| Your Name | Sam Kenworthy |
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| Email Address | samkenworthy@porvenirdesign.com |
| Cohort Assignment | Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Costa Rica, Winter-Spring 2024/2025 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Planning and design for long term land management; planning and design for water management; personal growth within my context of family/business partner/sibling/son etc... |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I see myself as playing a role of intermediary, sharing what I have experienced or learned with others in order to facilitate movement in the direction that suits the context at hand. I also see my role as observer, and actively putting myself into situations to observe more, allowing more of the first point to be shared. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I seek to spend more time in more unique contexts, as well as get deeper experience in areas where I spend the most time. I aim to spend more time with folks more experienced in fields of interest to me to accelerate my learning and inspire me. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | The ability to pause and inflect, using cues from communication to inform questions to myself about my reactions and my communication. Aligning my outward communication with my intuition and inward feeling. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Deeper practical experience specifically in areas of water management. Increased ability to share my ideas visually with clients and students. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | Time, money, friendships, |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Anthropology and history, linguistics, whole systems design, permaculture design, experiential education as a whole. Christopher Alexander, John Todd, David Holmgren, Aldo Leopold, immediate family |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Life is brief, we can not possibly understand what makes the world tick the way it does. Be kind, work to understand what/who surrounds us. Humans play a role of passing on lessons of our failures and successes in a given context to the next generation. |
| Date Created | October 21, 2024 |