The Process of Self Transformation: Transform your mindsets, so you can transform the system.
Steffi Nicole B
Uplifting the human spirit through color. Artist | Designer | Energy Healer
The Process of Self Transformation: Transform your mindsets, so you can transform the system.
Why a Process of Self Transformation?
We are undergoing a massive paradigm shift. The earth’s destruction requires us to evaluate how we individually play a role in instilling an Extractive System, for this system does not provide a sustainable future.
In order for us to truly shift to a Regenerative System, we need to individually look within and transform the mindsets, or mental models, that underpin the Extractive System and replace them with mindsets in alignment with a Regenerative System.
By doing this, we will address the root issues internally within ourselves, and then we will be able to create regenerative solutions externally within our work.
For example, following the visual below, if you are a Product Designer, you will be able to design regenerative products and experiences that help replenish and restore people and planet. By doing the internal work, you are contributing to a system-wide transformation in the way products are currently designed.
Shifting Extractive Mindsets → Regenerative Mindsets
The goal of undergoing the process is to identify extractive mindsets and ways of operating and transform those to regenerative mindsets and ways of operating. Here are some mindset shifts in alignment with the Regenerative Economy:
So, what is the Process of Self Transformation?
From my personal experience undergoing conscious changes to be in alignment with a Regenerative Economy, I have found that the more I can understand its phases, the more my Ego feels secure undergoing the process. Just like the Five Stages of Grief offered me structure when my father passed,?the Process of Transformation?provides a rough idea of what to expect, so you can feel more confident that you won’t be lost in the chaos that change typically brings. And, just like the Five Stages of Grief, the process is not linear or fixed.
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1. Recognize
Recognizing the mindset means you are looking in the mirror and identifying how you operate and what you want to shift. Through recognition, you will be able to shift from operating “blindly” to operating “consciously.”
2. Deconstruct
Deconstructing the mindset means to begin dismantling and pulling apart the roots of the mindset you are seeking to transform. Through deconstruction, you will make space to introduce new mindsets that are in harmony with a Regenerative Economy.
3. Explore
Exploring new mindsets allows you to welcome in new ways of thinking that are supportive of a Regenerative Economy. This is also an opportunity to explore other people’s experiences to empathize how the Extractive Economy has been harmful to the collective and the planet.
4. Embrace / Let Go
Embracing and letting go mindsets allow you to solidify what works and feels good for you, and to let go of what is not working or feeling good for you.
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