ISSS 2006 at Sonoma State University

Jane Lorand, "Demystifying Two Systems Behind Pioneering Initiatives ...", ISSS 2006 at Sonoma State University, Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 10:00 a.m.

Ecology and Sustainability

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Gratitude to thank John Stayton in the Green MBA program, Bill McDonough Cradle to Cradle, Richard Paul met at Sonoma State University, Rick Yenovkian about strength and dignity

If we're going to advance sustainability and democracy, we'll need pioneering initiatives and institutions to provide leadership

Am an entrepreneur

6 years ago, first student in the Green MBA program

Come from business family, law (tax) background and education background (middle school background)
Business schools are needed to train how to do business differently
We need to go to the heart of the dragon
MBA designed for students who want to change business, not continue with existing business directions

Two stories:

Green MBA program
Democracy schools, Tom Lindsay, an attorney with The Community Environment Defence Fund

e.g. Cargill coming in with a 60,000 head hog farm into small rural Pennsylvania towns
Move away from environmental regulatory schema, which only regulates environmentalists
Shift arena to democracy
Who gets to decide the health and the future of our local communities?
At the local level, we're the best to decide
No resources, so decided to start a school
These schools are healthy, vital and sustainable

Two systems that bring vitality to these systems

Rudolph Steiner, founder of the Waldorf School, died in 1925

Looks at human nature, what are we fundamentally like
We're thinking, feeling and willing beings, and we have to be balanced at that
Americans are oriented towards doing, need balance on thinking and feeling
When we're not engaged, we don't feel the pain of the world
Simple system is quite dynamic

Clarify some terms:

Thinking: beyond reactive, biased opionions or prejudices
Feeling: beyond sentimenatlity, melodrama, mawkishness
Willing: beyond reflex or instinct, conscious initiative

Example: hard core capitalism: lots of willing, not much thinking, almost no feeling

Lots of carrots and sticks required
Alfie Kahn: Punished by Rewards, because people aren't intrinsically motivated

Non-profit organization: Lots of feeling, lot of will, not much thinking

Ivory tower of academic: Lots to thinking, some feeling, not much action

Thus, need balance

Morality is in the heart of this system
This is where we are when we love what we're thinking

Observatoins that led to the Green MBA

Transforming products and processes that are unsustainable aren't available

Different balance from Thinking, Feeling, Will

We love our students

When vibrancy and health wane, we diagnose for T, F and W

Democracy schools: participants are intense, threatened and ambivalent about power and rights

Second system: TRIAD education (David Morse)

Balance between dependent, independent and interdependent learning
Most schools are dependent, and students rebel, so they submit, escape, rebel or manipulate

Integrate Thinking-Feeling-Willing and Dependent-Independent-Interdependent

Mutually reinforcing

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