Better World Leaders

This conversation is as serious as it is playful, as practical in exploration of practice as it is theoretical in examination of a framework, and as generative a journey for me as a practictioner as it is fascinating as a podcaster! Welcome to the wonderful, rich and informative dialogue with Bill Sharpe, co-creator of the 3 Horizons futures framework.

For anyone interested in leaning into futures thinking and creating experiences of futures work for leaders, groups or whole organisations, this conversation could well be of interest.

Having been aware of 3 Horizons for a few years, read the book several time and been practicing the framework with groups on numerous occasions, this was a wonderful opportunity to be in dialogue with Bill sharing our experiences, practices and practical examples of applying the framework in real living contexts.

We hope you enjoy the discussion, and either deepen or begin your own exploration of this fabulous framework for accessing futures thinking.

Here's a few links to connect with Bill and various pathways to be resourced on 3 Horizons;

Future Stewards - https://futurestewards.com/

Become a 3 Horizons facilitator - https://futurestewards.com/three-horizons-training/

Join the 3 Horizons LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14150135/

International Futures Forum - https://www.iffpraxis.com/

U3Uni - https://www.h3uni.org/

And if you'd like to, please feel free to follow and connect with Tim and the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/74064716

On the very short list of organisations, entities and gatherings of folk that I've been wholly nurtured, enabled and impacted is Regenesis Institute.

One of the key creators of developmental programs at Regenesis is Ben Haggard, and I've been fortunate to participate in several programs Ben has led and created. Ben is the Director of Educational Programs at the Regenesis Institute of Sustainable Communities, a core element of Regenesis Group.

In this episode we concentrate most explicitly on the functioning of frameworks, their utility for considering and interpreting the world, designing intentional development experiences and crucially to create ways of interacting with and aligning with systems which centre, honour and regenerate life.

I learn so much each and every time I interact with Ben, and co-creating this conversation was a great honour.

You can connect with Ben, and explore more of his work and sign-up for courses at Regenesis via the links below;

Follow and connect with Ben on LinkedIn here

Find out more and explore the offerings of Regenesis here

Dive into the resources area of Regenesis here

Consider enrolling for their seminal course, The Regenerative Practitioner here

If you'd also like to follow or connect with Tim and the Better World Leaders community, you can do so via the links below;

Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

Better World Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

Thanks for your time and attention tuning into this episode. We look forward to being back with you very soon.

I was first introduced to Loes, and Futures Literacy, by another BWL guest, Laureline Simon. When Laureline shared in her network that she was co-hosting a course on Futures Literacy for transformative climate action, I was drawn in and joined the cohort to experience this wonderful, exhilarating and enlivening work myself.

Those days immersed in the Futures Literacy framework were the first of what has now become a continuing interaction with Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair of Futures Literacy at Hanze University in Gronigen in Holland. I've been honoured and delighted to have co-created this conversation with Loes to bring an overview of Futures Literacy to our community here, and invite you to begin your journey into this specific way of building capability in the present to navigate uncertainty and find clarity in ambiguity through explorations and experiences of possible futures.

Loes and I hope you enjoy this conversation, and will accept our invitation to engage this work via the links below and we hope in a co-created learning experience coming early in 2024.

Connect with and explore Loes' work more deeply via the links below;

https://www.ted.com/talks/loes_damhof_futures_literacy_shaping_your_present_by_reimagining_futures

www.futursliteracy.net

https://loesdamhof.medium.com/

https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/futures-literacy-the-emergence-academy-may24/

https://www.unesco.org/en/futures-literacy

Connect with Tim and join the Better World Leaders community via the links below;

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

I first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program.

That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning of my journey as a practitioner of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter, and my unfolding and ever deepening friendship with Mel.

Mel is a steward of 'The Art of Hosting', co-Founder of Campfire Co-op and colleague and collaborator with our previous episodes' guest, Samantha Slade.

