With Life

The?With Life Collective?is our new flagship membership program, brought to you in partnership with Capital Institute, and designed to help you deepen your practice of the With Life Approach through in-person and online practicums, community connections, and online courses. This is not just another form of online community—the With Life Collective is a group of dedicated members who are actively committed to bringing a living systems approach into their work and life. Here’s what you can expect if you join us ?? learn more → https://lnkd.in/gCy-zfXJ #withlifecollective #professionaldevelopment #membership #organizationaldevelopment #gatherings #allaccesspass

Too often, organizational monitoring emphasizes rigid metrics—KPIs, performance reviews, and surveys—that, while useful for assessing productivity and efficiency, can overlook the deeper patterns actively shaping an organization’s health, resilience, and emergent potential. A living systems approach to monitoring #withlife enables us to observe and monitor our organizations holistically. Think of your organization as a garden. When plants start to wilt, we don’t blame the individual plant. Instead, we look at the garden as a whole: Is the soil healthy? Are there too many weeds or pests? Do the plants have diseases? By monitoring our micro-ecosystem with a systems view of life, we have the information needed to adapt and create conditions for the plants to thrive. Just as a garden’s overall condition determines whether plants thrive, an organization’s underlying health determines employee well-being. We create more resilient workplaces by shifting focus from individual performance to systemic health. For this week’s With Life Wednesday, we invite you to view your organization through the lens of living systems. ?? What are the essential signs that a living system is unhealthy? ?? What are the key indicators that your team or organization is unhealthy? ?? What factors contribute to disengagement within your team? If you're curious to learn more about monitoring for organizational health, check out our upcoming Lead Through Change 3-week online course, brought to you by nRhythm, on building organizational resilience by aligning systems and strategies with the dynamic patterns of living systems. We begin on April 9th. Learn more → https://lnkd.in/ga_UnbMc

We’re thrilled to officially launch the With Life Collective, brought to you by Capital Institute and nRhythm! ?? This is your invitation to become a more active member of our global community that challenges convention and fosters deep, regenerative transformation. Curious to learn more? Take a peek at what’s inside! ??

More and more employees feel disconnected from their jobs—so much so that Gallup has named this trend the “Great Detachment.” And with hiring freezes and layoffs limiting options, many are feeling more stuck than ever. In fact, their latest?State of the Global Workplace report, found that U.S. employee engagement has dropped to a?10-year low, with?only 31% feeling engaged?at work and?17% actively disengaged. ?? But what if our organizations were designed to cultivate engagement rather than drain it? Research shows that when organizations thrive, employees are more engaged—leading to better work, stronger financial performance, and healthier teams. The challenge is knowing?how?to monitor what’s happening in our workplaces and create the right conditions for people to engage, grow, and thrive. That’s where the?With Life Approach?comes in. By drawing on patterns from living systems, we can design, manage, and monitor our organizations in ways that truly support the people within them. For this week’s?#WithLifeWednesday,?we invite you to observe the patterns within your team?and consider the underlying conditions contributing to disengagement, burnout, or high turnover. Observing with curiosity, we can shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive, regenerative design. Not sure where to start? Join our Community Compass call tomorrow, March 6th at 10 am ET (New York) to learn more about key resources we have to support you or your team in this discovery process. →?RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gdGGtdmu Not a member of the community? Join here for free → https://lnkd.in/g_eQzega

?? Last Chance! Enrollment Closes March 4! ?? Thriving organizations start with thriving teams.?Traditional leadership, which prioritizes productivity over health, control over flexibility, and economics over equity, has led to declining engagement across workplaces worldwide. We created a new online course with nRhythm called "Regenerative Organizations: Lead Thriving Teams" for leaders who believe that investing in the well-being, potential, and engagement of their team sets the foundation for a resilient, thriving organization. Are you ready to create conditions for your team to thrive by aligning your organization with the qualities and patterns of living systems? Join us! Over the course of 3 weeks, you'll learn how to: ????♀? Enhance Employee Engagement ? Foster Team Energy and Alignment ?? Lead with Purpose ?? Guide Teams Through Challenges ?? Create Thriving Workplaces ?? We begin Wednesday, March 5th at 11:30 am ET Don’t miss out—enroll today! ?? https://lnkd.in/g9vyCAZr

Join us for the internationally acclaimed 8-week course on #RegenerativeEconomics! As said best by our community members and alumni learning and growing in this living systems approach, "It is abundantly clear that the current growth-driven economic system is inconsistent with a sustainable, equitable future. The Capital Institute course in Regenerative Economics has given me the theoretical basis, practical examples and inspiring network to start contributing towards the creation of a better system, a regenerative system. I would highly recommend the course to anyone (not just economists) who is grappling with how to wean our society of its current trajectory and forge a better path." - Joel Backwell learn more and enroll below! The first live session of the course begins on Tuesday, March 4th!

