The world needs you to flourish
A beautiful flourishing world needs all of us to be our best selves, yet we are often disempowered from doing so by social and economic norms.
Why
After years of working in sustainability – via government, private consulting, academia, and non-profits – I have come to believe that, at the core, the world’s sustainability problems are due to people – including sustainability advocates – not living in alignment with their own values. This might be because they don’t know how to in our current systems, because their values are too vague to be actionable in practice, or perhaps because they don’t see the connection between their personal values and their engagement in the “real world”.
It stands to reason that the only way we can make real and lasting progress toward social and environmental sustainability is if most of us act in alignment with our own personal values. The real benefit, though, is that this alignment allows us to tap into the individual and collective inspiration, creativity, and wisdom needed to (re)create and sustain a beautifully flourishing world.
What
Wild Hazel provides programs and a platform for people like you, who care deeply about the world, to learn how to live in alignment with your own personal values in today’s context and systems -- and become your best self in the process.
The core program guides you through a personal transformation to rediscover and realign with your ‘natural paradigm,’ and provides access to a community for sharing insights, inspiration, creativity, and wisdom that emerge along the way.
How
More than likely you're busy, not in total control of your time, and maybe a bit cynical. For this reason, we offer a bit of free content for you to explore. If that resonates and deliver real value to you, then we invite you to dip, dabble, or take a full dive into our programming and community.
After years of working in sustainability – via government, private consulting, academia, and non-profits – I have come to believe that, at the core, the world’s sustainability problems are due to people – including sustainability advocates – not living in alignment with their own values. This might be because they don’t know how to in our current systems, because their values are too vague to be actionable in practice, or perhaps because they don’t see the connection between their personal values and their engagement in the “real world”.
It stands to reason that the only way we can make real and lasting progress toward social and environmental sustainability is if most of us act in alignment with our own personal values. The real benefit, though, is that this alignment allows us to tap into the individual and collective inspiration, creativity, and wisdom needed to (re)create and sustain a beautifully flourishing world.
What
Wild Hazel provides programs and a platform for people like you, who care deeply about the world, to learn how to live in alignment with your own personal values in today’s context and systems -- and become your best self in the process.
The core program guides you through a personal transformation to rediscover and realign with your ‘natural paradigm,’ and provides access to a community for sharing insights, inspiration, creativity, and wisdom that emerge along the way.
How
More than likely you're busy, not in total control of your time, and maybe a bit cynical. For this reason, we offer a bit of free content for you to explore. If that resonates and deliver real value to you, then we invite you to dip, dabble, or take a full dive into our programming and community.
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Your Natural Paradigm
A paradigm is a worldview — what you believe to be true about the world and how it works. Your ‘Natural Paradigm’ is what you believe to be true about the world and how it works when you are your true, authentic self - when you are your best self. You are operating from your Natural Paradigm when you’re playing with your kids, enjoying a stunning sunset, engrossed in a creative project, or helping a friend. The problem is we tend to operate from another paradigm — the ‘Conventional Paradigm’ — when we’re engaged with the ‘real world’. We are operating from the Conventional Paradigm when we’re stressing about work, obsessing about something on social media, or buying yet another thing we don’t need. When we operate from the Conventional Paradigm, we are not our true, authentic, best selves — and we cause harm to ourselves, others, and the Earth in the process. |
Re-aligning with your natural paradigm allows you to become more …
Authentic
You are unique and valuable.
A healthy world needs you to participate with your full and true self – your natural self. It’s already there – and is a joy to rediscover! |
Inspired
Practicing living from your own natural paradigm sets off a positive virtuous spiral of inspiration.
You become more inspired – and inspiring! |
Wise
You reflect billions of years of evolution.
You have the wisdom of nature inside you. It’s time to set it free! |
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About meMy background in engineering and love of nature and creative thinking has led me to become a pragmatic progressive, a rational radical, perhaps an enigmatic engineer. My driving aspiration is to help people – all of us -- realign with nature and our own human nature to support and serve our world. I work with people to explore nature’s paradigms, principles, and practices to generate the wildly innovative thinking needed to address real and relevant challenges, from the highly technical to the highly personal. My greatest joy comes from enlightening, empowering, and equipping others so they can use their full creative capacity in making the world a better place. |
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