Pachamama Alliance
Director of Community Action and Strategy
San Anselmo, California, USA
USA
Offer
I convene global innovators creating systemic change in a broad array of fields - including economics, politics, regeneration, education, identity and spirituality. Integrating diverse paradigms generates innovation. I bring people together across cultures and worldviews - indigenous and modern, Global North and Global South - and across systems - social movements and corporations, government and private sector - to create coalitions for strategic action. I have six main tools Collective systems thinking to find emergent forces and leverage points Facilitation through complex dialogs into clear action steps Organizational development that integrates the personal, team, and organizational capacity needed to succeed with new innovations Conflict resolution, especially across historic divides Education and instructional design as the practice of liberation Listening for guidance from Spirit Story telling for transformation - creating narratives and experienced that communicate new paradigms At Pachamama Alliance, I have a strong focus on climate solutions as a path for people to see the full scope of the meta crisis and then realize that humans can redesign our global systems into a just, regenerative, sacred world. Pachamama Alliance works at both the systemic level and the grassroots. In June we held a gathering of global leaders to analyze how we could move the world from human supremacy to sacred reciprocity. We are in an on-going process of mapping the meta-crisis to find leverage points for change. At the grassroots level, I designed a training system for community action that has launched 130 climate justice projects in 7 countries. I am passionate about humans remembering that we co-create the world with each other and the more-than-human communities we share life with: nature, Earth, spirits and Spirit. We can co-design and co-create the world we want. I love working for systemic change with an analytical, gritty understanding of power combined with a deep sense of the interconnection of everything and the reality that we will be guided as we learn to listen. I have spent my life living, learning and collaborating in diverse cultures from Japan to the Navajo Nation to Queer communities. Every community has ways to foster empowerment and leadership for collective development, healthy cultures, intelligent systems, and wise decision making. Working with and learning from state legislators, undocumented immigrants, youth activists, Federal judges and African revolutionaries (to name a few) has taught me how to see the world from many different perspectives. I offer all of these experiences in my work - and for my communities - to catalyze successful change, integrating the structural with the personal, the emotional with the intellectual, the spiritual with the strategic.
NEED
I am always looking for people who have successfully shifted organizations and systems into new paradigms. A core question is how to track and evaluate paradigm changes through the twisting, complex, non-linear process of adaptive growth. How do movements learn to learn - to integrate data and feeling to understand when they are making progress in the right direction, to course correct when they are not, to dialog about multiple experiences of the process so they can come to alignment? How have people seen communities, leaders, and organizations come together to listen for guidance from other intelligences - from science and spirituality to indigenous knowledge - especially when the communities come from diverse religious backgrounds and the guidance comes from sources they are not used to listening to - or even believing they exist? All of these are versions of the question - how do collectives become self reflectively aware of their growth?
Call-to-Action
Pachamama Alliance’s mission is to change the Dream of the Modern World - to move us from cultures of Human Supremacy to realizing the sacred interconnection of everything. To change the direction of the meta-crisis, we have to change the core mindset that has created it - the belief in human supremacy and the myth that we exist in separation. Without that shift in consciousness, we can solve the current crises but will have 5 more emerge as humans devour, poison, and monetize the world. A reason we are joining The Atlantic Crossing is because this community is aiming to integrate the ocean of solutions already available into new global systems. Pachamama Alliance’s inquiry is in how to support people creating systemic solutions by offering our experience shifting mindsets and core paradigms. Our CTA is to ask you - how can we be of service to your work and strategies?