In an engaging conversation on the rise of?#RegenerativeEconomics?last week, Hunter Lovins and?John Fullerton?highlighted the importance of local economies and bioregionalism as ways to address economic, social equity, and environmental issues simultaneously. We are all part of and dependent upon an extractive global economy over which we have little to no control. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, the books we read, how we travel, and even the simple acts of writing or reading a digital message, we are deeply integrated into the global economic system. To understand the extent of our dependence, try not to participate in it for one day. It won’t be easy. However, if you are willing to try, some may have heard about the?February 28 #EconomicBlackout?movement, a nationwide boycott set for this Friday. Organized by The People's Union, it urges all Americans not to buy anything (buying local is ok) for 24 hours to combat skyrocketing prices and corporate greed. For a more sustainable, long-term approach to shifting from an extractive global economy to one rooted in a living systems approach, Hunter and John suggest starting locally. This requires us to examine the nature and integrity of our local communities to begin imagining how our local economies can develop and grow to support and honor community and place (Regenerative Economics Principle?#5). The task may seem daunting, but Hunter offers a helpful daily practice: DOT, an acronym for Do One Thing. It can be as simple as buying eggs from a local farmer, installing a heat pump in your home to reduce energy use, or supporting a small local business. For this week’s #WithLifeWednesday, we invite you to watch or listen to John and Hunter’s conversation masterfully hosted by??? Moh Al-Haifi?→ ???No Way Out But Through: The Rise of Regenerative Economics: https://lnkd.in/ggEwAurd P.S. Listen to the end to hear John describe how disturbance in living systems brings change. He offers a hopeful insight into the current political chaos in America.

All living systems show patterns that enable them to regenerate or renew after a disaster. For instance, soil depleted from years of growing monocultures can regain fertility by being managed holistically, using livestock to restore the degraded land and regenerate new life in the ecosystem. Similarly, the?Capital Institute's 8 Principles of Regenerative Vitality?can be used to design and build stable and healthy economic systems that align with living systems for long-term sustainability and resilience. Simply stated, the universal patterns and principles nature uses to build stable, healthy, and sustainable systems throughout the real world can and must be used as a model for a new design of our economic system and the financial system that fuels it. Let’s examine one of the 8 Principles:?Views Wealth Holistically. True wealth is not merely money in the bank. It must be defined in terms of the well-being of the whole, including people and planet. This requires harmonizing different types of wealth or “capital” (an economic term) beyond only financial and material wealth to include social, cultural, experiential, and even spiritual capital. All these forms depend on natural capital, which sustains all life, including our economies. Critically, the whole is only as strong as its weakest link.? For this week’s #WithLifeWednesday, we invite you to reflect on what it means to view wealth holistically: ?? What experiences do you have with the various forms of wealth or capital, such as cultural, relational, spiritual, natural, or experiential? ?? Is there a difference between your experience of one type of capital and another? ?? How do you value these different types of capital personally and in a broader context? ?? What insights can you draw about our current economic system from how different types of capital are, or are not, valued or viewed as wealth?

Both?Regenerative Economics?and?Doughnut Economics?challenge the failures of our extractive economic system, but they take different approaches: ???#RegenerativeEconomics?focuses on aligning economic systems with living systems—recognizing that economies, like ecosystems, must be healthy, adaptive, and self-renewing. It’s about shifting from degenerative, exploitative models to ones that actively restore and regenerate wealth—social, ecological, and financial. ???#DoughnutEconomics?provides a visual framework for balancing human needs within planetary boundaries. It defines an ecological ceiling we must not overshoot (to prevent climate collapse) and a social foundation we must not fall below (to ensure well-being). ?? The Key Difference? Doughnut Economics is a powerful diagnostic tool that shows where economies must operate to be both just and sustainable. Regenerative Economics goes further, offering principles and pathways for designing economies that don’t just do less harm but actively restore and regenerate life. Both are essential. One shows us the boundaries, the other shows us how to thrive within them. If today's?#WithLifeWednesday?insight on the ways we can challenge the current degenerative economic systems sparks your interest in alternative economic approaches, we invite you to check out the seventh edition of our upcoming?Introduction to Regenerative Economics?live cohort starting March 4, 2025. →?Learn More & Enroll: https://lnkd.in/g3quiivw

"The With Life Approach has changed the way that I teach leadership. As a framework it’s really helped me see what I want to do as a facilitator working with leaders, and what I want to offer to the clients and companies I work with."? - Joseph Lyman, Training Facilitator & Professional Coach ?? The NEW With Life Professional Program starts soon! ?? Brought to you by nRhythm’s 50+ years of combined experience serving over 90 clients and educating more than 2,400+ individuals across 81 countries, the With Life Professional Program will elevate your professional practice with a living systems approach to building healthy, resilient organizations that excel in navigating complexity and change. ?? Start anytime with rolling admissions! We have a handful of seats open to fill in our upcoming February training. Enroll by February 14th and save $500 with code PROF500 → https://lnkd.in/g6dTYetb #regenerativemanagement #regenerativedesign #regenerativeleadership #traininganddevelopment #organizationaldevelopment #training #consulting