This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-chris-corrigan-and-kelly-foxcroft-poirier Kelly Foxcroft-Poirier has accrued over a decade of experience bringing high quality-engagement, facilitation, and communications services to not-for-profit organizations, First Nations governments, and arts and culture organizations. The work Kelly does through White Raven Consulting nurtures deep connections between stakeholders helping them to understand each other and effect change. Chris Corrigan is a process artist, a teacher, and a facilitator of social technologies for face-to-face conversation in the service of emergence. His business is supporting invitation: the invitation to collaborate, to organize, to find one another, and make a difference in our communities, organizations, and lives.

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-phoebe-tickell-a-collective-narrative Phoebe is a biologist and systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches suited for a better world. She is driven by a fierce passion for Life and the possibility of a brighter future, and gets excited about creative and systemic solutions to problems. Phoebe has a first-class degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, and she brings this understanding of biological networks and systems thinking to her work. She writes and speaks about the topics of the Future of Education, Future of Work, Future of Food, Future of Civil Society and Future of Organisations, and therefore have been called the 'Voice of the Emerging Future'

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-mich-levy-a-collective-narrative Mich Levy is a queer woman with race and class privilege, the grand-daughter of immigrants and first-generation Californian. She was raised in a strongly-identified Jewish family that assimilated into middle-class whiteness through her childhood. She has traveled extensively and lived, studied, and worked on three continents. Mich has been active in movements to overcome exclusion and violence since the first U.S. invasion of Iraq. She has a self-designed bachelor’s degree in personal, social and systems change and a master’s degree in the politics of alternative development studies. We Tip the Balance is Mich’s way to continue learning with others how to build the world we want to live in together.

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-dr-chong-kee-tan-a-collective-narrative Chong Kee had been a Chinese literature academic, software engineer and Silicon Valley startup founder, senior business manager at a mid-size corporation, started and ran a local currency for San Francisco Bay Area, helped shape the Evolutionary Futures Community as its founding member, and is now a full-time farmer and homesteader. His works and interests lie at the intersection of the environment, cultural transformation, and re-imagining social organization. He is currently engaged with the question: How can an individual survive the worst-case scenario climate and social collapse and build a non-self-terminating culture that can thrive in a post-collapse world? Resources mentioned in the video: https://www.doomeroptimism.com/ https://www.ic.org/ https://ecovillage.org/ https://qcnr.usu.edu/directory/tainter_joseph http://simplicityinstitute.org/

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-dr-levy-odera-a-collective-narrative Levy Odera's work deals with issues of political development, citizen-politician linkages, microfinance institutions, the informal economy in Africa, and community development. He has researched, written, and taught extensively on these topics. In addition to that, as Founder & President of the Systems Acumen for Youth-Led Development Solutions, he leads this Kenya-based non-profit to bring young people to the forefront of bottom-up social change by equipping them with systems thinking skills required to tackle complex problems in their communities.

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-cleofash-alinaitwe-and-ignatius-ahumuza-1 Cleo and Ignatius are using permaculture to transform agricultural practices in Africa through Agri Planet Uganda, an organization they co-founded and co-lead. By focusing primarily on youth, children, women, and smallholder farmers, Agri Planet Uganda seeks to improve the whole community access and application of permaculture to bolster food production and other life’s basic essentials. In addition to that, Cleo is a member of the Evolutionary Futures Community, a finalist of the Evolutionary Future challenge 2017, and an Evolutionary Futures Fellow.

This session was planned before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war had a dramatic influence on the content of this session, but it is not its main focus. In these trying times, all of us at Evolutionary Futures Lab stand in solidarity with Ukraine, encourage everyone to look for and to listen to Ukrainian voices, but we also hope that this session will be useful for those who are interested in systems transformation work in the Russian context and its relevance for trans-contextual learning. The session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-alyona-yuzefovich-and-anastasia-laukkanen Alyona and Anastasia are currently developing the Living Lab agency that specializes in creating interactive spaces for sustainability both in business and academic contexts. Their recent projects include adapting En-ROADS Climate Action Simulation to the Russian audience as well as developing and launching the first professional development program on systems change offered by a Russian university. Alyona is a social entrepreneur, master facilitator, communicator, and badass mom. At the beginning of her social impact journey, she and her company Boxxy diverted millions of kilos of electronic waste from the landfill in Russia. Anastasia is a former journalist, professional yogi and an amateir sustainability stand-up performer. In 2010 she co-founded ECOCUP, one of the first green documentary film festivals, that took place in more than 30 cities of Russia and CIS countries.

This session is based on self-study and peer learning reflected in this collective narrative: https://www.evolutionaryfutures.com/post/group-reflections-on-the-work-and-teachings-of-dave-snowden-a-collective-narrative-1 Dave Snowden applies natural sciences to social systems through the development of a range of methods and the SenseMaker® software suite. He is particularly known in the social change community for the Cynefin Framework that has been widely used in systems transformation work.