Trust like the Web (of Life) trusts - Biomimicry for Social Innovation with Toby Herzlich

About this episode

This episode features Toby Herzlich discussing how biomimicry can inform social innovation and human inter-relations.

Life has been evolving on our planet for the past 3.8 billion years. The ecosystems that thrive now have had a lot of practice at getting things right - particularly the complex web of inter-relations that allows us all to flourish. And yet, we're on the edge of the sixth mass extinction largely because we humans have forgotten how to inter-relate and inter-be with the rest of the web of life. At an intellectual level, we know we're integral nodes in the web, but we still behave as if it were other, and out there and not - yet - as if it were a source of wisdom and wonder and wholehearted support: an ancient mentor that has tried and tested enough options to know what works . So how can we bring the astonishing, creative insights of Biomimicry to the field of human inter-being? How can we shift our sense of self and other, our communities of place, purpose and passion, our businesses, our governance structures…everything that we are and do onto a different trajectory using the web of life as our template? Biomimicry for Social Innovation asks exactly these questions and in this episode, we're talking to its founder, Toby Herzlich. Toby is a facilitator, trainer, executive coach…

People in this episode

Host: Accidental Gods

Guest: Toby Herzlich

Topics covered

• biomimicry
• social innovation
• inter-relations
• ecosystems
• leadership
• sustainability

Keywords

• biomimicry
• social change
• ecosystem intelligence
• leadership
• inter-being
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Biomimicry for Social Innovation

Books & works: The Nature

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