Vibrant work is at the intersection of living systems models & cooperative partnership.
Like a grove of sequoias, we are strongest as a collective, building healthy roots and growing to stand tall together.
Partnership encompasses every form of relationship one can have with another. We know we've reached cooperative partnership when we’re able to show up more fully and with greater impact.
The sequoias are one example of Living Systems Models. Other examples include the
way your organs cooperate, how elephants know to circle around their babies during an
earthquake and the way a sunflower turns toward the sun.
1 — We remember that we’re made to embrace change, uncertainty, and volatility – and constantly evolve.
3 — We are set up for success to do our best work and grow.
In Living Systems Models, we don’t race to do, instead we take time to first “be” and in so doing:
2 —We become more relational, cooperative, connected and adaptable.
Business-as-usual thinking results from decades of tech advances and emphasizes optimization, leaving us with our “Manufactured Mindset. While there is value in this mindset, we must expand beyond it to let human potential shine through. I help companies do this by integrating partnership and the Living Systems Model. The result is an illuminated path to their vibrant future for work.
For 30+ years, I’ve seen most companies and leaders skip this “living and being” and go
straight to “doing,” This is an example of “business as usual” and it no longer works.
- Embrace change, uncertainty and volatility
- Be connected in partnership and constantly evolve
- Be more expansive than the Manufactured Mindset so human potential can shine through
- See sacred in the ordinary
- Be whole (not self-preserving, disconnected, divided or depleted)
Cooperative Partnership is the muscle I help organizations and leaders strengthen to become their whole potential.
MaryCay Durrant’s Vibrant Future for Work Manifesto
The cornerstone of Living Systems Models and breaking free from business as usual is Cooperative Partnership.
Business as usual no longer works.
We will break the habits of over-proving, doing producing and sacrificing to instead unlock natural leaders through partnership and trust to create a vibrant future for work and path to Return on Energy, ROI without depleting people,