The Regenerative Spiral
- The framework was adapted by CC partner Resilience.Earth and Originally developed by Doug Reeler (2007), whose pioneering work on regenerative development has since inspired a wave of “beyond sustainability” regenerative systems practitioners.
- It means “regenerative” thinking, the understanding that the communities we work with are mostly working from “degenerative” thinking, embodying systems that are hurting and harming other humans and the whole planet. By regenerative systems, we refer to communities and ecosystems that are more complex and that are able to add value/energy to their systems, i.e. more biodiversity, more interrelationships, etc. By degenerative systems, we refer to communities and ecosystems that are becoming less complex, impoverished over time and instead of adding value and energy to their systems, they deplete them, i.e. extractive economies, oppressive governance structures.
- Community Catalysts is based on a regenerative perspective. Learning programs aim to be a guide for each individual, group, organisation, municipality, community to develop their own syntagma and theories of change, so that they can catalyse change at the community level.
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