Dear friends, our Cards for Life Netherlands event is live! You are warmly invited to join our Seeing Systems & Being circle | December 10th | 13.30 - 17.00 | at De Hoorneboeg in Hilversum | hosted by Tom Mansfield, Monique Wisse Marieke Smets and Claire Boonstra. Register for the event here: https://lnkd.in/eHCY-CgG Cards for Life is a conscious game that brings natures 3.8 billion years of experience and wisdom into our lives. A deck of 72 cards in three sets: Dynamics, Being, and Doing. They teach us about the dynamics of living systems for eco and systems literacy, they provide us with ways of being that help us embrace complexity, and they provide inspirations for action that serve planetary health. We are bringing together both active practitioners and folks that want to experience Cards for Life, join us! 😊💫🌟
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Cards for Life is much more than a deck of cards, it’s a connected way of seeing the world. A set of key concepts for ‘Living Systems Thinking’ that shifts our focus from ‘objects’ to ‘relationships’, helping us to regenerate the connections between self & world, humans & nature. These cards enable a better quality of conversation for deeper connection and a shared language that leads to more effective communication and collaboration. Both a personal guidance system and a collective sense making tool for developing eco and systems literacy, this regenerative vocabulary provides a shared language so people can define regeneration for themselves in their particular situation, sector and context. Whether coaching individuals and teams on their purpose, empowering community led visions or for regenerative innovation and design, these cards help to bring life's Dynamics into new ways of Being and Doing. Cards for Life are being used by teams, coaches, consultants, designers, educators and facilitators of all kinds across a range of sectors throughout the world. All the organisations below plus many excellent individual adopters are forming the growing community of practice, click their logos to check them out!
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Coaching & Consulting for Planetary Health | Regenerative literacy and innovation | Seeking alignment between the Superorganism and Gaia
Cards for Life is a living language - a systemic, collapse aware, life-centred vocabulary that is beginning to adapt into other languages and regions around the world. 🌍 💫 Charlie Felgate has brought the French translation into being in a way that feels fun, flowful and seems effortless despite the sustained effort such work entails, it fells truly regenerative working with you Charlie - "Tom and I will launch Cartes pour la Vie in France at Ferme Lecoq on April 3rd!" (www.fermelecoq.com) reach out to get involved and join the waiting list for this new version. To adopt a deck or join us on the next course starting end of March see details here: https://lnkd.in/exvyihCH For an overview of the project: https://lnkd.in/eEUgnr5j #cardsforlife #livingsystemsthinking #thinkinglikegaia #facilitation #regeneration #regenerativeleadership
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Coaching & Consulting for Planetary Health | Regenerative literacy and innovation | Seeking alignment between the Superorganism and Gaia
Practitioner training open! Thinking like Gaia #8 - March 28th - May 2nd 2025 We begin on March 28th and practice every Friday until May 2nd in six live sessions from 2 - 4pm UK. See the webpage for all the information and booking options in the store. https://lnkd.in/eDdv-ZqU Together we are defining living systems approaches, so many ways of weaving rest into our efforts, shifting from linear push to cyclical pulse of effective work, the dance between presence and planning, allowing release and collapse to fall, shifting perception from parts to relationships are among these vital ways of attending to the world. With these cards you can hold a deeper quality of conversation for greater connection and offer a shared language for better communication, collaboration and innovation in teams, communities and organisations of all kinds. "You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment... So breathe in and be aware of your body. Look deeply into it and realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the earth." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Course details here: https://lnkd.in/g4H_pyhw? The story so far: https://lnkd.in/eEUgnr5j This course supports you through a shared journey of practice based learning. You will develop familiarity and hone your effectiveness at working with Cards for Life both personally and professionally. If you have any questions or access needs just reach out to me directly I would love to share this journey with you! #cardsforlife #livingsystemsthinking #thinkinglikegaia #facilitation #regeneration #regenerativeleadership
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TEDx Speaker | Biophilic Design Advocate & Strategist | Storyteller | EDGE Certified Green Building Expert | Bio-Leadership Fellow | Championing Nature-Centered Architecture
