Eco-organic Living Principles

·        Constructing and savoring an authentic life that emerges from mindful choices, actions, and behaviors. 

·        Experiencing and holding sacred, life as joyful and creative.  

·        Removing disguises and distractions that impede the fruition of your fullest potential.

·        Reconnecting with your deepest values to inform your activities and behavior.

·        Slowing down enough to make conscious choices instead of reactionary excuses. It’s not about asking yourself  “Do I have Time?” it’s about asking yourself, “Is this what I really want?”

·        Reframing how we think for constructive questions and positive inquiry… exploring what works, and how things really work.

·        Taking action to create more of those conditions that will work with your true nature, not against it.

·        Developing self-observation skills, optimizing your strengths, and learning to act on your self-authorities.

·        Learn to ask yourself what fundamental assumptions and beliefs are influencing your life.

 

 

Eco-organic Living Ethics

 

Care for the Earth • Care for People • Regenerative Relationships

Commitment – In order to decompress from a life ‘style’ that diverts us from a life ‘lived’, we make a commitment to understand ecological processes. We do not limit our thinking to socio/economic expectations and learned behaviors.

 

“Staying in Alignment with nature, and especially with our own

Nature, gives us a significantly increased chance for harmony

and life success.” Self-Design: Nurturing Genius through Natural Learning, Brent Cameron

 

Strength in Diversity -Each individual is unique, as is their journey. We all learn when we look for the positive beneficial connections in our differences.

 

Permaculture Ethic:  Increasing beneficial connections between diverse components creates a stable whole.

 

Co-Evolutionary – We accept that revitalization in human development is directly related to the revitalization of our built and natural environments. Learning this at the individual level is interplay between creativity and transformation. Ultimately we are co-creators with our natural and built environments. Humanity creates many environmental conditions, and in turn is transformed by those same conditions. How can we learn to consciously create conditions for evolution and systemic health? What are the natural proclivities that humanity inherited from co-evolving with our natural environment? Our responsibility as human beings is not to impose forced outcomes on each other or our natural environment, but to create conditions for optimizing viability, health, and evolution.

Permaculture Ethic:  Catch and store energy and materials. (vs. consume and use till depletion) Identify, collect, and hold the useful flows moving through the system. By saving and re-investing resources, we maintain regenerative capacity and develop more resources long term.

Interconnected – Working with each other and our environments to discover and create mutually beneficial relationships. Looking for and creating synergistic relationships between all aspects of social, economic, and environmental conditions that interconnect with mind, body and spirit. We facilitate change, build capacity, and learn through the exchange of resources vital to systemic health and development.

Permaculture Ethic: Use the edge effect. The edge—the intersection of two environments—is the most diverse place in a system, and is where energies and materials accumulate. Optimize the amount of edge.

The Edge Effect – Developing fertile grounds for growth and change. Challenges are identified as opportunities for evolution. Change occurs when everyone is enabled to unfold their fullest potential, and contribute from their inherent nature for the good of the whole. We utilize challenges as motivation to push towards perpetual novelty, not to force equilibrium or conformity. For it is at the edge of chaos and order, where an eco-system or community, goes to do its most complicated and productive work.

Paraphrased from: “Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and chaos” Waldrop, M.