New Work Paradigm: Holistic Generativity

One of the things I've been most passionate about on my own work for many years is focusing my energy toward the emerging paradigm of work, one where financial generatively (making money) is only part of the whole and not, as in the conventional paradigm, the central bottom line...or even the only driving bottom line. The new paradigm has multiple bottom lines; multiple ways of creating and engaging; and includes new ways of being and interacting as well as doing and acting. It requires an entirely new foundations, not just new ways to "succeed" in the old foundational landscape.

There is a larger movement of integration underfoot, and more and more people are committed to helping bring this new life-giving work paradigm forward. It is already happening. We can focus on creating/unfolding a better future - leaving that which no longer serves, "yes-anding" what does - or we can carry the baggage of the past and be limited by what worked then. We get to choose where we put our intention, attention, creativity and action. In the new work paradigm, we can bring more of who we are into the structuring of our work, our collaborative partnerships, our companies and our service in the world. We don't have to silo oursevles or our company missions.

We can create work, businesses and organizations that are alive, creative, adaptive, resilient and holistically generative by establishing new foundations; integrating the isolated parts of ourselves and our lives; questioning the assumptions underneath our current beliefs and our value systems (including our current relationship with money and set of accompanying beliefs); engaging the creative unknown to go beyond what we currently hold as "the way it is"; forming life-giving collaborations based on resonance and aliveness; giving conscious space, time and attention to our creative imaginations; developing generative practices and rituals to help us "live into" our visions and embody new ways of being; listening to what calls to us from within; and expanding the conventional bottom line to include more of our creativity, humanness, connection and deeper contribution..

Related post:  27 Elements fo the New Work Paradigm  - shifting our ways of working to ways that are expanding the notion of what work and business is and can be.

 

Comments

[Carmilla5]

Hi Michelle, love this post and the venn diagram (love those colours!). Totally get it and resonate! I left 9-5 work over a year ago and am having a sabbatical as a 'home & house nurturer' of my partner and myself. I love it and feel fantastic being out of a place where I trade my time for $. I long for the days that I find a different world where we do what we love and it benefits all. I've never liked 'doing the survival game for money' it just has always seemed wrong. Yet in saying that I've had issues about volunteering because I feel so conditioned to do things for money. I see the world is changing bit by bit and there's more a shift towards this. Thanks for your great work Michelle xx

[Michelle]

Thanks so much for your comment and kind words, Camille. I believe that one way to transform negative beliefs and judgements around money is to integrate it with life-giving work that is not separate from serving the greater good nor from our inspired creativity. If we align generating income in ways that express our passion, our creative expression, and our gifts to others and the greater whole, then money becomes part of the larger generative process - neither the main driver of it (as it's been in the conventional business paradigm), nor rejected by it (and it often is in service-oriented circles).