Earth Law Center (Nature Governance Agency branch)
Director of Nature Governance
Paris/France
French
Alexandra leads the Onboarding Nature project within the Earth Law Center, through the Nature Governance Agency. Onboarding Nature is a pioneering endeavour to expand the scope of Nature's Rights, Voice, Vote and Way across governance systems, corporate boards, and any decision-making body. The aim is to foster a global Earth-based/Nature-conscious governance and leadership praxis. The NGA team also supports the co-development of Nature proxies through the Dandelion Fellowship journey (a program for human beings stepping in as representatives of Nature in organizations). Ally first served as a proxy for "Nature as Director" on the board of British eco-product company Faith in Nature. She continues to serve as an agent of the Voice, Vote and Way of Nature within diverse organizations and businesses.
Ally is a published legal scholar, with over 20 years’ experience in pedagogical engineering and senior law lecture in HE (UK); a certified Advanced Scrum Master, professional agile & systems facilitator, and Nature Process coach.
Besides her role at ELC, she is also a trustee at RiseUp CIO; an executive member of the Spirituality Scholars Network (SSN-INSS); a professional volunteer at Notre Affaire à Tous (and contributor to “Les Droits de la Nature”); and at Rights & Humanity (International).
Offer
I believe that we create the reality we experience, and that we are alive for the sole purpose of experiencing a beautiful life and world. For these times, I also believe that our mission is to rekindle with the Art of Living joyfully and beautifully, and this requires beautiful sensing, being, thinking and acting. My motto is ‘eunoia through metanoia’. Therefore, I endeavour to cultivate conscious and heart-centred living for the common good. My approach is quantum-based, systemic, integral and holistic, and is embedded in the practice of a psychology of consciousness for ethical decision-making, and aligned being & becoming, behaving, culture and practice. My baseline is the Buddhist 8-fold path: right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. I have been learning and teaching myself this philosophy of life, and practising this theory of change, from as long as I can remember – seeking excellence over the course of my holistic life through the intellectual, psychological, emotional and academic stretching of the whole mind (brain, body and soul). My aim is to be of service. I am pretty agile in thinking, be/coming and doing, and I can adjust to the needs of the community. I do not know what the community can learn from me, but I can most heartfully teach what I know about holding space for conscious dreaming, visioning and alignment.
NEED
(Please refer to the Call to Action as well - read together) Bluntly, the biggest challenge at this stage is financial. The sacred work we do needs fertilising and a caretaking by the wealth gardeners. We need resources - logistical, meshworking and more team members (hands on deck); and particularly, we need time and space to do the deep work with clients, within our own organisation, as well as in research, training, and framework development; for evidenced-based proof of concept and handprint reporting. Our NGA team has been operating on a pro and low bono basis for the past 12 months. Within that timeframe, we have been powered by our vision, and spared no effort, time and energy to accomplish a lot, including onboarding Nature in several organisations. Our main challenge is therefore one of providing for our need to be economically held and supported, so that we can continue with our sacred work.
Call-to-Action
Together, our team of 3 women works for systemic change, and this requires systemic abilities. Our approach is therefore multilayered, and we cover the following dimensions - which are both objectives and challenges: a) consciousness: promoting consciousness shift through training, development & educational programs; b) behavioral: concrete collaborations for transformational impact, with a wide range of organisations, corporations and business. These could be clients, partners and collaborators, including those that are showing the most reticence/resistance to meaningful and deep systemic change (especially if they inflict the most damage on the Earth); c) cultural: demonstrating the business case that doing good is good both for prosperity and for the Earth. So we promote the 5 Ps: Peace practice for Peoples, Planet, Prosperity and Purpose. The aim here is to cultivate a unified consciousness so that business decisions are made within a Nature-conscious paradigm that is life enhancing (as opposed to the separation paradigm of human vs Nature); d) systemic: our aim to support economic, social, political, health, education and more systems function within a Nature-conscious paradigm, as part of a whole interconnected organism for the benefits of the Earth community. We therefore promote the rights and voice of Nature for an ecocentric planetary system. So, our CTA is as follows: - Onboard: Join the community of practice to onboard Nature - Govern: Cultivate Nature-conscious governance for a regenerative future - Lead: Practice Nature-conscious leadership to navigate these transformational times - Invest: Nurture heaven on earth, and join forces with us to make the dream of the Earth a reality. Become a conscious gardener, gift your talent, service and regenerosity
