Investing from a Regenerative Mind
Evolving the Role and Practice of investment — Part 2
By Sidney Cano and Ben Haggard (with The Regenerative Economy Collaborative)
Regenerative investment is not really about what one invests in. It’s about how one thinks about investment and its effects. It depends upon investors who are willing to invest themselves.
Making higher order contributions to life on Earth demands that one move beyond conventional wisdom and accepted practice, in order to generate thinking that is genuinely new. This requires learning how to appreciate underlying dynamics and energies as a basis for creative strategies that enable systems to shift to higher orders of expression, bringing forward their unique potential.
A regenerative investor must cultivate a regenerative mind. This means being willing to go beyond training and experience in order to understand and work in the world in new ways. It is a comprehensive, demanding process. After all, it’s never easy to let go of one’s certainties, the things that have always worked in the past. But this is the kind of course correction that is needed at this critical moment in history.
The following framework (Fig. 3) offers a sense of the scope of a developmental process for growing new ways of thinking that enable one to discover and manifest inherent potential in living systems.