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I was first introduced to Loes, and Futures Literacy, by another BWL guest, Laureline Simon. When Laureline shared in her network that she was co-hosting a course on Futures Literacy for transformative climate action, I was drawn in and joined the cohort to experience this wonderful, exhilarating and enlivening work myself. Those days immersed in the Futures Literacy framework were the first of what has now become a continuing interaction with Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair of Futures Literacy at Hanze University in Gronigen in Holland. I've been honoured and delighted to have co-created this conversation with Loes to bring an overview of Futures Literacy to our community here, and invite you to begin your journey into this specific way of building capability in the present to navigate uncertainty and find clarity in ambiguity through explorations and experiences of possible futures. Loes and I hope you enjoy this conversation, and will accept our invitation to engage this work via the links below and we hope in a co-created learning experience coming early in 2024. Connect with and explore Loes' work more deeply via the links below; https://www.ted.com/talks/loes_damhof_futures_literacy_shaping_your_present_by_reimagining_futures www.futursliteracy.net https://loesdamhof.medium.com/ https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/futures-literacy-the-emergence-academy-may24/ https://www.unesco.org/en/futures-literacy   Connect with Tim and join the Better World Leaders community via the links below; https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

I first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program. That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning of my journey as a practitioner of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter, and my unfolding and ever deepening friendship with Mel. Mel is a steward of 'The Art of Hosting', co-Founder of Campfire Co-op and colleague and collaborator with our previous episodes' guest, Samantha Slade. This conversation covers several of the integral frameworks found within the patterns, processes and practices of 'The Art of Hosting', as well as some contemporary dialogue on the The First Nations' Voice to Parliament referendum, and the role of such frameworks in holding space for and connecting with ourselves, and our innate capacity to work in life affirming ways. Mel and I hope you'll enjoy this discussion, and potentially be curious to explore this work more deeply yourself. Links below to Mel, Campfire Co-op and upcoming opportunities to get involved in Going Horizontal training co-hosted by Mel & Campfire in November 2024. Connect with Mel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgeltch/ Check out Campfire Coop's website - https://www.campfire.coop/ Explore Going Horizontal in Australia - https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23 Connect with Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ Join and connect with the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

This conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire Co-op (more on Campfire in the next episode) and I had also participated in a Going Horizontal workshop led by Samantha and one of her Percolab colleagues, co-hosted with Campfire. I share that context upfront, as it's not often that I'm conversing with someone with whom I have been so entangled so recently and deeply as we create a conversation together, and it was so wonderful to do so with Samantha. Samantha is co-Owner & co-Director of Percolab, a network of living labs which develop new ways of learning, working and governing. Samantha is the author of Going Horizontal, an incredibly abundant collection of practices and practical approaches to bringing living systems frameworks into ways of organising at work. She's also to creator of "Listen For', a wonderful game of connection, deep listening and exploring bias through through the medium of collective story sharing. I've been a fan of 'Go-Ho' since it's release and have played and led Listen For games in multiple countries and can personally speak to both my own benefit, and that of teams and whole organisations from both of these sources based on my own direct experience. If you're based in Australia, you can attend the next Australian-based Going Horizontal training in November, see details via link below; https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23 Samantha and I both hope you enjoy the discussion co-created here, and invite you to follow the links below to explore this work for yourself... Follow Samantha & engage with her work here... LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthaslade/ Percolab - https://www.percolab.com/ Follow Tim and engage with the Better World Leaders community here; LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ BWL on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders/   Thank you as always for your time and attention. I'm looking forward to bringing you more episodes very soon.

I've had the good fortune to encounter today's guest, Daniel Hires, via LinkedIn during the pandemic, as we seemed to frequent a similar social media ecosystem, commenting on many of the same posts and engaging with the same discourses on social, ecological and economic transformation. Daniel and I had held an intention to create a BWL conversation a while back on those transformational themes, and life, work and the world aligned for us to create a conversation here, now, in this season on frameworks as Daniel has shifted into the team creating the emergent Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework. I loved diving into this work with Daniel having gotten to know him a little prior to his weaving with the IDGs, and I could really see the trajectory of his path moving through this framework, and felt a strong alignment with my own working over the past decade as well. If you're curious to explore the IDGs further, here's a few ways Daniel invites you to do so, connecting with him and tuning into a couple of other podcast conversations he's co-created... https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiresd/https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/.https://www.remotefulness.com/sustainability-is-still-anchored-in-the-growth-paradigm/http://alexswallow.com/social-good-six-interview-56-daniel-hires/ I also invite you to connect with me, and the Better World Leaders community in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

