Last Sunday, we had a BLAST at the launch of The Unconference. We experimented, played, connected, shared, learned, meditated, danced, all with a wider and deeper interconnectedness in our minds, hearts and bodies.
You can watch the entire three-hour recorded Facebook Live stream here.
Now it’s time to deep dive into each topic, starting with THE FUTURE OF WORK. Not by guessing at the future, but by designing it TOGETHER!
This Easter Sunday (12.04.2020) from 5-7 pm CET, we invite you to join us for another online conference with new learnings. Our amazing speakers, experts and artists will share their vision of why and how to create new business models for the wellbeing of humans and the planet. To fulfil our weekly promise, we’ll also have meditations and musical experiences, with a post-event action team to inspire creativity and motivation with guidelines and community support.
This week’s panellists:
Susan McPherson– Founder & CEO of McPherson Strategies, Corporate Responsibility Expert
Patrick van der Pijl– CEO of Business Model Inc, Author, Creator, Rebel
Maceo Paisley– Behavioural Economist, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Designer, Executive Director of Citizens of Culture
Barney Swan– The first person to journey to the South Pole powered by clean energy (SPEC), founder of Climate Force
Hosts & Moderators:
This event is free to participate for Conscious Learning Tribe members. This week we started an exclusive video interview series with The Unconference panellists: “Playdates with Canay”. You can watch these heartfelt conversations with Barney Swan and Maceo Paisley.
Why design new business models now?
A microorganism, COVID-19, showed us that our centuries-old social and economic construct can change in a matter of weeks, and anything that is not necessary to nature is re-designable. It happened in 1347 when the Black Death accelerated the collapse of a feudal, hierarchical system. Then again in 1918 when the Spanish flu helped to end empires like the Russian Tsarist Empire. Larger pandemics impact not only governance, governments, leadership and hierarchies, but the values of the people involved. Powerful pandemics change cultures.
Our old paradigm has shifted, the economy as we designed it is collapsing. People are at home wondering how they will pay the rent while businesses and governments struggle to find new solutions. Coronavirus is not comparable to 1347 or 1917 yet, but that might change (see Black Swan mutations). We can already see a similar shift in hierarchies (e.g. Blockchain, P2P cooperatives, self-organized structures) and values (more socially and ecologically inclusive, more purpose-driven, more open and transparent, more democratized etc.).
This shift will lead to fundamentally different business models. Not at the fringes but in the core.
Let’s co-create these new models together. See you on Sunday!
Conscious Learning Tribe suggested reading
Read Yuri’s valuable insights, analysis and suggested solutions on COVID-19 in Part 1 (A Systemic and Conscious Analysis) and Part 2 (An antidote to pessimistic thinking).
Canay’s 5D Conscious Business Model Design: Prepare Your Business for The New World.
“We need a bold new approach to leadership and a business culture that prioritises environmental and social responsibility, that sees profit as a way to sustain value creation.”
For insights on how we are transforming our life and work, read Rudy’s From separation to interconnection.
“The first thing to change is probably the most difficult: to (re)grow the connection with oneself. Becoming aware of the voices in your head, learning to observe them and understand what they really mean to you and your actions. Most of the thoughts we have are not created by us but are part of the conditioning of our parents, schools, work systems and belief systems we have created for ourselves over the years.”
If you have something important to share, please contact us with your speaker suggestions for The Unconference or as a guest writer for Conscious Learning tribe.
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Enjoy reading, stay healthy.
Canay, Rudy and Yuri.