Here are final images from the live sessions of the Transforming Capitalism Lab, a Presencing Institute initiative to curate stories that illustrate positive change happening around the world, leading the shift toward a new economy. Find out more here.

The Journey. Of note, the “upside down” world, which only seems upside down to those us in the northern hemisphere. At the end of session, i realized how heavy the “north” appeared, in relation to the openness of the “south”. Look at the way the blackboard, the dark space of unknown, enters into South America, Australia, India, and Africa. I had not noticed this until stepping back and having some perspective. While drawing, I resisted filling in the water space with blue, choosing to let the continents drift in a sea of black that is actually much larger than how we would expect to see the oceans. With this choice, the water that normally holds our land mass blurred in my mind with the sky that also holds us, and in this drawing blurred with the sea of content in the rest of the picture. Also, i drew the map from a less familiar angle, as a flattened earth, but then chose to keep the circular globe framing (as in the original by Olaf Baldini that i based this on.) This was intentional, to offer a subtle challenge to our understanding of things. Is it flat? Is it round? What is up? What is down? Such are the questions we ask as we explore the topic of capitalism and profound societal renewal. September 13, 2018. Watch live session here.

 Original Journey Map, by Olaf Baldini.

Labor: Bridging the disconnect between work and purpose, with guests Palak Shah and Dayna Cunningham. June 14, 2018. Watch live session here.

I drew this on blackboard during an hour-long session. The highlight for me was the strange space around “value” which i tried to somehow represent with a texture of imprints from my hand, into the chalk ink, mixing white and an olive-grey. But my sense of how the word landed was hard to express, as Palak had spoken to the UNDER valuing of an invisible workforce, and i had written only the word “value” and thus was caught in between the two meanings, which both seemed important: the current state and a possible future place.

Now interesting to see is how the area around “value” (which visually lands at the prototyping phase of Theory U, represented by the large arc) is divided from my representation of “source” (not named in words, but represented by the wavy curves coming out from the “seeds of the future” on the far right) by a fainter part of the U. It’s as if “seeds” are connected by “source” to a not-yet-understood “value”. And of course that’s all surrounded by the presently named topics of “inclusion”, “attend”, “choice”, and “care”.

 Nature: Addressing the disconnect between infinite growth and finite resources, with guest Winona LaDuke. May 10, 2018 by Emma Ruffin. Watch live session here.

Beyond GDP: Creating economies that generate well being for all, with guests Kate Raworth and Lorenzo Fioramonti. April 12, 2018 by Marsha Dunn. Watch live session here.