Nature-Informed Leadership

Current systems function on the premise of extraction, manipulation, and objectification of the natural world and people. Driven by power and competition, modernity values endless growth in the absence of regenerative principles. The consequences we face from the way leadership, economic development, and business have been structured have and will continue to dismantle and destroy the very source of life. 

We need solutions based in the principles of nature.

Nature-Informed Leadership is a unique approach which values decision making informed by deep listening to implicit knowledge and shared understanding, allowing one to meet challenges with inclusivity and the ability to adapt to a vastly changing environment. Nature-Informed Leadership’s organizing principle is informed by the original design of nature, and in return, reinvigorates nature and human culture to live sustainably and regeneratively. 

Outcomes of Nature-Informed Leadership

Implicit knowing:

When implicit knowing is rooted in the natural world, and when one experiences this embodied knowing with others, what emerges is a shared common sense, driving aims towards common goals. 

Participatory Awareness:  

Nature functions upon an ecology of relationships. Upon becoming part of the ‘web of life’, one sees themselves as nature is seeing them. The result is accountability and agency with one's particular set of gifts. 

Inquisitive Curiosity: 

Neural pathways inform the way we think, feel, and act. In the simplest terms, neural pathways change through four paths: edge experiences (discomfort), curiosity, new sensory input, and focus. Placing value upon experiences and practices which facilitate changes in your neural pathways inherently develops inquisitive curiosity, and thus rich and refreshing approaches to dynamic challenges.

Receptive Leadership:

Leadership in the absence of deep listening can often feel authoritarian, disconnected, manipulative, and extractive. Qualities of receptive leadership values vulnerability in decision making, informed by accurate information, and actions which honor the context of relationships the decisions impact.

Explicit Expression: 

Explicit expression sourced in implicit knowing is rooted in the natural world. Explicit expression thus becomes, naturally and by design, a regenerative and sustainable cultural expression.

Inter-dependent Collaboration:

One's own well-being inherently impacts relationships. Change is scary, and not adapting to changes in the interior and exterior can and do inhibit leadership, creativity, and collaboration. With the design of group and solo time on the Vision Quest, one's own well-being becomes addressed, and impacts the whole. By encountering your own wellbeing, what naturally emerges is the ability and desire to want to support others. We realize we are part of something much bigger, allowing generosity and exchange to emerge.

Intimacy:

Through surrender we achieve true intimacy. Qualities of the quest encourage deep surrender of one's own beliefs, leading one to find deeper truths and intimacy with others. When we are witnessed making transitions from one stage of life to another, we break the obstacles of limited growth.