regenerative systems

I 100% echo this post - regenerative practice is an essential part of any inclusion work, or anything aimed at organisation/team culture.

Regenerative Work: Healing Systems, Honoring Humans

What does regenerative business mean to you? This year’s Thinkers50 London Summit invited some of the brightest minds in management and leadership to reflect on one central theme: Regeneration. Not as a metaphor, not as wishful thinking, but as a business mandate for doing better.

LinkedInLudmila Praslova, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, Âû

When I say 'the way we do the work is the work' this is a big part of what I mean. Change is demanding and can be uncomfortable, but whose discomfort do we accept and for how long? Who puts in the work?

Reciprocity as a value is part of this, not as points scoring but ensuring there is recognition of effort and cost, of the underlying stuff like emotional labour, cultural labour etc., that neurodivergent people often have inconsistent energy levels but may feel a constant expectation to show up and drive things forward.

Building a systems approach with this in mind helps protect the work itself as well as the people. This doesn't need to be complex, isn't as daunting as it sounds. Systems approach is just about setting yourself up for success and mitigating against the ways things may fall apart; removing barriers and enabling a return to the practice no matter what happens.

'All models are wrong but some are useful' applies here; inclusion work or any kind of culture building is imperfect and never done but a systems approach lowers the stakes, promotes positive moves.

This is the kind of work I can do - alongside your employee networks, people and culture teams, or transformation projects.