Pathfinders
More than twenty pathfinders from across the world – scientists, economists, philosophers, activists, entrepreneurs – share their experience and their vision of the world from multiple perspectives. These interviews help us understand regenerative business, challenges on the path, and our relationship to the living world.
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Daniel Christian Wahl
#regenerativecultures
John Fullerton
#regenerativecapitalism
Isabelle Delannoy
#symbioticeconomy
Giles Hutchins
#regenerativeleadership
Pathfinders
More than twenty pathfinders from across the world – scientists, economists, philosophers, activists, entrepreneurs – share their experience and their vision of the world from multiple perspectives. These interviews help us understand regenerative business, challenges on the path, and our relationship to the living world.
Explore pathfinder podcasts
Daniel Christian Wahl
John Fullerton
Isabelle Delannoy
Giles Hutchins
Daniel Christian Wahl
#regenerativecultures
Daniel is enthusiastic about regenerative cultures, whether they be communities of plants in his bioregion in Majorca, or places and organisations around the world developing relationships with the living systems they are part of and depend on. A scientist and an author, Daniel considers human societies and everything they produce as an integral part of the living world. He invites us to reconcile the power of design and technology with indigenous and place-based knowledge and practice. The hope for the future is resolutely in the here-and-now, in deep connection with life all around us. https://designforsustainability.medium.com/
Daniel is enthusiastic about regenerative cultures, whether they be communities of plants in his bioregion in Majorca, or places and organisations around the world developing relationships with the living systems they are part of and depend on. A scientist and an author, Daniel considers human societies and everything they produce as an integral part of the living world. He invites us to reconcile the power of design and technology with indigenous and place-based knowledge and practice. The hope for the future is resolutely in the here-and-now, in deep connection with life all around us. https://designforsustainability.medium.com/
Daniel Christian Wahl
#regenerativecultures
Brian Swimme
#wearetheuniverse
Brian is a cosmologist, researcher and professor. He has always been called to the question of the meaning of life, and inspired by the connection between the universe as a research object and himself as a subject who is an expression of the evolution of the universe. The relationship between the stars we observe and the atoms that make up our body is enabled through our capacity for reflexion. Brian proposes a new inside-outside orientation towards the beauty of life. He invites to align with this movement that characterises everything our planet is composed of, to become allies of the living world, and enter into communion with the unfolding universe.
https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/cosmogenesis/
Brian is a cosmologist, researcher and professor. He has always been called to the question of the meaning of life, and inspired by the connection between the universe as a research object and himself as a subject who is an expression of the evolution of the universe. The relationship between the stars we observe and the atoms that make up our body is enabled through our capacity for reflexion. Brian proposes a new inside-outside orientation towards the beauty of life. He invites to align with this movement that characterises everything our planet is composed of, to become allies of the living world, and enter into communion with the unfolding universe.
https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/cosmogenesis/
Brian Swimme
#wearetheuniverse
Fritjof Capra
#systemsviewoflife
Frijov is a physicist with a passion for life sciences. He has recently synthesised decades of work on living systems into four characteristics of life, described in his book The Systems View of Life. His practice of systems thinking is founded in a multilingual childhood and research in physics, alongside a lifelong interest for oriental thought. He suggests practical tools and a practice of the arts to enourage new ways of thinking and understand interconnections, intentions and contexts. In a complex world, it is essential to remember how creative we humans can be, because creativity is the very essence of life. https://www.capracourse.net/
Frijov is a physicist with a passion for life sciences. He has recently synthesised decades of work on living systems into four characteristics of life, described in his book The Systems View of Life. His practice of systems thinking is founded in a multilingual childhood and research in physics, alongside a lifelong interest for oriental thought. He suggests practical tools and a practice of the arts to enourage new ways of thinking and understand interconnections, intentions and contexts. In a complex world, it is essential to remember how creative we humans can be, because creativity is the very essence of life. https://www.capracourse.net/
Fritjof Capra
#systemsviewoflife
Gillian Marcelle
#rethinkingfinance
Gillian is a researcher and founder of a strategic consultancy in finance. Bringing together solid academic research and long experience in private capital markets, she invites us to rethink a financial system too intimately linked with exploitation of natural resources and people, particularly in countries that have sufffered from colonialisation. To do this, she associates financial capital with other forms of capital: cultural, social, political. By identifying biases and bottlenecks, and by cultivating the soil of human relationships to make it more fertile for a new paradigm, it is possible to swiftly reallocate private capital to large-scale transformative initiatives. https://www.resiliencecapitalventures.com/triplebframeworkpositionpaper
