Reflections & Insights

 

Latest News

 regenerative News

resilience insights

What should The Sussex Bowl expect from Chichester?

Do we make a place or does a place make us? Potential looks forward, problem-solving looks backward. Potential is a way of conceptualising the gap between what is and what could be. We've now held three events in and around Chichester to explore new and different...

Discovering biocultural uniqueness in The Sussex Bowl

Do we make a place or does a place make us? Potential looks forward, problem-solving looks backward. Potential is a way of conceptualising the gap between what is and what could be. Our second gathering last week was a deep dive into just what we think holds unique...

A New Hope: Activiating Islands of Potential

A New Hope: Activating 'islands of future potential'. Our first gathering to explore what a bioregion might mean for us in Chichester and the surrounding landscape, felt like a re-energising gathering for those of you who have already been doing the work for some...

12 Days of Reflections 2024-2025

I am wintering. For me that’s a process of hibernation and reflection – and editing. Not doing client delivery but working on Really Regenerative CIC. I want to come out of the cave in the next 12 days for 12 moments of recognition and gratitude. They may not be consecutive.

Regenerative Chanthaburi: Rediscovering Bio-Cultural Uniqueness

In early 2023, Dr. Nui Sirikul Laukaikul – a renowned philanthropist, brand specialist, Country Director of Sustainable Brands Bangkok, and a founder of PorLaewDee Program which helps instill young creative entrepreneurs in Thailand with the values of the Sufficiency...

Dancing with Donella’s Systems in DESIRE

What would Donella Meadows advice to the EU New European Bauhaus project DESIRE be?

Latest News & Upcoming Events

12 Days of Reflections 2024-2025

12 Days of Reflections 2024-2025

I am wintering. For me that’s a process of hibernation and reflection – and editing. Not doing client delivery but working on Really Regenerative CIC. I want to come out of the cave in the next 12 days for 12 moments of recognition and gratitude. They may not be consecutive.

read more
Discovering biocultural uniqueness in The Sussex Bowl

Discovering biocultural uniqueness in The Sussex Bowl

Do we make a place or does a place make us? Potential looks forward, problem-solving looks backward. Potential is a way of conceptualising the gap between what is and what could be. Our second gathering last week was a deep dive into just what we think holds unique and untapped future potential in...

read more
A New Hope: Activiating Islands of Potential

A New Hope: Activiating Islands of Potential

A New Hope: Activating 'islands of future potential'. Our first gathering to explore what a bioregion might mean for us in Chichester and the surrounding landscape, felt like a re-energising gathering for those of you who have already been doing the work for some time, and a new beginning for...

read more
Wholeness is Soulness: A Meander on the quality of Aliveness

Wholeness is Soulness: A Meander on the quality of Aliveness

I like on these meanders to reflect on patterns or questions that consistently arise in Power of Place or in our work with clients about regenerative work. And one of the more common ones is what is really regenerative? And that has been our constant question and quest as we have been developing...

read more
Meaning in the aliveness of Place

Meaning in the aliveness of Place

REFLECTIONS FROM XAVI RAMON, participant in POWER OF PLACE 2023  Xavi has worked on numerous projects in the built environment since 2008. For the last seven years with Green Living Projects, he has been focused on the sustainable ecosystem with a specific approach on materials, incorporating...

read more
Regenerative Chanthaburi: Rediscovering Bio-Cultural Uniqueness

Regenerative Chanthaburi: Rediscovering Bio-Cultural Uniqueness

In early 2023, Dr. Nui Sirikul Laukaikul – a renowned philanthropist, brand specialist, Country Director of Sustainable Brands Bangkok, and a founder of PorLaewDee Program which helps instill young creative entrepreneurs in Thailand with the values of the Sufficiency Economy – joined Power of...

read more

Regenerative News

Regenerative Resourcing: Engaging ‘different’ mindsets.

Regenerative Resourcing: Engaging ‘different’ mindsets.

I have been privileged to ask to join The RSA of which I am a Fellow in a regenerative learning inquiry this year. Our opening spark session included a q&a session. I'm always nervous about these because it essentially creates a position of 'expert' and 'learners' which isn't really...

read more
Regenerative Resourcing: Dancing with questions.

Regenerative Resourcing: Dancing with questions.

I have been humbled and honoured to be asked to be part of the regenerative learning inquiry that the staff at The RSA have just embarked on. The regenerative futures team have designed an fascinating pathway over three months in this introductory period, where each monthly flow of interactions...

read more
An Economy of Place – Part 10

An Economy of Place – Part 10

FROM EXTRACTIVE TO INTERCONNECTED ECONOMIES Activating Citizen Democracy In Donella Meadows paper Interventions in Systems, she writes about buffers and stocks as stabilising forces in society. Mostly when we think about buffers and stocks we think about things like water reservoirs which hold...

read more
An Economy of Place – Part 4

An Economy of Place – Part 4

We are in a time of breakdowns and breakthroughs. The experience of the global covid19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the frailty in our global economies, has highlighted our inability to adjust to complexity, uncertainty and volatility, and accelerated the conversation about what needs to...

read more
An Economy of Place – part 3

An Economy of Place – part 3

We are in a time of breakdowns and breakthroughs. The experience of the global covid19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the frailty in our global economies, has highlighted our inability to adjust to complexity, uncertainty and volatility, and accelerated the conversation about what needs to...

read more
A Regenerative Bioregional Identity for Sussex

A Regenerative Bioregional Identity for Sussex

When Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex said before he left the UK that the UK is his home and a place that he loves, it got me thinking again about place. What is a place? A place we call home?  The UK is made of many regions that are busy and diverse, our culture is reflected in the ethnic diversity...

read more