Incubating Human Tech: Where Inner Wisdom & Outer Systems Change Meet [🌷Human Tech Week Flourishing Track]

​🕊️ What does it take to build technology ventures that aren't just growing faster and bigger — but more alive?

​Last summer, the Flourishing Foundation ran a six-week in person pilot incubator with 27 human tech teams — It is not an accelerator that optimized for speed but a "Cultivator" that nurtured alignment 🪴 - A term we learned from our friend Andrew Dunn at the School of Wise Innovation, who ran a parallel year-long online program focused on inner wisdom and conscious leadership. Both SWI and FSF's programs were designed to tend to founders' inner landscape as well as outer systems awareness. They were designed as communities of sense-making and meaning-making to illuminate the deeper misalignments between human/ planet wellbeing vs. technology and capital's growth interests, and what we might be able to do about them.

Together, this emerging field of practice in venture cultivation is learning to do both — weaving inner wisdom and outer systems change into new models of venture creation that shifts culture from speed-driven extraction toward life-giving regeneration, yielding not just happier founders, but more resilient organizations with genuine positive impact. 🌳

​Key insight: the most important innovation in human tech isn't in the product - but system. We need to evolve the ecosystem around the people building these technology: capital, governance, cultural infrastructure to truly liberate creators of Technology and to align Capital with Life.

​Join us for an open two-hour conversation on what life-aligned venture cultivation — grounded in both inner wisdom and outer systems change — looks like in practice. And how we build it together.

​A cultivator doesn't accelerate growth. It tends the soil so that what emerges can sustain all life.

​Come as you are. Leave with new roots. 🌳

​Hosts

​Andrew Dunn is a founder turned educator who studies: "how can we bring ideas to life in ways that are better for all involved?" He is currently focused on writing an interactive vision integration workbook.

​Andrew started the School of Wise Innovation out of his work at Center for Humane Technology, to support founders and change-makers in living, working, and creating with greater harmony. SWI has been re-imagining innovation education and culture through experimental courses, workshops, retreats, research and 1:1 work.

Mingzhu Heseri is an inter-disciplinary innovator turned systems designer with background in human-centered design, biology, economics, human computer interaction, and education. She aims to liberate humans' creative potential by supporting our species to enter into more harmonious relationships with our Selves, Each Other, Nature, and the Cosmos/ the Sacred.

She founded the Conscious Tech Collective and the Flourishing Systems Foundation to build community with innovators on the same path and to help shift our innovation infrastructure and culture from one of extraction towards one where capital and technology truly supports ALL Life, regeneratively.

🌷 Flourishing Systems Foundation is an innovation institute and operating foundation cultivating life-aligned and complexity-informed innovation ecosystems through research, incubation, education, and catalytic community experiments.