Gillian is a researcher and founder of a strategic consultancy in finance. Bringing together solid academic research and long experience in private capital markets, she invites us to rethink a financial system too intimately linked with exploitation of natural resources and people, particularly in countries that have sufffered from colonialisation. To do this, she associates financial capital with other forms of capital: cultural, social, political. By identifying biases and bottlenecks, and by cultivating the soil of human relationships to make it more fertile for a new paradigm, it is possible to swiftly reallocate private capital to large-scale transformative initiatives. https://www.resiliencecapitalventures.com/triplebframeworkpositionpaper
Gillian Marcelle
#rethinkingfinance
John Fullerton
#regenerativecapitalism
John followed his intuition to bring his experience in finance to explore new pathways towards regenerative capitalism. After many years on Wall Street, he founded the Capital Institute to promote ways to align the economy with the miracle of life, as understood by ancient wisdom and new science. He invites us to go beyond the fear of scarcity with courage, to found a new economic culture on regenerative principles. https://capitalinstitute.org/
John followed his intuition to bring his experience in finance to explore new pathways towards regenerative capitalism. After many years on Wall Street, he founded the Capital Institute to promote ways to align the economy with the miracle of life, as understood by ancient wisdom and new science. He invites us to go beyond the fear of scarcity with courage, to found a new economic culture on regenerative principles. https://capitalinstitute.org/
John Fullerton
#regenerativecapitalism
Isabelle Delannoy
#symbioticeconomy
Isabelle is an agronomist, researcher and story-teller. From her research on sustainable innovation, she has developed a vision for a world where technology innovates in service of life, and humans are co-creators of our planet’s dynamic balance. She calls this the symbiotic economy, a regenerative economic model where synergies are created between the biosphere, technology and human organisations. Her core practice: think in ecosystems, from the micro level to macroeconomy, to become builders of a regenerative world. https://www.lentreprisesymbiotique.com/
Isabelle is an agronomist, researcher and story-teller. From her research on sustainable innovation, she has developed a vision for a world where technology innovates in service of life, and humans are co-creators of our planet’s dynamic balance. She calls this the symbiotic economy, a regenerative economic model where synergies are created between the biosphere, technology and human organisations. Her core practice: think in ecosystems, from the micro level to macroeconomy, to become builders of a regenerative world. https://www.lentreprisesymbiotique.com/
Isabelle Delannoy
#symbioticeconomy
Giles Hutchins
#regenerativeleadership
Giles is a coach in regenerative leadership and author. He supports business leaders to rethink their organisations as living systems. Inspired by the relationship he has developed with the ancient forest where he lives, he invites us to connect with what is alive in ourselves. Giles believes that individuals and organisations have an inherent capacity for evolution, to adapt to a changing world. By aligning our bodies, hearts and minds we can align our business’ purpose with the principles of life and find new dynamic balance. https://gileshutchins.com/
Giles is a coach in regenerative leadership and author. He supports business leaders to rethink their organisations as living systems. Inspired by the relationship he has developed with the ancient forest where he lives, he invites us to connect with what is alive in ourselves. Giles believes that individuals and organisations have an inherent capacity for evolution, to adapt to a changing world. By aligning our bodies, hearts and minds we can align our business’ purpose with the principles of life and find new dynamic balance. https://gileshutchins.com/
Giles Hutchins
#regenerativeleadership
May East
#regenerativecities
May is an international urbanist, consultant, researcher and keynote speaker. She brings a regenerative approach to the évolution of the ways humans inhabit the earth, and is particularly interested in the influence of women on these transformations. May works at the edges, in liminal spaces between indigenous and migrant communities, humans and more-than-humans. She invites cities and urban zones to rethink their contribution to their environment. The role of businesses in tomorrow’s citites will be to revive relationships between places, producers and consumers. Businesses will need to rethink these relationships to go beyond transactional exchange and reinvent themselves from the biological, spatial and cultural uniqueness of place. https://www.mayeast.co.uk/
May is an international urbanist, consultant, researcher and keynote speaker. She brings a regenerative approach to the évolution of the ways humans inhabit the earth, and is particularly interested in the influence of women on these transformations. May works at the edges, in liminal spaces between indigenous and migrant communities, humans and more-than-humans. She invites cities and urban zones to rethink their contribution to their environment. The role of businesses in tomorrow’s citites will be to revive relationships between places, producers and consumers. Businesses will need to rethink these relationships to go beyond transactional exchange and reinvent themselves from the biological, spatial and cultural uniqueness of place. https://www.mayeast.co.uk/
