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🎉 We're excited to release both a new show and episode to the With Life Podcast today! 🎉 "Really successful communities are started by people who are answering their own questions or solving their own needs first.” -Izzy Ahrbeck If you're curious to learn more about community-led growth, in this episode of the Marketing With Life Show hosted by 🦓 Moh Al-Haifi, Founder of Zebra Growth, we chat with proven community builders and special guests: Tre' Cates Founder of nRhythm, Elliot Coad Founder of Ecologi | B Corp™, Izzy Ahrbeck Head of Community at Impact Hub Berlin, and Judit Sáez Gonzálvez Founder of Connection Camino and Community Nurturer at Regenerators as they share their stories and insights on how a regenerative mindset can transform the way we cultivate communities. You can find the link to the podcast in the comment section below. 👇🏽 #podcast #withlife #regenerativemarketing #community #growth

🤔 Is this the secret to a thriving workplace in 2025?👇

As we settle into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, we pause to consider the purpose and benefits of this season from a living systems perspective. Living systems maintain health by constantly moving nutrients through the birth, growth, death, and decay cycles. Winter and decay are vital in an ecosystem or landscape's life cycle. Let’s consider a tree as an example. In autumn, the leaves die and fall to the ground, creating a mulch layer where decay begins. This decomposition process releases nutrients into the soil, which are available in spring for new life to emerge. This ensures the tree remains healthy and continues to grow tall and strong. The equivalent of nutrients in an organization is information, such as our ideas, data, feedback, the structures and processes we create, and the contracts we enter. In the With Life Approach, we create healthy, thriving organizations by ensuring that information is constantly flowing and cycling in relevant ways that enable all team members to make informed decisions. One example of how we might steward information through the death and decay cycle is by creating a structure that allows team members to reflect on a project cycle before moving into the next cycle, bringing the “nutrients” from one workflow into the “birth” of the next. For this week’s #WithLifeWednesday, we invite you to ponder the following questions: 🌱 What happens when information doesn’t move through the death and decay cycles? 🌱 What ideas, assumptions, processes, or structures must fall to the ground and decay to allow for new birth and growth?

Busyness has become an all-too-familiar reality. As the holidays approach, we believe planning for and monitoring our rest and recovery during this time of year is essential to avoid burnout and prevent a complete energy drain. Let’s look at an example from regenerative agriculture. Holistic management teaches us the importance of rest and recovery in managing pastures for ecological health. A holistic grazing plan helps farmers determine the appropriate rest time each grazing area needs to recover before livestock can return. This recovery period is essential because it allows plants to grow strong foliage and deep roots that support a thriving ecosystem. The land will degrade without adequate rest, and its health will be at risk. Similarly, in an organization, if we don’t create time for intentional rest and recovery, we risk undermining our own health and the health and resilience of our organizations. The dominant machine model places immense pressure on individuals to fulfill their duties the same way each day, each month, and each year, without variance. In this model, employees strive to meet these expectations and are incentivized to make personal sacrifices for professional gain, addressing organizational needs before their own. These environments are prone to high levels of competition, stress, and, you guessed it…burnout. How can we plan for and monitor our individual and shared rest and recovery times as a team, knowing it’s vital for health, resilience, and creativity? For this week’s #WithLifeWednesday, we invite you to consider: 🌱 What shorter patterns of rest and recovery could I benefit from in my daily or weekly routine?  🌱 What long-term patterns of rest and recovery can my team plan into our work cycles next year?

🌿 What can you expect from our NEW Fundamentals of the With Life Approach on-demand course? 🌿 Here's a quick glimpse 👇

🌪️ Curious to learn more about designing and managing organizations that thrive amidst today's complexity, chaos and stress? 🎬 Discover the With Life Approach in this 15 minute video: https://lnkd.in/gaVjHHz9 You’ll get a taste of what’s covered in our NEW on-demand course, “The Fundamentals of Regenerative Organizations”— A crash course in the basics of regenerative organizational design from nRhythm — one of the leading organizations developing the methods, frameworks and tools of the With Life Approach to Organizing. 🌱 A 15-minute investment in lasting organizational transformation starts here! #RegenerativeLeadership #LivingSystems #SustainableOrganizations #OrganizationalDesign #WithLife #LeadershipTransformation #Regeneration

🤔 Rain or runoff? This week, we chatted with Tre' Cates, Director of Organizational Partnerships at nRhythm, about the information cycle and the importance of receptivity, monitoring, and creating conditions within organizations. Tre’ compared the information in an organization to rain in an ecosystem. The effectiveness of the rain depends on the conditions within that ecosystem. If the ground has good plant cover, the water can filter deep into the soil and create a significant impact. In contrast, when the ground is bare and compacted, the rain tends to run off or evaporate quickly, resulting in little to no benefit for the ecosystem. A vital part of a healthy ecosystem is monitoring the conditions to ensure a landscape can effectively use the rain that falls. Too often, information in an organization is lost like rain running off hard ground. There can be many reasons for this, including: 👉 Information overload 👉 Busy schedules 👉 Inability to assess the usefulness of new ideas and information 👉 Low receptivity to new information The power of receptivity to new insights, ideas, and information is actually in our ability to integrate and put it to work. Organizations that do this well create the conditions for more effective decision-making, more resilient teams, more emergent outcomes and ultimately, a healthy, thriving organization. For this week’s #WithLifeWednesday, we invite you to ponder Tre’s questions when you receive new information: 🌱 How receptive am I to these new ideas? 🌱 Is this new idea or information challenging me? 🌱 If so, why is the information making me uncomfortable? 🌱 How can I integrate this information so I can evolve and adapt?

🧐 Have you ever considered which legal entity is appropriate for a regenerative organization? 👋 Join us for an insightful virtual workshop on Navigating Legal Entities for Regenerative Organizations this Wednesday, November 20th, from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm ET (New York). 📖 Led by Francisca Pretorius and Tonya Price—organizational design consultants and former lawyers—this session will offer practical guidance on selecting a legal entity that aligns with your regenerative goals. 🌱 We hope you will join us! RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gftqVwvb #regenerativeorganizations #regenerativedesign #regenerativebusiness #law #legalentitystructure

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For today's #WithLifeWednesday, we welcome you to tune into our new episode of Working With Life: How We Build The With Life Approach. In this episode, Jeff Su and Tre' Cates tell the story of how they came together to create nRhythm and the With Life Approach. We touch on the intuitions and ideas that emerged at nRhythm’s formation, and the passion the team has for bringing the principles, patterns, and regenerative capacity of living systems into the social systems where we spend so much of our time - the workplace. We talk about what it means to create conditions that bring more life to organizations, and how simply asking new questions can help us break free of centuries-old approaches and transform our experience of work, our relationships, and our world. 🎧 Listen Now → https://lnkd.in/gZzAgjFx