​And what gives you confidence that your assessment is true?

​Join Susan Basterfield and Graham Boyd exploring the hidden reasons why we've failed so far to change our economy.

​(Spoiler alert: it's hidden inside each of us. Our own immunity to change, and our collective social immunity to change.)

​Sustainability, Green, SDG, ESG, B Corps, Circular Economy, impact business and impact investing, were all pioneered with the best of intentions. And they've all ended up in washing: sustainability washing, green washing, etc.

​Now is our best chance ever of preventing the new kid on the block: the regenerative economy; from ending up in regen washing.

​So we need to learn from the past: why have the best intentioned approaches, executed as best we believe we could, become absorbed into the very paradigm they set out to challenge?

​In this live dialogue, Susan Basterfield and Graham Boyd will explore that question with an unusual third participant: the existing paradigm itself — understood not as a single ideology or institution, but as a collective entity shaped by the accumulated assumptions, identities, fears, commitments and ways of thinking.

​Using Immunity to Change and Evolutesix's Adaptive Way's ground pattern (see the diagram below), which looks at our hidden nature, socio-emotional, and cognitive developmental capacity, the conversation will explore how each of us develops our own immune responses to change, and how the meaning-making stories we construct always both enable and constrain what we do.

​At the centre of the inquiry is the tension between our aspirational commitments — what we consciously want to create — and the hidden commitments and big assumptions that shape what we actually do.

​This will not be a presentation or a conventional webinar. It is an exploratory dialogue: part developmental inquiry, part systems thinking, part collective reflection.

​It is also the beginning of a wider series of conversations about the big assumptions preventing us from transforming the systems we're embedded in. The big assumptions that prevent trying harder from ever working.

​This conversation will be especially interesting if you work in developmental practice, organisational transformation, regenerative economics, sustainability, systems change, law, economics, governance, investment, organisational design or adjacent fields — particularly if you have spent years working inside these movements and are beginning to notice cracks in some of their underlying assumptions.

​Our guest Susan Basterfield is the co-founder of many organisations, including Enspiral and Greaterthan, with decades of experience in creating the enabling conditions for change to emerge in systems.

​Adaptive Way Ground Pattern

​(Integrating Kegan and Lahey's Immunity to Change, Otto Laske's Constructive Developmental Framework, Non-violent communication, and Appreciative Inquiry)

​Learn all about it in the book Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and You by Graham Boyd and Jack Reardon