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With Life: Capital Institute and nRhythm Form New Partnership to Catalyze Regenerative Transformation
By Team nRhythm
All of us in the regenerative movement recognize we are running out of time. Our societal systems need rapid transformation to address the environmental, social, cultural and existential polycrisis of this time. In response, Capital Institute and nRhythm are announcing a groundbreaking partnership to launch an innovative “landscape" of regenerative offerings to help catalyze this transformation. We are calling this landscape “With Life.”
nRhythm Partners with Dr Dianne Regisford
By Team nRhythm
We are excited to announce our first joint offering from the nRhythm Evoking Belonging partnership, Regenerative Race and Equity. This program offers deep engagement incorporating participatory research and regenerative design to support organizations to manifest their collective commitment to racial equity and justice through the day-to-day operation, management, and monitoring of organizations.
10 Practices to Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Work
By Tay Lotte
Last year, nRhythm's Tay Lotte had the pleasure of taking her work around the world with her. From her travels emerged practices that help her sustain passion, energy, and motivation to bring her whole self to work every day. In this blog, Tay shares these foundational practices and her tips for how to live into them daily.
Creating a Culture of Care
By Tay Lotte and Kate Weiner
Exploring generosity at Fattoria La Vialla. In 2022, Tay and Kate visited La Vialla Fattoria, a biodynamic family-run farm in Tuscany. Regenerative patterns are at work everywhere, but particularly in our food systems. During their stay, they learned some of the secret ingredients to working with life so that an ecologically sustainable farm can flourish – and the recipe to baking a culture of generosity, care, and balance into their purpose.
Why Leaders Shouldn't Fear Complexity
By Ryan Williams
To a leader that rules from a mechanistic perspective, complexity is a breeding ground for unpredictability filled to the brim with unknown outcomes and undefined variables. A regenerative leader embraces and collaborates with complexity to reveal potential in themselves, their team members, and their organization.
10 Questions to Feel More Alive at Work in 2023
By Alexandra Groome Klement & Traci Wallace
Our lives and our work are not separate things, and this can actually be a good thing. This year we invite you to find out what's possible when you bring more of your whole self to work. Get started now with these 10 simple questions.
Moving From Principles to Patterns
By Jeff Su
This article summarizes nRhythm's shift from Regenerative Design Principles to Living Systems Patterns, the reasoning for this change, and presents some practical applications of this shift.
Shift 22 Learnings
By Reilly Thomas
Key insights from the "Regeneration: A Principle-Based Approach to Investment" panel discussion at Shift 22.
The Potential of Regenerative Law
By Tonya Price
There is a better way to practice law and if we can bring health to lawyers, maybe we can start to bring health to our justice system.
Women Leading Regeneration: Co-Creating a Regenerative Future
By nRhythm
The ladies of nRhythm and Regenerative Rising have teamed up to design, facilitate, and support the Women Leading Regeneration (WLR) Summit, May 3-5 through our shared belief in a regenerative future. In this blog, you’ll find more information about the WLR Summit and how Regenerative Rising and nRhythm have built a mutually beneficial partnership while embracing a living systems approach.
Book: The 2020s, The Golden Age of Design and Redesign
By nRhythm
Last summer, Tay Lotte of nRhythm, was invited to contribute to the book, The 2020s: The Golden Age of Design and Redesign. In collaboration with other young female environmentalists, she wrote a piece on regenerative design as a key tool in our fight for environmental and social justice.
The Regenerative Designer's Mindset
By nRhythm & TGB Architects
This summer, nRhythm was invited to write an article for the Royal Incorporation of Architects Scotland (RIAS) Summer 2021 Edition. In collaboration with our partners TGB Architects, we wrote a piece on cultivating a regenerative mindset.
A New Kind of Leadership
Interview Hosted by Kate Byrne featuring nRhythm Team
In this recent interview by Kate Byrne, CEO of Katapult X, Alexandra Groome Klement, Jeff Su, and Tre’ Cates from the nRhythm team talk about the shocking levels of disengagement in our workforce and why we need to shift our approach to how we design our organizations, careers, and leadership to solve it.
Beyond a Reductionist Science:
Buddhism and the Study of Life
By Jeff Su
What do Buddhism and the study of living systems have in common? Quite a lot actually. In this fascinating article in Buddhism Today, nRhythm's Managing Director Jeff Su explores the relationship between Buddhism and living systems' regenerative potential.
What is Life?
By Jeff Su, Hosted by The Design Science Studio
In this Lecture, Jeff Su presents nRhythm’s synthesis of our exploration of “What is Life?” and holistic Regenerative Design Framework which is being used by organizations, networks, and communities around the world to address some of our most complex social and ecological issues of our time.
Patrick Robinson, CEO & Founder of Paskho | Regenerative Earth Summit Spotlight
Last fall, Paskho CEO & Founder Patrick Robinson spoke at the Regenerative Earth Summit. This video spotlights the important work that Paskho is doing to disrupt inequality in the textile supply chain with their new initiative, Community Made. As Patrick says, "We are disrupting inequality with clothes that nourish your soul.”
