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 […]
Embodying both the good and the bad object in Regeneration
The societal and organisational shift that is required of us is unprecedented; it can no longer be about improving the current capitalist paradigm based on endless economic growth (even if we were to call it green growth, or sustainable growth), and has to stem from an innovation of the very paradigm through which we can […]
Discerning in order to make a better choice
Today I had lunch with a friend, a company director, who complained that he had no choice but to accept a price cut imposed by one of his biggest customers. This will force him to outsource part of his business to low-cost countries. This is completely contrary to his values and to what he wants […]
Easter and Regeneration
In the Christian tradition, Easter is the most important of all feasts – more important than Christmas itself. Why? Because it is then that the resurrection is being revealed; it is then that we discover that death is not the end, but only a passage towards renewed life. Whether we choose to have faith […]
‘Illusion of transparency bias’: when we don’t take the risk of actually meeting the other
The illusion of transparency was first defined in 1998, in an article published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, by the research team consisting of Thomas Gilovich, Victoria H. Medvec, Kenneth Savistsy. It consists of ‘the tendency of people to overestimate the extent to which others can discern their internal states’. The name […]
Practical use of the model
The model, or Operating System is quite simple to use. In our experience we have found it is best implemented through a process modelled on the 3 phases of Otto Scharmer’s U-theory: First phase – Sensing This phase involves exploring past and present activities through the prism of this model, identifying what you […]
Principle #6: Develop collaborations
Principle #6: Develop collaborations, partnerships and symbiotic relationships. This principle, again, flows on from the previous principle, enabling you to scale up your regeneration by turning some of your life-giving encounters into more stable patterns of collaboration. In Nature, Life creates the conditions for more Life primarily through weaving complex patterns of symbiotic relationships, where […]
Principle #5: Increase your interactions with people
Principle #5: Increase your interactions with people, organisations, experiences that are life-giving in your environment. Life, following principle #4, has begun to blossom, and from an individual and/or collective point of view you have moved from the prevalence of control, to trust in the process. Now is the time to connect with those people, organisations, […]
Cycle 2 Structuring the emerging-life process
Principle #4: Encourage life where it is pushing to emerge. If the previous principles were organised around the dying process, the following set of principles is instead organised around the idea of vitality, fertility and blossoming. After the first cycle, in which one has freed oneself from mental models, prejudices, stereotypes, cynicism and resistance to […]
Principle #3: Reduce attacks on life
The previous two principles focused on what must die; on the other hand, there are also situations that are potentially life-giving, but where the life that wants to emerge risks being thwarted by various forms of attacks. These attacks can take the form of resistance to change, cynicism, power games, desires for control, turf wars, […]