Carol Sanford returns for her second episode in this season, introducing the core disciplines within the framework she introduces in her latest work - No More Gold Stars (a full transcript of this conversation is available here on Medium) In this conversation Carol shares the 6 disciplines which provide the framework for ways of being, collaboratively interacting and organising at home, work and in community which are grounded in self-determining, regenerative paradyms. Carol calls out the pervasiveness of behaviouralism, the profound challenges this approach has manifested in our social systems, and how the approach she offers in No More Gold Stars can provide a radically enlivening, immensely productive and nurturing set of practices which enable the innate human potential of everyone who choses this way of being. This conversation very much builds on our season's opening episode with Carol, which focused on Indirect Work. Indirect Work is both Carol's now previous latest released book, and is one of the disciplines intergal to the No More Gold Stars frameworks. As one of the season's most downloaded episodes, I highly recommend listening to both conversations in fellowship. I am here, as always, deeply grateful to Carol for all that she has brought to the world and especially for the incredible development I have accessed by working with her frameworks within her communities over the past few years. I'm delighted to have been able to co-create these two conversations with Carol and share them with you here. Look out for the transcript linked below, as well as my reflection video coming soon and will be linked below when available. Follow Carol and engage more deeply with her work via the links below; Carol on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolsanfordkeynote/ Carol on Substack - https://carolsanford.substack.com/ Order No More Gold Stars - https://carolsanford.com/no-more-gold-stars/ All Books - https://carolsanford.com/books/ The Regenerative Fooding Summit - https://carolsanfordinstitute.com/summit/ Follow Tim & engage with the Better World Leaders community below; Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ BWL on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders Tim on YouTube (for Reflection videos) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNr-RPD3NxEx55Ts8h4AFg

Once you start to engage with systems change, it's becomes increasingly necessary to examine every system. How each operates, functions, inter-relates to every other system, and is co-dependant for sustained change on the rate of change of many points of convergence. And so, on a podcast primarily focused on the role of leaders in organisations, we come to explore the need for change in our political systems. Why? Because so often we find the desire, capacity and capability for change at scale to be caught up in the intermeshed webs of layered systems that are woven through, created by and are dependant on our political systems. This scintillating conversation with Tim Hollo traces his exploration of what he terms 'Living Democracy', a set of frameworks very much alive in the world already, which if harnessed and embraced more broadly, would bring living systems approaches to political systems across the globe. Tim's work is visionary, visceral and wildly exciting - certainly for me! - as we chart the many reasons for the 'stuckness' of our current democratic systems, delve into the deep historical reasons for the embedded resistance to change and unpack the many pathways which could lead to an entirely new way of organising politically - one that centres life and the living world. Following off our 4 previous episodes on regeneration, this conversation feels timely indeed, I hope you enjoy. Here's a few links Tim recommends you check out if you're curious to explore his work more deeply... - Living Democracy book: https://unsw.press/books/living-democracy/ - Green Institute: https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/ - Tim's TEDx speech: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlZydpQGc0&link_id=0&can_id=861bae83b5e175a501a35726d75e2d54&source=email-changing-government-vs-transforming-democracy&email_referrer=email_1858547&email_subject=changing-government-vs-transforming-democracy

