Cities Rising for a Regenerative World: Integrating Coherence for Regenerativity

Notice how you and we are mobilizing with regenerative action in ways that enable relationships of reciprocity with, within and from cities/communities, ecoregions and Gaia.Reframing the role of cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs

This was a weeklong program January 11 – 15 convened by Integral City, Nest City, Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising ChatAction Group

Overview

Inspired by HR’s week of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World convened in October 2020 by Ubiquity U and U International Cooperation and partners, this Cities Rising Week focuses on human systems at the scale of the city. We view “city” as the human habitat (or human hive) at scales from village to megalopolis and our definition of city embraces the ecoregion where it is located and that constrains it. We intend our inquiry to complement the exploration of Bouncing Beyond to a Regenerative World, by providing the context and contribution cities can make to a Regenerative World.

Prior to the 2020 year of the pandemic, cities had become the habitats where more than 50% of humanity live – in the developed world more than 90%. This week will reframe cities from the bricks and mortar infrastructures of the visible city into a human system with consciousness, culture, behaviors and structures. This is the Integral City – a fractal that lies on the trajectory of living human systems, stretching from the individual, to the collective, to the city, to the planet Gaia (person, people, place, planet). This way of looking at the city assumes that it is a complex adaptive living system, evolutionary in its nature and integrative in its potential to serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

If we have learned anything in 2020, it is at the scale of the city where humans make life and death decisions and where people have the opportunities to thrive or waste. The overriding purpose of this week is to inquire how people serve the wellbeing of the city and how the city serves the wellbeing of people, while together we serve the wellbeing of Gaia.

Theme for the Week

The overarching theme of the Cities week is to help you experience your city/community as a dynamic living system. This week-long exploration will offer a variety of lenses, tools and practices—and opportunities for you to reflect—that will enable you to best serve your city/community so that it can best serve you and together we can all serve the wellbeing of our planet, Gaia.

About this session:Notice how you and we are mobilizing with regenerative action in ways that enable relationships of reciprocity with, within and from cities/communities, ecoregions and Gaia.

Click here is the link for Humanity Rising Day 163.

Humanity Rising convened Cities Rising for Regenerative World, co-hosted by Marilyn Hamilton & Beth Sanders Jan 11-15, 2021.

Here are the Ubiverse links for all 5 days with recordings:

AQtivating Cities at Scale https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-159 Cities as Complex Living Adaptive Systems https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-160 Governance as Life Cycle Patterns https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-161 Practising Mutual Agency https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-162 Integrating Coherence for Regenerativity https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-163 The Reflective Practitioners who Participated included: Jim Garrison,  Ubiquity University Marilyn Hamilton , Founder Integral City Meshworks, Findhorn Ecovillage ScotlandBeth Sanders, Founder Nest City, Edmonton, CanadaHani Quan, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur, CanadaJorge Garza, Future Cities, McConnell Foundation Hugo Araujo,  Founder 7Vortex, Mexico, BelgiumTaina Ketola, Public Sector Specialist, FinlandAndres Malave, Cultural Consultant, Nantes, FranceMark McCaffrey, Founder Co-Focal ECOS, Author Climate Smart & Energy Wise, Initiator Powers of 10 Framework , ItalyStanley Nyoni, The Natural Step Consultant Africa, Sweden Paddy Pampallis,  Integral Africa: The Coaching CentreRaji Jayasinghe, Ubiquity U Youth Initiatives, Sri Lanka Luis Camargo,  Biomimicry Expert, Colombia Katerina Zalamova,  Smart Cities ExpertLev Gordon, Co-Founder of Living Cities Russia Association Mira Michelle Jones,  Founder The Sacred Female Rising Institute, ShamanSoni Dasmohapatra, Consultant, CanadaKeren Tang, Public Health Professional, Participatory City, McConnell FoundationTaisa Mattos, Global Ecovillage Network, BrazilIndra Adnan, Journalist, Founder Alternative UKShweta Srisastav, Design Researcher, Architect, Sustainability Consultant, India & Netherlands Julian Baller,  ED Co-Creating EuropeYene Assegid, International Coach, Ghana, Africa Vandana Shiva,  Author Earth Democracy, IndiaRanjani Balasubramanian, Faculty Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology ( LeNS Labs for Sustainability; UNESCO Chair for Culture, Habitat and Sustainable Development), Bangalore, IndiaLin Zhang, Systemic Innovation Coach at Thrive Together Ltd (T2L) and Co-founder & CEO at The Natural Step China, Shanghai ChinaYou can find extended bios for each speaker at this link.You can find additional resources at this link.