As I continue my journey to become a Cards for Life practitioner under the guidance of Thomas Mansfield, I’ve been deeply inspired by how his cards encourage us to think regeneratively and reflect deeply. I drew the Serendipity card—a perfect reminder of the beauty found in the unplanned. The front of the card invites us to pause and connect with nature: "Good fortune is found on new paths. Be in nature without a goal, change route, and take the road less travelled." The back challenges us to reflect on a broader scale: How can space be made for random occurrence in this situation? What kind of diversity can create the conditions for serendipity? What patterns, routines, or habits can be changed to create novelty? What random process can generate solutions and new approaches? As I reflected on this, I couldn’t help but think about biophilia—our innate connection to nature—and how it fosters serendipity. Being in natural spaces often sparks creativity, fresh ideas, and unexpected solutions. From observing the diversity of a forest ecosystem to walking a new trail, nature teaches us to embrace change, diversity, and the beauty of randomness. What if we approached our work, our spaces, and even our lives with this mindset? How can we design for serendipity—inviting moments of surprise and discovery into our routines and environments? Take a moment to pause, step outside, and reflect on the paths you take—both literally and figuratively. Who knows what you might discover? #biophilia #biophilicdesign #serendipity #cardsforlife #regenerative #systemsthinking
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Coaching & Consulting for Planetary Health | Regenerative literacy and innovation | Seeking alignment between the Superorganism and Gaia
Cards for Life are a great tool for design. They offer many creative potentials for integrating life centred approaches and life's dynamics into new initiatives and enterprises. Thank you Veronique Swinkels, It’s wonderful to see how Cards for Life have been an integral tool for developing your inspiring work with Innerpact! 🙌🏻💫✨ I look forward to following the development of your work through the coming blogs and hopefully participating in a prototype. Wishing you so much growth and full thriving in this new year! 🌟🌱🌳 See Veronique's work with Innerpact here: www.innerpact.org Blogpost: https://lnkd.in/erXcfjJU For an overview of the Cards for Life project: https://lnkd.in/eEUgnr5j Webpage: https://lnkd.in/exvyihCH #cardsforlife #livingsystemsthinking #thinkinglikegaia #facilitation #regeneration #regenerativeleadership
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Gratitude to Stephanie Paterson for the mention and working so well with the cards and to The Resurgence Trust for sharing them and supporting the project 🙏 💚 🌿
The gift of finitude > https://lnkd.in/eVzDRThx "I am curious about everyday phrases people use when they talk about their working lives: phrases such as “work/life balance” and “work to live, don’t live to work”. They suggest that work and life are two distinct realms, and that real living only happens outside work..." Finding aligned purpose and value in your work has never been more important, with pension ages rising and the prospect of a 50-year working life looming. Stephanie Paterson, considers what work could look like if we genuinely see it as part of life - and understand that life itself is a gift. "If life is a gift, and a finite one, shouldn’t we do our best to make work a meaningful and enriching part of it? There’s a positive ripple effect if the work is done for an organisation whose purpose is to have a positive impact in the wider world. Life really is too short for work to be at best a tolerable part of it. Society’s challenge is to make work part of life’s gift." One of my recent collaborations has been using the ‘Cards for Life’ tool, designed by Thomas Mansfield. Our intention is to re-imagine the more traditional approach to HR processes (which can feel mechanistic) through a more regenerative lens. This is on the premise that as humans we’re part of Nature, so we need to live in accordance with natural principles to truly thrive! Stephanie Paterson is a co-founder of the specialist employment law firm RAMSAY PATERSON LLP and co-facilitates the Ethical Business HR Forum. #Artwork: Hermit (Candlelit Glasshouse) by Lara Cobden
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Thank you for the mention Geir Harald Hagberg I am so glad the Cards were supporting nourishing conversations in the Regenerators community of Oslo! May they continue to offer support and guidance in thickening the web of relations sure to grow out from this community 💫 🌿
Fasilitator, coach og pådriver for det regenerative skiftet | Kontaktskapende dialog | Pust og tilstedeværelse | PÅKOBLET
What we give our attention will grow 🌱 Grow with us! We now have a growing community of regenerators in Oslo - people who are curious about and engaged in regenerative ways to live life, conduct business, grow our food, educate our children and more. The Regenerative Oslo community is a WhatsApp-group and also meet physically in Oslo on a regular basis to discuss, explore, reflect and connect. 🙏 Thanks a lot to Idun Aune for being the initiater of this wonderful community, and to all the 66 members so far - and growing 🚀 Yesterday we had our monthly bonfire 🔥 at SoCentral in Oslo (se photo) with 11 members attending. It was a warm and heartfelt two hour session with breathing together, check-in, sharing, deep conversations - and of curse coffe/tea and smalltalk ☕ 😊 . 🌱 This time we used a regenerative tool called "Cards for Life" by Thomas Mansfield. The conversations that sprung out of that could have gone on for hours and became very nurishing. Thank you Thomas for making this tool available to us all 🙏 Interested in bying your own pack of cards from Thomas at Pale Blue? Check this out: https://lnkd.in/dGnaynzN 🚀 Do you want to be part of our grwing community around the regenerative transformation of our societey? You can be a member of our WhatsApp group here: https://lnkd.in/dJwWNQEm Thank you all for being YOU in our community 💚 I am already looking forward to our next bonfire. #regenerative #nature #leadership #community #transformation Alexandra Sørbye Clara vom Scheidt Abel Crawford Dorthe Leth Idun Aune Thor Frøystad