From the first moment I was in dialogue with today's guest, I felt a warmth, a sincerity of curiosity and a genuineness of intention. Being with Giles Hutchins in deep dialogue building up to this conversation, during and beyond it as we've begun to walk a shared path, I've come to appreciate a depth of will to hold well intentioned folk such as myself as we shift, unravel and re-weave ourselves and our organisations into more regenerative beings and networks.  This is complex, meaningful, challenging and often confronting work, as I have myself experienced in my own journey of becoming a regenerative leader. Giles has been deeply immersed in this work for many years, and carries a kindness and intensive that I've personally found to be both tender and revealing. He has worked with organisations of many sizes, ilks and orientations across the globe and is sought out as a regenerative coach, facilitator and speaker. I have so very much benefited from being in conversation with Giles, and to working directly with him enabling my own development, which this conversation was in many ways to beginning of. I'm very much looking forward to sharing this conversation with you, and to invite you to engage with Giles' wisdom and the frameworks for your own development which he offers here. Key Frameworks introduced: - Worldview shift from Degenerative to Regenerative - Levels of Leadership - Panarchy Cycle - DEE - Developmental, Emergent, Evolutionary - 3S, Stillness, Surrender, Sensitivity. Key Concepts discussed: - Wisdom of Life & Nature - Enabling adaption & transformation - Working with organisations to become regenerative Key Prompts provided: Explore the 3S framework for yourself, considering for yourself how you can practice stillness, surrender and sensitivity. Tim’s additional resources; Reflection article - Medium - https://medium.com/@timcollings-betterworldleaders/reflections-on-being-in-conversation-with-giles-hutchins-47f26f8cbe43 Reflection video - YouTube - https://youtu.be/SPGqoB3utGk 60 Seconds Stillness series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBk0JIL3oalwG8DjbgxweTLuulJ0P5MZ- Engage with Giles’s work here: Leading by Nature - https://gileshutchins.com/leadingbynaturebook/ gileshutchins.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/giles-hutchins-015a7b/ Leading by Nature podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leading-by-nature/id1620178610 Nature of Business blog - https://thenatureofbusiness.org/ Upcoming talks & events; Climate Coaching Alliance keynote on Regenerative Leadership Consciousness - https://www.climatecoachingalliance.org/event/regenerative-leadership-consciousness/

Today's guest is the most deeply provocative, developmental and loving regenerative guide  I have been honoured to connect with and be developing within her communities. Carol Sanford is acknowledged by many as a matriarch within the resurgent global regeneration movement, having been in deep practice in her own life, family and work both in multi-national organisations and in developmental education for over 45 years. Carol is the author of 6 books, several of which are cited as essential reading at Harvard and Stamford. She is the founder of the Carol Sanford Institute and Seed Communities, a developmental community for business people, entrepreneurs, investors and practitioners to deepen their understanding of regenerative paradigms, engage in developmental work and life-based practice engaging regenerative frameworks. Carol has done more than any other person to shift my way of being, through my engagement over years with her frameworks, communities and being state. I am immensely grateful to Carol for all that she has brought to the world as one of the deep practitioners and most tenured wayfinders of the emergent  movement of regenerators. Her books, podcasts, and public writing and speaking provide a means for all to shift their thinking around business, investing, parenting, community organising, media creation and more. Her developmental communities and summits are some of the most confronting and enlivening learning spaces I’ve had the honour of participating in. All of this being said, I’m delighted to share this conversation on her latest book, Indirect Work, which has we discuss provides an entry point to the greater body of her work, and a pathway to explore the deepest shifting that’s needed for real transformation to occur. Key Framework introduced: Consciousness - Culture - Capability, from Indirect Work Key Concepts discussed: Sensing & shifting Paradigms Exploring Matrixes Re-examining Indirect Work - exploring Consciousness. Key Prompts provided: Where did that come from? What was I thinking before? Stop & reflect what framework is limiting you and blinding to you. Suggested practices recommended: Setting an aim - instead of focusing on achieving specific goals, set an aim to strive towards. This is a developmental pathway you set for yourself which is proximate enough to observe progress. Engage in long thought - rather than trying to tackle a problem by solving it and moving on to the next one, re-examine your thinking on an issue or development area over an extended period of time, noting what’s changing in your thinking or broader senses about the issue or problem and how you are approaching it. Engage with Carol’s work & connect with the Communities she convenes here: LinkedIn profile Books here Seed Communities here Medium articles here Carol’s Second Opinion podcast series here Additional resources; Tim’s Reflection article - here Tim’s Reflection video - here Thomas Kuln - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Introducing the sixth season of Better World Leaders, focused on frameworks for you, and all you lead striving to co-create better worlds. Frameworks have become essential and integral to my way of being, learning and developing and I'm delighted to be co-creating conversations with the sources of many of the incredible frameworks for knowing, being and doing which are guiding the emergence of better worlds and futures. Here's who you can look forward to experiencing co-created dialogue with...Carol Sanford, Giles Hutchins, Paul Hawken, Four Arrows, Tim Hollo, Zoë Routh, Michelle Maloney, Sally Gilespie, Karen O'Brien, Curtis Ogben, Claire O'Rourke, Samantha Slade, Mel Gletch, Daniel Hires, Melanie Goodchild, David Drake and more to be confirmed!  I'm super excited to be bringing this season to you, as in many ways this will be our greatest endeavour yet! 3 things are certain, this season will be our longest yet, more practical, the most reference-able and contain the most pathways for you to access both the guidance of the guests and the developmental potential of the Better World Leaders community! Accompanying each episode will be a reflective article and video sharing more of my thoughts and experiences on the frameworks discussed and how I've been using and applying them, along with additional prompts for you to consider. I'll also be inviting you to join hosted live events throughout the year, both reflective community gatherings to discuss and explore further the frameworks shared in the podcast episodes and supporting resources, and live events with opportunities to interact with guests directly. Register here for the first of these events in late March. If you'd like to watch the recording of our first live event you can do so here In every way, welcome to Season Six of Better World Leaders - the conversation with Carol Sanford is up first broadcast on February 15!