May East
#regenerativecities
Frédéric Laloux
#climateconversations
Frederic spent years exploring organisations reinventing themselves and adapting to a changing world. In the process he met many leaders, and created conversations about what really matters for each of them. Today, he’s dedicated to stimulating deep and sincere conversations amongst friends, colleagues, family about current and future global challenges: climate, biodiversity, pollution. Because we need to become more aware together, sharing realisations and moments of insight with people around us. If we can create spaces to express what we find moving, intolerable, and our calls to action we can commit collectively to making transformational change. https://www.theweek.ooo/
Frederic spent years exploring organisations reinventing themselves and adapting to a changing world. In the process he met many leaders, and created conversations about what really matters for each of them. Today, he’s dedicated to stimulating deep and sincere conversations amongst friends, colleagues, family about current and future global challenges: climate, biodiversity, pollution. Because we need to become more aware together, sharing realisations and moments of insight with people around us. If we can create spaces to express what we find moving, intolerable, and our calls to action we can commit collectively to making transformational change. https://www.theweek.ooo/
Frédéric Laloux
#climateconversations
Kiran Bir Sethi
#feelimaginedoshare
Childhood full of curiosity and potential; this is the gift Kiran would like to offer all children. A trained designer, when her son starts school she questions the purpose of the education system and becomes a social entrepreneur with the ambition to reinvent schooling. It’s not the curriculum that needs changing so much as the underlying paradigm: orienting every educational projet to be in service of children’s agency in the world. Kiran offers a simple approach to developing empathy, staying curious and taking risks, with four beautiful verbs: feel, imagine, do, share. https://schoolriverside.com/
Childhood full of curiosity and potential; this is the gift Kiran would like to offer all children. A trained designer, when her son starts school she questions the purpose of the education system and becomes a social entrepreneur with the ambition to reinvent schooling. It’s not the curriculum that needs changing so much as the underlying paradigm: orienting every educational projet to be in service of children’s agency in the world. Kiran offers a simple approach to developing empathy, staying curious and taking risks, with four beautiful verbs: feel, imagine, do, share. https://schoolriverside.com/
Kiran Bir Sethi
#feelimaginedoshare
Terrellyn Fearn
#dancingwithknowledgesystems
Terrellyn is a member of the Glooscap First Nation, organisational leader and social innovation researcher. She points to how the ecological crisis is a crisis of relationship. How might we reconnect with all our relations in the living world, with water, with minerals? How can we serve the regenerative capacity of life? How might we tap into the uniqueness of our places to feel into another way of being, and free up our creativity? Through holding indigenous science and Western systems thinking together Terrellyn offers some responses to these questions, to help organisations and their leaders to act with integrity in these critical times. https://turtleislandinstitute.ca/about-us
Terrellyn is a member of the Glooscap First Nation, organisational leader and social innovation researcher. She points to how the ecological crisis is a crisis of relationship. How might we reconnect with all our relations in the living world, with water, with minerals? How can we serve the regenerative capacity of life? How might we tap into the uniqueness of our places to feel into another way of being, and free up our creativity? Through holding indigenous science and Western systems thinking together Terrellyn offers some responses to these questions, to help organisations and their leaders to act with integrity in these critical times. https://turtleislandinstitute.ca/about-us
Terrellyn Fearn
#dancingwithknowledgesystems
Pamela Mang
#workingwithpotential
Pamela works to unleash potential in people, organisations and living systems, by regenerating their source. Tapping into uniqueness opens pathways to adapting and changing in response to a complex world. This is true for individuals as much as it is for businesses, who can learn to organise themselves as living systems and enable all the people who work for them to see the unique role they can play to contribute to a greater whole. With attention not on solving problems but always on potential, remembering regeneration is always in service of evolution, not just dealing with what already exists but with what is becoming. https://www.regenerat.es/regenerative-development/
Pamela works to unleash potential in people, organisations and living systems, by regenerating their source. Tapping into uniqueness opens pathways to adapting and changing in response to a complex world. This is true for individuals as much as it is for businesses, who can learn to organise themselves as living systems and enable all the people who work for them to see the unique role they can play to contribute to a greater whole. With attention not on solving problems but always on potential, remembering regeneration is always in service of evolution, not just dealing with what already exists but with what is becoming. https://www.regenerat.es/regenerative-development/
Pamela Mang
#workingwithpotential
Étienne Klein
Physician
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