From Systems Thinking to Systems Feeling: Transforming Business with Donnie Maclurcan

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Moral Footprint

Jeni Miles

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Jeni Miles explores how we can realign life and work within ethical & ecological boundaries.

MORAL FOOTPRINT covers climate action, post-growth economics, modern motherhood & systems change, mapping our our relationship with power, privilege and Earth's limits.

Blending behavioural science & business, Jeni tackles key questions: How do we move beyond growth? How can we unlearn overconsumption and transform extractive systems?
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From Systems Thinking to Systems Feeling: Transforming Business with Donnie Maclurcan

Moral Footprint

49 minutes 39 seconds

3 months ago

From Systems Thinking to Systems Feeling: Transforming Business with Donnie Maclurcan

Post-growth economist Donnie Maclurcan joins host Jeni Miles to explore why systems transformation requires moving from thinking to feeling. From not-for-profit business models to the circulation of money and power, Donnie reveals how embodied wisdom might be our most revolutionary tool against extractive capitalism and why slowing down in urgent times could be the key to creating regenerative systems.

Key Takeaways

Understand why capitalism creates disconnection from our bodies and embodied wisdom
Learn the difference between not-for-profit businesses and B Corps or social enterprises
Discover how debt expansion is a feature of capitalism, not the monetary system
Explore moving from "systems thinking" to "systems feeling" for transformation
See how moving your money, pensions, and investments can create systemic change
Experience the offers and needs markets methodology for community resilience

Donnie Maclurcan is Director of Strategy with the Post Growth Institute. He joins us from Patagonia where he lives with his wife and their cats.

Follow Donnie on LinkedIn: https://ar.linkedin.com/in/donniemaclurcan
Follow Donnie on Bluesky: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/donmacca.bsky.social

People and Resources Mentioned:

Post Growth Institute: https://postgrowth.org/
How on Earth? Book https://howonearth.us/
Colin Saltmere: https://au.linkedin.com/in/colin-saltmere-09762485
Better Off by Eric Brende (an Amish lifestyle experiment) https://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Flipping-Switch-Technology/dp/0060570059

Offers and Needs Markets methodology: https://postgrowth.org/offers-and-needs-markets/
Triodos Bank (sustainable banking example): https://triodos.co.uk/
Bayo Akomolafe's The Times Are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down open letter https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-times-are-urgent-lets-slow-down

The Co-operative Bank (UK not-for-profit banking): https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/
The WEIRD Study (research on Western assumptions): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1601785
AORTA Co-Op: https://aorta.coop/
BLIS Collective https://www.bliscollective.org/
adrienne maree brown https://www.instagram.com/adriennemareebrown/

Sociocracy as a governance system https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/

Follow Jeni on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenifisher/

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