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In this session we delve into stewardship in organisations, led by Michelle Holliday, an acclaimed expert in this transformative area. Michelle, who wrote in the recent issue of DLQ on ‘Compassion and Care in Stewarding Organization Ecologies‘, challenges the prevalent mechanistic worldview that treats organizations like predictable machines. Instead, she champions an expanded story, urging us to see departments, teams, and even meetings as living ecologies.

This profound shift in perspective, Michelle argues, unlocks better outcomes by engaging with the full, true nature of these systems. While organizations like NatureScot are inherently aligned with life, she notes that operational methods often revert to mechanistic approaches. Discover how adopting a stance of stewardship enables you to tend, discern, and support the emergence of potential, creating fertile conditions for success. Michelle shares universal principles that guide effective stewardship practice, applicable across teams, meetings, and entire organizations, highlighting that stewardship is a profound human function that we already intuitively understand through caring for our pets, children, or even an oak grove, and one we can continuously improve.

This webinar will encourage you to foster thrivability – cultivating life’s ability to thrive at every level, from individual people to the biosphere. Prepare to be challenged and gain new insights that will catalyse your leadership thinking, transforming how you approach your work. Embrace this opportunity to understand how nurturing and responsiveness can profoundly impact your environment and beyond.

You can discover more about Michelle’s work here: https://michelleholliday.com/

You can purchase Michelle’s book The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World here: https://amzn.to/44AVY8L

You can learn more about Michelle’s thinking on bringing living systems approach into organizations in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLptamWExOQ

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