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Cohort AssignmentAustralia 2023
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

To strengthen my understanding of myself, relationships to others, and practices that support the collaborative effort of working in ecosystems to better places and people. To foreground First Nations wisdom as integral to this.

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

A role that complements the ecosystem that draws on my interests and skills in coaching, facilitation, networks, design research and social innovation.

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

To continually practice and be open to the emergent nature of the work.
To work at decolonising my practice and foregrounding First Nations wisdom.
To practice testing and learning mindsets to actively work towards change without having all the answers.

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

Personal growth into understanding where my limits and boundaries are before reaching critical burn out.

5. And for professional growth?

Understanding and embodying the practices, mindsets and capabilities that support a regenerative way of collaborating.

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

I've invested in myself and my growth through time, space and money through both professional settings and personal coaching and therapy

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

First Nations - Tyson Yunkaporta, Melanie Goodchild, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Poetry - Mary Oliver, David Whyte
Imagination & futuring - Ursula K Le Guin, Octavia Butler
Emergent Strategy - adrienne maree brown, Otto Scharmer
Systems thinking - Donella Meadows, Margaret Wheatley
Network thinking - June Holley, Peter Wohlleben

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

I believe all things are interconnected and interdependent and actions have ripple effects across ecosystems because of this. Human beings play a vital and conscious role in acting with awareness of their actions and cultivating health and harmony within relationships in this ecosystem. In this sense humans do not exist at the top of any hierarchy and are co-creators of life and wellbeing alongside and within the ecosystem.

Date CreatedJuly 4, 2023