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Shift Happens, Rapidly!
By: Jeff Goebel www.aboutlistening.com
Grounding • Establishes a model for listening with respect, a knowing that each
person will be heard.
• Establishes a verbal territory for each participant, a sense of potential equity.
• Requires access to both the left and the right brain, engaging the "whole brain”.
• Allows apprehensions and hopes for the meeting to be expressed.
• Allow participants to express hidden agendas (like leaving early, a flat tire, a sickness, etc.).
• Brings people into the "here and now”.
• Provides initial information to the facilitator.
Shift Happens, Rapidly!
By: Jeff Goebel www.aboutlistening.com
Why do this work? My reason!
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that
created it."
- Albert Einstein
Slide by Peter Donovan
CO2 Concentration (PPM)
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_1_2_1t.htm
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
After 5 YRS:
- the tree weighed 169 lb,
- while the soil had lost only 2
ounces. Photo: Sarah Brinker
In 1649, Jan Baptista van Helmont placed a:
5 lb willow in an earthen pot with 200 lb of dried soil—
adding nothing to the pot except
rainwater or distilled water.
The Magic of Photosynthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
The Magic of Photosynthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
The Point Where CO2 Comes Back to Earth
http://sheenalikescurrysauce.blogspot.com/
Slide by Peter Donovan
Slide by Peter Donovan
Slide by Peter Donovan
Slide by Peter Donovan
"Game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—ax, plow, cow, fire, and gun." - Aldo Leopold
Fenceline contrast Riparian area – Cody, WY
Overgrazed Planned grazing
30 cows x 100 days / yr = 3000 animal days
950 cows x 10 days / yr = 9500 animal days
Climate Change
FOOD
H2O CO2
H2O CO2 Carbohydrates
Benefits ● Water infiltration and retention ● Food production and resiliency ● Economic capacity ● Species diversification & enhanced ecosystem ● Community resiliency & conflict reduction ● Carbon sequestration
Beaver Creek in Lander, WY New South Wales after Rainstorm
Do we need to find out if these methods work? • Permaculture
• Holistic Management
• Conservation Agriculture
• Other methods
Limiting Beliefs – A Visual
Photo: Sarah Brinker
The “100 k” Challenge
Photo: holisticmanagement.org Photo: homesteadlady.com
To “educate” = to change behavior.
Concepts in Systems Thinking
Photo: Sarah Brinker
Peter Senge: The Fifth Discipline
• Shifting the Burden
• Limits to Growth
West Africa 15 years ago
Limiting Beliefs
Why is it impossible to increase productivity by 50% without Western technology?
• We only make $45/year/person. • We don’t like to work hard. • The soil is too poor. • It can’t be done without chemical fertilizer
because there isn’t enough rain.
Limiting Belief Acknowledgment & Reframing Given that it's “impossible” to increase productivity by 50% without western technology, if it were possible, what would you do?
• Rotational grazing—accumulating manure on the land • Plant leguminous trees—acacia albida • Build contour barriers—lining stones along the contour • Allow land to lay “fallow”—[Jeff…define here] • Intercrop—grains & leguminous plants • Diversify crops & polycultures—mixing crop systems)
Hana Ranch, Maui 25 years ago
Core Elements to SHIFT
Photo: Sarah Brinker
• Holistic view
• Pygmalion effect
• A different process
Holistic View • The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• Diversity is richness.
Pygmalion Effect = expectations
Duane Elgin: Science does NOT know 96%—the value of TRADITIONAL WISDOM
A different process to: ● Address Fears ● Foster Transformational Change ● Create the “Vanna White Effect” ● Address the Second Law of
Thermodynamics—the social concept ● Trust the Process
Are you ready to SHIFT?
Create learning centers worldwide that spread quickly
Solve local problems ● Water infiltration & retention ● Food production & resiliency ● Economic capacity ● Species diversification & an enhanced
ecosystem ● Community resiliency & conflict reduction
Train the trainers
Trainers train others
What next? Ripples!
What is a green dot?
• Capture CO2 • Increase social, economic,
& ecological well-being • Create new habits • Solve local issues
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Approximately 25 days of support over 1 year
= • 12 workshop days—4 x 3-day workshops • 12 consultation days—complimenting workshops • 1 day graduation, evaluation, next steps • Monitoring & training—for locals to monitor soil carbon • Process documentation • Coaching support between workshops—email/ Skype • Research • Scholarships—for local ranchers & farmers
We Have: • 16 countries interested in participating to date • Team of interested facilitators • Team of support people currently investing time
We Need: • Create more awareness – opportunities • NGO “home” for managing funds • Funding to step up work
Adaptive Learning
• How do you feel about the presentation?
• What did you learn that will help you be successful?
• What advice do you have?
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Confederate Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• Developed a Tribal Vision Used to Make Decisions
Six Mile Springs Watershed 50% yields over Silviculturists expectations. REDUCED miles of road construction from 21 to 7.
• Implemented fall understory burns on large blocks (5000 ac) - preharvest
• Created silviculture prescriptions to restore culturally important plants & animals.
• Land treatment costs:
• Forest service - $125 to $300
• Budgeted - $75
• Actual - $29
Results: Combining Traditional Wisdom with Science-based Approach
By Year 3
● Doubled land treatment from 10,000 ac/yr to 20,000 ac/yr.
● Saved $1 million from department budget ($17m to $16m)
● All resolutions passed unanimously
By Year 4
• Led financial planning for entire government
Changes on Hana Ranch, Maui Change March 1987 – before February 1988 – after
Management Structure Hierarchical Hierarchical (though collaborative form was taking
shape up to December)
Whole Ranch Weak Link Leadership Leadership (action being taken to strengthen)
People Skills Low self concept Moderate self concepts (i.e., more leadership being taken by team both on ranch & in
community, more use of human creativity being
expressed) Focused Effort Lack of goals Well defined goal & planning
process Ranch Land Plan No focused direction Well thought out detailed plan
for change Guest Involvement Very little Income generator for hotel &
ranch (several guests are coming to Hana because of
ranch tour, tour has become a major activity for hotel guests)
Changes on Hana Ranch Community Changes Animosity Active support, collaborative
involvement & genuine interest in developing a sound
community plan
Activists Antagonistic (cutting fences & water lines)
Enthusiastic support (i.e., article in Hawaiian Business Monthly)
Labor Union Relations Strained Warm Employee Numbers 17 9 (change has been
accepted by community)
Managerial Controlled Expenses
Not controlled Reduced monthly by 50%
Ranch Cash Management Uncontrolled Tightly planned & controlled locally on a monthly basis
Forage Rapidly deteriorating toward rattail smutgrass & brush
Upward trend successionally toward pangola, paragrass, &
even napier grass
Weak Link with Energy Flow Overstocked Understocked (not enough animals using the grass
available)
Changes on Hana Ranch
Animal Health Poor Moderate
Control of Animals Fair Good
Livestock Movement Rotation, not planned toward ranch goal
Highly goal oriented & operated on a planned basis
(biological planning)
Herd Numbers 16 7
Stock Density Roughly 5 animals per acre 25 animals per acre (up to 160)
Rest Period Percentage on Land
82% 97%
Rest Period Length 16 to 30 days 45 to 60 days (could decrease over time as plants
regain vigor)
Average Grazing Periods 3 days 2 days
Covey Urgent Not Urgent
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