As we wrap up our fifth season, and our journey through 2022, we offer a brief reflection on the themes which have emerged through 13 fabulous conversations. We've been delighted to host and co-create conversations with these incredible guests, David Drake, Wayne Visser, Lauren Tucker, Hugh Mackay, Ben Newsome, Laureline Simon, Dimity Podger, Michelle Maloney, Alice Howard-Vyse, Steve Moir, Charlotte Connell, Jeanine Bailey, Sue Glendenning & Catherine Ashton. We're also reflecting on what's shifted through the year, and what changes we anticipate bringing to the podcast next year. We're super excited for all that awaits in Season 6, and can't wait to share more information with you in the season launch episode coming in early February 2023. We'd also like to extend a massive thank you, to you! We've seen the audience grow and we are most grateful especially to those who have followed with the most devotion. We also invite you to complete the brief poll that's attached via Spotify to share your thoughts on what you'd like to see more of from the show as we sense into the continuing evolution of episode design, event hosting and deeper audience interaction. Finally, if you're curious to explore the Being Leaders and Imaginal Communities initiatives I mention, you can do so via the links below; Being Leaders linkedin group Being Leaders course page Imaginal Communities linkedin group Imaginal Communities registration page As always, be well, lead well and keep on co-creating your and our shared better worlds, Tim & the BWL Team.

This is a conversation between three fellows in the work. 3 friends and colleagues who have been deeply exploring how to co-create conditions for systemic change to be activated and sustained. I invite you into the conversation with Sue Glendenning, Jeanine Bailey, and myself. As we reach the culmination of this year-long Better World Leaders’ Season 5 on nurturing conditions, we wished to share our collective intention to nurture conditions in communities of change makers, to support, enable and deepen their potential to radically shift systems, structures and processes that can provide pathways to the better worlds that are sought. It's our great pleasure to share this conversation we you - here’s a review of the key messages from this episode, based on elements of the co-created dialogue; Holding Space · Holding space for whatever needs to come in to happen · Holding space for communities to discover, acknowledge & share the most important things for us to sustain ourselves · Holding space for change on every level Systems Change · Bring in new thoughts to invite outcomes which are good for us & the broader system · Hopes, vision & dreams, changing yourself is to change the system Co-creating change · A lot of people talk about change - what counts is how you make it happen · Hopeful for changing what must be changed · A self-full feeling to nurture & be part of this - it was like a light going on We change · Through the process of unfolding & refolding the terrain gets richer, is different, new & changing · Allowing yourself to be open to what is emerging · The journey to beauty can be dramatic in the fullness & extent of what needs to change · What's yours to do? Something we can all think about Place · Fundamentally this is going to land in place, through activators of place-sourced potential · Working with fellows in place · It's going to morph & spread & evolve Solutions · We don't need to do anything dramatically different, the solutions are already there · It's not about this brave, courageous, outspoken, risk-taking few, that are already out there on the leading edge doing the great work. Find out about the Imagainals Communities initiative here - https://learning.4ileadership.com/imaginalcommunities Find out more about Sue and her work here: LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanneglendenning/ Empower World - https://quantumresults.com.au/ Find out more about Jeanine and her work here: LinkedIn profile -https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanine-bailey-icf-mcc-executive-coach-mentor-supervisor-7b52758/ Empower World - https://www.empower-world.com/ Follow Tim and join the Better World Leaders community via the links below: linkedin.com/in/timcollings linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders timcollings-betterworldleaders.medium.com youtube @timcollings  Episode Pages for this episode and all previous Better World Leaders conversations available here; 4ileadership.com/category/better-world-leaders This is the Better World Leaders, brought to you by 4i

