Ecological organisations

Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens recognises organisations as entangled with place, neighbourhood, social systems, ecosystems, histories, cultural stories, possible futures, the more-than-human, this planet, and more.

This, then, is a reimagined story of organisations as ecological.

A story of organisations as response-able to ecosystem, social system, and planetary health. A story of organisational health being entangled with the health of ecosystems, social systems, and this planet.

A story of organisations attuning to the more-than-human and incorporating them into decision-making, shifting from profit-based metrics and domination-oriented goals to alignment-based compasses and moving towards non-extractive foundations, and from organisations as legal entities that belong to us to organisations as living systems we have the honour of stewarding (for a little while).

Organisations: complex, relational, living systems within a complex web of relationships in a specific place. (I.e. ecologies).

Ecological organisations: complex, relational, living systems (ecologies) entangled within the health of ecosystems, social systems, the more-than-human, this planet, and more.

BEING WITH ORGANISATIONS AS ECOLOGICAL.

Ecological Organisations

Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens

The design lens is born of over ten years of study and experience working in systems thinking, design thinking, self-organisation, living systems, emergent strategy, organisational design, decentralised and participatory governance, organisations as commons, organisational stewardship, self- and shared-enquiry, animism, interbeing, and a multispecies kinship perspective (and more).

The design lens is released under creative commons so that any group, community, or organisation can utilise it for non-commercial purposes.

Head to the extensive online guidebook at ecologicalorganisations.org to view, download, and print the design lens in different forms (including options for those with visual differences), read the Creative Commons license, access educational materials, read the FAQs, and more.

Ecological Organisations

To view, download, and print the design lens in different forms, visit the online guidebook at ecologicalorganisations.org.

You'll also find information about the Creative Commons license that all design lens users must adhere to, along with educational materials, funding and partnership information, FAQs, and more.

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