Expansive creativity and Emergence

On a quick phone call with Catherine Austin Fitts we swirled around ideas about how to create regenerative change...to me it keeps coming back to compost...setting up the proper environment to the integration of different elements into a fertile medium from which life itself can grow...
Catherine told me a great story about her time at Hamilton Securities where they set up an Invention room to help foster creativity.
In the Invention room no decisions are made...and no negativity is allowed, only unfettered optimism and creativity.
Along with the invention room there also has to be the decision room, a space on discerning contraction where people start to seperate the wheat from the chaff.
The combination of expansive creative phases, with contractive discerning phases is essential for any creative design...especially Permaculture. In Permaculture design the expansive phase has a special enphasis on listening to the land and designing according to the existing ecology, geology and hydrology.

In the case of Financial Permaculture, a subject which has been pinging through the field at an amazing rate, the expansive phase rests on including as many people into the conversation as possible...as long as folks are willing to abide by the central rule of the Invention Room: positivity.

Positivity is also one of the Millisonian principles for permaculture design, and as a praxis, and amazing way to stay creating and help prepage the field for regenerative change and the emergence of interdependence in our lives.

This may all sound like a lot of Yadda Yadda...but really and truely the impact of diverse people coming together to create a new financial paradigm is an undertaking that is going to rest primarily on the ability of participants and facilitators to take repsonsibility for their own experience, and make plenty of room for new ideas to emerge...then be ready to act when the time is right.

Last night, Marty (a good natured Aussie who was passing through The Farm on his way back home from building earthships out in the desert near Taos, New Mexico) screened a movie called Garbage Warrior. Garbage Warrior was about Michael Renolds, a controversial and edgy architect who has been working to create radically self sufficient homes for 30 plus years.

Michaels recent coup is the introduction of legislation in New Mexico creating experimental perments for citizens lookinf for sustainable solutions to housing issues.

The Financial Permaculture course taking place this October in Hohenwald TN is the experimental zone to help us explore how to address the issues brought about by a globalized economy that is taking a no holds barred stab at ripping the rug out from under our children's future.

What an exciting prospect!

Back to rule number one of the invention room! Negitivity is not allowed...
no cutting down ideas and dreams unless you have a viable alternative...in which case you are just adding to the rich meliue of an emergent future.