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Thank you for sharing your completion certificate Angie Burke its been such a pleasure to share this work with you and i'm looking forward to what 2025 holds for further collaboration and connection! 💫 💚 🌿 If you are interested in adopting a deck of Cards for Life and sharing a journey to develop your form of practice you can see info about the next TLG course here https://lnkd.in/gsgWVQYV
I’m super excited to receive this certificate today from Thomas Mansfield, creator of Cards for Life. This training has been an absolute joy - a journey filled with magical moments, rich insights, laughter & wisdom shared with a wonderful group of practitioners. #gratitude #cardsforlife #wearenature #naturewisdom #regenerativeliving #systemsthinking #livingsystems
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Thank you Hannah Temple for the mention, it was truly an honour and so enriching to share the course and the cards with you. May they be a useful tool to aid your inspiring work and support the living systems literacy you articulate so clearly in many conversations and experiences of the new cycle 💫
As per my last post, I have spent much of the last months holed up, working on a book. But, having taken a moment to look back, I note an amazing assortment of experiences to be shared, even if tardily. ♾️ Cards for Life: I recently completed Thomas Mansfield's Thinking Like Gaia course which accompanies the wonderful tool that is his Cards for Life. It has been so joyful to join a community of people working with nature's wisdom and to exploring the myriad creative ways of using the Cards to bring that into workshops, meetings and women's circles alike (see photo 😉 ). Thank you Tom for this gorgeous and ongoing gift 🙏 🌍 The Earth Funding Lab: My post-graduate political economist self would have been overjoyed to learn that I now help host this community exploring how to cultivate economies that serve life alongside folks like Sarah-Jayne Clifton at Economic Change Unit (see one of her slides below). This session was part of our just-completed Basecamp Programme where we welcomed a new cohort of participants into the Lab. (It was also a joy to use Cards for Life at our in-person gathering in November 😊) 🔥 A Warm Data evening: I spent a beautiful, warm, connecting evening at my new favourite place in London, Kairos (Zoë B.), hosted by the wonderful Emily Stewart exploring the entangled threads and quantum layers of reality alongside friends, wine and stew 🫶 🧠 New Ecologies: I did a seminar series with the Institute for Postnatural Studies on decentralising the human and re-conceptualising the natural. I am so often in this space in an embodied way, it felt refreshing and indulgent to immerse in the cerebral, to scratch my academic side and lose myself in the words and ideas of Donna Harraway, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Rosi Braidotti and so many more. 🪶 Wild Geese: Another community taking flight. This time of participants of Change in Nature's nature connection facilitation course, a group of wild-makers, song-writers, space-holders and fire-fanners. Thank you Chloe and Andy for creating this community and for inviting me to share a session on Organisations as Organisms in our first monthly Wild Geese Wednesday 🌳 🐚 Life-Centred Design School session: an initiative run by Jeroen Spoelstra that I have had the privilege to contribute to for the last few years. Do check out the school, Jeroen has some great things planned for the coming year 🙌 📈 Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll: It was so wonderful to be at the launch of the new England Hub and I really look forward to being an active part of this as it evolves 🍄 Nature-led Leadership: It was a joy to offer some thoughts on this as part of the The Bio-Leadership Project's work with Climate Coalition alongside Andy Middleton There is much brutality and ugliness in the world at the moment and it is essential not to look away from this or deny its truth. But, alongside the brutal and the ugly, there is also much beauty, wisdom and magic. And they are all true too 🙏 💫 ✨
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Coaching & Consulting for Planetary Health | Regenerative literacy and innovation | Seeking alignment between the Superorganism and Gaia
Cards for Life are a tool for all kinds of regenerative practitioners, they work especially well in the hands of coaches. It's wonderful to see new offerings bloom! Thank you Ramona Fricke for your offering and for weaving the cards into your work in many different places and spaces ☺️ 🙏 ✨ Ramona Fricke is an independent coach & capacity builder for changemakers, grounded in her belief that any social impact work is rooted in our inherent desire to be authentically connected to ourselves, others, and Life as a whole. Besides 1:1 coaching programs and capacity building projects, she just opened applications for a unique group accelerator program for people either just starting out in the changemaking space or those of us in a career transition. “Blaze beyond the Haze” is designed to move changemakers from self-doubt and overwhelm through Life’s complexities into clarity and alignment about where and how to contribute their gifts. You can check it out through https://lnkd.in/e4Cb36K6 For an overview of the Cards for Life project: https://lnkd.in/eEUgnr5j Webpage: https://lnkd.in/exvyihCH #cardsforlife #livingsystemsthinking #thinkinglikegaia #facilitation #regeneration #regenerativeleadership
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