This document contains the slides from a presentation by Frances Rose Subbiondo given at the Trans Health Conference in Philadelphia on June 15, 2013. The presentation discusses themes of regeneration including union, community, diversity, and interdependence. It proposes that cultural engines can be used to build the human infrastructure needed for a regenerative economy and society. Examples of cultural engines include zones of curriculum covering topics from personal health to regenerative enterprise. The presentation concludes by providing examples of how Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica and a park in New Jersey were transformed from degraded land to regenerative spaces.

1. Introduction to Regeneration --
Dream Vocations for the Present & Future
presented by Frances Rose Subbiondo
at the Trans Health Conference
Philadelphia, PA -- 6/15/13
Saturday, June 15, 13

2. an Ecosystem Game
& You
the Sun
a Tree
with 3 elements
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3. gratitude
to Mother Earth <3
thank you for my life,
my body, my loves,
& my Homes
and to Philadelphia,
& the PTHC
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4. the Cosmos would be fairly chaotic,
if its laws could not operate
without the sanction of human belief
- yogi wisdom
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5. how did we get here?
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6. from here?
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7. True creativity doesn't just make things.
It feeds what feeds life.
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8. What is a living system?
A whole system?
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9. What is a living system?
A whole system?
Besides you.
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10. Themes of Regeneration
union
community
diversity
sharing
functionality
practice teaches
LIFE
resilience
co-creation
growth
everyone wins
connection
slow
accumulation
nested systems
(fractals)
fertility
interdependence
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11. Themes (w/ Needs)
union
community
diversity
sharing
functionality
practice teaches
Life
resilience
co-creation
growth
everyone wins
connection
slow
accumulation
nested systems
(fractals)
social support
structures
open source
everything
team-work
release
choice to push
boundaries
team (ecosystem)
building
integrity
PRACTICE
regenerative
culture
accept &
respond to
feedback
use edges, value
the marginal
find points
of leverage
honor natural
expressions
fertility
interdependence
community
supported
everything
communication
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12. so, just like our national
& global economies.
right?
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13. what are (just a few) destructive aspects
of our global economy?
- the straight lines of corporatocracy (80/20) -
- most banking funding environmental pillage -
- gross imbalances across gender & race -
- environmental racism -
- hyperbolic wealth distribution -
- rampant exploitation & destruction of all walks of Life -
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14. how about the micro scale?
how’s your world? how’s your life?
how’s your job?
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15. what might a regenerative economy
look like?
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16. in a regenerative economy...
Financial
we utilize, gift, & trade
diverse forms of capital
(like) (&)
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17. we utilize, gift, & trade
diverse forms of capital
Living
Material
Financial
Cultural Social
Intellectual
Experiential
Emotional Spiritual
.. And grow fabulously wealthy
in a regenerative economy...
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18. .. And grow fabulously wealthy
because we already are.
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19. With the sun
as our model...
We offer the gift of ourselves -- without thought of reward.
We invite all around us to do the same.
Using the patterns & principles of regeneration,
we set spirals, & vast linkages of life, in motion.
True creativity doesn’t just make things. It feeds what feeds life.
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20. interact with land & cities creatively.
we add value to their resources -- & share it with everybody.
slow it, spread it, sink it.
runaway educations seem unnecessary at this stage in the game.
whatever you got, spread it, share it & sink it to one another.
human culture needs wider competency in basic provision.
share the overhead of life.
themes & directives
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21. co-operatives
tools & technologies
free schools gift economy
permaculture
conscious
communication
communities
of practice
what else?
cultural
mentoring
community
building
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22. we must build
the human infrastructure required
to build this model does not yet exist...
it must be built & grown.
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23. CULTURAL
ENGINES
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24. Cultural Engines empower communities
to serve themselves,
by cultivating visionary, local leadership,
by creating pathways to access the unique & essential gifts
in everyone,
& by driving a wider cultural paradigm-shift forward.
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25. Zone 0
- MEDITATION -
- YOGA -
- LIFE DESIGN -
PERSONAL HEALTH
(INNER & OUTER BODY)
Engine Curriculum -- Across Scale
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26. Zone 1
- RELATIONSHIP DESIGN -
- CO-COUNSELING -
- NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION -
HOME LIFE &
BASIC COMMUNICATION
Engine Curriculum
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27. Zone 2
- GARDENING -
- COOKING -
- & SO MUCH MORE -
BASIC NEEDS CARE
Engine Curriculum
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28. Zone 3
- VOCATIONAL TRAINING
SKILLS SHARE
Engine Curriculum
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29. Zone 4
REGENERATIVE
ENTERPRISE
- EXCHANGING
PLAINLY VALUABLE
GOODS & SERVICES -
- GROWING A
NETWORK OF PROVIDERS
& SUBSCRIBERS -
Engine Curriculum
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30. Zone 5
SPORULATION...
(contagious & filled with love)
Engine Curriculum
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31. ... & NUCLEI MERGING
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32. ... & NUCLEI MERGING
Nesting Systems -- (Ecosystem Modeling)
Growing in Complexity
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33. & from just one..
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36. .. we grow a mycelial network of living systems.
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37. To Supplant:
to enact ecosystemic succession
--
by growing conditions that
naturally undermine the current
state’s ability to thrive or survive.
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38. Supplant the
Modern World
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39. Rancho Mastatal -- Costa Rica
The Before
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40. Rancho Mastatal
The ‘a little later’
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41. Washington Park -- Hudson County, NJ
a Permaculture Learning Garden
(The Before )
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42. a little later...
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43. Saturday, June 15, 13

44. thank you
this slideshow can soon be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/FrancesPlectranthus
culturalengine.wordpress.com
frances.subbiondo@gmail.com
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