Kokoro for Foundations and High Impact Investors
A Strategy for Systematically Increasing Measurable SROI Outcomes Two central challenges facing foundations and high impact investors are to ensure accountability and to deliver superior outcomes. Kokoro offers a novel solution to both challenges by generating overlapping and synergistic virtuous circles. Here are five simple overlapping steps. Step # 1: Increase Grantor Productivity Gains around […]
Breaking Out of Consensus Trance
New Thinking Allowed
Breaking Out of Consensus Trance– New Thinking Allowed At a deep level we are all to some extent or another in a Consensus Trance, believing that we are separate, disconnected from Nature, and alone. I call this the “Separation Hypothesis.” The following two koans are part of a body of Zen practice designed to shake […]
Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence
We live in an age of cascading risks which portend societies’ collapse. In this Evolutionary Conversation we will discuss some root causes of our inability or unwillingness to discern and deal with risk, even when it is palpable, and we will explore opportunities for community and national transcendence and transformation. We will use our indifference […]
May 20 National Call to Action on Fire Safety — Infographic
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May 20 Evolutionary Conversation — Wildfire Risks in an Age of Climate Turbulence and Cell Tower Densification
Join Julian Gresser and a Panel of Experts for an Evolutionary Conversation on May 20, 2024 —How Empowered Local Communities Can Effectively Address Urgent Wildfire Safety Risksin an Age of Climate Turbulence and Cell Tower Proliferation,Save Millions of Lives and Protect the EnvironmentMonday May 20, 2024, 12:00-2:00 pm PacificIf you have not previously registered for the […]