“Daring leaders must care for and be connected to the people they lead.” - Brené Brown
Do you ever feel like you’re in one of those Marvel movies wherein the beginning there’s usually a very negative picture of the world and we need a superhero to fix things?
What if that superhero(ine) is present in all of us?
What if we discover our superpowers within and shine them, with attention and conscious intentions?
What if, all we need is to dare to connect and regenerate?
Dare to Super Powers
We live in a hybrid, omnipresent, decentralised and autonomous world, and we are learning to integrate physical and digital environments and experiment with our new identities and roles in transition. This applies to all dimensions of our daily life and work. We need to reorganise our lives and markets & society needs to offer the right products, services, experiences with positive impact and meaning. This revolutionary transition, which requires new ideas, innovative startups and flexible creative thinking must, first of all, be regenerative from a social, environmental and economic point of view.
As Regenerate X we bridge what we see as essential between the business world and the new world (currently in full co-birthing mode).
With our 13 Super Powers practice community and global network of hands on experts, creatives and visionaries, we are committed to addressing global challenges with systemic awareness, re-design and simple practical applications to transform everyday leadership in life and work.
Enjoy this week’s issue, with “DARING” experience invitations, as well as updates on our 2022 intentions - DEEPer Tech, GENdR, NFT Alchemy, METTAverse and DAOism.
But first, tune in to our playlists curated to dare - pick your playlist: “Regenerate X Morning” or “Regenerate X Sunset”, in sync with sun, today’s full moon and your emotions.
February Super Power: Dare
Climate change, loss of biodiversity, mental wellbeing and meaning crises of humanity… Daring to lead for connection and regeneration has never been this important before.
Every crisis is an invitation to evolution. The good news is, we see daring leadership emerging everywhere. Ready to celebrate?
The Constitutional (Supreme) Court of Ecuador for the first time in history backed the right of all Indigenous peoples to have the final say over extractive projects that may affect over 23 million acres of Indigenous lands and forests nationwide. Vivaaa!
How about you? Do you dare to lead for connection and regeneration?
We are. And since you are reading this, you must be, too.
After a great initial session, we have two more invitations to dare, by changing the way we think, and use language to connect!
One for this weekend (transition) and the other one for next weekend (integration):
1- Transition:
“Mind & Replace” workshop with Tom Mansfield (Feb. 19th, Saturday at 11 am-1 pm CET)
The human world composed of ‘consumers’ is bereft of ‘reciprocity’
Headlines speak of ‘immigrants’, not people, let alone desperation
Science tells a story of ‘life on earth’ instead of ‘life of earth’
‘Natural resources’ invite exploitation
How are you ‘doing’ leaves out the ‘being’
Dare to mind & replace your story with Poet Eco Linguistic Activist Tom Mansfield.
2-Integration:
Socratic Dialogue with Canay Atalay (Feb. 27th, Sunday at 5-6.30 pm CET)
A 90 min. online journey to create emerging collective wisdom on “Dare”, beyond our repetitive thoughts and ego selves.
“If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.”- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Super Powers Membership
Super Powers is the first-ever membership program focused on the wholistic needs of individual leaders and corporate teams, designed as Rites of Passage (initiation-transition-integration) for modern cultural settings. With open and premium membership options for individuals and corporations, we cater for the needs of leadership with transformational, inclusive and tailor-made approaches.
Built to drive meaningful impact for your business, your career and life, membership combines online group programs with a year-round experience to help you learn and grow. Super Powers Premium Studio Membership instantly unlocks:
Participation in all of 13 Super Powers Initiation experiences, workshops and Integration Socratic Dialogues offered throughout the year.
Access to content from every program, including frameworks and step-by-step guidance by experts to help you implement and regenerate what you learn.
Ongoing weekly content releases and events hosted by Super Powers partners.
The ability to connect with vetted peers solving similar challenges and opportunities in our community platform.
Discover & Shine Your Corporate Super Powers!
We aim to help boost our powers in organizations by going beyond the standard approach of HR & leadership development. We believe in the power of practice communities, that are diverse and inclusive, with regenerative impact.
Book a discovery call with us to shine your Corporate Super Powers with us, and co-lead your unique journey with 13 Super Powers and our international experts.
Intentions
At Regenerate X, we keep exploring new trends, and their connections with possible systems and scenarios, with curiosity. Join our exploration.
DEEPer Tech: EARTH
An Initiation to GameB (the Film)
Follow the journey of a Game~B pioneer who—with the help of the three stewards—awakens to the realisation that she must find her tribe and prevent humanity's current path toward self-termination by playing a new game.
An Initiation to GameB (the Meme)
If GameB is new to you, you can start with exploring The Journey to GameB by Jim Rutt:
“So what is GameB? First, it is not “GameA” — the Western Civilisation status quo. That’s a good start for those of us who find the status quo a grim place that seems headed for self-destruction. GameB is conceived of “What Comes Next”, the social operating system that replaces GameA.
GameB is not yet well defined but it has four fundamentals: 1)self-organizational 2) network-oriented, 3) decentralised, and 4) metastable for an extended period of time (at least a few hundred years).”
Essential listening/viewing are 8 Profound Podcasts Introducing the Meaning Crisis, Sensemaking, & GameB by Kyle Kowalski.
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Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?
A handful of scientists have started to train their ears to the worms, grubs and roots underground. They were not prepared for what they heard.
“Life underground is a black box. As we open it, we realise how little we know.”
Scientists are also finding that the underground orchestra of animal activity has started to fall silent in large tracts of land, particularly in intensely farmed fields, where “things go quiet,” says Maeder.