I first came across Charlotte in my LinkedIn feed around a year ago, when she shared a beautifully poignant and vulnerable post about talking to her kids about the bushfires. Without needing to check her profile, I knew this was an aligned being, and invited her to connect. A few months later, we spoke for the first time to explore co-creating a conversation here discussing our shared energies for working with change makers in the climate ecosystem in Australia and beyond. I’m now knowing Charlotte as a deeply intentional being, a lover of nature, the ocean in particular, and as a career-long champion of the need for our businesses, societies and cultures to take a more caring lens to how we are in the world. This calling has now manifested in her role at Climate Salad, a leading Australian Climate tech enabler, and has seen her profile rise to be included in LinkedIn’s list of top ‘green voices’ for 2022. It's a great pleasure to share this mutually personal conversation about Charlotte and my work, our calling to do what we can from where we are to engage in the wicked problems of our times, and to invite you to do the same. Here’s a review of the key messages from this episode, based on elements of the co-created dialogue; Climate is the main challenge · All paths seem to lead to climate, at least all that I see & walk upon · If we don't solve climate, we don't solve anything · This is climate change, it's in our backyards, it's impacting now Overwhelm · Until recently climate seemed too hard to tackle, too big to bite off and chew · It's hard not to be overwhelmed thinking about the kind of world we are leaving our kids and yet we have to have hope · I still have hope that you can shift this position, come full circle and throw yourself into this endeavour because that's been my lived experience Shifting values · I realised that what I was doing was signing up to values which weren't mine and I was making choices informed by the preferences of other people · It's all about go get, and when you've gotten enough, maybe you can give back. We can change that approach. · I need to show that I am living by principles of protecting the planet Joining in · Where are you working right now? Use that sphere of influence, you don't even have to change what you're doing to have a really positive influence. · Think about all the people you work with, why not implement some sustainability initiatives? · We actually need everyone, perfectly imperfect, in the climate space · We can do a lot less harm, and a lot more good, where we are Communicating with Kids · I think a lot about why I have this affinity with nature · It's really important to immerse our kids in nature, so they form that bond. · I think a lot about how to approach the conversation · Work with what they see, kids are the most amazing observers. Solutions · We don't need to do anything dramatically different, the solutions are already there · It's not about this brave, courageous, outspoken, risk-taking few, that are already out there on the leading edge doing the great work. · There is this mass body of beings that I believe at some point will see that this is a thing and it's exciting and incredible to be a part of · I can see a benefit to me and everyone that I love and care about, so let's do this! Find out more about Charlotte and her work here: LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotteconnell/ Climate Salad - https://www.climatesalad.com/

As long as I’ve been in Australia I’ve been aware of Stephen Moir, someone with whom I share many professional alignments, yet his journey always seemed ahead of my own. More recently I’ve found the alignment even greater, especially since being invited by one of my clients to join Steve’s community ‘Professionals Advocating for Climate Action’. Steve’s background as a recruiter and founder of the long established and highly successful Moir Group doesn’t indicate anything radical or activist, and yet he and his partner Caroline found themselves inspired to do more, and to work within the deep professional networks they have to connect with shared purpose, aligned values and a fundamental desire to do more. This group has over 300 members and regularly features guest speakers including leading Australian politicians, business and professional leaders from across the spectrum of finance, health, education and all sectors of the broader economy. This is a great conversation with Steve around nurturing the fundamentals of community building to bring professionals together to support action and bring awareness to our most significant of challenges. Here’s a review of the key messages from this episode, based on elements of the dialogue; Purpose & Engagement ·  There's a lot of people looking for purpose ·  More people are looking for leaders who can connect their work to a greater purpose ·  People are asking their employers where they stand on the environment, and if their answers aren't good, they leave Community ·  The business community is leading on this, driven largely by their employees ·  I get asked this question a lot - do you have any hope? ·  Examples of action gives hope & optimism that keeps people going ·  There's a missing link around community in all businesses Leaders ·  90% of people who are looking to move are not aligned to their boss or the organisational culture ·  Leadership now & going forward is the key thing ·  What defines great business is great leaders who live and breathe purpose and values ·  Key Capabilities - Humility, Empathy, Listening, Nurturing Psychological Safety ·  If you don't nurture the conditions for inclusion, any diversity you foster will not succeed. ·  3 things to focus on - get involved where you are passionate, be true to purpose & live a life aligned, humble leading where you don't need to be the centre of attention. Find out more about Stephen and his work here: LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-moir-1392784/ Professionals for Climate Action - https://www.professionalsforclimate.com.au/ Moir Group - https://moirgroup.com.au/ Follow Tim and join the Better World Leaders community via the links below: linkedin.com/in/timcollings linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders timcollings-betterworldleaders.medium.com youtube @timcollings Episode Pages for this episode and all previous Better World Leaders conversations available here; 4ileadership.com/category/better-world-leaders This is the Better World Leaders, brought to you by 4iLeadership

Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly aware of and inspired by a being known as Michelle Maloney. Over and over, some of the most interesting areas that were drawing my attention and curiosity, I found Michelle immersed in the heart of them in Australia and beyond. Regenerative initiatives, centring Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being, new pathways to economic progress, ways of organising ourselves, our communities and societies in ways that respect and revere nature – Michelle not only shows up, she convenes some of the most meaningful spaces that attract both the well intentioned and those who are forging ahead in these emergent modes. I am thus deeply honoured to be sharing here the first conversation with Michelle, exploring some of her journey as well as the core themes that occupy her endeavours to transform education, the law, economic systems and structures of governance more broadly. Yes, this is a deep conversation, and an expansive one, and we knowingly offer more questions than we seek to answer in a single conversation. I hope our conversation invites you to explore more deeply many of the themes we cover, and hopefully to connect directly with Michelle and join in any or all of the hubs and groups she invites to gather. Both Michelle and I welcome your thoughts and reflections via the connection links below if you’d like to reach out. Here’s a review of the key messages from this episode, based on elements of the dialogue; Nurturing conditions for ecological society If you have a society that understands where it lives, creates and recreates Earth-centred norms; and each generation shares with the next, you have the nurturing conditions for an ecological society To nurture conditions for humans to care deeply about the living world, we have to change the way humans think about their place in the world How do we understand the psyche of humans who don't value nature? How do we respect societies who do? How do we transform ourselves into a culture that is admirable & sustainable, that thinks to the future and understands our humble place in the big picture? Decolonising our minds & hearts is about understanding our history as a species, and as people living in this continent; it’s also about challenging modernity the ideas we’ve absorbed about progress Connecting to nature I'm hugely inspired by any culture that remains connected to our bio-physical reality Where we live matters. What we do in a place matters. The colonial project here is younger than in other places, we still have the potential to heal and restore; we still have so much wonder & beauty remaining in the natural world It's about rethinking what we love & getting more time with who and what we love. More connection, more time to play & be with those we love. How do we find a new way forward for our societies by reconnecting with nature? Governance systems By governance, I refer to the way we come together, the way we live, work and play together, the norms, laws and practices of our society. Find out more about Michelle and her work here: LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-michelle-maloney Australian Earth Laws Alliance - https://www.earthlaws.org.au/ New Economy Network Australia - https://www.neweconomy.org.au/ As an alumni of this course, I highly recommend you check out the next intake for 2023 - https://www.neweconomy.org.au/courses/building-a-wellbeing-economy-2023/ https://www.futuredreaming.org.au/

In this conversation, I welcome back a dear friend and guide in the great work, who on her first visit here hosted me and beautifully held the space for exploration of one of my formative narratives. Here, we return to our usual flow, as I host an abundant and deep conversation with Alice Howard-Vyse. Alice is a practitioner of many approaches to living systems practice. She is Lead Convenor for Regen Sydney, Founder of Humanise This, an alumnus of Schumacher Collage (UK) and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership. Ever since meeting Alice shortly before the emergence of the pandemic, I have considered myself fortunate every time I’ve had the opportunity to connect, share space, witness Alice in her work and thrive in the places and networks she activates, and this conversation is no exception! I hope our conversation brings you cause for some deep application of Alice’s ‘practically profound’ approaches. We’d both love to hear how this conversation landed for you, and what you have found in your experiments with any of the practices we explore here. We both welcome your thoughts and reflections via the connection links below. Here’s a review of the key messages from this episode, based on elements of the dialogue; Systems What's the legacy of what we design? Thinking in nested systems. Nurturing the health of any one system, we nurture the health of the whole What is the role of humanity in the service of a regenerative future? What if our role was to live in this land with joy? Where are we disrupting what actually wants to happen? Nurturing inner space It starts with us, with our way of being. What experiments have you played with in nurturing inner space? What have you done, and what have you found? There's a deficit of intentional space where you can tap into a deeper sensing How do we keep coming back to that place which feels like home, like integrated self? How do we do this? In community with others who make us feel like ourselves & bring back to that sense when we forget Finding our way back to ourselves & our communities The ability to go deep with others is commensurate with our ability to go deep into ourselves Listening & conversations How do we tune into our feeling about what's going on in the world around us and use those feelings as intelligence? The kind of conversations we have shape the world that we create. How do we have more generative conversations? How do we become curious about what's going on for someone else & what their experience is? Listen with one's whole self, to one's whole self, and the whole selves of others. How do we do that? Our ability to listen to ourselves determines how deeply we can listen to others The gift of being deeply listened to by being truly present is one of the greatest that can be given or received. Find out more about Alice and her work here: LinkedIn profile - www.linkedin.com/in/alicehv/ Alice’s consulting work - www.humanisethis.com/ ‘Creating circles of Active Hope’ on Medium - https://medium.com/@alicehv/ Regen Sydney - www.regen.sydney Join the Regen Sydney community network - regen-sydney.mn.co Be well everyone, we'll be back with you soon! Tim