What Tom Brady Can Teach Us About Regeneration
By Jeff Su
Tom Brady has won his 7th Super Bowl and with 5th Super Bowl MVP and the debate about whether Tom Brady is the G.O.A.T – The Greatest of All Time will be raging in the sports media this week. This article is not to try to weigh in on the G.O.A.T debate, but instead, I believe there is another title we can give Tom Brady and it has something to teach us about Regeneration. Rather than giving Tom Brady the G.O.A.T title, I believe we should give Tom Brady the title of G.C.A.T for creating The Greatest Conditions of All Time [...]
Regenerative Slam™ - We All Have A Gift
Last fall, nRhythm's Founding Director Tre' Cates spoke at the Regenerative Earth Summit. In his talk "We All Have a Gift," Tre' shares his journey to regeneration and offers hope for the current generation and those to come. The key? Embracing the uniqueness that exists in each of us.
Podcast: Alexandra Groome Klement's Path to Regenerative Organizations
nRhythm's Alexandra Groome Klement was recently interviewed on Soil Centric's Unconventional Paths Podcast. In this conversation, Alex tracks her expanding idea of regeneration throughout her career. Hear how Alex was first struck by regenerative agriculture’s ability to fight climate change, what her “unique genius” is, and how she found her way to organizational design.
Thrive at Work: Intentional Disturbance
nRhythm created the Information Life Cycle Mini-Workbook, designed to help you break down your beliefs, behaviors and practices in order to give life to new ones. The self-reflective prompts and exercises in this mini-workbook will help you start to discover new opportunities within yourself, create the conditions for new life and growth to emerge, and help align your work with your potential.
Podcast: Dr. Jeff Su and the Power of Regenerative Organizations
Earth2Earthlings co-hosts Jesse McDougall and Daniel Griffith recently invited Dr. Jeff Su, Managing Director of nRhythm onto the podcast. In this episode, they speak about the power of regeneration within human organizations and Jeff shares some context about why nRhythm came to be. There’s even a chance you may hear a dad joke or two.
Thrive at Work: Discover Your Unique Genius
By nRhythm
nRhythm created the My Unique Genius Mini-Workbook, designed to help you begin to discover your unique genius by exploring your purpose, passions and place in life.
Resources for Regenerative Organizations
By nRhythm
nRhythm has compiled a series of videos, books, articles and quotes to serve as a resource to you on your regenerative journey.
Regenerative Design Principles
By Tre' Cates & Jeff Su
Our organizations, economies and societies need a new inspiration—actually, they need a new design. We have spent the last few centuries designing our social institutions as machines. This mechanistic design was inspired by the industrial revolution and it has left people disengaged, economies steeped with inequities, and ecosystems degraded. What if there is a better way?
Regenerative Shifts: The Energy Source of Organizations
At nRhythm, we are conscious that in order to transition towards a living systems approach to designing and managing our organizations, there are shifts of perspectives and operations that need to take place. One of them is how we think about what gives life to organizations. Hint: It's not money!
Grief is Decay
By Jeff Su
One morning recently, I had one of those little whispers of insight, a soft tenuous voice in the back of my head say to me – “grief is decay – it’s essential for regeneration”.
Decision-Making in Crisis
By Tre' Cates
In light of the most recent developments concerning COVID-19, we've put together insights and guiding questions to support our friends, partners and communities. We desire to be of service to our communities during these challenging times.
Connection, Real Challenge, Real Communion
By Tre' Cates
I have spent the last decade of my life working in agriculture. It has been some of the best years of my professional career. So, what have I learned? There are too many lessons to recount, but one insight stands out. It is all about connection.
Record High Engagement in the Workplace
By Tre' Cates
We all want more engagement in the workplace, but this has been a difficult and continual challenge for most organizations. A recent study by Gallup found that organizations that create the conditions for people to develop have the highest engagement rates. Here's what nRhythm thinks. [...]
A Millennial’s Journey From Burnout to Regeneration
By Amelia Ahl
I'm 29 years old and I just took a break for the first time in my adult life. I’m talking about a real break, during which I spent time with family, saw friends I hadn’t seen for years, took yoga classes during the middle of the day, and had days in a row where I had nothing planned at all. [...]
CTLF’s Van Rensburg says ‘You Can’t Escape’ Genius
By Lon Vining
When you think of a genius, images of such iconic figures as Einstein, Hawking, Curie, and DaVinci invariably pop into your head. But if Sara Van Rensburg has her way, someday when the word “genius,” is spoken, you will think of yourself! That’s because Van Rensburg, the CEO and President of Colorado Thought Leaders Forum (CTLF), believes every person has a particular genius inside themselves [...]
WANTED: Genius for Hire. Inquire Within.
By Lon Vining
Sara van Rensburg and her team at the Colorado Thought Leaders Forum (CTLF) have discovered something that has revolutionized their organization, and lucky for you, they’re not keeping it a secret. This regenerative change in their organizational design has created outcomes that van Rensburg says are far greater than they could have ever envisioned. Their discovery? They call it “hiring for genius.” [....]
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