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Third Person Perspective
Rebel Wisdom released the 3rd part of The Sensemaking Companion: The Third-Person Perspective. This section focuses on the big picture: the systems, cultures, institutions, religions and ecosystems that we’re all part of, and the dynamics that drive them.
“Perhaps more than any other issue, our age is defined by our inability to agree on a shared foundation of what reality is and how to agree on what’s true about it. But to even begin to solve the huge problems we face - from environmental collapse and social media polarisation to economic disparity and the meaning crisis - we’re going to have to figure out a ‘good enough’ way to do that.”
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How to Mislead with Facts
Verified facts can be used to support erroneous conclusions. Fact-checking has become popularised as the definitive process for certifying truth in the media. This has occurred in response to the proliferation of a wide variety of internet subcultures, often based largely upon misinformation. Propaganda and bad faith communication are all too common, making the checking of facts an important part of sensemaking.
The Consilience Project published How to Mislead with Facts and shows us how we can put an end to that.
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GENdR: WATER
I’ll do it myself
Black women have a long history of entrepreneurship, says Tucker. Tucker, who comes from a family of Black women business owners, says Covid-19 is forcing the world to see Black women as enterprising.
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What is a ‘Human Library’ and how can it help with diversity and inclusion?
Image: The Human Library
We all love a good story. Narratives are a powerful communication tool and, used in the right way, can bridge divides.
But instead of interpreting someone’s tale from the printed word, what if you could hear it from them in person? What if you could ask a Holocaust survivor about their experience or challenge your own perceptions of eating disorders by speaking to someone who has one?
Now you can, using the Human Library, which invites readers to “borrow human beings serving as open books”.
Each ‘book’ represents a group that struggles with prejudice or stigma based on their lifestyle, beliefs, disability or ethnicity.
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A fast-growing crypto community wants to ensure women don’t miss out on a $100 trillion opportunity
Gorillas, snails, lions, sloths, apes: These are the faces of the Web3 universe-touted as the next iteration of the internet and built on blockchain technology.
Conspicuously missing as the face of Web3? Womxn and non-binary people. According to BFF, as of 2021, 81% of cryptocurrency buyers identify as male.
BFF is demystifying the $1.7 trillion crypto market for women and non-binary people with crypto BFF community with celebrities like Mila Kunis and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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🦹🏽♀️ The Courageous Call for The Heroines: Leading Inclusive Futures for All.
When it comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), you know what to do. The business case for DE&I is stronger than ever. Taking a closer look at diversity winners reveals what can drive real progress.
What we are lacking is we still treat DE&I as if it is not a core part of our businesses.
In The Heroines, our business is "gender equality, inclusivity and diversity." We use conscious business design, cultural innovation and communication tools, start from the values, apply regenerative principles and use evidence, gather metrics to establish baselines and measure progress to achieve DE&I goals. We also use DE&I as guiding principles to unleash our business and leadership potential.
Our upcoming 4-week Spring Success Lab, as a part of annual The Heroines Journey 2022 is starting on April 9th.
✨To join The Heroines, please book an interview with us.
We call for patrons and sponsors to support our platform for womxn leadership and The Heroines scholarship program for extraordinary womxn leaders from around the world.
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NFT Alchemy: FIRE
Top 10 NFT marketing initiatives by leading brands in 2021
From toy company Mattel (Hot Wheels brand) to beauty giant Estée Lauder (Clinique brand) and film production company Warner Bros. (Matrix film), brands are using NFTs in innovative ways to market new launches, promote milestones or anniversaries, boost social media following, support a campaign, or show support for a charity or movement.
Here's a spotlight on 10 of the most exciting ways brands used non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in their marketing mix.
METTAverse : AIR
Into the Metaverse trend report
Wunderman Thompson Intelligence presents "Into the Metaverse", a new report exploring the consumer behaviours, business models and brand opportunities that are emerging as the metaverse takes shape.
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How do you convert the value of an interior space to a financial number?
DAOism: ETHER
The Dream DAO empowers Gen Z to explore web3 and use it to change the world
Powered by Civics Unplugged, the Dream DAO invests in the future of the web3 x social impact ecosystem by providing diverse Gen Zers around the globe with the training, funding, and mentorship they need to leverage the power of web3 to secure a brighter future for humanity.
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Unenclosable Carriers and the Future of Communication by Josh Zemel (Bedrock Culture) and Arthur Brock (co-founder Holochain).
What becomes possible in a world of unenclosable carriers isn’t just better versions of Twitter or Wikipedia. It’s an explosion of entirely new ways of collaborating and transacting whose forms we can only begin to guess at. What might be possible if we didn’t have corporations, governments, or surveillance systems in the middle of our communication? Could a system of unenclosable carriers help us solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems?
Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
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Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics by Maggie Hsu (Andreessen Horowitz)
In recent years, a whole new model of organisation-building has emerged. Rather than being controlled by corporations — with centralised leadership making all decisions about the product or service, even when using consumers’ data and free, user-generated content — this new model leverages decentralised technologies and brings users into the role of owners through the digital primitive known as tokens.
This new model, known as web3, changes the entire idea of GTM (Go-To-Market) for these new kinds of companies. While some traditional customer acquisition frameworks are still relevant, the introduction of tokens and novel organizational structures such as decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) requires a variety of go-to-market approaches.
“Builders should start with a clear purpose, grow a community around that purpose, and match their growth strategies and community incentives — and with them, the go-to-market motions — accordingly. We will see a variety of models emerge, and look forward to observing and sharing more here.”
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The man who got fired by his DAO
Read this story about the public face of Ethereum Name Service who got fired by his own DAO for a racist tweet, while he continues to be the project’s top vote delegate.
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