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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concepts of an outdated worldview, a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

sarah.greenreleaf@gmail.com

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

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