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Please visit me on Medium at https://medium.com/soma-integral to check my latest posts related to Regenerative Development for Organizations and Place-Sourced Communities. See you there! Beatrice

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This blog post was published by USGBC Los Angeles Chapter. It can be found here: http://usgbc-la.org/blog/whats-your-citys-or-neighborhoods-vocation/

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Workshop in Brittany, France, August 2015 Notes from the Field (PART 2) This is PART 2 of a two-part series about my unique experience facilitating a Regenerative Development workshop in Brittany, France, this past August. PART 1 describes my intentions for the workshop, the process we went through over the 2.5 days, and highlights the […]

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Workshop in Brittany, France, August 2015 Notes from the Field (PART 1) These notes are PART 1 of a two-part series about my unique experience facilitating a Regenerative Development workshop in Brittany, France, this past August. PART 1 describes my intentions for the workshop, the process we went through over the 2.5 days, and highlights […]

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In my previous post, I suggested that the process of reframing is essential to opening the door to new possibilities for the future when addressing the root causes of complex problems.  The ability to reframe is key to creating disruptive innovations that have a lasting and positive impact on society. Building up on this idea, […]

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Roughly, this is how the story went: The Stanford Graduate School of Business offers a multi-disciplinary course called Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. In 2007, the course challenged student teams to design an incubator for developing countries that would cost less than 1% of the price of a traditional $20,000 incubator. Some members of the […]

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This post is to announce course sessions that my colleague Andrew J. Campbell and I will be co-facilitating this summer. The Art of  Spontaneity Andrew will be spending the month of June in the Bay Area and we are offering three learning journeys on the theme: The Art of Spontaneity. We have chosen the Mission District […]

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Last weekend, I had the pleasure to be on a panel on the topic of Transformative Learning in Business.  This conversation with Sabine Amend, Elizabeth Dolan, Louise Hansell, and David Hodgson, our panel facilitator, was recorded on Saturday, April 14th, 2012. It was part of a summit Re-Imagining Learning: A Virtual Summit on Transformative Learning […]

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We are all familiar with it because we have ridden its wave many times in our lives.  Some of us have developed the wisdom to embrace it when it arises; others are still resisting it, stricken by anxiety and fear when sensing it’s coming.  Most of us, not always happily, are accepting it as an […]

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My article “Three Steps to Managing Transformative Sustainability Journeys” was just published on sustainablebrands.com I very much look forward to participating to the Sustainable Brands ’12 Conference in San Diego June 4-7.  If you are going, make sure to connect with me.  I would love to discuss with you about what you can do to […]