Nature-Inspired Model for Adaptive Change
Navigating Change
by Imitating Nature
Learning from Nature how to navigate change is how organizations and individuals cope with gradual, anticipated change, either growth/decline, or grapple with unexpected significant change. What matters is not where we find ourselves in the Cycle of Change. What matters is how well we embrace the Cycle wherever we find ourselves, and how we can become adept in each phase for strength and resiliency. This is the key to Sustainability and Renewal.
Seeding
Imagination and Potential (Yin) Energy
Where is opportunity opening?
Explore a wide range of possibilities for mission.
Express your Bold Vision, clarify your Values, and express commitment to your mission.
New Ideas emerge.
Potential for Growth is present everywhere - wherever we find Energy and Joy!
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Cultivating
Movement and Active (Yang) Energy
Where is opportunity to grow/expand?
Resources are lavished on mission goals.
Invest wisely.
Deepen your Commitment.
Give nourishment in the form of energy, whatever is necessary for stimulating Growth. Vision bears fruit, extends roots for stability. Grow!
Maturing
Slow-Growing, Gathering Energy
Where is opportunity for networking?
Ecosystem Strength and Wisdom acquired in the cultivation phase emerge.
Potential for Future.
Careful response to ESG challenges and instability require mycelial networking, feedback loops, and robust resiliency systems. Connect!
Composting
Rapidly Decaying, Transformative Energy
Where is opportunity churning?
Letting Go of what is no longer working for healthy Ecosystem Resilience.
Stored Energy yields to Transformation, where it will be infused with catalysts for new ideas, new shape and scope of Mission. What has been learned isn't lost. It contributes to Re-Seeding!
Natural Cyclic Malleability
Being OPEN to Natural Cycles for Transformation is the first, fierce step of Navigating Significant Change. This way of framing organizational development provides a model for embracing Change as it serves the Good of the Whole, our Common Home.
Where do you find yourself or your organization in the cycle? To Learn More, Reach Out and Connect!
