Episode 16: Interconnective Awareness Towards Building a Regenerative Future with Ganga Devi Braun
In this episode:
Ganga Devi Braun is is an extraordinary facilitator, regenerative counselor, ritualist, writer, ecologist, and community cultivator who weaves ontological design and living systems theory into all that she does.
She shares her unique experience of having been raised in an intentional community that values pluralistic collaboration, enriched by diverse religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions. This led her to become an interspiritual minister and guide for bridge-building and consciousness-raising that is much needed during this time of widening societal polarities and climate emergency.
Designing for a regenerative culture requires unlearning of reductive models in order to create anticipatory ones that work for 100% of life. Ganga is a catalyst for the regenerative movement, connecting social justice, environmentalism and design science. She was selected for the first cohort in Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Design Science Studio, and is a founding facilitator of Presence Foundations - a transformational leadership incubator for embodying whole systems awareness within us, and integrating these principles to create impact in the world.
About Ganga:
Ganga Devi Braun is committed to the healing of our shared world, a process that requires a recognition of the interconnected nature of all life. She believes that this healing requires a continuous reflexive process of recognizing difference, privilege, and shadows of the incarnations we are currently experiencing.
As a facilitator, counselor, ritualist, writer, ecologist, and community cultivator, she draws heavily from the wisdom of Buckminster Fuller, Joanna Macy, Adrienne Maree Brown, and the complex interactions she observes every day in the subtropical bioregion she calls home. Ganga has dedicated her academic studies, career, and personal life to understanding living systems, evolutionary principles, biomimicry, and regenerative design.
Ganga’s upbringing within one of the few experimental land-based communities founded in the 70’s that has withstood the test of time gave her a unique perspective through the lens of diverse and pluralistic collaboration. She is an ordained interspiritual minister (One Spirit Learning Alliance Interspiritual Seminary), and applies religious and spiritual technology to create dynamic spaces based on collective wisdom that supports meaning-making, while harmonizing with the living systems that we are.
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