Resource Management: What can ecosystems teach us?
We are constantly asked to manage resources: in our work, in our personal lives and collectively for the prosperity of our systems and planet. But do we do it in a present and sustainable way? Can we be kind and responsible stewards with the lessons our culture has been teaching us?
The “Lessons from nature: Resource management” workshop invites us to explore these themes through playing a game that simulates managing a natural ecosystem, based on natural science. By playing we can reflect on our own management tendencies and see the long-term effects they have on the prolonged health of a system. Then, through guided reflection we can see how these tendencies have shown up in our lives before and how we could do a better job managing our resources sustainably in the future. The goal is discovering our own insights through the lived experience of playing and having fun.
This workshop is for professionals and students who want to bring a conscious, sustainable approach to their own time and resource management. It is also for folks who wish to envision better ways we could collectively manage nature and for anyone who wants to play a card game together with a community of sustainability-conscious people.
Athanasios Christopoulos is a biologist and founder of Soil to Grow, an organization that addresses domination culture towards nature and each other. His work deals with regeneration, resilience and our mental models aiming to heal collective wounds. To achieve that, he uses tools like emotional biomimicry, game design, facilitation of grassroots action and radical emotional availability. He has hosted workshops and talks on subjects of mental wellbeing, food sovereignty, regenerative work, effective collaboration and civic action and is running an ongoing support and deep-sharing group that deals with the impacts of patriarchy.
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