Organizational consulting

I just completed a doctorate; my dissertation was on how environmental professionals sustain themselves and their work in the context of existential threat. I am working on integrating bioregionalism into organizational learning. I see my role as helping to seed the emerging consciousness of regeneration, place-based systems, and the connections between inner and outer development into organizational life.

At first, I want to build a few case examples of organizations that are new to this way of thinking and document how they introduce these concepts into their culture and why.

As someone who has a deep background in organizational development and adult learning, I am working on how to integrate regenerative principles into my original area of practice. Personally, I have belonged to a meditation tradition for 20 years and continue to weave my learning from these inner experiences into my work in the world. I am continuing to learn how to interpret the world from an indigenous perspective, especially from my own Celtic indigenous ancestry.

As above, I need to learn more about how regenerative principles can be appropriately and powerfully integrating into mainstream organizational consulting.

I just completed a 10 year doctoral program at Columbia University and it was a huge investment of time and $.

Justin O'Brien, Theresa King, Sharon Blackie, Sherri Mitchell, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Jack Mezirow, Myles Horton, Jung, Pema Chodron, Joanna Macy, Daniel Christian Wahl, Baya Akomolafe, Pat McCabe, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Gregory Bateson.

I think that humans are among the youngest species and have a lot to learn about how to evolve into being elders on this planet. But even in our youth, or perhaps because of it, we are incredibly creative and are capable of rapid development from a consciousness perspective if we learn to attend more to our inner connections with the universe vs. focusing so much on outer achievement, assuaging our fear, and an associated need for control. I am grateful to my younger self who decided to study adult learning mostly by following my intuition. Adult learning is a field that has brought together so many diverse ways of interpreting the world, builds one's capacity to try on different meaning-making structures, and expands one's reflective capacity. Meditation does this as well. I think that human beings need to rapidly move through a learning process in which we realize the essentials of what is true about this plane of reality -- we live on a planet, all of the material wealth in the world has been sourced from that planet, and that transactional relationship with our only home is a primitive way of relating. We could easily develop a reciprocal relationship with the earth and all of its beings that would expand our human potential in ways we cannot even imagine.