"It is possible to find a unifying purpose that...like a magnetic field attracts...psychic energy, a goal upon which all lessor goals depend. This goal will define the challenges...to face in order to transform...life into a flow activity." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If boredom is on one end of a scale and stress is on the other, FLOW is in the center. It is a fluid state of being fully present in the NOW and at ONE with what's at hand.

examples: Athletes "in the zone" | Musicians "in the groove" | Zen masters "at one with all" | All teams with "synchronicity"

We unite all phases of community building, from planning through planting, with an emphasis on cultivating social potential for a healthier quality of life invested with collective wisdom.

We help groups grow their innate ability to advance all kinds of common causes, from food security to renewable energy, circulation systems, public commons, local stores and more. Building up community vitality and making beautiful places takes collaboration between diverse partners in public, private and non-profit groups. Finding common ground and mobilizing unified action is our mission. For that, we blend media and methods from imaginative arts and empirical science to tap the wellsprings of ethical imagination. This dissolves old divides by expanding empathy. We elevate dialog while mapping the way to new norms. This sets social imaginations into motion, energized by compassion, which is the real source of green design.

Our focus on growing community capacity expands on proven practices and timeless principles that top companies have used to become "learning organizations."

Today, we have new tools and tips coming from brain science, business case studies, peak performance psychology, constructivist learning theory, and more. All fields show a common theme about how teams reach a state of synchronicity, known as "FLOW" (Csikszentmihaly - "cheek-sent-me-high-ee"). Now, we know more ways to prime the power of multiple minds working in sync, with a spirit that Hawkens found at Findhorn and Sheldrake has termed "morphological fields." Atlee calls this "collective intelligence." It's when we finish each other's thoughts and sense what's coming next.

Right now, we all have a great responsibility and a historic opportunity is to bond the sustainability movement with the dynamic dream of democracy.

In the same way that top teams in the arts, sports and business fields build skills by rehearsing for greatness, we can set new norms in the way we create places to sustain community vitality - where nature and culture work as one.

Coaching groups to be the champions of their own good causes differs from delivering expertise on technical topics.

Green Planning differs from conventional consulting that specializes in one technical topic. We integrate multi-expert teams as needed, with an emphasis on absorbing knowledge into the life of the community or company. But we focus on drawing up the innate abilities of those with roots in the context where we're working, because the expertise that comes from deep familiarity is a key to sustainability. Elders are our council, as are the young whose aspirations seek expression. Blending deep familiarity with specialized expertise plus fresh perspectives sets in play potent forces for good. Facts and ideas flow faster. Collaboration lasts longer as people find participation more meaningful, fun and productive.

Our way of assuring SUSTAINABILITY is to bring agile technology plus flexible "game plans" for groups to gain mastery of synergy as an on-going process, long after our consultation.

This mastery is the measure of our succcess, which grows over time. Green Planning means raising resiliency and reducing dependency on external agents by building capacity with on-going learning. We guide the way to break throughs beyond business as usual. Break throughs mean a group has found "flow." This vital force emerges by engaging the ethical imaginations of all involved.

That's what we do.

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