When I first came across Karen O'Brien's 2021 book early last year, I was immediately drawn to it. Both title and subtitle - You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World - called to me, having been exploring the sourcing from quantum theory in Carol Sanford's approaches and recognising the systemic nature of change need to shift paradigms and move us towards holistically better worlds. Not only are the words intriguing and enticing, the incredibly beautiful and meaningful illustrations of artist Tone Bjordam both enliven and deepen my experience of being with the book and exploring the journey Karen invites you to take in. If you've not come across Karen as yet, she is a Professor of Sociology & Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is co-Founder of cChange, an organisation supporting transformation in a changing climate. She has participated in 4 UN IPCC reports and, as part of the IPCC, was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She was named by Web of Science as one of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade in 2019 and 2020. With all that said, it is of course an absolute honour to have created this conversation with her, and to now be sharing it with you! You can follow Karen and find out more about her work here; https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com/ https://www.cchange.no/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/cchange-transformation/ Follow Tim & join the Better World Leaders community here; https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders/

This is the second part of the very special whole conversation with Dan Palmer. Dan and I designed these two conversations to flow together as one greater dialogue, which is way for the first time I'm sharing two episodes together on Better World Leaders. If you'd landed here before listening to the other episode because this one is at the top of your feed, I most warmly encourage you to tune into Part 1 on Holistic Decision making first, so as to approach these two episodes as a whole. This element of these shared dialogues builds on the first, exploring Dan's expansive framework of Living Design Process. I'm continually inspired by Dan's capacity to generate and work within multiple frameworks, and these paired episodes on Holistic Decision Making and Living Design Process embody his work. I hope you enjoy this conversation, and explore Dan's work more deeply via the links below. Also please consider supporting his family via the link below as you have capacity to do so. Explore Dan's Work - http://danpalmer.life/ Support Dan's Family - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-dan-palmers-family If you're inclined to do so, you can follow me and join the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn via the links below; ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders⁠

This the first of two very special conversations with my dear friend Dan Palmer. I am greatly privileged to have been in fellowship with Dan within Carol Sanford's developmental community - Change Agent Development - where Dan was my guide and became a dear friend. I first encountered Dan at the threshold of Carol's community, and from that first exchange and over many connections and conversations that followed both in community and directly, I always felt both nurtured and provoked to deepen my developmental processes by my relationship with Dan. This conversation focuses on one of the frameworks he evolved, based on Alan Savory's work, which Dan outlines here as a living systems approach to decision-making. I hope you enjoy this first of two parts of one who conversation, and if you're drawn to please do explore Dan's work more deeply via the links below. Explore Dan's Work here - http://danpalmer.life/ Also I encourage you whole heartedly to please consider supporting his family via the link below as you have capacity to do so. Support Dan's Family here - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-dan-palmers-family If you're inclined to do so, you can follow me and join the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn via the links below; https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