This conversation covers several of the integral frameworks found within the patterns, processes and practices of 'The Art of Hosting', as well as some contemporary dialogue on the The First Nations' Voice to Parliament referendum, and the role of such frameworks in holding space for and connecting with ourselves, and our innate capacity to work in life affirming ways.

Mel and I hope you'll enjoy this discussion, and potentially be curious to explore this work more deeply yourself.

Links below to Mel, Campfire Co-op and upcoming opportunities to get involved in Going Horizontal training co-hosted by Mel & Campfire in November 2024.

Connect with Mel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgeltch/

Check out Campfire Coop's website - https://www.campfire.coop/

Explore Going Horizontal in Australia - https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23

Connect with Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

Join and connect with the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

I first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program.

That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning of my journey as a practitioner of the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter, and my unfolding and ever deepening friendship with Mel.

Mel is a steward of 'The Art of Hosting', co-Founder of Campfire Co-op and colleague and collaborator with our previous episodes' guest, Samantha Slade.

This conversation covers several of the integral frameworks found within the patterns, processes and practices of 'The Art of Hosting', as well as some contemporary dialogue on the The First Nations' Voice to Parliament referendum, and the role of such frameworks in holding space for and connecting with ourselves, and our innate capacity to work in life affirming ways.

Mel and I hope you'll enjoy this discussion, and potentially be curious to explore this work more deeply yourself.

Links below to Mel, Campfire Co-op and upcoming opportunities to get involved in Going Horizontal training co-hosted by Mel & Campfire in November 2024.

Connect with Mel on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgeltch/

Check out Campfire Coop's website - https://www.campfire.coop/

Explore Going Horizontal in Australia - https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23

Connect with Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

Join and connect with the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

This conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire Co-op (more on Campfire in the next episode) and I had also participated in a Going Horizontal workshop led by Samantha and one of her Percolab colleagues, co-hosted with Campfire.

I share that context upfront, as it's not often that I'm conversing with someone with whom I have been so entangled so recently and deeply as we create a conversation together, and it was so wonderful to do so with Samantha.

Samantha is co-Owner & co-Director of Percolab, a network of living labs which develop new ways of learning, working and governing.

Samantha is the author of Going Horizontal, an incredibly abundant collection of practices and practical approaches to bringing living systems frameworks into ways of organising at work. She's also to creator of "Listen For', a wonderful game of connection, deep listening and exploring bias through through the medium of collective story sharing. I've been a fan of 'Go-Ho' since it's release and have played and led Listen For games in multiple countries and can personally speak to both my own benefit, and that of teams and whole organisations from both of these sources based on my own direct experience.

If you're based in Australia, you can attend the next Australian-based Going Horizontal training in November, see details via link below;

https://www.campfire.coop/gohocanberra23

Samantha and I both hope you enjoy the discussion co-created here, and invite you to follow the links below to explore this work for yourself...

Follow Samantha & engage with her work here...

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthaslade/

Percolab - https://www.percolab.com/

Follow Tim and engage with the Better World Leaders community here;

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

BWL on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders/

Thank you as always for your time and attention. I'm looking forward to bringing you more episodes very soon.

I've had the good fortune to encounter today's guest, Daniel Hires, via LinkedIn during the pandemic, as we seemed to frequent a similar social media ecosystem, commenting on many of the same posts and engaging with the same discourses on social, ecological and economic transformation.

Daniel and I had held an intention to create a BWL conversation a while back on those transformational themes, and life, work and the world aligned for us to create a conversation here, now, in this season on frameworks as Daniel has shifted into the team creating the emergent Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework.

I loved diving into this work with Daniel having gotten to know him a little prior to his weaving with the IDGs, and I could really see the trajectory of his path moving through this framework, and felt a strong alignment with my own working over the past decade as well.

