Kirsten Larsen + Serenity Hill are proof that two minds are better than one.
As the founders of Open Food Network, a game-changing open source technology at the centre of building valued and fair food chains, they think globally, act locally and are actively encouraging a culture where whole-self is present in the workplace.
Hear how these two values-aligned women brought their shared vision for fairer local food systems to life -- and why the rest of the world is excited.
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SHOW NOTES
- Social justice from an early age
- The impact of ‘coming out’
- The freedom of the natural world
- The value of independent thinking as a central value
- Having the tools and empowerment to challenge the system
- The power of knowing you were loved as a child
- A desire for purpose is in every one of us
- From a broken state of deep ecology to a place of believing in the power of conscious capability
- Identifying technology as the missing piece for connecting eaters with growers
- Learning how to unlock problems by listening to the needs and filling a gap
- Structuring things to disable centralisation of power
- The critical role of aggregators/food hubs in a local food system that are locally relevant and transparent
- The power of collaboration for efficiency, capital ownership, accessibility, logistics
- The myriad of ways that all tiers of the food chain can embark on change
- The value of “open source” as a language which is not constrained in its ability to adapt and leapfrog
- Offering opportunity for knowledge commons
- The privilege of having the psychological knowledge that you have ‘back up’
- Transvestment - recognising that you are drawing money from the old economy and placing it into the ideological vision of a new future
- Getting to a point where work that conflicts with ideology is no longer needed
- Building space for others to step into positions of influence where they may not have previously had a voice
- Having a baby to ‘turn off’ from ideological responsibilities
- Consciously creating a culture where people bring their whole selves to the work place
- Creation of a ‘heart channel’ in the workplace for frank, open, personal story telling
- Being honest with kids about the truth of the world
- Evoking joy and aliveness in the next generation
- Nature based education as a central cog in our communities
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