Your NameJosiah Raison Cain
Email Addressraisoncain@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentHybrid 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?

Consultation for regenerative land use and sustainable systems.

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

Assist those who seek to engage with regenerative land use and other activities such as supply chain and equitable access to resources.

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

Right livelihood and the ability to maintain a healthy and positive outlook while being in service to others and providing for the needs of myself and those who depend upon me.

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

Intimate relationships as well as deepening traits such as patience and curiosity amongst people I know less well.

5. And for professional growth?

Publishing/writing and development of effective teams.

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

Everything. The most obvious things are lifestyle/personal life and wealth accumulation.

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

Primarily ecological design and to a lesser extent psychology and spirituality. John Todd, Gary Snyder, Bill McDonough, Sim van der Ryn, John Lyle, Paul Stamets, Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins, Chogyam Trungpa, Ian McHarg, Kalu Rinpoche, Buckminster Fuller, Pliny Fisk, Malcolm Wells, Leonardo da Vinci

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

Ecological and Interpersonal Stewardship are the practices of being human, to collectively care for our world and engage with the karmic dance of eternal balance in the dynamic stasis that is conservation of mass and energy over time.

Date CreatedOctober 24, 2024