If you're curious to explore the IDGs further, here's a few ways Daniel invites you to do so, connecting with him and tuning into a couple of other podcast conversations he's co-created...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiresd/
https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/
.https://www.remotefulness.com/sustainability-is-still-anchored-in-the-growth-paradigm/
http://alexswallow.com/social-good-six-interview-56-daniel-hires/

I also invite you to connect with me, and the Better World Leaders community in LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings

www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

When I first came across Karen O'Brien's 2021 book early last year, I was immediately drawn to it. Both title and subtitle - You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World - called to me, having been exploring the sourcing from quantum theory in Carol Sanford's approaches and recognising the systemic nature of change need to shift paradigms and move us towards holistically better worlds. Not only are the words intriguing and enticing, the incredibly beautiful and meaningful illustrations of artist Tone Bjordam both enliven and deepen my experience of being with the book and exploring the journey Karen invites you to take in.

If you've not come across Karen as yet, she is a Professor of Sociology & Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is co-Founder of cChange, an organisation supporting transformation in a changing climate. She has participated in 4 UN IPCC reports and, as part of the IPCC, was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She was named by Web of Science as one of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade in 2019 and 2020.

With all that said, it is of course an absolute honour to have created this conversation with her, and to now be sharing it with you!

You can follow Karen and find out more about her work here;

https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com/

https://www.cchange.no/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cchange-transformation/

Follow Tim & join the Better World Leaders community here;

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders/

Carol Sanford returns for her second episode in this season, introducing the core disciplines within the framework she introduces in her latest work - No More Gold Stars (a full transcript of this conversation is available here on Medium)

In this conversation Carol shares the 6 disciplines which provide the framework for ways of being, collaboratively interacting and organising at home, work and in community which are grounded in self-determining, regenerative paradyms. Carol calls out the pervasiveness of behaviouralism, the profound challenges this approach has manifested in our social systems, and how the approach she offers in No More Gold Stars can provide a radically enlivening, immensely productive and nurturing set of practices which enable the innate human potential of everyone who choses this way of being.

This conversation very much builds on our season's opening episode with Carol, which focused on Indirect Work. Indirect Work is both Carol's now previous latest released book, and is one of the disciplines intergal to the No More Gold Stars frameworks. As one of the season's most downloaded episodes, I highly recommend listening to both conversations in fellowship.

I am here, as always, deeply grateful to Carol for all that she has brought to the world and especially for the incredible development I have accessed by working with her frameworks within her communities over the past few years. I'm delighted to have been able to co-create these two conversations with Carol and share them with you here.

Look out for the transcript linked below, as well as my reflection video coming soon and will be linked below when available.

Follow Carol and engage more deeply with her work via the links below;

Carol on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolsanfordkeynote/

Carol on Substack - https://carolsanford.substack.com/

Order No More Gold Stars - https://carolsanford.com/no-more-gold-stars/

All Books - https://carolsanford.com/books/

The Regenerative Fooding Summit - https://carolsanfordinstitute.com/summit/

Follow Tim & engage with the Better World Leaders community below;

Tim on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/

BWL on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

Tim on YouTube (for Reflection videos) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNr-RPD3NxEx55Ts8h4AFg

This is the second part of the very special whole conversation with Dan Palmer. Dan and I designed these two conversations to flow together as one greater dialogue, which is way for the first time I'm sharing two episodes together on Better World Leaders.

If you'd landed here before listening to the other episode because this one is at the top of your feed, I most warmly encourage you to tune into Part 1 on Holistic Decision making first, so as to approach these two episodes as a whole. This element of these shared dialogues builds on the first, exploring Dan's expansive framework of Living Design Process.

I'm continually inspired by Dan's capacity to generate and work within multiple frameworks, and these paired episodes on Holistic Decision Making and Living Design Process embody his work.

I hope you enjoy this conversation, and explore Dan's work more deeply via the links below. Also please consider supporting his family via the link below as you have capacity to do so.

Explore Dan's Work - http://danpalmer.life/

Support Dan's Family - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-dan-palmers-family

If you're inclined to do so, you can follow me and join the Better World Leaders community on LinkedIn via the links below;

⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcollings/⁠

⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders⁠