The Seven Principles of Regeneration

In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss the framework at the heart of regenerative practice. Carol Sanford’s seven principles of regeneration and what it actually looks like to apply them inside real organisations and systems. Rashmir walks us through each principle clearly and without jargon, grounds them in concrete examples, and then answers the question I most needed her to answer: has she actually seen any of this work yet? Her answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no.

The key highlights are:

• The seven principles of regeneration explained plainly and connected to the real challenges leaders and organisations are navigating right now
• Why working with problems alone will never produce regenerative outcomes and what shifts when you orient instead toward potential, essence, and the Health of the whole system
• Why you have to go slower in the beginning to go faster in the long run and why that insight, as obvious as it sounds, is exactly what stops most change efforts from ever gaining real traction

Links and notes for show:

• Carol Sanford 
• Regenesis Group 
• John Bennett 
• Charles Krone 

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