Learning psychological safety: training and gaming experiences
Over the past few weeks, we have been playing ReSet (for more information about the game, visit our website http://www.nexusconsultation.com and, in particular, the ReSet page) with many teams from different companies in a truly intensive manner, and each time we are surprised by the results and feedback we receive after people have played. Over […]
Unlocking Regeneration: when reconnecting to the context provides a key to work through an impasse
Last week I led a large international group of about fifty people, speaking different languages, all belonging to the same organisation but at different hierarchical levels, in a profound reflection on collective identity. The objective, which started from a need to regenerate meaning and belonging, was to experience a moment of reconnection together in order […]
Permaculture principle #11: Use edges and value the marginal
Edges are the richest, most productive spaces in the natural world In Nature, edges tend to be places of trade, where elements of both ecosystems exchange their goods and create new, unprecedented wealth. The edge of a forest is a place where light is more accessible, thus enabling species that could not otherwise develop to […]
Permaculture Principle #10: Use and Value Diversity
Nature is diverse by nature Imagine a non-diverse natural ecosystem: you can’t? Well, precisely. Or if you can, it probably conjures up images of death, of desolation – the opposite of a typically thriving ecosystem, full of vitality. The natural world is, by essence, diverse; it is made up of lots of different elements having […]
Permaculture principle #6: Produce no waste
This is so simple in Nature! One of the many wonders of natural ecosystems is that they produce no waste. Only human systems do. In Nature, any output from one element is an input for another element. Ecosystems have grown through a principle quite central to the systemic paradigm of which they are such an […]
Permaculture principle #2: Capture and store energy
Increasing the potency of biological fields Permaculture suggests that reliance on cheap oil has shifted our systems’ capacity for resilience and self-reliance. We need to reclaim and implement our capacity to harness, store and circulate energy, and use it with a much higher degree of efficiency than we have accepted so far, under the illusion […]
Freedom and unconscious dynamics
How free can we be at work? Anabelle holds a very promising job in the online products department of a prestigious investment company in Paris. She’s been coming for monthly coaching sessions for the last few months because she’s struggling with some management issues within her team, and would like to explore how to […]
“Why?” The ecological transition in search of meaning
“God is dead, Marx is dead, and I don’t feel very well myself,” said Woody Allen. Today, it is what we commonly call “the planet” that is not doing very well: climate disruption, rising temperatures and water levels, collapse of biodiversity, increase in zoonotic diseases, of which Covid-19 is the devastating incarnation. By 2050, planet […]
Mental models, subtle racism and chocolate: a breakthrough
The context is an international and multi-ethnic meeting with some 20 participants, with the aim of reconnecting with the organisational purpose, in order to then be able to set the activities for the coming months and to appoint suitable leadership to accompany the emerging future. The official language of the meeting is French: it was […]
Owning our part: from denial-based business to a regenerative economy
Article published on “Organizational and Social Dynamics” Abstract In this article, we explore a core set of organisational and social dynamics at work in the business world: the denial and disowning of the part we play in co-creating the world we live in; and the splitting needed to protect us from the guilt and shame […]
