What Places are Facing: A Regenerative Approach
Our societal failure to understand the living systems we inhabit has led to a pattern of short-term solutions that inevitably create long-term problems. The resulting erosion of livability, health and resilience in communities around the world has been accruing for decades--and the bill has come due. Communities are now grappling with the impending destabilization and/or collapse of multiple interrelated systems: environmental, social, and political. Moreover, these threats cascade downward through multiple nested scales—from the global to the regional to the local.
For decades, Regenesis has worked from the premise that place presents the optimal scale of system for humans to interact with planetary issues—and planetary issues are now knocking at the door. How can the practitioners, change agents, and institutions tasked with stewarding the long-term health and resilience of their places meet this moment? Join Regenesis Institute Executive Director Shannon Murphy and founding faculty member Nicholas Mang in an exploration of how the field of regenerative development can inform a new path forward for our places in the 21st century.
We’ll explore:
How regenerative development mindset helps us think about humanity’s present moment from the perspective of place
A regenerative framework for assessing the approaches that places are using to address the issues they face
Principles that Regenesis is using to guide our inquiry going forward, based on the change processes we’ve worked with in our own projects and through observing and supporting the work of regenerative practitioners around the world
About Shannon Murphy: Shannon has been an early member of Regenesis since 2006, and has stewarded the development of the organization from our initial years pioneering the methodology of regenerative practice, through the creation of our earliest education programs in 2013, to the development of the nonprofit Regenesis Institute as a new organization dedicated to furthering the mission of growing the field of regenerative practice in communities around the globe. With a diverse background in business management, community organizing, grassroots art and environmental education, Shannon brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work at the Institute, and continues to steward the evolution of our programming as the field of regenerative practice grows and gains traction around the world.
About Nicholas Mang: Nicholas Mang is a principal at Regenesis Group and core faculty member at Regenesis Institute, where he has co-developed and taught developmental education programs for practitioners around the world. As a practitioner, Nicholas’s work has its roots is in community planning and organizing with a focus on urban regeneration work, developing leveraged intervention processes for reigniting community involvement in the stewardship of place. Nicholas’s educational background includes masters and doctoral level work in cross-cultural studies, living systems thinking, social transformation theory, ecopsychology (the bridge between psyche and ecological place), and spiritual psychology.
You’re invited to join our global community through participating in our flagship course, The Regenerative Practitioner Series. Launched in 2013, The Regenerative Practitioner Series was created to support committed change agents in developing their capacity to bring regenerative approaches to the unique contexts in which they work and live. Today, a global graduate community of nearly 2,000 practitioners across 40+ countries is actively working together to regenerate life, culture, and place worldwide.