Expressing Thrivability: Michelle Holliday

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Gratitude. I want to highlight some people I feel grateful to know and experience, people who are expressions of thrivability.

Today, I want to express gratitude for Michelle Holliday. She is a facilitator, organizational consultant, researcher and writer. She brings people together and helps them discover ways they can feel more alive, connect more meaningfully with each other, and serve life more powerfully through their work.

I first encountered Michelle when my network was excitedly sharing this slideshare:

Michelle clearly gets how aliveness, integration, and living systems are the key to thrivability. A year later, she gave this ted talk.

 

More recently, she co-created this amazing and playful community inquiry that went around the world, Thrivable World Quest. I am such a big fan of her work that I gave her the thrivability twitter handle I had been holding onto.

If you are interested in how organizations can be resilient, adaptive — indeed, how they can thrive using living system principles, talk with Michelle! And keep an eye out for her forthcoming book, The Age of Thrivability.

Expressing Thrivability: Lonny Grafman

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Gratitude. I want to highlight some people I feel grateful to know and experience, people who are expressions of thrivability.

Lonny Grafman headshotRecently I saw Lonny Grafman.  Do you know him? I met him in his role as the founder of Appropedia – the encyclopedia for appropriate technology solutions.

He is a Practivista. He is head of product for Nexi, a startup being incubated at HighwayOne. Lonny is so multi-dimensional. Sometimes he is in the Dominican Republic building homes out of local materials with his students. Sometimes he is in NYC working on an art project that gets us thinking about living systems design (http://www.thewaterpod.org/).

While Lonny is the epitome of hacker engineer, he is also deeply rooted in what it means to be human, how to honor and respect each other, and how to be with each other in practice. I admire what he does. More than that though, I admire how he is – his beingness. Human. Funny. Compassionate. Solution-focused. Present. Perceptive.

Lonny holds several of the keys to thrivability for me. Thank you Lonny.