If you've been enjoying this season on frameworks so far, you're in for a real treat! Our guest today has been of great source of inspiration to me over the past few years since we connected on LinkedIn after co-habiting several spaces in feeds of mutual connections. Every time I see a post from Curtis Ogden, my heart swells and my mind expands. His massive generosity in sharing wisdom, expressing deep intention and practicing possibility is a blessing to witness, as you are able to experience in this episode. Curtis' life-long work is in developing capacity for social systems change, with a deep devotion to activation and enablement of networked systems combined with a love and application of energy systems. Curtis lives and works in the North-Eastern United States across a range of social change initiatives, with a tenured focus on food systems. In this conversation we explore four frameworks - one of which emerged for Curtis during an intermission between two co-joined elements of this single dialogue. Whilst we very much encourage you to engage with this episode as a whole, if you feel called to shift directly to the framework sections you will find them beginning at 33mins, 48mins, 63mins and 88mins. I whole-heartedly encourage you to follow or connect with Curtis on LinkedIn, so that like me you can receive the joy and grace of his shares (connection details below). Curtis as I hope you enjoy this conversation, and please do keep an eye on the Better World Leaders LinkedIn group, as well as Curtis and my feeds, for a co-authored article reflecting on this conversation which we'll be crafting over the coming months. Connect with me and Curtis and the BWL community via the links below, and explore Curtis' work to your heart's content! Curtis on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-ogden-5249034/ Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ Better World Leaders on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/74064716 Come along to the event Curtis mentioned, if you're able to be in the UK in October 2023 - https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/energy-systems-science-and-practice/ “Dimensions of Network Success” https://interactioninstitute.org/dimensions-of-network-success/ “Using the C-A-CA/P Framework … “ https://interactioninstitute.org/using-the-c-a-ca-p-framework-to-evaluate-a-policy-advocacy-network/ https://interactioninstitute.org/author/curtis/ “Energy System Science for Network Weavers” https://interactioninstitute.org/energy-system-science-for-network-weavers-a-summary/ “Energy System Practice for Long-Term Human Thriving” https://interactioninstitute.org/energy-systems-practice-esp-for-long-term-human-thriving/ “At the Heart of Regeneration is the Heart (and Gut)” https://interactioninstitute.org/at-the-heart-of-regeneration-is-the-heart-and-gut/   Food Solutions New England (the consulting work I have been doing for over 10 years with about 1/3 of my time): https://interactioninstitute.org/network-evolution-a-second-decade-brings-more-diversity-intricacy-and-robustness/ https://interactioninstitute.org/care-trust-truth-and-belonging-themes-from-a-network-leadership-institute-re-launch/ Interaction Institute for Social Change (my main employer the past 18 years): https://interactioninstitute.org/    Check out these past podcast interviews with Curtis: “How Networks [Can] Make the World Better” https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/getting-smart-podcast-how-networks-make-the-world-better/  “Amplifying Root Systems” https://soundcloud.com/user-684808838/s1e9-amplifying-root-systems-with-curtis-ogden  “Life when lived at its best is a journey of learning throughout” https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flourishingeducation/episodes/Episode-161---Life-when-lived-at-its-best-is-a-journey-of-learning-throughout-with-Curtis-Ogden-e1p52st “Creating a Bigger WE” - https://intrepidednews.com/curtis-ogden-creating-a-bigger-we-benjamin-freud-ph-d/ 

Zoë Routh returns for her second BWL conversation, focusing a story of climate change impacted human exploration. Zoë is the author of many books, her latest 'The Olympus Project' being her first work of fiction. In this work, the stage is set by unravelling ecologies on Earth, driven by unmitigated climate change impacts and turbulent cultural tensions. Humankind's path seems destined for new worlds, and the book focuses on the team selected to lead an inter-planetary colonisation mission. The story unfolds as deep-seated values, biases and cultural norms emerge and are carried with the characters as each of them goes on their own developmental journey as the cosmic miles speed by. Zoē has spent years working with leaders at all levels across all types of organisational sectors, and central to her work has been two key themes which we explore in this conversation - values-centred cultures and leaders progressing through stages of adult development. In our conversation we explore why, no matter how far afield we might seek for solutions to our greatest challenges, are main work lies with ourselves and how we lead. Check out the links below to engage with Zoë and discover more of her work... https://www.zoerouth.comhttps://www.facebook.com/zoe.routhhttps://twitter.com/zoerouthhttps://au.linkedin.com/in/zoerouthhttps://www.instagram.com/zoerouthhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ZoeRouthInnerCompass Check out these links to connect with the BWL community and Tim's work... BWL LinkedIn Community - https://www.linkedin.com/company/74064716 Follow with Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/ Follow Tim on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@timcollings-betterworldleaders