Mycorrhizal exchange: Enabling nutritious information flows

Intention

To allow nutrients to flow across the ecosystem (learnings, insights, opportunities, good energy)
To exchange with others across distances
To experiment with creative and enjoyable formats

What are fresh, fruitful formats for such a mycorrhizal exchange? How could the exchange be the most fruitful across distances (especially given our information overload and long screen times - nobody loves another tiring Zoom call)? How do we help each other be at the pulse of time?

Our recent work and insights

Learnings from co-creating circular design tools and guides for organisations
Circular design compass by SEEK: An open tool to navigate the landscape of Circular Economy and Circular Design
Living Lighter narrative: What if we created a positive, inspiring narrative on living and participating in a circular economy? A joyful way of living that improves the quality of life, freedom and our relationship to our ecosystem.
Circular Design Collection: Miro overview of resources and tools. CDC Thursdays: Casual monthly community gatherings in the Impact Hub, as a way to connect joyfully without admin

Article on The case for trust and collaborative strategy: Why strategy holds potential beyond competition, win-lose, and extraction.
Wald Yoga: Nourishing weekends in nature combining yoga practice with a community feeling.

Discoveries: Publications/Tools/Events/Activities

Regeneration

Wellbeing

‘Less’ is so often the answer to our personal and societal challenges. Releasing the non-essential, the toxic and the under-utilised, wanting/expecting/doing less and prioritising space & silence are good for our wellbeing. Living Lighter narrative, Book ‘Essentialism’ by Greg McKeown.
Research on the happy hormones Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins. The power of breathwork and immersive formats like sauna, cold water swims, connection with animals and people, etc. Forest walks.
Othership App: Guided breathwork to regulate emotions and nervous system in an easy, joyful way.

Open questions and interests

Needs: What leading research could we build on when it comes to objective and fundamental ‘needs’ of human beings and other species? This will help further evolve the thinking on circular design (especially the understanding of the fundamental underlying needs) and living lighter.
What are good didactic formats to structure and communicate insights. Our goal is to make insights accessible to many organisations and allow users to tailor insights to their specific circumstances. We face this question at allyCE.ch, when creating circular economy resources like these solution patterns.

Reflections about the format

Choosing exchange formats that are
nourishing in the process and give us energy in our daily lives (rather than one more todo)

combining personal connection and digitally enabled information exchange to make it ‘richer’ than conversation alone
‘rich’ and condensed to appreciate each other’s time and reduce the unnecessary noise in our lives (in contrast to lengthy, unfiltered texts)

Learning

with high-quality, trustworthy information channels
through media such as movies, pictures, graphics, frameworks, emotions, physical immersion etc. (not long podcasts or news that will be irrelevant in a few weeks)

by embedding insights into our work and daily practices: e.g. framework, practical memorable examples, ‘strategy cards’ or prompts

Circulate and reuse ‘synthesized’ learnings:

Collect insights over the months to have it all ready and in one place when the exchange takes place - continuous learning in everyday life

Either a specific place (e.g. CDC community event), or during a moment of catching up

Possible structure for 50-min video calls

5’ Landing in the moment & presencing, for example with Othership breathwork. Awareness of breath. Body scan.
5’ Personal reconnecting & check-in
2x15’ concise, rich and fun ‘knowledge transfer’, e.g. film, framework, synthesis in the spirit of ‘sharing a gift’. Sharing about our publications/experiences/writing/research that succinctly brings across a point in a user-friendly way. Incl how this can be usefully applied in daily life
5’ Open questions and where I need help
5’ Closing