Tag: complexity

timescaper’s privilege

April 20, 2024 By Lizzy

Making positive change in the world  – even in your world – is hard. Even the smallest idea for action may make us hesitate, leave it for someone else or second guess our right or capability to give it a go and learn from what happens next and build. Hearing a conversation today about choice, […]

Is ‘scale’ a dirty word?

May 6, 2023 By Lizzy

What is meant by the word – scale? Scale is a provocative word. If you are a citrus grower, you don’t want scale. To some, scale (as in ‘increasing the scale of a project, idea or activity’) means commodifying it for capitalism, selling out. Scale has been co-opted as word in entrepreneur and innovation circles […]

Pondering paradigms

January 21, 2023 By Lizzy

(Started on a Summer’s Saturday afternoon on the couch) Jan 2023 and a continuing exploration with my thoughts and understanding of paradigms…. The beginning… In response to a SM conversation on ‘Donella Meadows list of interventions in systems’. (Maxed out on the word count for the response!) This is the thought trail on designing interventions […]

purpose

August 20, 2022 By Lizzy

purpose – an awakening of a way to be in the world, to live by our gifts From ‘find your why’ (Senek) to ‘you don’t have a purpose’ (Sanford), no wonder many of us (or maybe just me?) get confused at times, and would rather numb our brains and hearts just to manage our day […]

One integrated planet

December 25, 2021 By Lizzy

https://bra.in/8qVPgJ This link will take you to a public brain developed by WorkSmith (c)2022. A visual collection of all the positive ways I (and others) think will nurture and protect our planet and all that it contains to thrive as beings living well within the system. This project was inspired by the desire to integrate […]