photo credit: Aaron Escobar™ My roots are connected deep into the ground, engaged in a continuous interplay with the soil, bacteria, microorganisms, fungi, insects, and water, gathering nourishment to help me thrive. My leaves and branches dance with the wind, the sun, with animals, birds, insects, microorganisms, bacteria, all in continual flow. My body returns […]
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography What does success look like in a thrivable system? Perhaps success looks like happiness! Figuring out the characteristics of a thrivable system might be looking for systems where there is happiness. And how do you know if there is happiness? Well as my friend Sian claims in his email sig. […]
Thrivability is all about the intentful creation of upward spirals, positive feedback loops between elements that are generative of diverse, adaptive abundance. This is true both for the design of the ecological aspect of systems, as well as for the social aspect of systems.
photo credit: steve p2008 Thrivability, at its core, is all about creating environments that are generative of adaptive diverse abundance, both in the sense of nature, and in the sense of the potential for innovation present in an organization. If people come together with a sense of purposive play, then innovation emerges from the dynamic […]