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FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY: DESIGNING FROM COMPLEXITY
WITH REGENERATIVE AND WHOLE SYSTEMSSarah Queblatin, Green Releaf Initiative
How can we use change as an
opportunity for the new story?
Green Releaf envisions community leaders
who can respond, adapt to, and prevent emergencies or crises
through regenerative and whole systems solutions.
Response
Recovery
RehabilitationRelief
Development
Garden to
Garden ReleafAdaptation
Witnessing Trees
Prevention/
Mitigation
Garden to Garden Releafa prototype for early recovery after an emergency
Sites for IDPs from Marawi City after the ISIS siege in May
2017:
1. Ma’ha Al-Nor Madrasa Evacuation Center, Iligan City
2. Pantar IDP Camp and Elementary School
IDP Community leaders at the Ma’ha Al Nor Madrasa
IDP Community Leaders from Ground Zero
at Pantar IDP Camp after ISIS Siege of Marawi City
Witnessing Trees A prototype for Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction during the
rehabilitation or development stage project after disasters
Sites :
1. Balawag, Tabuk City, Kalinga Province after Typhoon Haima (2016)
2. Batug, Leyte, after Typhoon Haiyan (2013)
Women Climate Leaders in
Leyte
After Typhoon HaiyanIndigenous Community Leaders of
Balawag Kalinga After Typhoon
Haima
Problem SolutionOpportunity Transformation
Unlearning
OLD
STORY NEW
STORY
PRESENT
FUTUREPAST Illusion ThriverImagination
Release
Recover
Victim
Re-storySurvivorIntuition
Unlearning
As the twenty-first century unfolds, it is
becoming more and more evident that the
major problems of our time - “energy, the
environment, climate change, food security,
financial security“ cannot be understood in
isolation. They are systemic problems,
which means that they are all
interconnected and interdependent.
Ultimately, these problems must be seen as
just different facets of one single crisis,
which is largely a crisis of perception. It
derives from the fact that most people in
our modern society, and especially our
large social institutions, subscribe to the
concepts of an outdated worldview, a
perception of reality inadequate for
dealing with our overpopulated, globally
interconnected world.
- Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life:
A Unifying Vision
“Design is where art and science meet. In fact, it integrates information from
almost all the disciplines into which we have separated human knowing and
doing. Design is how we can acknowledge the influences of the past and give
birth to visions of a different future.” - Daniel Christian Wahl
“Learning how to apply a regenerative
approach begins not with a change of
techniques but rather with a change of mind—
a new way of thinking about how we plan,
design, construct, and operate our built
environment.”
- Haggard B, Reed B, Mang P (2006) Regenerative development.
Revitalization March/AprilDesign is where art and science meet. In fact, it integrates information from almost all the disciplines into
which we have separated human knowing and doing. Design is how we can acknowledge the influences of
the past and give birth to visions of a different future. - Daniel Christian Waal (Daniel Christian Wahl; Regenesis Group)_
Permaculture
Design
Social Threefolding
Ecovillage Design
“When you think of it, Indigenous peoples possess the biggest
book..... Because our book is the whole world. We read the forest,
the wind, the clouds. It is the biggest book.”
- Datu Migketay (Victorino) L. Saway, Talaandig Chieftain
COLLECTIVE SHIFT AND IMPACT
The Great
Turning
(Joanna Macy) Bob Stilger, Disaster as Springboard
for Thriving, Resilient Communities
The Great Turning
(Joanna Macy)
“The ability to shift from reacting against the
past to leaning into and presencing an emerging
future is probably the single most important
leadership capacity today.”
—Otto Scharmer
MOVING FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY
Unlearning
OLD
STORY
What is dying or
irrelevant that
we need to let go?
PAST Illusion
Release
MOVING FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY
Release Illusion
o Use challenges as opportunity to change
o Identify beliefs that shape worldviews sustaining a degenerative system
Unlearning
Survivor
OLD
STORY
What is dying or
irrelevant that
we need to let go?
What is emerging as we recover our
wholeness?
PRESENT
PAST Illusion
Intuition Release
Recover
MOVING FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY
Recover Intuition
o Design from parts into whole.
o Reflect inner and outer resources with what we already know and what we already have.
Unlearning
Survivor
OLD
STORY
What is dying or
irrelevant that
we need to let go?
NEW
STORY
What is the possible
future that we wish to
co-create?
What is emerging as we recover our
wholeness?
PRESENT
FUTUREPAST Illusion
Intuition
Imagination
Release
Recover
Re-story
MOVING FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY
Re-story with Imagination
o Harness relationships and patterns in collaboration.
o Design from emerging and desired future rather than in reaction to the past.
Damo nga Salamat! (Waray)
Agyamanak Unay! (Kalinga Ilokano)
Shukran! (Maranao Arabic)
www.greenreleaf.org
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Global Ecovillage Network – www.ecovillage.org
Gaia Education – www.gaiaeducation.org
Transition Town Network – www.transitiontownnetwork.org
Permaculture (just www.google.com :-)
MISSION – www.imaginalmission.net
New Stories – www.newstories.org
Biomimicry Institute – www.biomimicry.org
Presencing Institute – www.presencing.org
Integral City – www.integralcity.com
Art of Hosting – www.artofhosting.org
Pachamama Alliance – www.pachamama.org
Doing Development Differently – www.doingdevelopmentdifferently.com
Inner Wisdomw, Mistakes!, Wisdom keepers, Community Leaders, Project Partners, Team mates