation towards regeneration.
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?	Balancing my work with rest and restoration. Deeper inner work to hold the integrity of regeneration and regenerative design in the work. Leaning into co-creation.
5. And for professional growth?	Same answers as above. Plus developing deeper skills in facilitation and design.
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?	I have taken several courses in the last 5 years while deepening on this subject. I have invested in several personal development/self care offerings to support my wellbeing in this work. I have left a well paying leadership position and dedicated full time to regenerative technology.
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?	Anthropology - Gregory Bateson, Nora Bateson, Jeremy Lent, Bayo Akomolafe, Jared Diamond, Yuval Harari, Robin Wall Kimmerer Systems - Donella Meadows, Fritjof Capra, John Elkington, Adrian Marie Brown, James Bridle
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?	We inter-are... we are all evolving and all in shared ecologies which are constantly unfolding, dying, and emering anew. Contexts are always shifting. I view humans as fellow stewards of life. Not more evolved or higher than any other being. May our keystone role become one that works in partnership with life to create more conditions for life, rather than seeking to dominate and control it.
Date Created	August 27, 2024