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• What kinds of perspectives are needed to co-create a Global Shift toward a more environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just society?
• How can the pragmatic frameworks of Biomimicry, The Natural Step, or Integral Sustainovation® serve you in your quest to become an evolutionary change agent?
• What are the sorts of skills that designers of social and cultural change need to cultivate in themselves?
• How can you best prepare for the task of facilitating a group process that brings out the highest aspirations and the deepest potential of humanity?
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a discipline that studies nature's ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example. Think of it as "innovation inspired by nature.”
Image source: Lotushttp://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/resources/resources/biomimicry-ecards.html source: The Biomimicry Institute
Nature as model: Biomimicry is a science that studies nature’s models and then emulates these forms, process, systems, and strategies to solve human problems – sustainably.
Nature as measure: Biomimicry uses an ecological standard to judge the sustainability of our innovations. Nature as measure is captured in Life's Principles and is embedded in the evalute step of the Biomimicry Design Spiral.
Nature as mentor: Biomimicry is a way of viewing and valuing nature. It introduces an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but what we can learn from it.
source: The Biomimicry Institute http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org
The Biomimicry Design Spiralsource: http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/biomimicry-a-tool-for-innovation.html
• Based on System Thinking• Upstream Approach• 5-Level Framework• Uses Metaphors such as a “funnel”• 4 Sustainability Principles• Backcasting Principle• Prioritization of Actions
Image Source: The Funnelhttp://www.naturalstep.org/en/natural-step-funnel
• A role-playing workshop where participants each play the role of a part of the natural environment, then speak during a "council of all beings" at which no humans are present.
• Beforehand, participants each make a mass to represent their particular aspect of nature.