Is There a Positive First?

In this episode, social ecosystem designer, culture hacker, and facilitator Jean M. Russell joins us to talk about how a participatory and cooperative approach instead of a brutal approach enables us to envision and co-create a world of wellbeing and health. As the founder of the thrivability movement and expert on collective thriving, Jean speaks about THRIVABILITY. She believes this word is a gift. It inspires you to wonder what it looks like in your context and make it show up. What comes alive in you? We dive deep into hedonic habituation and how to avoid falling into it, how to emerge to more positive futures, about co-creation and how to break down the “who” the “how” and the “what”, what a positive environment should look like and how to design it, and how to get set on a more participatory path. “Something about thriving speaks to our inner sense of harmony, abundance, greatness, generativity, aliveness, vitality, well being, and right-placement. What would our lives and the sum of our society be like if we said they were thriving?” If you are interested in open-source software or a better social ecosystem design, this chapter is for you! Stay tuned! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/rhyslindmark JOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/PDAPkhNxrC Who is Jean M. Russell? Jean M Russell is a social ecosystem designer, culture hacker, and facilitator. She is the founder of the Thrivability movement and an expert in collective thriving speaking to and with change agents, innovators, builders, and edge-riders around the world. Her work on thrivability, innovation, philanthropy, and cultural shifts has been highlighted in the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Worldchanging. Topics: Welcome Jean M. Russell to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00) What is thrivability?: (00:01:41) How do you give a positive valance term for what animals should experience: (00:04:09) Happiness like short term dopamine versus delight and purpose: (00:05:53) Thrivability as an emergent thing we chat about with others and move towards emergent positive futures: (00:08:03) How should Roote as an org be more participatory about building the wisdom age instead of making it “everybody be wiser”: (00:11:19) Co-creation: an example to breakdown the who and the how: (00:14:26) How Jean views cooperation playing a role vs. competition playing a role: (00:16:07) Lord of the rings has a memetic view of reality. Is there another memetic version to show another view of reality?: (00:19:25) About anarchism & Peter Kropotkin: (00:22:37) Other ways to make a more cooperative lense of society: (00:23:44) Instead of pointing at the bad competition, double down on the good?: (00:26:05) What does a positive environment look like for animals?: (00:31:56) What does a positive environment look like for humans?: (00:34:44) Designing an environment for memes: instead of a brutal one a positive one?: (00:37:54) Breakdown “hands, head and heart” model & how the heart relates: (00:42:41) How to take a more participatory path & wrap-up: (00:47:57) Mentioned resources: “Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity” book by Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods: https://www.amzn.com/0399590668 “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster” book by Rebecca Solnit Peter Kropotkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” book by Peter Kropotkin: https://www.amzn.com/0875580246 “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures” book by Merlin Sheldrake: https://www.amzn.com/0525510311 Connect with Jean M. Russell: Twitter: https://twitter.com/nurturegirl Twitter Thrivable Society: https://twitter.com/Thrivable Web: https://www.jeanmrussell.com/ Thrivable Society Project: https://www.thrivablesociety.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JeanMRussell